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The Divine System That Transforms Reality

3.9K views · Apr 24, 2025

Rabbi Mendel Kessin

Rabbi Mendel Kessin discusses how mitzvos trigger existential transformation and change reality.

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Judaism is not just a religion where you have certain observances and then you get some type of reward, you see. What God has contemplated and which he does is that the payoff or the reward or whatever that you get if you do observe Judaism is you become different. You change. It's not I get to eat a bigger ice cream, you know, something external to itself,

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