Are Evil People Born Bad?

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Chaim Mintz’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

rabbi um a question about asa uh so did asa was asap born evil or did he become evil from his own free will i mean i'm just thinking that obviously he came from the same womb as yaakov he came up from a torah type of lineage in essence what happened or what's the reason he became evil or was it really just a free will issue that's a wonderful question very issue that's a wonderful question very important question but there's nobody who's born evil no such thing he might have certain evil tendencies that he has to overcome uh we're told he was born old red and that's a sign of a person who has a desire to kill king david was also born the same way admiring he was born also red he had the same type of the tendencies and the king david came to great king

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2. 0:31issue that's a wonderful question very important question but there's nobody who's born evil no such…
3. 1:02and the king david came to great king david the a7 became the ace of russia…
4. 1:33forced to be evil he had challenges he could overcome those challenges king david overcomes overcame…
5. 2:04no no in other words you know with asap where you know even if he had…
6. 2:35the asap should do his part yakima do his part he could have been a very…
7. 3:06them financially they helped them out for them to be able to to live so that's…

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