Free Will Explained & HaShem Knowing The Future

[Music] does guy know the uh future that's the first question does guy know the future like my next movement my next my next idea if so if he knows the future why why would he tamper it I know like he doesn't tamper with us free will K why doesn't he tamper if it's it's for the better good why would he tamper so the knows the past the present and the future where to him it's all the same there is no past there is no present there is no future for him it's all the same status it's the same thing as if we could explain for example we have psychologically speaking we have a conscious a unconscious and a subconscious so there's something that the conscious is something that immediately you're thinking about right now the question you thought about is Con you're conciously asking it you know it's in the tip of your tongue the unconscious is things that are repressed memories from a long long time ago but if you think about it long enough you can get it subconscious is things that you don't even realize you know but you've seen it or did it at some point in your life and when push comes to shove it'll come up when a person is alive he has to stretch a little bit he has to work a little a little bit to use some different parts of his mind but if a person passes away or perhaps a person loses Consciousness and he has let's say a near-death experience or he dreams he dreams and he knows he's dreaming he could literally feel all three of them at the same time as if they're the same why because the soul is not limited to what the body is the body is limited that you could only use one or another at different times the soul has no limitation you know you're dream when you know you're dreaming you could use a lot of different things if you know how to do it yes you could you could do a lot of interesting things if you know you're dreaming you could fly you could create a dream you create all types of things some of the were able to use their dreams to go up to sh and see what happens in sh and get all types of interesting things over there there's many many that would literally go to heaven and see what's over there now the from us for him it's not there's no conscious subconscious unconscious no such thing there's also no past present and future but just like we in a status of let's say the there is no difference between us of all of these different states of mind for him there is no difference between anything for him is's the only thing that's actually one one a single thing the only thing that actually exists that's one is him he is not separated from his thoughts he is his thoughts he's not separated from his past he is his past he's not separated from his future he is his future us we are separated even a human being is separated where you're made up of 248 different part uh one uh body parts Limbs and 365 uh 365 Limbs and Bones uh so the point is that even a human being that's a a single human being he's made up of Parts the nation is made up of Parts the camera is made up of everything in the world is made up of Parts the only thing that's single is a same concept with his past present and future so he knows not you know your past present and future but doesn't mean that you only have one possibility meaning you have multiple possibilities you only have one possibility of your past because it's already over you have multiple possibilities of your of your present because that's based on your current decision and you have countless possibilities of your future which are result of your actions so he knows all of those possibilities and he doesn't tamper with which one you're going to choose he just knows that you choose this you're going to go here you choose this you're going to go here and to him all of them are the same in essence he already sees all of them live out all of them play out simultaneously so when you choose something it's different for you but for him it's the same it's very complicated and to such an extent the rambam that actually details a little bit more than I just did he writes it in there's a book called which is a where we learn about the 13 principles of faith and also the uh commentary and also different details about creation that the rambam wrote and this is in the last chapter seventh and eth chapter and he writes I'm only going to write about free will because I know people are going to ask but in reality it's impossible for us to understand it the only way that you could actually understand Free Will is by being God himself this is the highest capacity that you can understand which is what I just explained to you there's some more details that the ram explains but you know and I'm summarizing it but in essence your human mind can never truly understand how Free Will as because you're limited as a human but this is in essence how it is and I've I gave you guys the story of how or the example of how it works if I write something the future in an envelope you guys remember that part okay so let's say for example we'll give you this let's say I tell you I know the Future Okay so I write I write the future on a piece of paper I put in an envelope and we put we put it in a safety uh box safe deposit box I tell you go do whatever you want at the end of the week you come back okay there's a whole thing 100 people come let's see what's in the box we take out the piece the envelope we open the envelope we we see what's on the envelope and what I wrote down already a week ago is every single thing that you did during that week now the fact that I knew it before it happened did that change your actions no you still did whatever you did I knew it I knew it but I didn't I didn't change it why doesn't AEM that why doesm that knows the all the possibilities of the future why doesn't he just steer you in the right way why doesn't he just take the girl that's immodest out of the equation and just throw it to Jamaica or something so you can go to work freely and without sinning why because that takes away your free choice the only way that aadh could give you g is if you earn it you have to earn it by doing if you do a mitvah by not looking then hasem says Ah my son didn't look okay that's another 500 billion dollar in spiritual dollars in ganeden why because he didn't look once oh he didn't go to Las Vegas oh that's another 500 zillion dollars in ganeden because he didn't go he didn't put himself in a test and so on and so forth so he has to reward you for something and that's that's why he gives you those test he doesn't alter your moves we don't get rewarded like let's say not like reward us in our future basically like let's say we do something good we did like a lot of good in our lives you're not going to help us cers in the right direction oh yes well it says in the somebody that comes to become purified somebody that comes to try to do gives him a hand but someone that tries to become impure somebody that tries to do bad things hasem also helps him meaning if you want to do good things Hashem will give you plenty of opportunities to do good things for example you want to give you want to give you want to be generous so what's hasm going to do he's going to send you different opportunities all of a sudden no one ever knocked on your door for 10 years you live in this house but you have this gut feeling you feel like you need to give something feel like you need to give something all of a sudden yes sir we're uh I have a daughter she needs money we have a wedding this all of a sudden first time 10 years somebody knocked on your door why you wanted to give to could read your mind he sent you somebody now you didn't give him everything you didn't give him everything you want to get so has send you another opportunity all of a sudden you get an email all of a sudden you get an opportunity but then you ran out of money you gave that you ran out of money so what doesm do oh I'll give you more money he gives you all of a sudden you have a new client that new client just gave you an extra $50,000 if you still remember hasem and you still have this desire to give guess what you give is going to give you more money so you come to become purified and hhm is going to help you become purified on the other hand someone that wants to sin someone that's he listens about the things that we talk about wasting seed and the and so on and so forth all the sins of the Tor he says as nonsense ah this is nonsense who's going to protect their breed in this generation ah come on we I'm G stop watching movies ah come on this raaba you're crazy you're this or that guess what that guy all of the zot of all the entire country are going to come to his door every 5 Seconds some girl's going to call him you want to go out honey all of a sudden became Tom Cruz everybody wants to go out with him all of a sudden he Mr the popular the guy has a nose over here and an ear over here but all of a sudden everybody finds him beautiful wow you're so beautiful I you're so handsome what handsome Gargamel is better than him but all of a sudden miss his wonderful wants to why because he wants to sin hasem says you want to sin I'll give you the girl I'll give you the girl you want to sin I'll help you sin why you want to sin I'll help you sin you want I'll help you do mitvah but even more so what happens what happens if somebody made a sin what if he murdered somebody what if he murdered somebody does is there any chance that Hashem is going to help him too the answer is yes how yes the tells us that sometimes somebody murders somebody accidentally accident he didn't shoot him in the face and you know on purpose he was working the top of the building and he had some tools accidentally his leg pushed one of the tools the hammer fell from the fourth fifth story and it fell on somebody's head and he died he didn't he murdered him technically killed him but not on purpose so according to the Torah at the time of mosu the family of the person that accidentally died has the right to kill him but they don't want them to kill them so what do they do they say you killed them accidentally you go to the mountains why they're not the family's not allowed to go to the mountains or when can I come back when can I come back to my family when can I come back to uh My Wife and Kids my job my company my this oh you could only come back when it's forbidden for them to kill you oh when is that when theen the biggest sadik of the nation when he dies when he dies then you come back so now all of the people in this mountain what do they do all day they all pray for the biggest sadik in the world to die why because they want to come back to their families so what happens so the mothers of the Ken G the mother of the Ken G every so often she would go to the mountain with a bunch of presents for all the people giveing food and clothes and all types of stuff why don't pray for my son to die don't pray for my son to die so now how does how would this work sometimes the Ken would die literally a short while after somebody killed somebody somebody went to that City and a short while later the Coen G would die it was a new Coen he died finished but sometimes 80 years pass before the Ken died meaning this this guy spent pretty much his entire life in the mountains so how does this work thear tells us gives the benefit the merits the uh the reward or the assistance to someone that has a merit but he also gives somebody a deficit or a loss if he has if he deserves that too how so if that guy deserved he did something for whatever reason he did something if he let's say for example he really truly accidentally killed a guy he was really careful he was on working in the building but he's really really careful and Hashem decreed that this guy's going to die below him and he chose you to do it but you didn't really do it on purpose you were careful you put everything right you did everything right but the guy still died because of that oh if this happened that guy I would actually have theen die relatively soon why because you don't deserve to be in those mountains for 80 years but if you were really not careful if you one of these people that had to kept keep telling you every week hey put the tools back hey be careful hey stop throwing stuff in the air and you weren't careful so in reality yes it was an accident but it was an accident as a result of carelessness so then you do deserve to to be in the mountains for 80 years so even that even the murderer Hashem helps him too it's needless to say he also decrees who the Cohen is going to be whether it's a young Cohen or old Cohen or if the mom deserves it the mother of the Cen deserves to see our son die or not meaning that manages the world to such Precision that it's impossible for us to comprehend point being is he doesn't um change your choice but the world around you will operate based on your actions yes so how exactly do you have free choice of like you were built in a way that at the end of the day you do the the result is from Hashem like the way he created you yes so like how exactly do you have free choice because you were built in a way to choose that exact specific like like Lane or like you know yes so the good question the Z says that each person is born with certain desires some of us have Universal desires and some of us have our own personal desires that are unique to us Universal desires we have desires to eat some people more some people less Universal desire is to be you know we want to be liked some people care more or less for it but generally speaking people want to be liked people need to eat people need to be intimate and so on and so forth but then there are independent there are certain things that you have an inclination for that somebody else doesn't for example there are certain people that have a desire to see blood they have a desire to see blood they get something something in their brain works differently once they see blood so gave you that he gave you that desire that you get some sort of pleasure as a result of seeing blood now automatically all of us think with our movie uh Hollywood mind thinking wow this guy's going to be a murderer he's going to kill people this guy no not necessarily he can do that he can become a serial killer he can become a murderer he can become one of these crazy school shooting kids he can be or he could simply be a butcher he could be a butcher and see blood or he could be a surgeon you can be a surgeon make $800,000 a year by performing surgery and still get the same pleasure see blood but one is murder is not allowed it's forbidden by the Torah and it's forbidden by the law and another is not only it's allowed it's a Mitzvah it's a Mitzvah to be a kosher butcher it's a Mitzvah to be a doctor that actually keep Shabbat unless he has to for it's a m to do these things one is a sin one is a uh a Mitzvah so the point is that Hashem instilled in you certain Natures within you independently and it's your free choice to choose how you're going to use this Talent this desire and so on so he didn't you know he didn't instill in you this desire where you're the there's no way for you to to do something good out of it to such an extent that there's no good in the world that you can't enjoy the you guys heard of yeah you heard had a wife her name was buya bu was a very very smart woman she even won a few debates against some of the other one day she said to wait a minute you say in the Tor that hasem did not put us in a situation where there's something in the world that we can't enjoy in a Kosher Way so she says I want to enjoy Pig I want to enjoy the taste of pig now you can't say the pig is Kosher for schom no no I'm going to give my wife Pig I'm GNA give her a baking egg and cheese sandwich because of schum bite you can't do that so says no problem he went he sent somebody to go get a certain type of fish that's found in Africa that's called shibuta and that fish after you cook it tastes exactly like bacon exactly like bacon same thing but it's course it's a Kosher fish by the way there's also a duck a certain duck that's found in Japan till this day there's a certain duck in Japan if you cook it it tastes exactly like bacon today there's also soy that you can flavor like bacon and there's also turkey bacon and so on and so forth the point is is that did not have us lose anything as a result of the mitv we just have to know how to enjoy different things in a kosher way every desire that you do you could do it in a kosher way you could do it a non- Kosher Way r r again said to a bunch of soldiers he says listen I do everything that you do the only difference is you're going to go to Gom for it I'm going to go to ganeden for it so so that's not fair that's not fair why am I going to go to Gom going to ganed he goes okay you eat goes yeah I eat also go so what's the difference he goes when you eat you eat non kosher I eat kosher so I eat you eat it's both good but my food is kosher when you eat you don't even say blessing to hasem I say blessing to Hashem now you want to be uh you what else you want to do you want to have fun you have fun how do you have fun what you want to have a wife no wife I have a wife also you're going to go to Gom for your wife I'm gonna go to G for my wife why my wife goes to the mik I'm allowed to be with her you touch and do whatever you want same exact performance but you there's a sin there's a Mitzvah there a sin a Mitzvah meaning every single thing that you want to do you can do in in a Kosher Way in a kosher way you just need to know how to do it you're allowed to play sports during the week you're allowed to eat koser food you're allowed to have fun koser fun the point is is that if you understand a Torah you can actually have a fantastic life in this world and the next it just has to be a kosher way to do it has to be a koser way to do it and if you have you're afraid of going against theem You'll Always Find a way to do it because like I said uh the someone that tries to become purified Hashem will help him so if you're trying to get closer and closer to hasem Hashem will help you next question wait little so you're saying that from your Uprising you get you get to pick your choices right like all your surroundings all the environment so in reality would that really be free will in then cuz then you're then cuz God's already giving you like an image to go off like giving you a background so everything you know you know because he put you in those situations okay and you're making your your answer from those so it's not really free free will in reality you know it is and it isn't meaning that it's a cause and effect if let's say for example I go to work I'll get money I know that if I don't go to work I won't get money if I do a mitvah there's a for that mitvah there's a reward for that mitvah what is the reward for aahah the reward for a Mitzvah is another Mitzvah some you do a mitvah so wants to reward you what he gives you an opportunity to do another Mitzvah that's why when somebody made a sin by accident shig the Tora says go bring a kurban bring a sacrifice to the BET mikdash why why do I need why what is the what does the animal have to do with my sin the cow didn't sin I sinned why does the animal have to die because just like there's a reward of a Mitzvah is a Mitzvah the punishment for a sin is a sin which means that now that I sinned by turning on the light on Shabbat accidentally it's still a sin even though it's an accident it's a sin nonetheless so that means that the punishment for that sin would be an opportunity to make another sin so the say in the T immediately right after you made The Accidental sin go bring a sacrifice to the BET mikdash why that's a mitvah break the chain why before you make your next sin go make a by bringing that sacrifice once you make that sacrifice that's a mitvah you broke the chain that means that immediately after you've you've actually made that mitvah of the sacrifice you'll have an opportunity to make a mitvah instead of which means that if you are on a role of making will continue giving you more and more opportunities to make more mitv if you're like you're like whenever I get a chance I'll do a mitv whenever I get a chance maybe I'll do an then guess what you're not going to survive the week you're not going to survive the week why because there's only going to be sins coming so a person that chases MIT just like says in the Tora please have I want to chase MIT my whole life I Chas why is he want Chase because he knows if I make I'll have an opportunity to make another one and another one another one and who knows where I'm going to end and that's also why the kids young people old people when they go off the when somebody that's religious born religious you know the Hat the stral the whole thing the whole nine and then one day you see this guy dancing at gay clubs like what the what just happened here what happened here like how did you go from here to here you went from gun didn't G in a week like what happened how does it go how does it happen this stuff it happens in a very simple way same exact thing just a funnier thing but generally the same explanation if a person makes a sin and simply doesn't care he gets punished with an opportunity to make another sin so the guy that went off the de bite just you know what I'm going to smoke a cigarette on Shabbat when no one's looking so he smoked a cigarette after on Shabbat no one looked no one saw except theem but then all of a sudden Shabbat comes out and some Goya comes there he says hey cutie what are you doing with that big hat of yours and all of a sudden she wants to be his girlfriend all of a sudden she wants to be his girlfriend she never saw a Jew in her life but she likes the Hat so now he he smoked a cigarette on Shabbat but now he has a go girlfriend and where do she want to go she goes what do you want to do I don't know let's go to the casino okay fine so then they go to casino together so got another a and then the casino then this and then that what happens after three weeks this guy's made so many he doesn't even remember what he used to look like he used to look like a now he walks around with a tank up and shorts the parents see that what happened to you what how did you go from here to here stop paying attention you stop paying attention to the fact that you're making a and that's how it works the Satan will take a person literally from geden all the way to the bottom of Gom why that's how the system works so if you watch yourself you pay attention to the things that you do every time you make a mitvah good look for the next one every time you make a mistake and make an you look at the girl that's half naked you looked at her okay I'm sorry why you broke when you say I'm sorry for the sin that's a mitvah that's a mitvah so guess what instead of hm sending you another another girl he's going to send you an opportunity to dovah you have to do CH constantly constantly we can't bring a cow to the B mdash no bet mdash today but we could say I'm sorry when we say I'm sorry that's the same thing that's the point of the cows to say I'm sorry you say I'm sorry to for making a sin I'll give you an opportunity to do a Mitzvah and you'll see little by little that it's a cause and effect that yes you can in essence dictate what kind of opportunities you have in your life whether you'll have more opportunities but again it's only if you pay close attention yes um if God controls history H and events how do we have free will like how do all the historical figures that do what they do if it's all being controlled by God so does not control history in a sense that you're explaining it meaning yes runs the world and nothing is beyond him but everything is from Heaven except the fear of Heaven meaning that he allows human beings to make free choice and by their own free choice he has certain things happen there are certain cases only a couple of cases that I can remember off the top of my head that removes the free choice generally speaking the vast majority of the population in the world from the beginning of time all the way until mashia come have free choice undisturbed they choose whatever they choose and Hashem reacts based on their choice he chose to not go to sh chose to just stay home guess what he forgot to even pray at home why has made him tired he went to sleep he chose that he's going to watch TV hasem put some immodest woman woman on the TV he chose to uh you know not check if it's kosher or not Hashem made sure it's not Kosher why cuz you didn't check if you would have checked then maybe it would have made be kosher I would allowed you to enjoy something you wanted so people make choices Hashem reacts to those choices generally speaking throughout all of time the vast majority of the population have free choice there are only two cases that I know of off the top of my head that the free choice is removed and those cases are one leaders leaders of Nations once somebody becomes a major leader of a Nation whether it's parau or Obama or Donald Trump or Benjamin Netanyahu or Putin or any of these people that lead countries their free choice is tampered with sometimes completely removed why these are the stick figures that Hashem uses to run his world when bad things are happening to Isel they're Happening by some stick figure somebody's doing it whether it's Obama or Osama or someone in between them somebody's doing it Hashem is using that person as the stick against am so those leaders have their free choice removed there's a couple of examples that we see in the Tora had his free choice removed the king had his free choice removed even has his free choice altered point being is that when a leader is becomes a leader they may have had good intentions going into office but once they're in office they're simply a puppet of hem they may they have free choice between their day-to-day life and their them and their wife them and their kids to eat not to eat to go to the bathroom not go to Bath that stuff yeah but as far as what they decide to press the nuclear weapon or not to to go attack Afghanistan or not to vote Yes or No against Israel or not Hashem decides that why because these are people that hasm used to run the world the only other time that removes the free choice is as a punishment and that I read to you guys about two months ago from the rambam he says that the worst punishment that exist in this world is when hasem decides he does not want you to do chuva so he allows you to live and simply not want to do chuva under any condition even if you have mhu come to your house knock on your door hey I'm Moshe here's the Ten Commandments say yeah Moshe I'm not interested meaning a person can see the entire truth and still not do Chua why hashm doesn't want it doesn't want that Chua the person could live a life without even thinking that what they're doing is wrong why because the punishment for such a person is that hasm does not want him to do Chua he'll let them live a long life to make more sins so he could punish them worse and this is in the ram [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] need sh for [Music] [Applause] a [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] he [Music]