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Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz explores the concept of pre-birth choices in Jewish thought.
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Rebbe Bachya says that before a neshama is born, it's like going to buy a car. The neshama looks at the different possible lives it might have. And the neshama makes a choice. Now again, it's not clear is the neshama does the neshama have absolute discretion or you know Hashem you know gives you certain options so to speak. Uh but there is indeed a teaching of Rebbe Bachya which is based on Kabbalah that the neshama chooses its life.
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