Bechira Chofshis - Free Will part 2

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

and but it's taco pie member that stalker thing I will address it okay so the Egyptians so this is the famous romvong the question asks a question why are the Egyptians punished of course buckle decrees and I'm me so it's going to go down to Egypt in the mother suffering in Egypt and therefore the Egyptians had no choice which brings out the brings up the larger question of God's foreknowledge and free will around mom says elsewhere that God's foreknowledge does not contradict free will and he says but it's too complicated for me to explain and the rabbit says you know if you're not gonna explain why bring up the question in the first place they just will read people like dangling so obviously it's a very profound question and we'll come back to in a couple of minutes but Susie in terms of the Egyptians in terms of the Egyptians so the round mums answer is that I myself to suffer but who imposes suffering on them directly the Egyptians or if it has to be the Egyptians then athlete any specific individual Egyptian so the suffering would happen but the suffering didn't have to happen by through that it's kind of like we have principal garland school say the exact I don't see if I verify it we bring about good things to good people and bad things by bad people so they the slide it's me back and that's how it came about so it's still difficult because obviously somebody had to do it so diminishes the free will now this the truth is that that's not a question because we always think of free

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