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FREE WILL | Unlocking the Secret to True Free Will in Judaism | Blessings of the Shema | Tefillah 36

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Rabbi Dov Ber Weisman

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wow going through the sedor amazing so we're now in the braas of shama before we say shma we have these two blessings and we spoke last time about Free Will which is important and then we spoke last time about really every little Quark of creation is hashem's doing and that he's constantly renewing creation all the time in his mind time in his mind a quick question about already yeah about free will go and a quick question about free will you know it's kind of you know the uh the idea that like you know we saying in Judaism you have free will because you can make moral choices even though is kind of has a plan for to steer man yeah but you can mess up his plan completely so we can make because Rabbi Rabbi uh uh Burger said that our Rabbi Rabbi uh uh Burger said that our fre will is really about the moral choices we can make that's what I said between good and bad not between chocolate and vanilla ice cream just between moral choices we not have fre will to choose between CH and vanilla no okay you literally don't you choose whichever preference you have based on your childhood or not what if you choose against your preference well that was a you had that preference to sometimes choose against your preference so then we can only in Morality so your area of Free Will is

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  1. 0:00wow going through the sedor amazing so we're now in the braas of shama before we
  2. 2:32I but in general the idea of Free Will is a lot more limited than most
  3. 5:07hashem's everything is and we're making an intellectual recognition that everything Hashem created everything everything comes
  4. 7:43and starts doing like which you still wouldn't know it still looks like nature but it's
  5. 10:19Yoke oh here we go the Yoke of Heaven have you heard this term all this
  6. 13:25Taekwondo deadly pair of legs so I accepted the all Mal Quang I accepted the Yoke
  7. 15:59they know better by the way you can't question them sometimes because they can explain it
  8. 18:35things I have to do but they help me achieve stuff in the world an ox
  9. 21:08the but I'm talking about like mitas shaking AOG eating ma make KES put on fill
  10. 23:39love so we got this so these angels unlike humans who are very competitive the Angels

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