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Derech Hashem / The Way of God #87 | What God Really Wants from Man

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Rabbi Mendel Kessin

Rabbi Mendel Kessin discusses what God truly desires from humanity.

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the ROM house sends something very interesting you know and I really want to explain that because it reveals a great deal about what does God want from man and certainly what does he want from the Jew what does God really want and as it what's called the bottom line you know I mean we know in general what he wants he wants us to do with Commandments the mistress we know that obviously you know the Tarim interest is obviously you know the Tarim interest is 613 commandments we know that we know of course he wants us you know to do all kinds of acts of hesed kindness like we know that you know we have a certainly a general understanding of what the man wants you see but I want to approach it from a different way a different slant I want to go deeper which is interesting and is the and that is that doing all this kind of stuff all the meta mitrice this kind of stuff all the meta mitrice Islam really is the outer layer of something much deeper what he really wants and that's what I'd like to talk about today principally because once we understand that we know exactly why if a person doesn't do mitzvahs he endangered his whole in the mob Oh his whole future world why you know if we don't know really what the bündchen wants then it's much harder to understand what the criteria is to get into the future world

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  1. 0:02the ROM house sends something very interesting you know and I really want to explain that
  2. 5:41Messiah well well who said he's the son of God who said any of this stuff
  3. 11:52his own situation his own predicament as they say you know and the question is what's
  4. 18:41that ye hood the first idea okay is that he's the only thing that exists period
  5. 24:50denied him the first you know what he called part of his life time of a
  6. 31:05either you ain't you know there's no middle you see so that certainly between existence and
  7. 37:27thank you okay what's the reward the guys has come with me she takes him to
  8. 43:44course you want to be God what's the problem here you know and so on and
  9. 49:56increases the illusion of self which is the exact opposite of any Movado you see so
  10. 56:10to suffer why is suffering what's the logic of suffering because if suffering does it when

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