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Free Will vs. Fate


By Yehoshua B. Gordon
Topics:   Freedom of Choice,  Maakeh (building a fence),  Ki Teitzei
Whether something good or bad has been predestined, how does G‑d choose which person should be the one to bring it about?

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Rabbi Yehoshua Gordon is director of Chabad of the Valley in Tarzana, Ca.

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Posted: Nov 4, 2011
Divine Providence vs. Free Will
Man's only TRUE free will exists as INTENTIONS in the "upper worlds", i.e., degrees of desire to be like Creator.

One cannot compare finite, dependent, relative existence to infinte, independent, absolute existence, i.e., our life in the material realm to the eternal world of HaShem..

I am the LORD, and there is none else,
Beside Me there is no God;
I have girded thee, though thou hast not known Me;
That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west,
That there is none beside Me;
I am the LORD; and there is none else;
I form the light, and create darkness;
I make peace, and create evil;
I am the LORD, that doeth all these things.

~ Isaiah 45:5-7
Posted By Bobby Mabrito

Posted: Sep 6, 2011
destined and choice
rabbi asserts that good people flock to do good and HaShem picks who does it; and likewise "bad" people rush to do the bad that HaShem pre-ordains and HaShem "rewards" selects who gets to do it.

Conclusion, good are rewarded for doing good, and bad are punished for doing evil. Yet in both cases HaShem is in control.

NON SENSE!
Posted By J E Krasnow, Manchester, CT



 

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