Derech Hashem / The Way of God #77 | Man's Free Will

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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.

Now, so we're back in Derech Hashem. And now what the what the Ramchal is going to discuss, we're in actually the second chelek, second chapter. And he's really going to try now to talk about the whole situation of Jews in terms of the purpose of the world and what all this means. So we know so far that there's a neshama, a soul, which is fundamentally a the neshama that Jew has a neshama. that Jew has a neshama. And what is the neshama? The neshama is what the chazal call a chelek Elokai mimaal. Chelek Elokai means it is part of the living God. That's really what the neshama is. And so, you know, but what the neshama what the neshama is in a in a very great sense is it's really I once mentioned that the that the God emits 10 spheres or 10 forces, which God emits 10 spheres or 10 forces, which in many ways has divinity. And the neshama really is a personification of those spheres. What the neshama is, if you took those 10 spheres, which forms a unit, and you reconfigured it and made it physical, it would look like a human. And that's really what a Jew is. A Jew is a configuration of 10 spheres, and that's what his body really is. He's a personification of the spheres itself. And that's what it means that chelek Elokai mimaal, that

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2. 6:14concept of ziko. And therefore once that happens of course is the the guf now becomes…
3. 12:24Then if God wants you to carry out your decision to then he will you know,…
4. 18:37person and so on, you know? But man does have free will, which is a the…
5. 24:40all done expounded from one word. Cuz he said "Such come in many." She's when she…
6. 30:48normal melacha is so he was the manager of uh for the of his his household.…
7. 36:52what do you call it? Um the tendency is so great to once you have all…
8. 43:00itself. The problem is, okay, where is the yetzer hara, right? Has to combat the inclinations…
9. 49:08so many adults living in an illusion with that wanting to face reality and just living…
10. 55:14your eyes. That's why older people are able to open up their eyes much better than…

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