Derech Hashem / The Way of God #84 | What Happens in Hell

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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.

So, last week I'd mentioned something which is you know, very important and it gives us tremendous clarity in in certain ideas. I mentioned last week that there's a problem. We know the general rule that it is the majority of an individual's deeds, you know, looking at the quality and the quantity of those deeds that determine the direction or the ultimate destination of anybody. destination of anybody. That's really what it is, okay? So, the majority of it's good will get you into Olam Haba, and the majority of it's bad, you will be annihilated. However, the problem is not the majority, the problem of course is the minority. The minority deeds that you do, right? If they're If let's say if the majority is good, right? And the minority is bad, well, that has to be dealt with. The bad deeds, they are various, so to speak. And on the reverse, if the majority is And on the reverse, if the majority is bad and the minority is good, that has to be also dealt with in terms of the attribute of justice. Obviously, both have to be dealt with. So, generally speaking, if the majority is good and you get Olam Haba, right? Since in order to get into Olam Haba, or rather the condition is that you have to become You have to be part of a perfected be part of a perfected community, sholem, shlemus, in Olam Haba. What does that mean? That means that you have to be in Olam Haba attached or in an intimate relationship with God, the Ribono shel Olam, for eternity. You see? The problem of course is if a person is bad or he has bad deeds, then it won't work. Cuz even though in terms of the good deeds, that's fine. But in terms of the bad deeds, it's not

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7. 37:06he's dead. He's That's a What I'm going to talk about, that's the judgment. A person…
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10. 55:31Chaim. He said he never I feel it's gomer. It's it's lashon hara. Of course, you…

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