Rabbi Mordechai Becher Free Will The Power and The Tragedy 2010 01 14

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someone said to Winston Churchill praising one of his arch enemies Clement Attlee Prime Minister of England they once said to Winston that you must admit however he is a very humble person and Churchill said he has much about which to be humble probably the same is true here anyway the subject of free will Groucho Marx once commented that he said Groucho Marx once commented that he said we have to believe in free will what choice do we have so you've studied some of the some of the sources about free well of course I should point out that what you have seen in terms of these sources are really just the tip of the gold look I'm sorry to be the iceberg of these sources about free will and there is a really a vast amount of literature in Jewish tradition entire entire books entire treatise about the subject of free will very very about the subject of free will very very complex and deep subject as you probably saw let me start with the necessity for free will this is like doing all this is a ringing sound here is that is that me or is this ringing feedback it's very annoying yeah no it's too close to the speaker it's a speaker it's got feedback for the second yeah how's that yeah that's better okay fine how's that yeah that's better okay fine yep it's good now let's first talk about the necessity of freewill as you probably saw in the sources there are two sources that discuss the necessity of freewill from a from a Jewish perspective one of them is Russia fine was that oh the great Italian Jewish Kabbalist and the other is the Marquis de Chartres a book written by room Yosef Carroll the author of the code of Jewish law in such Safford in the 17th century

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