Derech Hashem / The Way of God #78 | Man's Free Will & Nahama D'Kisufa

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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.

last week last week I spoke about free will now am i spoke about free will what it is what are the conditions of it but the question we have asked really is we don't stand something this whole situation doesn't make sense why does God have to create a situation right and then make a task that the Jews have to do which is a situation they find themselves and then he's got to be thrust between righteousness or thrust between righteousness or sinfulness right and therefore he needs freewill to decide which way to go and then God supervises what was his decision and either he rewards him by giving him greater opportunities or he punishes him right when they go to oil muhabba future world or he doesn't go or he has to be punished or maybe it doesn't even go to Omaha why do we have this scenario why doesn't God just create or Gemara right why doesn't he create utopia right right why doesn't he create utopia right right away that is the question I'm sure everybody's thought about that because if you create a situation we have to earn your enema how about your future world then there's always a risk that you may not own it or you may earn much less so why do we have to go through this situation that's the that's it that's a crucial question which I'm sure has bothered many people over the years and so on so I'd like to address that so that's a fundamental question and the answer to that is really very certain sense is very comforting if I asked you imagine this scenario you're sleeping and all sudden God appears to you in your dream and it's prophetic it's prophecy because God doesn't appear in dreams he does however appear to you in prophecy which could be in prophecy is a

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1. 0:02last week last week I spoke about free will now am i spoke about free will…
2. 3:43don't have nothing to wish for come on billion dollars Mario for your kids live in…
3. 7:27we are created entities correct we are not God we are created in the image of…
4. 11:40the worse let's assume you have a child who's five-year-old right and and let's assume the…
5. 15:18that's namdak so far it's not so much an emotion it's a conceptual contradiction how can…
6. 19:23caused it that's a divine act therefore the contradiction is gone you see so the neshamah…
7. 22:57reaction that's really din you see and that's the concept of judgment and justice you get…
8. 26:34is fraught with so many dangers in terms of not being righteous but being sinful but…
9. 31:14think it answers the questions on any questions now don't be ashamed yeah it's divine well…
10. 34:51terms we're you do not have to work for it that's his decision we don't know…

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