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Derech Hashem / The Way of God #43

1.2K views · Jun 15, 2015

Rabbi Mendel Kessin

A shiur on Derech Hashem by Rabbi Mendel Kessin.

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yeah okay well it wouldn't start a parrot Dollard hurt dollars so the matsuri shall Ogden Burnham Hauser what is the situation of man in this world and the paths that are in front of them and the paths that are in front of them the derrick front what is he supposed to do so it's per dollar dove there hm so what the rom-com says that in terms of the situation of man in Omaha sir we can distinguish really two different categories in that sense you know the essence of man himself and the essential ideas of the situation that he is placed ideas of the situation that he is placed in which is really man in his world that's what I'm how want to talk about now in terms of the man in and of himself he had mentioned which he repeats that man human beings are made of two different opposites which is really where this which is really when you think about it really incredible you you think about it really incredible you know how to different opposites can exist in with the same boundaries does the natural thing of course is one to destroy or Ian Visser ate at the other but two different things exist within the same boundaries in fact as the same entity and one of course is the neshamah and the second is the death we know of course that the neshamah is an unbelievable spiritual thing that the neshama is really the greatest Rockne

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  1. 0:19yeah okay well it wouldn't start a parrot Dollard hurt dollars so the matsuri shall Ogden
  2. 6:48concepts that's how we understand things but if he is none of those concepts because he
  3. 13:17Vegas I won't get confused Yodas until yo get confused Sammy's brother gave you're sure you
  4. 19:48course we have to discuss the parts there's the eye right then the eye has what's
  5. 26:04what goes on with the room you know and so on so forth this seems to
  6. 32:21how could that be what does it mean that a neshama can split so if you
  7. 38:34mistress without that I can't lose each to the body and how does it make the
  8. 44:50actually the real question you really get into this you know the real question is what
  9. 51:08question you would disagree you don't still I'm saying I don't are you certain you don't
  10. 57:37drive to do what to reassert its being I feel like zero right because the only

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