What Determines Human History?

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

What determines human events? Now, of course, there are reasons known to historians. There are military ideas, reasons, right? Cultural ideas, scientific forces, right? And political forces and so on. Well, this is what determines the events of human history and so on. Wrong. The only thing that determines human history of which we will someday understand is the advancement of tikun. understand is the advancement of tikun. Right? God wants to come back and do the tikun. Therefore, he subjects the Jews and also the world by the way to a myriad types of tests that they have to pass. The Jews have to pass the tests of the tarag mitzvah. And even the have tests. What are theirs? the seven no laws. They are also tested to see if they will also inherit hab which they can if they observe the seven no laws.

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1. 0:00What determines human events? Now, of course, there are reasons known to historians. There are military…
2. 0:30understand is the advancement of tikun. Right? God wants to come back and do the tikun.…
3. 1:02can if they observe the seven no laws. But what's interesting is they have to observe…
4. 1:34into the world by the Jews if they do the test correctly then they bring the…
5. 2:06tikum process. But of course, God shapes history to what looks like physical reasons, political reasons,…
6. 2:37you know, or or the Washington Times or any of these things and so on. Newspapers…

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