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Destiny VS Free Will May, 30 2019

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Rabbi Yitzchak Sakhai

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Michelle Michelle now 7's Leah so topic of tonight is destiny verse freewill a lot of people have this question whether Judaism believes in destiny or do we believe that each person has free will do we believe that each person makes their own decisions in life man or woman are we programmed or are we not programmed are we free to choose what we want to choose or have we been programmed to choose a certain way when making a decision everyone knows the story of Yaakov annette south twins brothers from birth Yaakov Jacob and Assad were born to our patriarch and matriarch Isaac and Rivka Isaac and Rebecca it's cockin Rivka I don't know how how many other accents I could possibly say those names he's hog and Roga shoutout so Isaac in Rebecca gave birth to get some a sob and Yaakov now there's something interesting in the Torah the Torah says while Rivka was pregnant with the twins the pursuit says vite rota to upon Habana me my true tea to abandon bakr ba the children were kicking and fighting within her but o Maryam can and she said if so llamas are okay what do I need this for what's going on and she goes to ask what is happening and she's given an answer that don't worry it's actually two kids it's not one question is what was her question and how did that really answer a question why did she calm down are so after finding out oh it's too sour coming tell us here's what was happening every time Rivka would walk by a place of holiness a place of

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  2. 4:58even today a lot of modern philosophers have discovered turns of logic which pretty much when
  3. 9:54lobizon young man became the only being with this power there is no other being with
  4. 14:51yours Avraham few times says listen listen to me all right that's not what I want
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  8. 34:48can think for ourselves how do we know this very simple God wouldn't say anything is
  9. 39:36been it's like I can't I just can't do it what did you just do you
  10. 44:23god forbid anybody need any surgery but think of someone that needs emergency sir they just

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