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Oh, hello there. Now say sorry about that. Okay. All right. Um, we are going to share screen here. Okay. make sure I'm sharing the right screen here. Yes. So, uh we are talking about Eio and uh So, uh we are talking about Eio and uh Eio basically got into an impass with uh in the first part of the book which I'm about to summarize. I'm doing best with everybody else. Nobody has a good answer. Why? Yo is suffering. Oo is upset that he's suffering. Says I can't take the mus of human beings in our words. God's involvement and we're going to die anyway. So what's the whole point? And besides that um uh the uh I don't deserve this. So uh we're up to here. Hey is upset at he's by he's justifying himself before God says is not speaking with with intelligence and is not being smart and he's not not speaking with intelligence but also upset his friends if they justify God's judgments by saying it was wicked He got upset his three friends that they found no response and they found to be wicked. I'm going to respond to you and I'm going to respond to your friends with you. He included them both in the mistake. Um, and this is astonishing to fix matters. Russ there is e either he's always a rush of besides all opinions we said before we didn't add anything there is no way to resolve this either the the the why suffer have good and have a bad um any way shape or form Um that they should uh uh that uh the uh the the either come because
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- 3:52come besides the idea of sin or rebuke or the idea of um uh well those…
- 8:04the the the the activity a person will be repaid him and the the the cycle…
- 11:38Rabio safe I believe said this about the victims of the holocaust and he got in…
- 15:56my uh and uh I should really be like dust and ashes because I'm uh uh…
- 19:31necessary for me to conduct the world This is what Hashem responds which what's hinted in…
- 23:37has a vested interest he might actually judge himself too favorably and he's going to assume…
- 27:18so why do we go through the motions says a very strong language this is the…
- 31:21cast my my intelligence to the end of the perception to give a reason and and…
- 34:59You see many people who go down to dangerous places in in deserts and in seas…
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