Can a Leopard Change its Spots? - Ask the Rabbi with Rabbi Mintz

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

aaron cohen is also one of the frequent correspondents it's the following questions that posix says the navi jeremiah tells the jews change his skin or leopard his spots so you so will you be able to improve you have become accustomed to do evil does that mean that a person can know more improve himself than a leopard can change his spots we know that certainly is not true you know a person has bachira because that free choice first could be the worst of the worst and he can do chuva and become the best of the best even the ram room says if a person his whole life was wicked he's on his deathbed the doctor says he got 10 seconds to live and he says god i'm sorry for what i did i wish i'd been a tadic he could do truman the last few seconds of his life god won't be the same as somebody who's attacking his own life we certainly uh

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1. 0:00aaron cohen is also one of the frequent correspondents it's the following questions that posix says…
2. 0:36we know that certainly is not true you know a person has bachira because that free…
3. 1:06life we certainly uh know that a person nothing can sin to the way of chuva…
4. 1:37that jews cannot change themselves everybody can change themselves and uh it says that doesn't it…
5. 2:08it's just words uh of exaggeration to bring out a point so that the executives bring…

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