Derech Hashem / The Way of God #93 | The Origin of Jews and Non-Jews, Part 3

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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.

Uh last week uh we are talking about the origin of the different nations of the world, Jews and non-Jews. And how does that originate? So I had mentioned, you know, last week, whatever, couple weeks ago, that you have Adam and Eve, the first man. And his job really he he enters the world at a certain level of holiness, spirituality. And his job really is to go higher, And his job really is to go higher, obviously. Uh so this is called Adam and Eve before the sin. And his job ultimately is to go higher and to achieve a much greater amount of spirituality. And obviously the main test was the the concept of the tree of knowing good and evil. And as a result he would have brought a tremendous what's called tikkun, rectification to the world, brought back the presence of God into the world. And that would have began And that would have began the future world, Olam Haba. Now I also mentioned something very important is that even at that point in time before the sin, he was supposed to have kids and he would have brought them into being. And they would have enjoyed experienced the same thing that he was experiencing as a result of the fact that they are his offspring or descendants. I had mentioned that last week. I had mentioned that last week. However, we know that he sinned. And because he sinned, that created an entirely different situation. And we know what the sin was, of course. But as I said, he increased enormously the concept of descent or degradation. And what that really is is the concept of physicality. He became physical, no more spiritual. And that of course meant that the physical itself, as I mentioned, is a

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1. 0:03Uh last week uh we are talking about the origin of the different nations of the…
2. 6:14and became I got my divine powers. Now however, your test is much more difficult. Why?…
3. 12:19that world has no chance. You see? And therefore, the vibration gave them 2,000 years to…
4. 18:33device to do the tikkun, gets greater and greater. So, you go from one to seven,…
5. 24:42is also a minute. You know, what we do in terms of the community. You see?…
6. 30:52something all of a sudden arises in your conscious, you know, be careful. You know what…
7. 37:02higher ordered animals. You you you have to understand, you know, uh there's a concept of…
8. 43:15cuz like I said, it goes down and down and so on. But if there was…
9. 49:25majority of Jews at that time, therefore, Yehuda contracted ultimately to Yuda or Yud, Yehudi, Jew.…
10. 55:33determine if God is in or out of the creation. A A A non-Jew cannot do…

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