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An exploration of God's guidance of history and the purpose of nations and free will.
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I'd like first to uh dedicate this year. This year should be a a blessing and [snorts] a merit for the health and success of the families of Regina Bas Ruain and Yesh Ben Israel Wolf Bes and Bory Wolf Ruain Ben Regina for Flemma. and also le Bento Esther. Okay. You [snorts] know, I thought that since we speak so much about Messiah that to talk about something which is a really very important topic and to explain that topic certainly in terms of what the divine agenda is, the divine plan you know and that is what is the raises actions or behavior based on throughout world history. I think would be very informative and very instructive to understand what are the principles that guide in that sense or that the reurnam adheres to throughout history and I wanted to do that and also especially within the context [snorts] of today's time but it in many ways it's a very fascinating topic to understand. So first of all you should know that there are what's called four hanhog of God there are four behaviors or four actions that God takes okay throughout history and knowing that will help us understand the rationale of God what his objective ives are and in other words why things occur and so on that they're not accident they're not chance [snorts] they have specific functions or purposes of why God allows them to happen in fact he causes them to happen and that sort of will round out in many ways current events and and history in general, right? So, let's take a look at these what I
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- 0:00I'd like first to uh dedicate this year. This year should be a a blessing and…
- 6:23Why do these things happen? Is there is that even if God created it, is it…
- 12:42exist altogether? Because remember it needed God to make it. Well, what was in his mind,…
- 18:57he's going to die. I don't know. I I don't know. I don't want to really…
- 25:12It cannot be given to you in a physical form because the mitzvah is purely the…
- 31:27did what I want to do. So you have to undo that. So suffering is a…
- 37:38That's what God wants. He wants us to be a true cause of our own deeds,…
- 43:50there's got to be somebody in it that deserves it. As I mentioned, through free will,…
- 50:02not to Adam but to man kind who in mankind everybody was the subject of an…
- 56:20that's what nations do. They fight each other because they want land, they want tribute, they…
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