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Derech Hashem / The Way of God #30

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Rabbi Mendel Kessin

Rabbi Mendel Kessin discusses Derech Hashem on Torah Thinking.

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about before he spoke about what the purpose of degree is what the purpose of creation is you know i mean when the version set it up and so and so forth you know he's now going to talk about the major character he was a major character of all this everything that was set up the purpose um why he did it so and so forth who is god and all that now we come to the major character who was all this intended for so obviously it's man so obviously it's man which is now going to talk about so he says quasi-ghana we mentioned of course that the autumn is the creation that was created to be doubled in urban you know so he singles out uh odom not true important to make a distinction doesn't say hey say that this is all done this is all done other people don't realize that the immigration wasn't made for jews it was great for man it happens to be that man had a certain purpose and ultimately the jew took it over so in that sense it was made for man but even that it wasn't made for what was it made for and i also i always asked the question you know which is very important you know was arthur mauricion jewish it's interesting question you know what's the answer to that was he jewish of course he of course was he jewish of course he of course yeah he was the he was he was involved in taking that on himself well i didn't ask that i this is the way definitely not definitely not absolutely wait wait wait wait let's let's let's take a vote here he says all those who say yes what's the other reason jewish those people say yes please raise your

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  1. 0:29about before he spoke about what the purpose of degree is what the purpose of creation
  2. 5:52each one is connected to a specific place the nephesh is connected to where uh which
  3. 11:09very important concept in any case so obviously he's the main one that would be um
  4. 16:21to remove the deficiency and become perfect so therefore man is placed between schneiders and concerns
  5. 21:34what is the greatest song of all let's see if we can solve it by reasoning
  6. 26:51so that they should be alive to testify when he comes back so he figured of
  7. 31:59right but it's not the same way we were being hubble you know the greatest concern
  8. 37:17from prior to before you did the mess when you do a mitzvah you do a
  9. 42:26and they don't know what to do with this in a certain sense it's mystical now
  10. 47:32consciousness and therefore the world is us you see it's not that we and then there's

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