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Is our Free Choice Really Free?

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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[Music] so says that in creation hasem made a deal with the angel that runs Earth he says if accept the Torah if they accept it everything can continues but if they don't accept it I'm returning everything to to I'm destroying everything now every deal has to have a contract what's the contract the he the extra hey the extra the that's the contract if they accept the deal we go from y to one of hashem's holiest Creations y Shabbat if we don't we stay during the mundane week and everything gets dored and also a small little if interestingly you would see that hey also has a numerical value of five five representing the five books of Moses we accept the five books of Moses we get the Shabbat we don't accept them we have nothing no Shabbat no Torah no nothing no purpose so from here we learn from not only from Aban but from some of his students that in reality whether it was shabat or was Tor or was any of the it's not really a choice like we think it is yes you have free choice you can do what you want you could eat pig you could eat a kosher cow you could be honest you could be a liar you could be an angry person or you could be someone that's trying to work on his midot you could do what you want that's free choice but that's not exactly what we have cuz what we learned from this is that we really have choice not free choice meaning we have consequences free choice in our minds means that I can do whatever I want and nothing will happen if I go to work I get paid $100 I don't go to work I don't get paid anything that's free choice in our mind what we have is Choice meaning I go to work I get paid $100 I don't go to work the boss sends people to my house and they beat me up all day that's what we have we got to mount siai with choice we accept the tah Hashem fulfills the promise to the angel that runs Earth Hashem fulfills the promise to the rest of the Angels Hashem fulfills the promise to the souls that were in that were in creation before he put us into bodies we don't Mount sa becomes a burial ground so ran is telling us here that first and foremost you need to understand that there's no reason what ever for you to ever take any credit for your learning Tor because that's the only reason you exist is for the Torah that you can learn for the Torah that you can fulfill meaning that if you have no plan on fulfilling the Torah then you're fulfilling the verse that it says that even are called dead in their own life during their life they called Dead there's no point to your life even an animal has more Point than you do CU at least we could eat the animal we can make something out of it you came here you don't want to learn to you don't want to fulfill toah you're losing your purpose now why do we say this now only a little over an hour after the lecture started versus right in the beginning because if I said to everyone right away listen if you don't learn to all you're meaningless people take it offensively but once you learn it it didn't come for me came Froman came from came from people that were Beyond nature it came from the creator that created nature then you could just eliminate my picture and listen to them doesn't matter who said it I'm just the voice there's no credit due to me same book you read it you'll get the same thing just that most people didn't read it so we did the work for you [Music]