Parsha Perspectives for Today (Re'eh, 5780) - Extend Your Spiritual Antenna

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The opening of this shiur, in Living with Emunah - Rabbi Efrem Goldberg’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

hours literally hours analyzing just these words just this opening behold see look I place before you today blessing and curse. What do these means word? What do these words mean? Rashi tells us saying what is Hashem putting before us? What is Moshenu conveying? What is he communicating? Says Rashi of this is a reference to the brahas that will be delivered at Harrisim and at Haral. at Haral. He's instructing them that when you enter Israel, when we enter the land, there'll be these two great mountains will divide the tribes and they'll stand on either side and you will be given blessings and curses that will be recited. You'll answer a and re that's what you should behold. That's what you should see. That's what you're going to get. But the Ramban disagrees and the Ramban famously says that this tuk is in fact giving us something different, something fundamental, something axiomatic, says the Ramban. This is the Torah source for free will. The idea Torah source for free will. The idea that we are empowered with autonomy, that we make decisions, that we have choices, and that the choices we make have consequences, that we create a reality around us. We make the right choice, we draw closer. make the wrong choice and we create distance. We put a wedge. It's true in our relationships. It's true in marriage. It's true in friendship. And it's true in our relationship with Hashem. So, behold, I give you choices. You're not pre-programmed robots. Your life is not fatalistic. What you do does matter. Says that this

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