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The Concept of Free Will Parashat Vayera

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Rabbi David Elmaleh

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[Music] we're going to be continuing today to speak about parashat and when we're going to speak about the parashat we're going to try to focus on a person or a personality of lot who exactly was lot we know in parashat last week it was brought down that there was between the shepherds of lot and the shepherds of abraham he desired after his he went after his desires and therefore he's separated from abraham avinu and everything came from because there when it says means that abraham was the cause of everything that lord had the cattle the sheep the maidservants everything came because of ramavinu but still lot he was money hungry he was opposed to he was money hungry he was opposed to as it says the left shalom shalom explains in last week's parashat he says over there by abraham it's written his tent by lot it was written right in plural but it didn't say implore why did it say plural and the reason why is because at the end of the day everything that he had lot was always looking for more everything was monetary everything was money and therefore it was a very big money and therefore it was a very big problem so what happens is that you think about it even more he was so money hungry he wanted to inherit of rama vino alive when was the last time you saw an inheritance given over and during lifetime unless the person gives it that something else but not that you could inherit during a person's lifetime here he felt that he was an inheritor of abraham avinu do you know there was actually the mahloket yeah between uh later on we just really learned that in the cetera there was actually the

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  1. 0:01[Music] we're going to be continuing today to speak about parashat and when we're going to
  2. 3:44money hungry he said what am i going to do with all my money i came
  3. 7:18said now it says over here that he comes and he tells them to come to
  4. 10:58sometimes you could have and this is what travis salanta comes and he explains is that
  5. 14:34say you know what you don't have to be shabbat it doesn't even start because that's
  6. 18:09advancing in everything that they do so he says what happens is now according to this
  7. 21:42why they're crying so what happens is is the lefum tsara you're only going to get
  8. 25:20that's it you did a huge question you were born with that that's when you were
  9. 29:08each one worked on themselves in their own unique specific way and because of that they
  10. 32:43rubbed off so much think about it avraham zavino's nature rubbed off so much that even

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