Derech Hashem / The Way of God #83 | A Summary of How it’s Decided Who Gets Into Olam Haba

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

So, we're back to the Hashem. And what's what's important what we begin to see is certain very very fundamental ideas. The first idea which we see so far is that the choice in a person's life there's only one of two paths. Either you get eternity and you become close to God and you're and you become close to God and you're attached to God or you're annihilated or you don't exist anymore. There is no in between. You see? I you know, I I get a kick out of these people who think about eternal damnation. You know? You know, uh that you that you can actually do things which will eternally damn you. Put you in Gehenna to be roasted, so to speak, for an infinite amount of time. You know what I'm saying? It's absurd You know what I'm saying? It's absurd when you think about that kind of idea. And there are religions that believe in eternal damnation. You know what I'm saying? You know? I think about that. An infinite amount of time is really a long time, right? There is no sin, I don't care who it is that the seriousness is so great that you could be eternally damned. Which means eternally roasted. You know, there's no such sin. You know, even Hitler may die, right? You know, even Hitler may die, right? As grievous as his sin was, which is we cannot even comprehend you know, what what he what he's going through now, you know, but even that act has an end. You know, it's not infinite. You know what I'm saying? So, the real concept is there's only two choices. Either you exist in in world of future world and you enjoy the tremendous attachment to God called Vegas.

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