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| #44 Bar Kamtza - Do you really have Free Will? |
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I accept that each person’s life span is set before they are born. I also accept that the question is visited on Rosh Hashanah when Hashem decides who will live and who will die. All that is fine and well, until I pick up a gun and say to myself, can’t I decide to end that person’s life? Isn’t it obvious that whether that person will live or die is now in my hands?
Using the Tisha B’Av Gemarah as a backdrop we are brought into some of philosophy’s deepest questions: resolving the issue of how much of life is in HASHEM’s control, and how much is in man’s.
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