21st Century #7: Distortion of reality, levels of arrogance, & 4 parts of Eisav

What’s said in this shiur

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

Obviously, the main idea of all of this is what? Is to give everybody some type of a framework in which to understand how everything basically seems to fit based on a divine agenda. It's really what it's all about. That this isn't just chance, you know, and everybody's just doing what they do, just happens to be there. But there's an incredible divine agenda plan that is what's called incessantly trying to bring the end. We don't trying to bring the end. We don't realize that, but the Ribono shel Olam wants to bring the end desperately. It's hard to say desperately with the Ribono shel Olam, but that's his uh That's it. In fact, the you the um I'll talk about it more next week, but there's a Midrash, it's really a Yalkut, where the Ribono shel Olam where it says that the Ribono shel Olam is metzapeh l'Yeshua. You know what metzapeh means? It looks forward. You know what that means to look forward? Anticipates. It's like you tell you you tell a 10-year-old kid, "You know, we're going to Disney World." "You know, we're going to Disney World." So, "Wow, right?" I mean, whatever turns these guys on, you know? That's antici- That's anticipation with bated breath. And the Ribono shel Olam is uh is is is uh waiting for that. That's what he wants, you know? In any case, um I need to start the shiur off uh um uh with these ideas. When a person distorts reality about who he is, that's called uh arrogance, ego-driven, or whatever.

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1. 0:19Obviously, the main idea of all of this is what? Is to give everybody some type…
2. 5:54because they do his works and they do the mitzvahs. Therefore, they are privileged and they…
3. 11:59uh and I want to retract something which I had said 5 weeks ago, 6 weeks…
4. 18:06make mistakes. Everybody has to survive and they struggle. I mean, look at look at America.…
5. 24:12find that in American history. George Washington was exceptional. Wasn't perfect, you know, but imagine they…
6. 30:22most people don't know really know what a is is that he would meditate and and…
7. 36:29that's what they did. You know, to them it was all about eating. You know? And…
8. 43:05what I want to do is show you that Edom is being destroyed because there are…
9. 49:09So I'm now going to tell you the journey or the progression or the advancement of…
10. 55:21That's the end of bechira. Because that kind of a life, you know, if he showed…

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