Freedom of Choice

The classical questions, the theological contradictions, the Kabbalistic foundations, the Chassidic interpretations... nineteen insights, essays and stories on "Freedom of Choice"

Our ability to choose enables us to be partners with G-d in Creation.

Deep within, Pharaoh always had the ability to repent, yet he didn't

Pharaoh’s loss of free choice

Unusual Punishment

Knowledge may bring power, but absolute knowledge brings utter powerlessness

The princess up in the grandstand catches your eye and is about to indicate the door leading to life and bliss. But at that moment Mr. Philosopher appears at her elbow...

The human psyche is home to two contrasting drives: a striving for freedom, and an impulse to submit to authority. Which should be given priority over the other? Or, to otherwise state the question: in what sort of environment would the Torah prefer to ...

Think back twenty, forty, sixty or eighty years, to the day that you learned how to walk. What you sensed but could not understand then, will tell you much about what you understand but cannot sense today

There is good and there is evil, blessing and curse, light and darkness; now choose. Not much of a choice, is it? So what's all this talk about "freedom of choice"?