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JUDIASM & FREE WILL

If humans are responsible for their actions, they must have free will, the ability to choose right from wrong. But ideas about God's providence and scientific notions of biological and psychological determinism create problems for the presumption of free will. This paradox has fascinated Jewish thinkers since the Talmud.

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    The lowest level of prophecy, but a mighty powerful voice.

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    The field of genetics has been offering up sensational new observations about the historical record of Jewish origins, exile, and migrations.

  • Yehuda Ashlag

    Scholar of Kabbalah and progenitor of the Kabbalah Center.

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    In January 2012, Keshet’s Director of Special Projects, Gregg Drinkwater, addressed audiences at Limmud Colorado, a confer......

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