Do You Wish To Make Your Own Decisions?
The first and most important question is: Do we have free will at all? Or, do I go through life as a mechanical toy moved by the key in the back or like a puppet on strings?
Indeed, we are totally controlled by the instincts and our actions are programmed. Even though we think we are free to make decisions and pick our path, it is just an illusion. Everything can be predicted by checking combinations of internal and external data: Reshimot (spiritual records, genes), background, habits, and all other conditions.
In other words, there is no instant in life when a person would be making an independent decision, and frankly, based on what would he decide? If he is programmed with all the informational data, a person simply makes a calculation like a machine.
Is there really any unknown factor that could be selected freely? It is unknown in relation only to us; therefore, we think that we can choose freely. In reality, everything is completely predetermined, as it is Nature.
The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches: “There is none else beside Him.” Do you wish to make your own decisions? Then rise to the Creator’s status and partner Him in decision making.
Your only freedom is in choosing to agree with Him, and in a way, to start walking ahead of Him. If you rise to His level and equalize with Him in qualities, He will allow you to decide before and for Him (as He does). And that is when it will be as it is written: “The righteous decides, and the Creator carries out.”
Until then, there is no use in talking about some freedom.
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From the 4th part of the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 11/26/10, “The Freedom”
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What about the things that can not be attained? Some things simply can not be known because of the lack of data? Perhaps we will eventually find the truth and then there will be no freedom there, but at the outer limits where we explore and learn new things, is there not some freedom at least in speculation before discovery?
Why do we even have the idea of freedom if it doesn’t exist?
In other words, there is no instant in life when a person would be making an independent decision, and frankly, based on what would he decide? If he is programmed with all the informational data, a person simply makes a calculation like a machine.
In other words, there is no instant in life when a person would be making an independent decision, and frankly, based on what would he decide, if he is programmed with all the informational data? A person simply makes a calculation like a machine.