Ask the Torah About Free Will and It Points You To Its Truth: You Were Created to Choose.

If I asked you to offer me a verse in the Torah that indicated free will, you would certainly choose the verse that says choose. After all, you do a quick word search through the text of the Torah, you come up with a word, choose. Isn't that the obvious verse to offer? So the mystery is why does the Rambam [clears throat] ignore the verse that actually mentions free will to give us a contextual or a something that an inference we can infer from the fact that we have alternatives that we have free will. You could do better give us the verse that actually states will free will choice. I hope the question is clear. The resolution of this question is as follows. Obviously when you hear that you are alternatives you know that you have free will. Why does the Rambam not go further and give us the verse that actually stipulates free will? And it works like this. When Hashem offers us two alternatives it should be clear that these are two realistic successful alternatives. Again the simple understanding what we call the havina right what one might have thought is that he offers us a viable alternative and a nonviable alternatives. He gives us life and blessing or the alternative which is crash, burn, die, disappear. Hashem doesn't play the game that way. That's not correct. He's giving us two viable alternatives, both of which guarantee success. Let me explain what I mean. When Hashem says you can have life and blessing, what is the outcome of life and blessing? Life with blessing. Choose mitzvah, live a blessed life, a blessed life, and you will get to your perfection and your success and bring the world with you. Alternatively, you can choose curse, sinful behavior, negative behavior, destructive spiritual behavior, destroy yourself and the world and that will bring you to your success. How? Because punishment in Torah thinking is never vindictive. Punishment is always corrective. Meaning you have two viable alternatives, two valid alternatives, two pathways to reach your perfection. You can reach your perfection through hard work and do living correctly. You can reach your perfection through living incorrectly. Why? because you'll be put through the pain of suffering which is a correction.