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Derech Hashem / The Way of God #24

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Rabbi Mendel Kessin

Rabbi Mendel Kessin discusses Derech Hashem on Motzi Shabos.

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okay last week we spent a lot of time on Vegas that the purpose ultimately speaking is Vegas which is an attachment to the r and clearly there's an experience going on you know and I had gone less with very extensively anyway into the experiencing not really but anyway we spoke a lot about okay now so the spoke a lot about okay now so the continues that man is obviously the creature the being that has to experience this vus you know which is really when you think about it really extraordinary because the amount of beings the scientists estimate that there are between 10 and 100 million different species that's a lot and not things living species life form that's what they now individual form that's what they now individual different species that's beyond belief you know what I'm saying uh it's like incredible and when you think about it out of all the life forms you know let's say out of 100 million life forms there's only one that will experience the Reish and for whose purpose the whole Bri was created is is incredible you know so when a person thinks about it what does it have to do every morning what does it have to do every morning you have to get up and say what one that you're not an inanimate object you're a life for true you're living you're not inanimate right you're living but more than that fact you're living you are a human you could have been a tree you know what I'm saying quite boring or a cow right and you're you're you're a human being but not only are you human being right you have

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  1. 0:20okay last week we spent a lot of time on Vegas that the purpose ultimately speaking
  2. 6:27looking for something to eat and if he did not contribute to the purpose of he
  3. 12:36really fascinating by the way it's one of the proofs that can't exists mention this idea
  4. 18:46prya anyway so R wants to go now into the situation of man so the first
  5. 25:01clearly will compel you to operate or to act in the way that he knows so
  6. 31:13because there is no future so he knows what was is yeah now we don't of
  7. 37:23and where it is a will is something which a will is something which it's like
  8. 43:35that you hear what the contradiction is guys got it no you saying that there is
  9. 49:49believe no but God does not violate it's not violation fundamental concepts it is a violation
  10. 56:00of you are God you know cuz we the only one that do that it is

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