Is History predetermined? - Rabbi Moshe Taragin

how do we know do we really know where this is all heading as Jews we believe in predetermined faiths there are larger historical eventualities or inevitabilities that are predetermined Redemption Gula unfortunately Galas but do we know exactly how they will unfold how do we know when we're living through those inevitabilities while this week's Parsha by igosh the big question is does Yakov no the others knew that there would be a painful even horrific experience in mits right and that had been baked into Jewish history and that tradition is part of Jewish history was part of the family Legacy Rashi says in wanted nothing of them that's why he ran away from Arkansas everyone knew it but did yaakov know that it was happening right now right here actually my Locus or bun says he knew it then it says he didn't know it that's why he went to beresheva not necessarily to make his way to Egypt pointed in the city if you wanted just to establish a settlement there and go back the idea sucks Homeland be a little closer to the ocean if you're popped in for Shabbos you can go back to him it's Ryan he didn't know that coach sparkly told them this is happening it's happening right now and you're part of it de Maro salilah it happened during the day but asham either talked about the night metaphorically or made it dark to visualize that things would go dark so the point is that there are different historical narratives out there that are inevitable but we can choose and it's unclear sometimes as to which narrative will live into when those narratives come before so for example with gallus in general inevitable not necessarily we could have stayed in Israel and we could have remained and been a model Nation exhibiting the prosperity and the welfare of a life lived in front of Hashem and then we would not have had to journey through Dulles to spread this message of Torah and one of these into the world as we did we failed were exiled another example this long-awaited Godless of Rome Edom that we knew about that was foreshadowed that was predicted when will it happen is it necessary is it it's an alternative narrative it may be necessary so we didn't really know that it was happening until Rebecca was martyred until our leadership was brutalized and mercilessly persecuted that was a signal to our others that this was happening that the wrong not awaited but long considered and agonized over Godless of Rome was about to take place that's why it's such a milestone event signaled to our Rebels sequel to The People second amazing signal for the people of our this long night of illnesses happening so history has inevitabilities but there are different ways those inevitable conclusions can be reached there are inevitable models in our city but when they happen and how they have been it's not sure it's important for us to know we've entered the final chapter of History Abdullah is happening that we've started to enter that room when it will happen how it will happen how quickly it will happen how rocky the road will be it's hard to know so on the one end it's a thrill and a privilege to be part of it that can induce overconfidence or Swagger or or the assumption that it's just as happening without human input we will shape that feature Hashem has offered that first chapter that last chapter to begin and we'll determine it so yakub doesn't know if it's happening it definitely will happen at some point that the Jews will descend in the sign he is not sure whether this is the moment I shouldn't cause him this is the moment we don't have that direct message from Hashem that this is the moment of our Gula we have a more General message that we're involved in the process we still have to write those final chapters and determine this course