HeyJaredDerech HaShem with Rabbi Aryeh Shulman
Join Rabbi Aryeh Shulman, Rosh Kollel Ateres Ami, as he explores this classic text with his trademark clarity and depth.
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2.49: Derech Hashem B'Iyun Book 2 Chapter 3 Part 3-4 (opens the original)
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Rabbi Shulman continues developing the idea of **השגחה אישית** as Hashem’s individualized guidance, framing a person’s life circumstances as tailored tests aligned with their unique spiritual mission (“מזל” in a higher sense). He contrasts this with the Gemara’s “אין מזל לישראל,” explaining that Jews can transcend astrological determinism, while still having a divinely assigned role that shapes their challenges. Rabbi Shulman then introduces a second axis beyond mission: **דין וגמול**—how a pers
2.48: Derech Hashem B'Iyun Book 2 Chapter 3 Part 1-2 (opens the original)
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Rabbi Shulman explains that Hashem intentionally designed avodat Hashem with enormous diversity—across mitzvot, life circumstances, and even moment-to-moment emotional states—so that our relationship with Hashem can be multi-faceted rather than one-dimensional. Each person receives a unique “portion” of the overall spiritual work, and judgment is therefore individualized with exact precision. Rabbi Shulman then connects this to the Ramchal’s model of hishtalshelut: our earthly challenges origina
2.47: D_H biyun 2-2-8_3-1 (opens the original)
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Rabbi Shulman continues studying the Ramchal’s framework of divine justice, distinguishing between deeds that become eternal assets in עולם הבא and deeds that are “cashed out” in this world. He explains a troubling middle category: people who do have a share in eternity, yet many of their מצוות are nevertheless paid out in worldly “trinkets,” leaving them with a diminished eternal stature due to קלקול המעשים. Rabbi Shulman then transitions from the “general axis” (universal bookkeeping) to the “
2.46: D_H biyun 2-2-5_6_7 (opens the original)
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Rabbi Shulman explains the Ramchal’s view that יסורים are not merely “payment” demanded by strict דין, but a rehabilitative process that repairs the רוחני damage created by עבירות. He develops how actions concretely reshape a person’s גוף and נפש—good deeds build זוהר and שלמות, while sins embed עכירות and חיסרון that block דבקות. Rabbi Shulman then clarifies why some cleansing can occur through suffering in this world while deeper stains require “spiritual” יסורים (גהנום), and concludes with a
2.45: Derech Hashem B'Iyun Book 2 Chapter 2 Part 4 (opens the original)
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Rabbi Shulman explains the Ramchal’s framework of **השגחה כללית** as a system of spiritual “accounting” that ensures every deed is addressed, enabling true דביקות with Hashem in עולם הבא. He develops how Divine justice and kindness require multiple “arenas” of payment—this world, Gehinnom (and related post-life afflictions), and the ultimate world—so that most souls can be refined rather than annihilated. Rabbi Shulman then goes deeper: suffering is not only bookkeeping, but a process that chang
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