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Derech Hashem / The Way of God #79 | An Initial Understanding of God's Supervision

4.7K views · Oct 14, 2018

Rabbi Mendel Kessin

A shiur on understanding God's supervision, given by Rabbi Mendel Kessin.

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we're up to second colic actually pear accretion we did already some of this stuff but it's been a while a good couple of months so I really want to say just uh maybe some of the ideas that were said before but not many the first hey lip of the rom-com tara hashem hey lip of the rom-com tara hashem really concerned itself with the plan of creation the purpose of that plan and also some of the ideas are about what exists in the plan what the bernstrom created and so on you know but this this fail it begins again it continues that theme but also has a lot in this in this theme but also has a lot in this in this way like actually this part talks about the consequences of a person's act and what does God do how to react to what a person does and the tremendous amount of actions that their Burnham takes as a result of the acts of man and that's really what he goes into all kinds you know whether it be good things punishments suffering whatever it be these are all actions that the Varnum takes as a result of the actions of a takes as a result of the actions of a person you know so there's a lot of it spent on that and so on whether our mahal tries to give you guidelines in terms of what determines or how do we understand the acts of the varnish on in consequence to a person's actions whatever they be and so on and what is important to know also is just a structure first you have the what's called the circumstance is that that a

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  1. 0:02we're up to second colic actually pear accretion we did already some of this stuff but
  2. 5:49have no idea right of the existence of God we don't see him we don't feel
  3. 12:18watching everybody privacy yeah yeah because everybody's actions are somewhere recorded you know and we and
  4. 18:30and so on attributes and they all have the origin in that particular spiritual entity that
  5. 24:46it is three right is a result of the mouth manipulating their particular representation you know
  6. 31:01must have a consequence why because every deed he does in some way relates to good
  7. 37:17now being a Navi right in which he can access the Torah at the highest level
  8. 43:30difference in levels but even a going has the ability to become a Jew and if
  9. 49:41you know what's that how do you reconcile that's the word I was looking for yeah
  10. 56:01and see you smile you know saying I mean you can't evaluate you know two guys

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