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Derech Hashem / The Way of God #32

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Rabbi Mendel Kessin

Rabbi Mendel Kessin discusses Derech Hashem on Torah Thinking.

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last time we spoke uh about hero Free Will which is a really very important topic obviously um because um most most beings don't have free will which is interesting you know not that they could recognize what they do they don't they don't but most beings including mother who do not have free will except the higher levels have a hero but um but the most beings like I said don't have free will so therefore it's a very highly unusual phenomenon to have free will you know but the essential idea with free will obviously does was that enough yeah well uh yeah look we have uh like I mentioned last time we have a range of freeware we don't have it all the time you know and uh all right might as well mention this because it's interesting um if the person wants one of these leaders you know to uh to carry out his decrees for instance let's say the Jews need suffering is soon right so does a reversion Force these people to do it that's the question does emotion take away their free will more comparing that what we don't have empowering that from Paris well he was forced eventually eventually yeah I'm saying but normally they have a choice probably was an unusual circumstance yeah most of the time I've seen that and that's some people think that people you know that the motion takes away their free will para he said I said what when you see the Russia or something takes away the uh yeah let's say I got like Stalin oh you're saying

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  1. 0:09last time we spoke uh about hero Free Will which is a really very important topic
  2. 6:22whatever he killed yeah oh yeah yeah he stopped him out it was he didn't have
  3. 12:35to help us realize the identity of what she did to say it's not Esther fasting
  4. 18:49so what happened so he gave him a circle it's famous tomorrow and he made the
  5. 25:01because it was very poor talent for frustration he's going to work on his anger somebody
  6. 31:07know so what I realized emotionally is going to take out a whole city it doesn't
  7. 37:18you need the wind to bring the water on land that's all it is it's just
  8. 43:26allocated of it what he did is he gave David and his sign you know and
  9. 49:37you know what once said what the age of 12 is the age of 12 is
  10. 55:57down and he mentioned his word so he knewan and he went to the house and

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