Rabbi Mendel Kessin discusses Derech Hashem in this shiur from Torah Thinking.
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anyway so what i'm calling basically building up is an entire um argument for the setup why the juan gria why the creation looks the way it does i mean so so far we've seen as uh that the whole point of the bria ultimately is to reach what's called shlamus and we've thought about that and analyzed that what does perfection really mean so therefore there has to be what's called efficiency in order to be slammers efficiency in order to be slammers that's the deficiency or be perfectioning and so on you know so the says that in order for these things to exist deficiency and and perfection and so on there are many what's called conditions that have to be met requirements and as a result of that a person can go from deficiency into the acquisition of perfection and so on so that's what of course that who is who is the individual or individuals that are destined to be the ones to receive the uh revenue you know who are these individuals and of course the answer is mankind these are the people and now if you remember last week which is very important actually i went into the whole concept of who are these individuals and what is their concept of israel what the their concept of israel what the definition of israel is and what the definition of jewish hebrew and of course i mentioned that hebrew is a nationalistic term you know in one sense national term whereas israel does not refer to a nation specifically it really refers to a an ability a power and i mentioned what the power was which is really the greatest power in the universe and that is the power of simpson
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