Derech Hashem / The Way Of God #15

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Mendel Kessin’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

we are now uh guarantees and today what i want to talk about is one of the most mysterious aspects of our scuffle and that really is it answers the question why is it victim has the ultimate why didn't the version make him first or only because the key idea is you know if the learning as we're learning this wants to be native wants to do good fine fine no problem so make oil and be fabulous you know when the version makes something obviously it's incredible what he's going to do you know we cannot even imagine what he's going to do without your humble so why not make that first or we'll just make that and nothing else what do we need is it for whether it's suffering doesn't work you don't want it the problem is you're not happy okay thank you what's the problem with that why is that a problem obviously means we have to work for it we have to earn it whatever and he's not going to you know why do we have to do that but the problem is if you have to earn something the problem is that's a risk it's a gamble if you take a look at outside the world you look at how much evil there is in

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1. 0:22we are now uh guarantees and today what i want to talk about is one of…
2. 6:29it's also if you imagine i created early marble right there's no risk there's no gamble…
3. 12:44he's fundamentally saying is that if you are the recipient of something right obviously that something…
4. 18:53first like i said it's a tremendous gamble if you ever get anything and even if…
5. 25:01the question is what does that mean why should a person or rather what does it…
6. 31:13by reality this is a very big problem for man now on a psychological you can…
7. 37:27distortion of self i guarantee you i don't think anybody in this room knows what it…
8. 43:35remove the anxiety all kinds of defense mechanisms not to feel that i'm a nobody a…
9. 49:46what to try to reassert being we are forever trying to do that everything we do…
10. 55:57so the part of us that's a nimso it's not a problem it's a noise the…

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