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FREE WILL vs PREDETERMINATION
By
eyaakov
Often you hear people claim that there’s no such thing as Free Will. They maintain that all is determined by genetics, conditioning, or chemicals in your brain. However, imagine a professor who preaches this theory of human conditioning. For a full semester, he explains to an eager group of students yearning to shirk any sense…
THE REALITY OF FREE WILL
By
eyaakov
In the previous post, we elucidated that what we mean by “Good” is that which brings me closer to the Infinite, and what we mean by “Evil” is that which pulls me away from the Infinite. Now that we have Good and Evil lucidly defined, let us be clear that in Judaism, when we talk…
DEFINING “GOOD” & “EVIL”
By
eyaakov
As discussed in the previous posts, everything in the finite points to the all-encompassing and all-inclusive Infinite Being that we refer to as God. And, being Infinite, there is nothing that God “gains” or “loses” by anything we do. Meaning, there is no change in God’s essence if we act in one manner as opposed…
What Is God “About”?
By
eyaakov
In order to apply last week’s principle that similarity breeds relationship to our relationship with God, we are going to want to figure out what God is “about” in terms of how God expresses Himself to us. Figuring that out will steer us in the right direction and equip us with the knowledge necessary in…
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