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Derech Hashem / The Way of God #85 | The Precision of God's Judgement

7.7K views · Nov 26, 2018

Rabbi Mendel Kessin

A lecture on the precision of God's judgment, given by Rabbi Mendel Kessin.

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last week I spoke about denim or what's called purgatory you know so what's interesting when you really think about that you know Sophia hanim it's very similar to GaN Eden the difference is in Canadian you know you're either in it so you're in Grenada or you're outside looking in what you could have had which looking in what you could have had which is getting them so it's not as I mentioned it's not so much that something external is being applied they're not being burnt or something like that you actually see what you could have got and you're not getting it you see and that again to most people in fact everybody that would be again you know I gave the example where you say he bought you know was some some stock I was selling at five dollars you know I was selling at five dollars you know and you decided it hasn't moved in a year or to him I was getting rid of it and then all of a sudden shoots up to fifty dollars you know and you realize you could have been a multi-millionaire retired and I got to work every day gonna schlep to work every time that's again him I'm sure everybody's gone through some experience it's cold Monday morning quarterbacks you know Monday mornings I think the football games played Sunday and Monday morning you figure out all what I could have done if figure out all what I could have done if I would have known well welcome to get them as they say you know but it's much worse because we talk about the greatest of all rewards which is Canadian there's nothing that compares when you realize you could have been in there and you can't you know you denied entry as they say you know so that's basically many

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  2. 6:09he knows exactly and and before he knows all the details of any particular deed was
  3. 12:24rabbi and asked him can I do this but you didn't you see because you didn't
  4. 18:41fortitude not own and that itself is some type of argument for some type of Nursing
  5. 25:01whole business because somebody down the line doesn't deserve to have this absentee father or even
  6. 31:20astounding to watch right so there was once a locust swamp it's really interesting what locust
  7. 37:34the partition that separates you from the light of God and all your Mohammed is all
  8. 43:49you see to imagine what this is it's astounding it's an incredible protection means even if
  9. 50:04how much energy how much divine presence and that varies for each individual so like I
  10. 56:25and that's well that Ganim when I said Jam is fundamentally yeah well you kick either

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