FREE CHOICE: How Does It Works?

[Music] difficult questions for people to understand it's a very easy thing to explain in a superficial way not in a detailed way uh because the writes in that it's not humanly possible to understand it but one of the most difficult things for people to understand is the concept of free choice so free choice meaning how does it work that I have free choice but Hashem knows the future say I have free choice great but you also said that at the same time I have free choice I could do whatever I want hem knows the future so if you already knows the future how is my choice free that's a very difficult concept for people to understand in a simple way cuz this is already answered at least twice in this series in a simple way it's this if let's say for example I put uh I write down on a piece of paper everything that you're going to do tomorrow and then I put it in an envelope we put it into a safe and the guys over here going to stay overnight watch the safe you go on your day you do whatever you want tomorrow we come back to the same place we open the safe everybody's Witnesses we open the envelope we read everything that I wrote down today about what you're going to do tomorrow tomorrow and you see that I already wrote everything that you're going to do tomorrow today meaning I knew the future did me knowing your future affect your decision no right cuz I wrote it in a piece of paper that's the same concept meaning a knows the future but he does not affect your free choice to choose it why because for AOS he is one what does it mean he is one it's not that there's just one God it's not just that meaning he is one is that he doesn't have parts we have parts we have a body we have uh different body parts our n is separate from the body our ideas are separate from us forem there's no separation he is one the past the present the future his thoughts his reality it's all a piece of one there is nothing separate from him which means that when he created the world and he created the past the present and the future so he already created all of the possibilities all of the possibilities that are the outcome of your choices which means that you can pick whatever you want he already knows it what is that like imagine you are on a highway and you're driving and now you get to a fork in a road but not a fork that's typical one two or three option but rather a 100 options a thousand options if you go right you're going to end up in an alulu if you go left you're going to end up in Texas if you go in the middle you're going to end up in Zimbabwe if you go slightly right but Northeast Northwest somewhere there you're going to end up in Israel and so on and so forth each Road leads to a different destination right that is your free choice you can pick whatever you want the destination is there regardless of what you pick meaning whether you choose to go right and end up in t or not Texas will always be there whether you choose to go left and end up in halulu it doesn't really make a difference Hulu will always be there why because the designer already placed it there that's in essence in a very microcosm explanation of it is that regardless of what choice you have the outcome is already there what you choose is which outcome you want do you want Israel do you want Texas do you want talulu do you you want this wife you want that wife you make that choice as the says everything is from Heaven except the fear of Heaven meaning everything all of the outcomes and the possible choices are from heaven but the fear of Heaven is which one are you going to choose meaning are you going to choose to go to the place where there's less Torah are you going to choose the place that has more tah are you going to choose the kosher food you're going to choose n kosher food you're going to choose the modest woman to get married to or the not modest woman to get married to you're going to choose the kosher job that makes a little bit of money in the beginning but maybe more later on or the non- kosher job that makes a ton of money before you go to jail which one you the choices are available to you and hasm is not going to decide for you you decide but the outcome of those choices are already there so in essence again knows the future knows all of the choices knows all of the outcomes you still pick which road you have so this is a very difficult concept for people to understand and part of the reason a biggest part of the reason is because of ego believe it or not the reason why it's ego is because we are determined determined to believe that we are in charge of our life no I did it I made the money and I went there and I and I and iPhone and iPad and I this and I gener everything I I I everybody wants control you don't have any control you don't have any control you have control right wrong that's the control you have righteous Wicked everything else buiss tall short not in your control married single not in your control alive dead not in your control Rich poor not in your control children no children not in your control live to 120 or till 20 not in your control only thing that's control righteous Wicked it's the only thing that's in new control we're very excited to offer you the new bezem app 3.0 it's a newer faster app full of Torah lots of Kusa by the shim that we do myself Rim raim uh where you'll have also newer features will you're able to use the app uh while you're using other applications on your phone you'll be able to share the uh the lectures directly from the app you'll be able to donate online and support our cuve and our Torah work that we're doing and the most exciting feature is that you'll be able to actually ask questions directly on the app and get answers from the rabbis directly from the app this is something unprecedented and B will be able to offer it thank you again for all of your support check it out make sure you have the kosher Torah that uh will re-energize your n each and every single day 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