Frogs and Free Will: Divine Direction, Part 3

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

Amuna [singing] my Lord. [music] Amuna, it's from you my Lord. It's [music] all [singing] good, my Lord. Oh [music] Lord. [singing] >> Tonight's lesson is entitled The Frog and Free will. Some people are often down on themselves. And if you think that you can't accomplish what you want that you can't accomplish what you want to accomplish, wait and see what a frog accomplishes. And we learn what's called kala. We're going to learn from from a frog that if a frog could do it, we certainly can. And this underlying lesson is that each creation is a messenger of divine direction. Rabi teaches us that every action in the earth, everything we see, if we have some kind of stimula in our lives, if we're privy to a certain event, we see something. This is all Hashem's way of talking to us. Hashem clothes himself and he clothes in thick layers and thick and he clothes in thick layers and thick layers and thick layers of concealment. But for a person that looks for Hashem, he's not concealed. He could see. And that's why people that are spiritually blind, that's the worst blindness that there can be. Uh they they don't see because everything is a message. Understand a message for us individually. And when a person appreciates that and a person develops his or her spiritual antenna, life is so much more fulfilling because you can really feel you can feel Hashem's love. Hashem's loves in everything he does. Even in something that's seemingly

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1. 0:00Amuna [singing] my Lord. [music] Amuna, it's from you my Lord. It's [music] all [singing] good,…
2. 3:36calls his son on his deathbed and he calls his 12 sons to reveal what's going…
3. 7:43song of creation. Pelikia Pelia tells us what each creation, how each creation sings to Hashem.…
4. 11:21They breathe air, but they have to live close to water to survive. Because heat and…
5. 15:25one of these plagues. And the second plague with the frogs that's no different. Well, the…
6. 19:35David. And he says to he says to uh just as King David looks at Hashem…
7. 23:10prophet tells us that the sun is a healing source of heat for the righteous and…
8. 27:19Holy Spirit, of course, King Solomon was a prophet was one of the 48 prophets. Did…
9. 31:00our group. Happy are the people learn because this is your declaration. Hashem, I want to…
10. 35:04to be punished for that because you don't insult other people in public. That's terrible, terrible…

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