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Free Will — Bechira Chofshis in the Torah
Every real choice is a battlefield between what is easy and what is right. These moments from the shiurim explore bechira, free will, each linked to the full shiur.
- Parsha Burst:Vaeira - Free Will: Use it or Lose it!this week's sedra. The gift that is free will, we should use bechira to make the right choices in life▶ Watch at 1:32
- Project Likkutei Sichos Live Farbrengen with Rabbi Manis Friedman and Rabbi Shais Taubfree choice or choice free you know like what it says on the on the box sugar free it means there's no sugar right so is it free▶ Watch at 39:19
- Is THIS the Most Radical Teaching of Chassidus？ (Tzidkas HaTzaddik #9)have choice. Imagine I raise a kid. I just tell them you don't have free choice. You don't have free choice. Don't have free choice▶ Watch at 39:19
- Zevi Slavin: ‘To be a mystic is to be human at its most raw’divinity. But it's not a free choice that's arbitrary, it's a free choice that is essential. And the free choice at the end of the day▶ Watch at 15:13
- Ricky Cohen Class Recording 8/10/21: Special 4 Part Series: Teshuva Powerfollowing the angels don't have free choice and the animals don't have free choice the only ones who have free choice are people so what does that▶ Watch at 3:34
- Pirkei Avot Series 3 - Rabbi Yosef Palacciwell okay he gave a loophole you know there's no loophole there's no free to all I have free choice to do or not free choice▶ Watch at 10:14
- Moshiach： The 12th Principle of Emunaexercise our free choice because there is no reward or punishment outside the context of free choice. If a person is conversed to do good, he or she doesn▶ Watch at 13:26
- Marriage Dialogues with David and Miriam Yerushalmilaw and catholic canon and that is jewish law permits divorce but it's like free choice because otherwise if we were commanded to stay married then the person wouldn▶ Watch at 41:48
- Shemot: The Path to Redemption January 9, 2023make choices on its own a free choice gives us free choice and that's the whole point because we have without free choice we mean nothing▶ Watch at 28:15
- Rebbetzin Bracha Leeds--Be an Influencer! (Chabad of UC Berkeley)does hashem want from me right now in this situation now when we talk about free choice a lot you know it's like some people think that free choice▶ Watch at 39:49
- Tzidkas Hatzadik #77forced on the one hand on the other hand he's has does he have free free choice or he doesn't have free choice the get has▶ Watch at 3:45
- Faith vs Faithfulness: Avraham passed ten tests. Each of us has ten tests of faith. What are yours?florida or california for my vacation is not a choice that's not called free will freo means a free moral choice should i or should i not murder should▶ Watch at 43:44
- Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser: Mastering Free Will 1sense of what it would take to master free will like how could you master free will you know you choose and you choose and you choose and you choose▶ Watch at 0:32
- The Mysticism of the Hebrew Alphanet Part IV Rabbi Leiby Burnham 11 30 16god and a religious reality and a free will choice and moral choices when they believe that we have no free will they end up acting worse which is kind▶ Watch at 23:52
- Hashem's Foreknowledge and Free Will - Rabbi Dovid Gottliebway I have to be very careful to distinguish between free will and free choice. Free will I'm not going back on what I said. Free will▶ Watch at 0:32
- 09-11-2024 Rabbi Moshe Malka - Pele Yoeitz # 2you're free to choose should you make a or you're free to choose should you say you're free every decision most things you don't have▶ Watch at 50:10
- My Rock： Psalms 71-72you let this if you let this soul in here then that's no free choice take away the free choice and this is their argument against bringing mashiach right▶ Watch at 32:50
- The Infinite and Only One： The Second Principle of Emuna, Divine Unitysaid, "Now he's got to stump this balta laser broadie." He says, "Well, about free choice. Don't you ever learn about free choice? Hashem doesn't take away▶ Watch at 33:32
- Nothing Is Random - Vayeishev (Rabbi Dovid Kaplan) (Weekly Parsha)ruane not this ruane you the the proverbial ruane and gamorra can ruane use his free choice to kill Shimon if Shimon doesn't deserve to die let's say God▶ Watch at 22:44
- The Sotah - Parashat Nasso - Rabbi Dovid Kaplanwork a little bit. That's my testing area. I have this is my free choice area over here. Certain things this isn't within the realm of free choice▶ Watch at 20:54
- Isolation - Parshas Metzora (Rabbi Dovid Kaplan)say i die but i want ruvine to do chuva accuracy could affect his free choice he can't but to create circumstances where it's easier to use your free▶ Watch at 33:39
- Part 16have free will to say you know what not sure I believe I'm an agnostic you know what I'm an atheist there is no God at that moment▶ Watch at 8:46
- Rabbi Avraham Gaon Spiritual Growth Through Parashat Bo 2013 01 17becomes a chain reaction the problem is that at a certain point when is your free choice when do you have free choice your free choice comes▶ Watch at 14:56
- Vayeshev: Longing for Belonging | Rabbi Ariel Mizrahithose people around you are doing the right thing. You don't have so much free choice. Look at this. You don't have so much free choice in what▶ Watch at 15:29
- Rabbi David Kaplan - Weekly Torah Portion: Tetzaveh - Part 2human being if he's in a bad mood has nothing to do with free choice animals don't work on free choice a human works on free choice▶ Watch at 14:01
- The Kohen's Butcher Shop - Parashat Nasso - Rabbi Dovid KaplanWhat were you thinking? The answer is that we make a mistake, gentlemen. We think free choice is our thoughts. That's not where free choice is. Free choice▶ Watch at 34:45
- Rabbi Zev Leff "Your Children Are Not Machines"machines you can't program them children have free choice it's like everyone has free choice I think Dr Le wrote a book on free choice yes sir▶ Watch at 0:32
- Rabbi Yaron Reuven is live!appear to contradict this fundamental principle here he uh he's talking about about free choice this principle of free choice and thus the majority of people ER because▶ Watch at 2:03:48
- Spiritual Awareness： Your Best Assetthat there's no context of free choice the ramhal rabbush sato he explains in their hashem in the way of hashem the first chapter he says that without a perfect▶ Watch at 36:54
- 05-06-2026 Rabbi Moshe Malka - Pele Yoeitz # 68God knows what you're going to do tomorrow. Yet you still have the choice free. Yet Rambam says, Rambam says, and he's going to say it now. And the▶ Watch at 20:12
- Nissan - Eternity - The Jewish Contributionvery limited the example that we're giving but they you see this idea of free choice because every other choice that you're making it's not really called free▶ Watch at 15:39
- The Emes of Torah - Parashat Mattos - Rabbi Dovid Kaplanhave. But it's not free choice. Has nothing to do with free choice. Has nothing to do with a with with a conscious choice. This the the sign▶ Watch at 8:14
- Torah Crash Course: Part 2 with Rabbi Aryeh Wolbe (2019)now that's not a choice that you're given right so yeah we have free will but there are limits to that free will okay but forgot to create▶ Watch at 13:39
- Part 14always influ I I understand the details but I'm saying generically that we have Free Will and the Free Will is what gives meaning and purpose to our lives▶ Watch at 12:47
- 04-23-2025 Rabbi Moshe Malka - Pele Yoeitz # 23Okay, so that's for you. Rachel wants to know, but don't you have free will to talk or not? Now, that's for the person to a to hear▶ Watch at 35:49
- Rabbi Yom Tov Practical Spirituality: Naked With Your Neighborswill ivory will maybe I blew it and I'd say yeah you have free will some free will but you're still your decisions are quite predictable given that▶ Watch at 4:38
- Part 2the left lane and zip around the cop never happens why do they have free will to speed in that moment they don't yes they can press on the gas▶ Watch at 19:00
- Who Were the Pharisees and Sadducees?that God controls our world. We all have free choice as well as they believed in the afterlife. There were Sadducees who didn't believe in God's control of our▶ Watch at 9:29
- The Omer: The Bridge From Pesach to Shavuoshave basically is the ability to want to do something um and that's what free will really means we have the we have the or the free choice▶ Watch at 29:51
- The 6 Paths To develop a REAL Connection With God. ALL THE TIMEbeing orchestrated yet if you asked any one of them if they have free will what would they say sure which means you're being orchestrated for others with full free▶ Watch at 20:50
- Breslov Efrat - Sefira 10: We look and trust in Hashem completely; Hashem then gives us what we needThe way I can tr conduct myself. I it's my choice. Again, we have free choice. Hashem wants to have free choice in the▶ Watch at 27:33
- 05-29-2024 Rabbi Moshe Malka - Beit Halevi on Ahavat Yisrael # 18their own choice that means in your spiritual growth that's where you're free somebody angers you and you're about to the ledge back but you restrain that▶ Watch at 26:44
- The Mysticism of the Hebrew Alphabet Part 2 Rabbi Leiby Burnham 11 9 16the end today is hook us up but if you gave yourself for free we wouldn't feel them driven to pleasure out of us because at the end of days▶ Watch at 7:17
- Rebbetzin Chaya Teldon--Jewish Way of Grieving and Mourning (She Shares Story of Losing Her Child)but we're tiny. So, from eight billion, my my choice is Is that really free choice? And then I'm from East Coast, he's from West Coast▶ Watch at 31:02
- Orhot Tzadikim: Love | Rabbi Ariel MizrahiBah. What's a bah? Bachelor. Bahoot. Baharut is the age when kids start getting free choice, right? And Hashem gave us free choice. And he knows we may make▶ Watch at 18:32
- The Resilient Single Mother--How to Provide Emotional Support for Children of Divorceright thing or the wrong thing that's what celebi means that that's bakira free will and we're tested with free will every day but that's the▶ Watch at 16:37
- Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser: Acceptance Vs Approvalbecause he's in an fwf God is a fwf you know fwf is a free-will freak god's a free-will freak he's crazy about crazy about▶ Watch at 13:27
- Ricky Cohen Class Recording 8.17.21: Special Holiday Series. Class #2: Teshuva: Getting it Doneother words decisions and actions are absolutely free and non-contingent on anything who gave us the same ability hey zeke welcome back good to have you who gave us the▶ Watch at 5:41
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