Ari Goldwag - Re'eh - Hearing and Transcending

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The opening of this shiur, in Parsha Podcast with Ari Goldwag’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

You're listening to the weekly para podcast recorded with Hashem's never ending assistance in Israel 5776 2016. This week's par the para starts off 11:26 God says behold I am placing before you today blessing and curse. Verse 27 the blessing you shall listen to God. You should listen to the commandments of Hashem, your God that I'm commanding you today. So if a person listens to Hashem, if a person follows the commandments, learns the Torah, fulfills the will of God, he receives blessings. Verse 28. However, the curses, if you do not listen to the commandments of your God, and if a person turns away from the path that I'm commanding you today to go after those other gods, false gods that you haven't known. So the verses are speaking very clearly and saying that the human being has a choice in the world. The human being unlike all the other creations of Hashem unlike all the celestial beings, the planets, the stars, the angels, unlike all of the the animals, the the the rocks etc. All that you find in the world, everything else in the world has no has no free will. The human being has free will. Clearly if a person chooses good, if a person chooses to go in the ways of God, chooses spirituality, chooses the spiritual path, then he receives the blessings, all will be well. He has aligned himself with God. He has aligned himself with the truth of the universe. However, when a person steps away, steps out of reality, steps out and chooses a path which is not the way of God, chooses to follow after idolatry, so then a person, heaven forbid, will experience. You see, he will experience the curses. Now what's interesting here

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2. 2:39If a person does not listen then he will receive the he will receive the curses…
3. 5:17him, "Please taste this. I'm cooking something and I want you to taste it. I don't…
4. 7:55says that she was just yelling and screaming. She wasn't saying anything logical. She was just…
5. 10:38not so much based on the logic of her words or not at all based on…
6. 13:14astrologer vouched for the accuracy of the vision of his son. His son was able to…
7. 15:56listened to his wife, he had this great reward, bringing it back to our para, somebody…
8. 18:39Because a king on his throne is sitting on his throne in order to relate to…
9. 21:19together. And that's the power of voice, the power of sound, the power of call. The…
10. 23:55this young man can't stay in her home. and she was able to see that and…

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