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Derech Hashem / The Way of God #60 | The True Goal of a Holy Person

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Rabbi Mendel Kessin

Rabbi Mendel Kessin discusses the role of the soul in purifying the body and the universe, and the stages of transition to Olam Habah.

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we are and uh we are in peric doid and we have the paragraph Zion so he had mentioned ra mentioned that the way that the the is able to purify the body because that's the problem that the is in many ways uh captivated or like a prison in the body itself so I mentioned that the sh has the ability to purify the body except the ability to purify the body except that there's a Divine decree that it cannot so what the Nish then does it obviously what theam therefore did is that uh he assigned theama or the the uh Nish actually yeah specific acts that he could do in terms of interacting with the physical world world and when it interacts with the physical world then uh if it does so in a prescribed manner it will begin to prescribed manner it will begin to purify the body in terms of a credit which I had mentioned that the uh the purification of the body which is zik doesn't happen now because of the uh sin ofish but you build a credit and ultimately in the end when it will happen which uh it will happen um at the end of the Messianic that's really when it happens Say by happen right away it could have happened yeah but he didn't could have happened yeah but he didn't because he sinned I I mentioned why because what problem is because the alishan sinned um The Zo which means that the s or rather fell into the world of the S and therefore but it cannot cannot purify uh a um Z it can't remove evil but it it can remove material materialism physicality so therefore that's why you

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  1. 0:08we are and uh we are in peric doid and we have the paragraph Zion so
  2. 6:19vanquished and the one who will ultimately destroy evil is the MH you see uh basically
  3. 12:34helically you're the owner whether you can control it partially or fully cuz sometimes you're a
  4. 18:49mitzvas you see but what they are is that what you do to interact with the
  5. 25:05itself you see so that's a very important idea that the ram says because I I
  6. 31:27denominator of almost all mankind is my needs me what do I need therefore what do
  7. 37:40Continuum has two opposite polar sides you know question is where are you where in this
  8. 43:52it's forbidden so that is that itself makes that mitzah extremely powerful powerful it's interesting you
  9. 50:09years you still have eternity to go you didn't start you didn't start yet exactly that's
  10. 56:14on any questions yeah the uh the ti that we are that we are working towards

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