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Derech Hashem / The Way of God #63 | 3 Ways Hashem Interacts With The World

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Rabbi Mendel Kessin

Rabbi Mendel Kessin discusses how God interacts with the world to help people merit Olam Haba.

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we are now um the ram now last we I spoke about uh uh uh loving God the week before that I spoke about fearing god what the uh the ideas of AEM isem which obviously is really in many ways a fundamental Concept in in Judaism the concept of fearing and loving God obviously is essential to the actual work service that you really want to do work service that you really want to do the that you want to do of course with god um the ram Now talks about what exactly is the mechanism of how the interacts with the Bria um but be before that I just wanted to give a u somewhat of an introduction and that is that all the acts of God which is interesting all the acts of God which is interesting all the acts of the god is basically based on three ideas the totality of his acts is really based on three ideas the first idea or actually the actions that he does is called the anoga the an hogus is actions and it's really based on three concepts or three ideas in other words there are three reasons why God does anything Vis us what he does Vis himself is Vis us what he does Vis himself is unknown but Vis us there are three concepts involved the first one is called the anog of Kum that is what are the acts that God does the actions to create the entire creation and obviously he had a specific idea in mind and what he does therefore is he creates creation the existence and so on of everything and the way creation is is

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  1. 0:04we are now um the ram now last we I spoke about uh uh uh loving
  2. 5:12in order to advance the purpose we have no idea what that means but that is
  3. 10:23you see but there are go of course who will get but the main idea is
  4. 16:02which is many ways the Prem of Suka sukus which I'm not going to go into
  5. 21:12compared to you know because Hitler lived 56 million people died I have no idea what
  6. 26:52things well God's not going to make the world blind right he's not going to give
  7. 32:01when it says my and so on what that means is that we cannot comprehend those
  8. 37:07does and how he responds to Creation you know and um and they explain many many
  9. 42:48does it uh it's interesting just a little cabalistic idea we know that the world was
  10. 47:58tremendous energy uh and of course the the job of this of course is to uh

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