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Rav Yitzchak Breitowitz: Hardening of Pharoah's Heart & Free Will

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Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

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You my birthday. So hi everybody. Uh thank you for coming So hi everybody. Uh thank you for coming and uh today we have uh relatively few dedications but praying for the lasting unity of the people of Israel which will lead to victory and for all those whose health has been affected by terror. Uh, Raf Schma. >> Oh, I should tell my brother Ru Basor. >> Ruain Basis. I should also have a Raf Schma Israel and a Refor you and Malifa Miriam and Israel Benadina and Malifa Miriam and Israel Benadina by Brandy and Jeffrey Gels. Again, it should have Israel. Um, you know, the the world is very very turbulent. I I assume that Israel will not will not get involved in a war to conquer Greenland. But, you know, you never you never know. It's a very odd very odd situation because uh under NATO, the basic agreement uh if uh a NATO nation is attacked, all the other nations have is attacked, all the other nations have to defend. So that would mean that you know England, France, Germany, they'd all be waging war against the United States. It' be a whole crazy configuration, but okay, the Seder, I think that's one that will not be directly involved in, but you never know. Um, you know, uh, someone sent me a a link to something a a a reformed rabbi wanted to analyze, he called it a heat map of the Torah based on which partials have more, which partials have less. So he kind of mapped it out. Some

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  1. 0:01You my birthday. So hi everybody. Uh thank you for coming
  2. 6:16optimalized to its highest capacity. You have to build a world of because without true goodness
  3. 12:30convince him or persuade him or inspire him to go in a certain direction. Those people
  4. 18:41which again highlights his genius. His real passion was biblical commentary. He actually wrote perushim on
  5. 24:51illustration of his bioarema. The idea that God's plan can be implemented by the gazillion decisions
  6. 31:03gives a different answer uh which ultimately may overlap with the moral but it is a
  7. 37:13"Anyone that does not explain the three fundamental mitzvos of Le Pesak has not fulfilled his
  8. 43:24allowed to eat kamt the first day of pes but you would be allowed to own
  9. 49:43mitzim doesn't have to mean Egypt. But mitim comes from the word marim boundaries, constrictions, limitations,
  10. 55:56Identify your slavery. I don't mean talk about it to other people necessarily, but be honest.

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