Derech Hashem / The Way of God #88 | The Rationale Behind God's Justice

What’s said in this shiur

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

this ship should be for the illiyyun sama of Rafal Jakov been dove in Menasha last week it really was a very important year because I went to the concept of what's the bottom line what does God really want from a person and I wanted to the idea I explained that essentially we are involved now after the sin of Adam in a world where by there is a Adam in a world where by there is a contest between the self means an individual thinking that he exists independent of God and God in the sense that God is the only thing that really exists his will is the only thing that exists and certainly therefore you have to do what he says so there's a self versus God contest so to speak and everything in this world all the situations you find yourself in all the qualities of this world the qualities of this world the possibilities ultimately challenge you to declare one of the other either you're doing it for yourself self-interest right that's all the concept of you know physical pleasure doing more productivity again for oneself it is really about the successes and achievements that an individual wants for himself now what the self dominates as a motive for everything he does and then there's the other side does and then there's the other side where a person is dominated but not by his self-interest but by a declaration that since God is his will is the only that really exists and therefore he is the only thing really that exists in Nevada therefore everything he knows ultimately is for the sake and for the glory of God now it's a challenge that's a tremendous challenge and what God did is he created a whole series of

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1. 0:02this ship should be for the illiyyun sama of Rafal Jakov been dove in Menasha last…
2. 5:43really not in control and basically his whole concept of I'm somebody elected to whatever I…
3. 11:55your questions you know you can ask what kind of deeds can be so terrible but…
4. 18:14one although we don't really understand how but it's one like a coin one side of…
5. 24:28could be you had any sayin a test right that was incredibly difficult right and then…
6. 30:39little black tomorrow or something like that right me when that yong-chol had a very difficult…
7. 36:57obviously it's a it's not prophecy but it's pretty high up there to be able to…
8. 43:39judgment see and it's all judged based on its it's like they are there are almost…
9. 49:46that they have to do you evade they are destroyed it's astounding the rise and fall…
10. 56:03ancestors were does he deserve this if his ancestors his forebears if his father his grandfather…

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