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Rabbi Moshe Haber Lessons from Creation and Character in Sefer Bereshit 10.17.25 · Rabbi Moshe Haber - Daily Mussar/Weekly Perasha

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  Has the words ashdot, which is a Torah of fire and the medal says
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  or she someone says that says give a Torah of fire to the
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  fiery people. And then it says reason that God
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  gave us a Torah is because had he not given us a Torah, the
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  whole world would not be able to stand in our way would be that
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  wired and that's really that fiery that destructive talking
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  about the Jews would be calling us destructive.
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  It's very strong word. So the idea is, yes, we do have
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  certain characters that are very, very, very strong.
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  You combat you, you connect that with the Torah, with our way,
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  with our tradition, and it makes a fiery person and a good fiery
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  person. So we're a very unique people in
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  general. Combine it with the Torah, we
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  become much stronger and out of uniqueness.
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  Yes, we are very unique. That's the point we did on the
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  class when maybe a morning or something.
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  Now I want to go to bed sheets first of all, just to open up.
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  So there she is an incredible but a shot.
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  There's so much here or she opens up by asking he says a
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  question. Why would the Torah start with
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  the creation of the world that should have started with the
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  first mitzvah. She skipped all the creation and
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  was the first mitzvah. So that's why she said, she said
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  the reason that we're told the bare Rashid is so that we can
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  fight the people of the world again, relatable by telling
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  them, look, Hashem created the world and he created the land of
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  Israel and he gave it to us. Don't fight us.
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  That's what Rashid says. OK, that's the first Rashid.
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  Then Amban says, I don't even see the question.
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  What kind of question did you want to skip the sheet?
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  I would just ask. So then Amban says what she
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  meant was that really the creation is way beyond our love
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  of understanding. If we try to look at anything
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  before regime I explained the creation, we have no idea really
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  what's really going on, the materials, the ingredients, the
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  process. It's way beyond our
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  understanding. Why would that I even say this
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  process if it's beyond our level, says Diane Bond.
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  It's simply that she meant and that's in order for as she's
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  point wise in order to tell us that God created the world, gave
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  it to us, gave a line of visual to us, etcetera.
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  But really it's not really a question and it's face.
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  It's not a normal question to ask why talk about the creation?
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  It's only a question because the creation is so beyond our level.
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  Now, what can we take away from the creation?
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  A few things. One is that I wanted to point at
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  this point. If you notice in the
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  Briyattawala, one point is may you see Hashem keep tweaking it.
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  First of all, Berezheed, but I looking the world was created
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  with Elo King with the name of God judgment at the Shami Vidar.
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  It's the heaven and the earth. And then it says the words see
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  who's close It then says the words by the hardest I thought
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  to of of all, and somewhere along this is Hashem other name.
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  It's also the name of Hakeem of Hakeem.
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  And then it switches the other name of Hashem.
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  So the classic opening point is. When does it switch over?
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  What day? Let's see where Hashem brings
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  it. Later on, Pedig vet bayom assa
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  Hashem elokim editor shamim, it repeats what Hashem did in all
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  the days of the creation. It says the word elokim elokim,
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  but in pedig bet pasu Dalit, when he repeats everything we're
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  talking actually about by Shabbat elo todota shamim about
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  it. After the whole creation is
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  complete, the Hebatam by Yom, I thought Hashem Eloquim editors
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  shamim. After it repeats the fact that
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  God created the world, it sutures from the word Eloquim
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  which is a strong word name of Hashem.
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  The name Hashem Yudke Baavke, which is the name that's a
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  hamim. So as she says the point, he
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  says that originally God planned on creating the world with
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  straight judgment. Then God saw that the world
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  would not be able to last. Flat out judgement, clear
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  judgement is very destructive to the world because people make
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  mistakes, people error. And therefore Hashem added the
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  name Rahamim to the creation world.
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  And this is the first example of many where Hashem oh everything.
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  Oh, So what is the point of this?
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  It's the first example of many where Hashem tweaks the creation
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  of the world. This is one example.
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  Another example is that the pasuk says Hashem created light
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  and darkness and then it says by all Merlin be all, by all my
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  yard Hashem saw that light was good and God separated the light
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  from the darkness and the middle of the day Pasu Hashem saw that
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  light was good. There's a deeper message here
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  but the simple messages God saw light was good and he separated
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  life and darkness which means 2 steps.
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  He created light. He saw the difference in light
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  and darkness so he separated the two like car Lahim Villa Joshua
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  Karalila again this is. Before the sun.
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  This light that is light that we're referring to on day one is
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  not the sun. His light they're referring to
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  is what we call oraganus. Real oraganus is the hidden
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  light. That's news Rasheed here we
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  could mention she's like this. Truth is, this is about Zook.
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  That can only be explained with agadara.
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  She's with depth. Hashem saw the original light He
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  created. He's too special for this world
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  and needs to be for this of the King.
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  So he's separated from the darkness.
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  The darkness is what the eagle people have and the light is for
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  this of the king. OK, It's a deep message.
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  God separated the light that He first created on day one,
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  separate from the darkness. He let the darkness exist and He
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  let the light exist, but He made sure that they work in separate
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  fields. There's light in His darkness
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  and really the ultimate light will be there when my Shia come.
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  That's part of this pretty much. Now again, you see over here
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  Hashem reflecting and then changing the process of
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  creation. This is the second example,
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  right? I'll give you another example.
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  The other example is when God creates man, first man is
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  created alone. Then Hashem says Lo tovadam
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  levador is not good for man to be alone.
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  Let me make for him as they can adore a wife.
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  So God creates a wife from the man.
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  Again, the same question. I was obviously part of the plan
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  mine did have. Animals too.
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  That terminal religious So what is it can I do it's perfect for
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  a wedding class Yeah is it can I do which means literally a help
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  where it's opposite him. We'll explain what it means in a
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  second but Hashem again third example.
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  But God it seems like and our eyes tweaks the system.
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  What I did, Hashem didn't know. Of course, Hashem, why is God
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  doing this? There's another Rashid he has to
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  know. There's a Rashid that says that
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  when God created man, Hashem's words were Nah, say Adam, let us
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  make man. Let us make man means Hashem
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  consulted the angels before he made man.
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  Moshira Banu says Madash. When he was writing over the
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  Torah, writing it down, he came to that basuk and he said to
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  Hashem, I can't write this. I can't write the words.
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  Let us make men. People are going to believe that
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  this is Abu Dazrah. They're going to believe that
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  this Qashqalama partnership upstairs, I can't write this.
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  It's going to lead to our receipt.
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  I shine beside these words. According to this mitosh, it's
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  worth it to lead to that risk, to allow that risk to happen.
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  When people have their own belief, it's worth it to that.
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  Most people will see that. When I created the world, when I
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  built something, I consulted other people so that people
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  know. When you build something, you
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  need to consult. When you build something, you
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  need to ask around. You need to ask the advice of
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  others. And it's kedai.
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  It's worth it for you to use those words in the Torah, which
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  will lead to some people making a mistake.
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  And believing that I didn't do this alone has to show him.
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  Of course I did. But it's worth it for you to use
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  those words so that people realize.
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  And when you're building something, you need to consult
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  with others. That's what Hashem said.
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  The entire creation of the world was done in a way of humbling of
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  character. So let's go through the examples
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  I just mentioned. One, Hashem started with the
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  name Eloquin and added the name Abrahamim, as if to say the
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  world can't handle Dean Lemire de Hamim.
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  A change two, we said he created light and then he separated it.
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  Again, a change Three, he created man then decided to
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  create woman. All these things are changes
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  because when God is building the world he's showing you, you have
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  to be able to reset. You have to be able to change.
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  You have to be able to be flexible to exactly to develop
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  and to recognize that's cool and our examples, our mistakes,
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  that's who you build. And then God chose us.
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  And the best way to build is to consult, ask other people
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  advice. In other words, the best way to
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  build anything, whether it be an organization, a business, your
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  family, or yourself, is to have fine character.
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  That's the best one you have fine character, you're able to
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  go. Mashima is displaying, obviously
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  he didn't need any of this, but that wise he's displaying the
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  finest of his character. So he shows you how to build.
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  That's one point. All right, That's the key point
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  for Mount Pasho that we have over here, which is an entire
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  creation goddess building, and he's doing so with that
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  character. This is an addition in the whole
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  creation. Hashem keeps saying ayah this
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  kitob kitob and then then he says tov mooj, right?
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  So it says that I have to admit that out of the 70 worlds and
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  then God kept creating worlds. Without I shall say God kept
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  creating and destroying. That's true.
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  I don't have that place into it plays into what I saw last night
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  was that the reason he used the word tov in the process is
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  because there were certain areas with the Briata Olam didn't go
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  as planes. Again, Medarshim, but there are.
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  She writes the trees were supposed to taste like the
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  fruit. You probably see before the
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  fruits have a taste. The trees are supposed to taste
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  like the fruits. The only tree that tastes like
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  the bark of the tree, the only one that actually tastes like
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  the fruit, it was the tadat, the one that was a forbidden tree.
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  Everything else, the trees, whatever this means.
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  What their own angels. Every tree has an Angel fought
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  the system and like I told you from the beginning, the words of
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  the creation of the world are beyond our knowledge.
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  But I should take out the lessons.
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  They bark for the system and did not go as planned and didn't
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  does not taste like the bar like the fruits.
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  So their creation wasn't perfect in a sense, and because of that
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  I think it was the Benin, Schlier wrote.
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  But what would have happened? You would have bit the tree.
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  You would have walked over to a tree and taken I.
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  Don't think it would have been every than any purpose part of
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  the mutants, but the taste would have been the same.
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  So it was in the little level of imperfection.
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  But yad Elohim Kitov Hashem says that it's good, not very good,
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  because it's not perfect. But at the end of it all the
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  bazooks of the words told more. Which means in every area of our
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  life you look at all of our lives.
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  I can talk personally. There are areas that are taught
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  but not taught me old. If you're a perfectionist in
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  life, you see things and you say I wish it was this, I wish it
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  was that. It's not taught me odds.
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  At the end of it all, you're trying to build whatever maybe,
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  whether it be your family or yourself, your company, your
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  organization, you're trying to build.
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  You have to be able to say at the end of the day, taught odds,
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  even though there are imperfections, are things that I
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  wish I can change. It's all taught odd.
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  It's all great. That is how it has to look.
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  So in the process Hashem says talk.
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  At the end, God says talk. No, this is I think some lessons
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  Hashem is showing us from the creation of the world and it's
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  very, very important. All right, you tell us is the
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  theme on the whole Briata Alam and a lot of details over here
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  that's. A great perspective.
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  I never, ever heard that. So many lessons from this, but
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  that's, that's consideration because who are you?
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  Hashem Himself Who's the Master of the universe.
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  Right, he raised architects of all time.
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  To create this world and everything in it, right?
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  And he's humbling himself. So relax, buddy.
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  Like, isn't that great? Right.
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  We all have things that we're trying to build actually our
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  families, we all have areas that we say I wish we're different.
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  First of all, we had to be able to recalibrate, had to be able
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  to reflect, to consult other people won't be able to take
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  advice, take advice and be OK with the process now being.
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  Good, you know. Right before you OK with that I
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  just. What's going on by day?
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  Was it day 5? Was it with hashing birds?
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  Why do they get their own day? Say it.
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  Fishing birds? Why don't they get created with
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  all the other animals? I don't know.
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  You want to be fish and chips? Maybe they multiply differently,
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  I don't know if it's. What is from down here?
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  What is from up there by their pie there once?
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  But they're together. They're both.
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  They're both created on the same day, treated.
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  They're both. Created from your water I guess
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  I don't care. By water I'm.
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  Not sure how it reaches. How I see him?
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  Are they still around? Or there's one other lesson.
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  Who? Who the?
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  Only chains that are around the stuff that that probably the ID.
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  Right off the to offer just the power of been the one other
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  point in this idea of creation one of the lessons Now you
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  switch from the lessons from Haisheng to the lessons of Adam.
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  What lesson is Adam shows listen to this point.
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  Yeah, you know, we always talk about the fact that Adam seen
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  from the outside dark, right? Adam's Symphony at the dot When
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  the tree was told, I said sin and all things went wrong.
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  How does sin I get? How does sin happen?
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  The most classic sin of all time of an individual, the most
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  obstructive sin. How did it happen?
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  The snake convinced a woman and the woman convinced a man. 2
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  points to note about that sin. 1 is when the bazook says that she
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  sinned. Why?
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  Why? It's it like over there, a sham?
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  Pray the man person that woman to be a partner, but why is it
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  today the woman is always in control?
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  Most of the ones in control. The woman is always in control
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  in your life. A woman is always in.
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  Control some ways you ever really the man's in control
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  where you. Yeah, no.
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  No. How about saying it is all
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  right? So we got a couple of Mallory
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  points right here from this. Number one, the snake was the
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  worst thing the snake told the woman.
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  God told you. Not even the tree, because
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  you're not going to die as a snake.
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  God knows when you're eating, you become too smart and you be
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  like God, you're no good from bed, and the bus succeeds.
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  These words that Terra haishas kitova Islam alcohol.
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  The woman saw that the tree is good to eat.
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  The kitava ule 9. It's tempting to your eyes when
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  nikhmad dietz la skill she saw that it's good to eat and it's
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  tempting and it's something that she has a great temptation after
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  and she took her fruit and she ate from it and she gave her to
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  her husband as well to eat with her.
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  Now what does it mean? She saw the keto by Islam Akhad
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  that it's good to taste. How does she know of?
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  Course she said that. She said don't touch and then
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  they touched. Oh, see, nothing happens but.
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  How did she see it was good paced?
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  Because the because you weren't, she said.
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  You weren't allowed to touch it here.
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  You touched it. Nothing happened.
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  Oh, I've been She wanted it all the time.
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  But you're saying, you're saying she saw that she can get closer
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  because she touched and nothing happened.
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  Fair. Correct.
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  Her champion says don't touch, she touched, nothing happened,
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  and therefore she went and said if I could touch her, I could
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  hear. But I think the the the
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  temptation came from the imagination of believing it
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  could be the positive words. It's tempting to the eyes, which
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  to my point I want to bring out. Is this the first example of the
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  power of imagination? She went and saw something.
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  The snake ate it first. She went and watched, you know,
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  the commercial when they eat the sandwich and you want to send me
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  the sandwich and you're imagining like things going on
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  in their brain. And sometimes they give you
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  that. They show you things that happen
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  in the guys head in the sandwich full of sketch.
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  It's the power of imagination. Imagination allows you to see
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  something and to believe. It's real easy, right?
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  This is the first example out there of the power of
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  imagination and how destructive it can be, right?
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  It's the biggest power in the world today.
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  Everything is being driven on imagination.
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  The first example is this. She saw Kitova Islam, Allah,
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  it's good to eat. How'd she see she didn't eat it?
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  The answer is her eyes witnessed taste.
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  She had her eyes at the power to win his taste.
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  She was pulling by the imagination and it's such a
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  strong desire every person has to back away from that now.
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  She fell him. She took her husband along with
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  her. Why did she give the man to eat?
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  Notice how she why did she give Adam to eat?
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  She wants her to give her husband food.
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  Why'd she give him tea? Misery loves coming.
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  She says. But the Dang dumbly Shah Shalota
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  muti, she didn't want herself to die without him.
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  This is a very bad thing. She didn't want herself to die.
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  She was afraid of dying because God said she would die.
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  You didn't want herself to die around.
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  And this sounds like a very bad marriage class, right?
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  She didn't want herself to die. His we father isn't powerful,
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  right? God says Ayeka, where are you by
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  Omar Hashem Lekeem. I don't want to keep a lot dumb,
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  but you're my like where are you man?
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  Right. And then man says we're not
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  dressed ourselves. Who told you you aren't just you
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  must be in and the man says the woman gave me to eat.
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  OK, sorry that's all that and then they get punished.
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  So now after all this. And there's really only an hour
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  in. There's like an hour into the
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  world. Two hours into the world now see
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  what happens. Here's the wild things after all
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  this. And here's the point, what they
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  bring out. OK, so the woman messed up big
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  time. She bought the man man along
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  with her. After all this, I shan't punish.
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  His name tells me it's Zaka Pehrotor Alaikum.
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  You don't have to work. All the stress that we go
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  through and work is all because it is.
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  It's all her fault, everything. It's all of what does Adam do
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  after all this By Ikra Adam Shamlich store.
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  He gives his wife her name Kava Kihi Aita M Kohai because she's
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  the mother of all the living after she just told to me after
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  she just ruined his future to in a sense she just changed his
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  life. It was all her fault as he blame
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  her as he get upset at her as he yelled back at her no he rewards
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  her by giving her a name and a title called M called hide the
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  mother all living. That's a good figure.
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  There. So to me, I saw as the one that
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  survived yesterday. It's a very powerful lesson.
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  How helpful is blame when you blame other people for things?
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  How much does it help you? 0 This guy, this man, Adam or
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  his wife? It does nothing because all
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  blame does is a deflection. All blame does is it deflects
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  God's message to you. OK, when you're able to accept
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  what happened, even accepting the will because blame.
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  Blame means not accepting the will of Hashem.
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  Blame means you're not taking the message that happened in a
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  situation. Blame is deflection.
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  That's what it is when a person is willing to look past blame.
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  Yes, he mentioned that it was her fault, but obviously it
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  didn't didn't sit because he then went ahead and gave her the
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  greatest title of life, the mother of all living.
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  He could have taken down the title a notch, right?
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  And then he gave her the name and mother, mother all living to
• 20:50
  tell us that he's not living with that blame forever.
• 20:52
  He's going to let it go. All of us or there be in our
• 20:56
  homes and other situations, we all have the capability to blame
• 20:59
  or be blamed all the time. All right, for sure.
• 21:03
  If you try that at home and say don't try this at home.
• 21:06
  If you try that at home, yes, you'll always be right, but
• 21:10
  you'll also always have those struggles.
• 21:12
  But it refers as willing to look past the blame for us is willing
• 21:17
  to look the other way. When it comes to the stop it.
• 21:19
  Yeah, there may be the initial reaction.
• 21:21
  OK, maybe we have to get that out of the system.
• 21:23
  But long term, you look past the blame, you're able to give her
• 21:26
  the title M kohai. That leads to Shalom, that leads
• 21:30
  to their first male marriage, and that leads to a person
• 21:33
  developing based on what happened instead of the
• 21:36
  opposite. Blame is deflection.
• 21:38
  Accepting responsibility is development.
• 21:41
  That's the reality. OK.