Parashat Eikev: Details of Punishment vs Reward, Do we Have Free Choice?

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

we'll learn as much as possible today uh it's a very interesting there a lot of things that are extremely relevant to our life and uh with AEM himself we'll cover all of them at least as many as I know so the first uh if you see some of the lectures that are out there the rabbi is do on it or some of the teachings about this par many rabbis focus on the first verse because there's so much you can learn from the first verse uh that you could literally spend verse uh that you could literally spend an entire sh just on the first verse and that actually happens to be the case with most parot the first verse of every par it gives you a a huge amount of M and and and lessons that you can learn from it whether it's the formulation of of the words or it's a specific type of sentence um it's a it's very interesting so for example uh every time you see like this this first verse in this week's this shall be the reward when you heren to these ordinances and observe and perform them so so they're talking about the mitv the laws that hm is giving us he's saying this is going to be the reward that you're going to get for observing all of my mitv Hashem your God will safeguard for you the Covenant and the kindness that he swore to your forefathers and he continues on and on and on so many of the times that we have shim it's not that I make it up but it's just happens to be that there's more

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