Fundamentals of Judaism - Rabbi Horovitz

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On the one hand, the Bible emphasises the freedom of man. On the other hand, it teaches us that G-d is in control. How can man have freedom if G-d is the Master of fate, of destiny? What is the concept which is referred to by the Kabbalists as a limiting of the Divine presence? If G-d has a wish that the laws of nature should apply to the mineral, animal and vegetable world, could it be the wish of G-d that man should be free?

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God is able to attain the Object of Appearance of the man Jesus, because Infinite must mean the ability to apply the Being of God to the Moment, from All Times to One Time and from All Objectives to any One. God the Infinite encompasses the Finite Object at Will. The Object then is at God's Discretion to attain the Infinite, the difference is God is the Sovereign Determination to appear Finite, from the Infinite and permit the Finite to partake of the Infinite. It is about Power.

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God was/is not a person God defines us. We do not define God

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God as Sovereign, has the Free Will first, and had to make a decision, not of any pressure or necessity, from any outside agency or prior condition to God. God decided by a freely made choice, to be lonely and have a family, but God was also sufficient to make any other choice, so God could have spent Eternity without any other minds within or without His original Peace. But once God decided, His decision became the Law, even God respected, and that is how God became Divine. 3=1

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In Job chapter ten, Job laments and asks God, " Do you have eyes of flesh ? Can you see as a man sees ? Is your days as a man's or your years the same as a man ?"  God held Job as Innocent, but God did not answer that query, but we Christians believe God answered the challenge of Job, God came in the flesh as Jesus, forgetting and forsaking Himself as God , so as to know the answer to give His servant Job. God came as one of us, that we do not have any justification over God.

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God was the First Person to challenge Himself as to any overt act, to ask why it was done. God has no need of acts, so the first question is why did God begin to do acts ? God had some moment of insanity, in which God asked Himself, "Why ?" So a First Will begins with a question, not an answer. And the Second Will is not liberated from the First, until the same insanity occurs and there is a challenge of wills, seeking to know why. Why should anything be so troubling to be pleasing ?

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God had to start with the Father And Son dialog within Him. God expresses a designed Will to do an act. But God being smart, then stands back and say "why am I doing this ?" Good question. So, God has to have a Son, who goes into the Creation to test the waters and try to figure out why God did anything. God says to Himself, " How should I know, why would I care ?" So the Free Will has to challenge the First Will, to see if any satisfaction exists as the Placebo to the Mind of God.

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Free Will is inversely proportional to avoiding any approach to follow a directive, to the degree it is not believed in. Free Will is Rebellion to any other Will. God says to the animals "go forth and multiply and be fruitful " and until there is another Will, there is no Free Will. A Man can say "Why should I go forth and multiply anything ?" A simple child outsmarts Sam Harris, by simply asking "Why" over and over, when what the child means is, "I do not wish to do it"

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Sam Harris is undone by any snotty nosed brat youngster, who only answers back with "WHYYYYY ???" Why, seems to resonate out of YHWH if read backwards. God commands and people ask why ? Even God asked Cain "Why have you done this ?" Free Will is the Detective seeking to find out after the fact all is done, why it has been done at all ? God may not have settled on the answer "Why" anything is done, and may still be asking us to report back with some good answers. WHY ?

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Free Will is the intellectual threshold where the person getting the orders , responds by asking "Why ?" And if the answer is not satisfactory , the Free Will is Rebellious. Machines never ask why, unless programmed to ask why, but the machines do not realize the dissatisfaction of not getting the sufficient answer to motivate them to respond as directed. God did all that is done, but may be seeking His own answer "Why" by His living vicariously through us, to study the answers.

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Sam Harris is wrong about the lack of God and the premise of amorality .  Because if there is only one man in the entire world, what he does only has a consequence upon himself and no other. But if we say the man is one and then there is another like him, and more , then the one and the one and the one has an outside manifestation of a relationship, where morality has a consequence that impacts the one on one relationship. That outside agency is the Spirit of God that is nurturing behavior.