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[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] It's a pleasure to speak for again and an honor in advance of Rashashana this year been a very difficult year year been a very difficult year and Mashem will have a better year next year. But let's focus for a few moments on a fundamental. After all, rashashan is about fundamentals. Going back to roots, the chauffeur really is going back to the root. The voice before the words. It's the going back a memory, a deep memory taking us back to points of origin. M going back to what's important. Hashem as king. Let's focus on one fundamental, namely an aspect of free will. The namely an aspect of free will. The definition of the human as human is free will. So I'd like to bring out one aspect of free will that possibly hopefully will set us a direction for the year to come. The concept of free will is at the root of what it means to be human. The murder says on the verse when Hashem says when God says let us make the human being the question the obvious question is why would he express himself in the plural let us make man make the human. And the let us make man make the human. And the mus has a number of answers. The most famous of course is let us make you. Let me and you make you. I'll begin your creation. You completed you as a human being. Bring yourself to completion. But one answer that's relevant to our discussion today is in the medish. And the medish says that when Hashem came to create the human being, he consulted all the midas, all the angelic powers that he want to assemble in the constellation that would become the human being. He spoke to truth ms stalker charity
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- 0:01[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] It's a pleasure to speak for again and an honor in advance…
- 2:35asked their advice and he took it. What was their advice? An almighty unresolved conflict. That's…
- 5:09requires free choice requires a choice. Right? It's aiomatic in the area of free will that…
- 7:41viable alternatives. Both of which guarantee success. Let me explain what I mean. When Hashem says…
- 10:12Hashem who loves you is going to guarantee your success. He never made it optional. Failure.…
- 13:18you the most extreme example I can think of. Take miracles. Take the two forms of…
- 15:52human being, namely a prophet. Prophets are the agents of Hashem's speech and action. And therefore,…
- 18:23The world will be full of knowledge of Hashem like the oceans filled with water. At…
- 20:56and mitzvah because he loves you doesn't want to hurt you. That's obvious. But way beyond…
- 23:31you're not expected to make choices to to attempt choice beyond your capacity. But within the…
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