Rabbi Eliyahu Maksumov - Unraveling Free Will in 42 Min In St Johns University

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

Hi everybody, my name is Rabbi Max Well. This is my first time here. I want to just express my greatest form of gratitude to Milano. She's a great coordinator. If it wasn't for her, I probably wouldn't find this place. And um Today's topic is going to be free will unraveled within 60 minutes. I don't know how much time we have left, but with whatever time we have, I hope to give clarity to the topic. I want to start off with a joke. There was once a a ventriloquist that There was once a a ventriloquist that got up in front of a crowd of people and he began to perform. He started uh making imitating all types of sounds and voices. Somewhere in the middle of his act, he began to make fun of a blonde. And everybody found it to be amusing and hilarious except for of course this one blonde who gets up in front of everybody and she says, "You know, I'm sick and tired of everybody always making fun of us. We're not as dumb as people say we are. In fact, we're very intellectual people." And she goes on and on uh making it very obvious that she's insulted. The ventriloquist realizes what he does The ventriloquist realizes what he does what he did. So, he turns to the blonde and he says, "I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to insult anybody. We'll just continue with the performance with the next part of the show." And she turns the the blonde turns to the ventriloquist and she says, "Hey, you stay out of this. This is between me and the puppet." Proving herself not to be too smart after all. For those of you who laughed, you can keep laughing. It makes me feel good. For those of you who didn't get it,

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1. 0:01Hi everybody, my name is Rabbi Max Well. This is my first time here. I want…
2. 4:04And it's an intricate and very sensitive topic. Does God control our lives or do we…
3. 8:07that God guides us based on our behavior. It goes hand in hand with our decisions.…
4. 12:09matter what I'll do, I'll end up in Chicago as much as I want to get…
5. 16:45taste and he knows this is what you like and based on your knowledge and based…
6. 21:19and whatever it is. By the end of the week, you open up that book and…
7. 25:26getting up in front of everybody and you're showing everybody that I did and I did.…
8. 29:30Almost there. Kaved. Kaved. Take the first letter of moach, it's a mem. The first letter…
9. 33:35clearly in my life, I want to run away so I could choose, not because you're…
10. 37:39to now release the Jews. It's not his fault, God, you're making him not release the…

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