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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.

LATEST ARTICLES: JEWISH BELIEFS

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    What are the spiritual roots of the current environmental crisis?

  • Satan

    Satan isn't the Jewish devil.

  • Bat Kol - A Divine Voice

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

  • DNA Speaks

    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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