Rabbi Dr. David Gottlieb - Jewish Philosophy: What's Free Will? - Part 1

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okay we're going to start talking about free will and as I said I'm in no hurry and if I these occur to you when you want to discuss them as fine with me you're not worried about getting lost or spin-offs nothing particularly covered much as we do we do and other things come up that are interesting i'm happy to do them and i don't want to just say something and go speeding through it it's not clear tell me and i'm happy to say it again or a third time for a fourth time I don't lose patience with these things for the first thing I'd like to discuss is why free will is important why is it important I think every Jewish source but one asserts that free will is a basic rule basic principle of Judaism and that one has been obviously I vote the or Hashem like risk us everybody else agrees that it's a fundamental principle now the Torah actually says in boerum book of Deuteronomy I have placed before you good and evil life and death choose life thur says choose life you'll have to work hard to say that the tour doesn't believe that you can choose I suppose if you had your back to the wall for some reason or other you could squeeze out of it but on the surface it's just telling you choose life or doesn't tell you to do to do things that you can't do the reason it's important my monetise clarifies this in the laws of repentance in detail his way of putting it is this God promises reward and threatens

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