Derech Hashem / The Way of God #54 | The Greatness of Our Generation

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Mendel Kessin’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

I wanted to mention something which uh I was um um I went to a Shiva this this week whatever was talking there about uh you know about the gum of the previous generations and so on and the gum even of the previous uh the Amaro Theo and so on you know and uh he was saying things you know that uh you know the they're like pillars of fire and so on so forth like pillars of fire and so on so forth but I had a thought because I think a lot of people make a tremendous mistake and uh I felt that this person also had a made mistake you know cuz in the end when you when you compare yourself to the previous generations whatever they are you know then uh we we wind up being absolutely insignificant that's what you get the feeling like monkeys not even monkeys like lice I mean like you know so whenever you and and and a lot of the whenever you and and and a lot of the biographies do a tremendous diservice because as far as I'm concerned they take away the humanity from the sadik whatever they're talking about because in in the end they were real people real people real Temptations they fell even people in the gamorra you see them they fell was this whole discussion while back what was that this whole discussion so about no no I'm I'm aiming for a certain concept um so any case so anyway so

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6. 30:50in now is not really although there are individuals that do do it is not really…
7. 37:04doing to people and of course if that person if some sadic and you know that…
8. 43:20any questions before I go on only emotions only emotions emotions okay I think I've said…
9. 49:30forget brockets for a minute I'm trying to build up to something right so you walk…
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