This weekly women&#39;s class was presented on Tuesday, Parshas Bo, 2 Shevat, 5782, January 4, 2022, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY. It explores how free choice works, and do we really even have it?

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pharaoh

exile

self-awareness

free choice

daas

Did Pharaoh Have Freewill? Understanding Your Brain Can Help You Acquire the Gift of Choice

Women's Vaeira/Bo Class

Do I Have Free Choice? It Depends

This class was presented on Friday Parshas Eikev, 22&nbsp;Av, 5779, August 23, 2019 at the Ohr Chaim Shul, Monsey, NY&nbsp;

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The Yearly Calendar Mirrors All of Our History; Moshe Breaking the Luchos Captures His Greatest Moment

Maamar Reb Hillel Eisa B'Psikta #20

Why Did Jews Really Sin? They Were Searching for the Ultimate Relationship & the Light of Moshiach

This class was presented on Wednesday Parshas Behar, 17&nbsp;Iyar, 5779, May 22, 2019 at the Ohr Chaim Shul, Monsey, NY&nbsp;

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teshuva

goral

sins

unconscious

shlomo maimon

super-conscious

song

lottery ticket

nigun

shikcha

mistakes

Your Deepest Life Choices Are Unconscious

Likkutei Torah Mizmor Shir Chanukas Habayis #10

Many of Our Greatest Mistakes Are Anything But That 

This class was presented Sunday 29 Tamuz 5777, July 23, 2017. at Ohr Chaim, Monsey, New York.

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yermiyahu hanavi

jeremiah

geulah

bais hamikdosh

moshiach

behar

haftorah behar

quantum eraser

bechirah

quantum physics

yediah and bechirah

How the Rogatchover Discovered Quantum Mechanics in the World of Halacha 

Sunday Devarim Class/The 9 Days/Haftorah Behar

The Quantum Eraser, Free Choice, Real-Estate Sales,  and Moshiach

The third and final class in a series of free choice. This class explores an alternative view on the question of G-d&rsquo;s knowledge &amp; human free choice, in which His knowledge constitutes the life force of all existence, and hence seemingly would define our behavior. It explores the views of the Chovat Halevavot, Or Hachaim, Baal Shem Tov, the Izhbitzer, and Reb Tzadok. As it turns out, G-d may be more involved than you imagine, yet you must still run the show.

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teshuvah

repentance

tzadok hakohen lublin

wave particle duality

human freedom

reb tzadok

determinism

g-d's knowledge

yediah

ishbitz

yom kippur goat

creation every moment

mordechei yosef leiner

paradox

In the World of Paradoxes, the Sin Can Be a Mitzvah

Do We Have Free Choice? Part 3 

In this class we explore how Jewish law mirrors the theological resolution for the conflict between Divine omniscience and human free choice. We journey through the teachings of two 19th century giants, Rabbi Yosef Engel, and the Rogatchover Gaon, Rabbi Yosef Rozen. If the law is that only a Jew can circumcise a gentile to facilitate his conversion, who was there to circumcise Abraham, the first Jew? We consider the teaching of the Sages that G-d himself "sent forth his hand" and circumcised Abraham. But what does that really mean? Here we come to a seemingly incomprehensible principle of Talmudic law known as the law of "two as one." Namely, two mutually exclusive realities can exist at once.
We turn to dissecting how divorce works in Jewish law and where the principle of "two as one" comes through in every divorce; we further dissect the laws of emancipating a slave, of sanctifying the altar in the Tabernacle, of sanctifying the utensils in the Tabernacle, for in all these laws we discover the synthesis of paradoxes at play. Why these fields of law and no others? We finally discover the true meaning and power of Teshuvah in Jewish thought, where past and future merge into a seamless flow of oneness.

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halacha and philosophy

avraham's bris

yosef engel

tzafnas panaach

cause

laws of get

rogatchover gaon

bris milah

effect

time

yosef rosen

conversion

result

past present future

yosef rozen

geirus

sibah mesuvav

tetzaveh

geto veyado baeim kiechad

Where Halacha and Metaphysics Converge: When the Effect Precedes Its Cause

Do We Have Free Choice? Part 2

If G-d Knows the Future, How Can We Make Choices? The Perceptive of Jewish Philosophers

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rambam

maimonides

accountability

jewish philosophy

If G-d Knows the Future, How Can We Make Choices? The Perceptive of Jewish Philosophers

Do We Have Free Choice? Part 1

Rabbi YY Jacobson&#39;s breakout session at the YEHUDI Day of Inspiration &amp; Million Dollar Campaign, 7 Tishrei, 5777, Oct 9, 2016, at the Hyatt Regency, Miami, Florida.

The Holiness of Your Sins

How the Kabbalah Reconciles Free Choice and Divine Providence

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