Free Will and Evil
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Real Freedom | Basic Tenets of Jewish Philosophy
What do we mean when we say that all men are free? These words have a legal connotation which has…
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Parallel universes….
A year ago Thomas Friedman suggested that we solve the Israeli Palestinian conflict by placing NATO forces as the doorman…
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It’s not Easy to be Jew
“You are the only ones I knew intimately from among all the families of the world, I will therefore hold…
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Is there such a thing as free will?
One of the fundamental assumptions in ethics in general and in Judaism in particular is that man is free to…
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Divine foresight and free will
For some two thousand five hundred years philosophers have been trying to answer the ancient question of divine foresight and…
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What is the ‘evil inclination’?
The common definition for the ‘evil inclination’ is: the urge to do evil; the totality of baser tendencies within a…
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Coping with the evil inclination
The sages in Berachot (5a) deal with the ways one may cope with the evil inclination A. Four stages The…
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