Rabbi Guy Matalon - The Way of God - Part 24

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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 so we are in chapter eight of the second part we talked about again I think we repeated this idea I don't know a few hundred times I don't know a few hundred times that God created this world to do what is good see and why is it important with regard to what we're going to talk about today because the ramachal says therefore whatever God does is for our benefit so when we have difficulties in our situation in our life he does so as the way a father punishes he does so as the way a father punishes his son which is different if you were punishing an enemy or that you would be seeking vengeance yeah what about it it's well we talked about this that when a person is born they are born because with whatever situation it is it has to with whatever situation it is it has to do with previous lives we talked about that so in a sense it is something that the person has to deal with that they've done but it's it's in order to benefit them as difficult as it appears it's for their benefit because the purpose of creation was the bestow goodness on people and the reason that this is happening is because it will bring me closer to God and that's what's happened closer to God and that's what's happened so everything that God does foreign now we ended up yesterday talking about um two aspects that seem to be conflicting it's at least in philosophy they try to make a big deal out of it but there are deals with it in a very

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1. 0:13thank you so we are in chapter eight of the second part we talked about again…
2. 3:50other way what I think on a certain level you're right he determines everything he's determined…
3. 7:31have to be with one another yeah knowledge and will is not we're not dealing with…
4. 11:15our will since he gave us for you will he runs the universe as if his…
5. 15:21so says that they're really two types of Divine Providence one is Pat is a sense…
6. 18:59ah companionship right you do need that dog no cat I hate cats companionship what children…
7. 22:50if you can get to the universal that is hidden behind the start the example that's…
8. 26:59look I think you could always say when somebody brings an example uh uh to say…
9. 30:31and then call she's not gonna be that mad when she comes back because if he…
10. 34:07Tranquility lots of damage and suffering that's how he describes our condition agree with him disagree…

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