A hashkafa shiur on the conduct that ensures the will of God, given by Rabbi Mendel Kessin.
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This year uh is really part three of a series of ideas and those ideas are why does the raisham do what he does. Now of course his actions are infinite. We know that. But can they fit into a pattern, a general category that will organize his acts? Because his acts are obviously infinite in terms of their breadth and their depth. But believe it or not, they can be organized into a series of ideas. You know, less you think, well, what do I have to know this for? Because what it will give is tremendous clarity. One in terms of what is happening in the world. And why? Because obviously they must conform to the acts of God because he does everything far more than we can imagine him doing but he does everything. So in order to really have a grasp of what's happening in the world, you really have to know why does God do what he does. [clears throat] And obviously you can't, you know, organize it individually. They're infinite. But we can look at the pattern. And that pattern can tell us a great deal of why God does what he does. and how does it all make sense especially in terms of today's time and that's what I want to talk about and uh continue so it's really a very important shir uh in terms of what to know the behavior of the but you should know one thing in the end of time he will reveal everything that he did and why. So you shouldn't think well maybe a great deal won't be understood. No, you will understand. And obviously when you hear it all, you won't believe the unbelievable cohesiveness of every single thing that he did and how it all makes sense according to
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