Rabbi Mendel Kessin: Why Evil Persists and Current Events

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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.

[Music] welcome everybody so it's nice to be welcome everybody so it's nice to be back in Eretz Israel the topic for tonight really is I think the title is why evil persists yeah what really is also when you when you say why does evil persist what it also means is that what is redemption takes a warm that what is redemption takes a warm because that's really the opposite idea you know and everybody tries to figure that out like why does it take so long for the goal of the redemption to occur why the things have to be so bad you know and and so on you know so yeah that's what I want to talk about I had a how how ever in all I have to admit that I really had a conflict because there's so much stuff happening in the world that I had this tremendous in the world that I had this tremendous gate Zahara to talk about current events tonight you know because this is the I mean when you think about all the stuff going on this breaks it this Iran saw Romania this China these the elections the elections in in Israel then is the impeachment right and then there's the peace plan is like wherever you look this is just something going on and to most people it's just you know people of

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1. 0:00[Music] welcome everybody so it's nice to be…
2. 6:18the Spirit of God holds over the face of the earth so what is really saying…
3. 12:34I'm sure he's got cousins and brothers I like cousins and and of course he has…
4. 18:47because it is the exact opposite of everything that God said how could this be no…
5. 25:02doesn't work that way you see and that's what the person wanted to tell everyone of…
6. 31:12this guy Perry says no no no you know now a normal guy right and not…
7. 37:23interesting what do you mean stay your slaves in this country right for hundreds of years…
8. 43:40that we have to remember right is because the redemption model of Egypt it happened so…
9. 50:00because he is soon or without going into why they had to suffer that way it…
10. 56:13brought it was what's called balance in the book we don't know the measure of Tekin…

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