Living The Paradox Of Free-Will

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The opening of this shiur, in BRI Breslov: The Breslov Research Institute’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] welcome back the rest of campus will be going into the idea of free will versus ashrams knowing everything to explain it's a known paradox in the world Judaism talks about it then one hanegem gives you free will that you can choose your destiny but on the other hand he knows what's gonna be so where's the knows what's gonna be so where's the free will if he knows what's going to be so how is he giving it over to you free will to choose if you know what's gonna be right so it's it's a logical contradiction Robina who and says that it's impossible for man in this human mind to comprehend this because if he reaches the level of comprehending it he is no longer a man he is now an angel because once a person figures out this contradiction between freewill and shams contradiction between freewill and shams knowing everything they there ceased exists freewill there's no more free will and it becomes like an angel and the Rebbe Nachman explains it the whole secret that successfully mankind exists with freewill is specifically not knowing there's resolution for this paradox if many philosophers and anybody called hot cream Mecca cream they try to figure out this question Andrew Blackman figure out this question Andrew Blackman says simply forget it as a human being you will not be able ever even a million years to figure this out only in future time when Messiah comes and then wisdom will be filled the entire world and will be lift up from the level of human consciousness of which the level of angels then we were able to understand and perceive this contradiction but it's interesting noting that one Austin writes in his book Chimeran Sadiq in English that

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1. 0:00[Music] welcome back the rest of campus will be going into the idea of free will…
2. 0:31knows what's gonna be so where's the free will if he knows what's going to be…
3. 1:01contradiction between freewill and shams knowing everything they there ceased exists freewill there's no more free…
4. 1:32figure out this question Andrew Blackman says simply forget it as a human being you will…
5. 2:34what's next he had solved it already but he what he wrote it down to solve…
6. 3:06would be Nachman have reached but in short again Robina come on he says this is…
7. 3:38direction so you do the thing is when you have frustrating and confusing situations where you…
8. 4:39you don't know what to do so it's a paradox in a sense because on one…
9. 5:41in my free will what to do then I can go ahead and do because I'm…
10. 6:12times back and forth that you're doing but then they show from having it's not working…

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