How to Return to G-d: Can He be Bribed? (P’ Eikev)

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

does god take bribes can you change god's mind in chapter number 10 verse number 17 it says okay la godda la given this god who is great and powerful almighty and awesome he does not show any favor nor does he take any bribes now if he does not show favor why must he say he does not take bribes so rashi explains that there are times he does take favor or show favor as we say in the priestly blessings however it's only if you remove your yoke from yourself you remove god's yoke from yourself then god does not show you favor but if not he will show you favor but which is bribery he does not take your money you cannot bribe him this is the simple interpretation according to shot for this verse what is the hint for the future says that in the end of days the jewish people will do chuva and when they do truth or when they repent hey negoli immediately they are going to be redeemed there's no doubt we are living in a generation of tremendous return the generation of the baltruva how people are returning to almighty god this alone is one of the signs that we are about to see the kami of meshiach i tell a story that a number of years ago i was in israel for a bar mitzvah and i was sitting next to a fellow who tells me rabbi you should know i'm going to undercover lubavitcher i say what do you mean undercover laboratory he says i used to work on wall street and i had no idea about yiddish kite and one day i see a mitzvah tank and there are kids running around and pulling me

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1. 0:01does god take bribes can you change god's mind in chapter number 10 verse number 17…
2. 2:35fill in i tell the kid look i'll give you a dollar buy yourself a coca-cola…
3. 5:14you bribe god through repentance three pentagons you can do chuva to elaborate the rambam says…
4. 7:50comes along the madris and teaches us that if we do chuva through total law following…
5. 10:23prescribed medication of how to repent then that is god's bribery that is the way god…
6. 12:58cause it to descend into a cesspool you take the letter a and you put it…
7. 15:35so in other words says that i'm the ultimate level of chuva is to change your…
8. 18:11and that is the meaning of god's shaykh god accepting our bribery this by the way…
9. 20:44so that's the higher level of truth but even without getting to that higher level of…
10. 23:16and i listened till the end of the entire fabregan and after that something in my…

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