Rabbi Guy Matalon - The Way of God - Part 4

What’s said in this shiur

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

thank you and in order to give us the ultimate goodness what does he have to do he has to create a situation where the beings can emulate him or connect to him right and the way to connect him is by getting the way to connect him is by getting higher and higher levels of perfection right by becoming better and better and when they do that then they come closer to him which means they get more and more goodness good great and for that in order for them to get rewarded they should do the good not automatically and not by necessity they should do it because they want to that's the idea of free will will okay good now we are in chapter three and we mentioned also that in order for our ability to receive this goodness we need to make choices so in order to make choices God has created in us a situation where we can go either towards Perfection or completion completion or imperfection right increase the imperfections we can go either way and those are called inclinations good inclination and bad inclination we can go this way or we can go that way we are right in the middle and then he adds one more caveat and he says for in order to do that to be to have these both inclinations we are made up of two parts are made up of two parts one hydrogen to oxygen I'm kidding that's not it by the way did you hear that oxygen is dating magnesium that's not good oh my God OMG so we are made up of two parts what are the two parts that we're made of physical right we're made up of a soul and the shama and a body the body pulls one way and the soul is supposed to pull another way

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1. 0:13thank you and in order to give us the ultimate goodness what does he have to…
2. 3:46so the body and then the Sham are in a constant state of War because they're…
3. 7:27you pull for 120 years and then you get a beautiful beautiful condo by the beach…
4. 11:03here know that this is just a joke no condo there's nothing left but that's a…
5. 14:37like this things pulling it towards whatever that decision would be it depends depends like there's…
6. 18:15had to do was just make a little bit of effort and you would have saved…
7. 21:53that definitely no taste it no that no we don't do that okay so he says…
8. 25:29right that's exactly the case but the question is why did he do it why he…
9. 29:03they were hoping to do something and they thought if they were successful it would have…
10. 32:40get this idea that you're bound to live by certain rules do whatever the hell you…

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