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21st Century #54 | How Coronavirus Accelerates the Redemption Process | Ramchal's Yahrteit 5780

17K views · May 20, 2020

Rabbi Mendel Kessin

A lecture on how the coronavirus relates to the redemption process, given on the Ramchal's yahrtzeit by Rabbi Mendel Kessin.

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tonight uh is a special evening uh it is the yorth site of rabbi mohammed sato so that's really very special and i certainly want to dedicate the sheer to the alias neshama of rabbi moshe ben yaakov [Music] satya was a very extraordinary person he's one of the masters of cabola in fact in the last 500 years he's one of the greatest cabolas of all time even the ville nagoyan said that if uh it's [Music] alive at that time of the villenegoian he was but then from khao's nifta died in 1747 and the phil nagoyan died much later but uh by the time the ivy undergoing uh had uh become acquainted with the writing to daram khal the brahm khan was no more there so even he said that and uh that if the ramkhan was alive he would walk from vilna to padua in italy and uh could you imagine the villain going saying that about anybody i mean he himself was one of the greatest he certainly was greater than the acronym they compare them to a re-shine the quality of the character or the level of ramban but in any case that's what he said so we can begin to imagine who this person was and he was a master of many different fields for instance he was master of logic he wrote books on logic and methodology he was a tremendous poet he wrote plays he wrote a book on digduc he was a tremendous kabbalist he wrote probably one of the greatest ethical foreign muslims say forever written which is the muslim he was just an extraordinary person so tonight is the outside

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  2. 6:20responding to you and therefore a person is judged mankind is judged for their acts and…
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  6. 30:53jews i'm going to make the sutton the vehicle or the instrument to bring the redemption…
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  9. 49:25the smartphone you see and and therefore the sudden sets themselves wow what a way to…
  10. 55:33the growth of spirituality desperately you see guess what that's exactly what the coronavirus has done…

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