Question: If a person has free choice, can I, look at my past and say that I could have done something differently then, that I had freedom of choice?

Answer: No. Why would you think so? And regarding the future, also no. And in the present? In what do I at this moment have freedom of choice? Only in strengthening myself, agreeing, desiring the quality of bestowal, striving for this to happen as quickly as possible, and exactly as the Creator desires.

I have freedom of choice, not in the action itself, but in its implementation. Let it be realized, not in such a way that I agree to it under the pressure of threats and misfortunes, but so that of my own will, moving forward, I want its realization.

The Creator has everything planned in advance. In regard to the actions, in regard to what will happen to us, we are not free at all. Everything that I must go through is predetermined.

But if I do not want these states, do not want to advance toward greater bestowal each time, after having decided that from this moment on at every next stage I will be even more giving, then I inevitably reveal these states as suffering. I have no way out: I advance, but suffer more and more.

Or, on the contrary, if I convince myself that these states are good and effective, that I want them in advance, then they are revealed to me as goodness, as bliss, abundance, and eternity.

However, the stages that I go through are obligatory. I can determine the pace, but I cannot avoid being in each of these states.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/16/26, Rabash, “What Is, ‘The Good Deeds of the Righteous Are the Generations,’ in the Work?”

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