Do You Have Free Will?

[@raf_abreu]

Baruch HaShem for another great lecture !

[@TorahisLife358]

So many incredible concepts. B’H for free will and true freedom 🙌

[@Sandy-tr9cq]

God found me, I was not seeking him. It took years to wake up. He sent me songs first one was from Shinedown , it goes like this "get up get up get a move on, whats taking so long, its hard to move mountains when your paralised". It was two years later before i acknowledged what i was going through was supernatural, he so through mt roommate saying " This is biblical", my response was" Biblical Biblical , I dont even think there is a God". I seen a tear come down her face, two weeks later someone else said this is biblical I knew nothing about God qnd only had a bible. God did teach me himself but also i read the bible and it messed me up as Jesus is a great deceiver. I had to be shown that in the clouds and it is a hard swollow. I pray God forgives the christians that are Seeking God and pray in J C name. Pray to God Almighty if you dont know what name to use. I call him God. So free will yes but he sure helped me find it. I love him so much God is beautiful and young.

[@relaxbodyandsoul143]

Beautiful story. He knows you and love you. He wants you to come back to Him.

[@StrayDogCrew]

I also was not looking for God when He found me. I didn't know what was happening until a friend gave me his grandfather's Bible. Three months later I was a street preacher.

[@timgregory2296]

Jesus tells us to pray to our father who is in Heaven. Don't let a people tell you about their thoughts on a subject. His first commandment, that he says is the most important is to love God with all your heart soul strength and mind. And Secondly to love your neighbor as you would love yourself. In keeping those two things, we can keep all commandments. It takes active seeking, active thought, a changing, cleansing of the inside of the vessel, rather than the outside.

[@MidwitObservations]

There's plenty of pre-chistian Rabbinic interpretations of prophesis that match the Christian narrative. The Jews that didn't accept christ have been making new interpretations sense that time. Check out Messianic Judiasm. Calling Jesus a "deceiver" is ridiculous. He claimed to be the "truth." False prophets don't sacrifice they're life for their message. Was he God himself like the Christians claim? You should look into the prophesies... Real false prophets include the likes of Muhammed or Joseph Smith. Real "deceivers" are abusive to their following. Get your s**t straight lest you get lost in the dark on your search. And insult like that to Christ is as like me saying "Moses was just tripping On phycadelics and and the Jews are racist for thinking they're the Chosen people" I don't beleive these things, but it's equally blasphemous and insulting

[@AZ-zo3wc]

@@timgregory2296Jesus didn’t tell me anything. Don’t tell me your thoughts on jesus

[@KenBreon]

Awesome, finally a concise explanation.

[@covenant157]

The Torah is so beautiful ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ hakodesh baruch hu ❤❤❤❤❤

[@shoshannafachima1306]

God bless you for this wonderful lesson,bravo bravissimo

[@SPQR748]

“The wanderings of a man are of the Lord. How then can he know his own way?” VERY CLEAR?

[@wordoftruthwjdnijah3467]

No free will.

[@TheStugbit]

Great discussion! One thing that I thought a lot over time was the idea of a beginning and creation. In science, we have this sort of Big Bang idea to explain how the universe started, and then you almost cannot avoid getting into the paradox of where the universe comes from. The idea that the universe came from the "nothing". It simply sprouted. How can something just pop up out of nowhere for no reason? Within the religions, however, you sort of come up to the same conclusions because you have this Entity there, God, but then, how God just came up to be? Who created God? And then from where came who created God? You reach a point of repeating decimal. Otherwise, you have to reach the same conclusion of something coming out of nowhere. Thinking in that regard, in my own conclusions, I remembered a while ago what a fellow back in my college days once told me: that the human mind cannot comprehend the idea of "nothing". The absolute emptiness. Every time we think of nothing, we still think of something. The human mind simply is not able to conceive the idea of an absolute nothing. So, if we can apply this for nothing, we certainly can do the opposite and apply this for everything. Not simply in terms of infinite, because an "everything" is different of the idea of infinite. It isn't simply a limitless extension of galaxies in the universe, nor of different realities through limitless strings and things like that. No, the "everything" is the exhaustion of every possibility of existence. It is a "full". So, something that is already everything in itself doesn't need to get started. To be created. It is exhaustively already there in every form and possibility from every angle of direction, you see?

[@TienkeBosherPelzmann]

Bereshith says: the earth(1), which is soil or minerals, came to be formless and empty(without information or pliable) and darkness(2) the place of gestation, was on the face(position) of the deep(3), an aspect of space, and the Spirit(4), which is the life giving source of Elohim(5) was moving on the face of the waters(6). The 7th nothing was vibration when Gd spoke which brought forth light at the right frequency. So nothing's are always eternal. To reflect: soil, darkness, space, Spirit, Elohim, water and vibration worked together to create light so that matter could be revealed which could never be observed before. You can see it in the fractal system of mathematics which was discovered by Mandelbrot. The ability of a mathematical equation to create eternity (never ending) by causing shapes to step and repeat. Light crashing through darkness could be considered a big bang. 😊

[@TheStugbit]

@@TienkeBosherPelzmann yep, I see. But the vibration you say is deemed to be something, right? Then, what created the vibration? It doesn't make much sense to me if something was supposed to be "always there." No thing can simply "be", out of the blue, you see? Someone or something might have done something for the vibration to exist.

[@TienkeBosherPelzmann]

@@TheStugbit Gd said... Vibration is sound. Our system of speech or the way by which we produce sound is by using the voice box. Our whole body was created to be in the image of Gd so that we can create by having the ability to create vibration through speech or song in understandable verse. Therefor the world is called the uni-verse. It is the mystical Hebrew expression Abracadabra, we create as we speak.

[@TienkeBosherPelzmann]

Nothing - not a thing but a collective.

[@TheStugbit]

@@TienkeBosherPelzmann I understand. Shalom. 🕊🙏

[@stevenxiaofenghuang]

Fascinating!! Absolutely fascinating!!! What important information. Thank you for teaching this, Rabbi.

[@EfraimPalvanov]

My pleasure!

[@MyNameishidden-l2f]

Thank you

[@simonvalente2187]

Frame by frame is also a good analogy. We have to go frame by frame. Move forward from where we are. We can't jump. We flow from moment to the next. We are told to remember that in the past... Our fathers lived in Egypt.... And now they are here. And they got here... Step by step, season by season, one heartbeat after another.

[@Baruch-Hashem]

Thank You! Free will is determinism, we are told choose good and life, and if we believe, we believe we have free will. Our choice made. We must act like we have free will, regardless of cause and effect science. Even scientist debate, look at quantum states, ... yet the twins act alike. Chew on this forever, waste of time, choose good.

[@TienkeBosherPelzmann]

Always choose good for Gd is good and He created our free will to only do good. If we do not do good we are slaves to evil.

[@randomtux1234]

beautiful and precise illustration of oft-neglected subject matter, through the eyes of this top scientist/rabbi

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Thank you so much!

[@Zackadamchaussette5228]

Free will equal good choices for ourselves and the others

[@my2cworth4U]

Perfect explanation of prophesy.

[@behnazberookhim8982]

Great shiur thank you rabbi ❤

[@EfraimPalvanov]

My pleasure!

[@AaronMiller-rh7rj]

Thank you, looking forward to learning about this from you.​@EfraimPalvanov

[@keziasphiri9058]

To put it SIMPLE : IN life it is all about GOD's WILL. ✍️🌟🙏 Because no human has ever CREATED himself it is written you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you FREE ❤ AMEN.

[@KateGladstone]

It’s fascinating to hear that the Bible amd other ancient Jewish writings actually uses today’s Hebrew words for “China” and “Chinese .” Still, I am having trouble reconciling this information with the documented historical fact that the Chinese only began using this name for their country in the third century CE - this is what I have learned from studying Chinese history (to some extent, at least - i don’t claim to be any kind of expert on the subject .) So can you please help me understand how to make sense of your statement in light of this fact?

[@ralphowen3367]

When confronted with a choice, we are brought to a decision, but Pr. 16:1 and 33 says the whole disposing is of God. Our being faced with choices is God taking us through the motions of what Adam faced.

[@assemblyofsilence]

Spatial units are cubed, not squared.

[@simonvalente2187]

It is for you to master.... Its all about the heart. How do you feel about it? How many Times have you read the word Heart? In his heart a man plans his course, but Hashem (or TIME itself) determins the steps. Heaven and Earth come together in our hearts. Heaven... The electromagnetic and Earth (the material). We worship Hashem with... Joy and Thanksgiving. These are emotional and intellectual.

[@TheLifescasualty]

14:41 understand why you made the decision

[@my2cworth4U]

Was I there for it to happen, or did it happen because I was there? I have asked myself this many times in 77 years.

[@rutbrea8796]

Both!! You came on your free will or not? Think about it 🤔 😏 😊

[@seanleech8214]

Thank you . Very interesting and a great finish.

[@Boris29311]

We've free will because an ancient writing tells us so? Definition of and logic explanation how please!

[@rutbrea8796]

If you are an atheist, why do you come to this channel to contradict everyone according to your own understanding ?? 🤔

[@gybx4094]

Christian Protestants have been arguing about this for 500 years. Some believe we are automatons fully predestined by God, and others believe we have total free will. Catholics and Orthodox believe both apply. I think it may be a function that we can't resolve, because God's mind and ways are beyond our comprehension. Somewhere in the Tanakh, God says "my ways are not your ways".

[@albertazout8390]

Great!

[@eymar5000]

My name is Esau Yahve what my name really means?

[@Tara98124]

What are Torah proofs for reincarnation?

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Please see here: kzbin.info/aero/PLS68IUQOA2itryKPAT6e0RUUhjigAWdB-

[@בגוניה]

Puedes poner subtítulos porfavor en Español

[@VirginiaMarieFloresBeltran]

Haaaa I’m a person that knows same language very good discussion

[@dkbrain3434]

Crucial insight on why souls reincarnate: 24:00 - fix a sin, complete unfulfilled Mitzvah, marry soul mate.

[@cprauss7254]

and Yacov could see because of the time he was called Israel which the Zohars says means one can see the realm of angels.... type deal?

[@cprauss7254]

so Rivka must have been Israel as well at the time she tricked Isaac.

[@simonvalente2187]

The Name. Basically means Time. I Am becoming that which I Am becoming. This sounds like TIME to me. A tree grows branches season by season. What is becomes more. Like a tree. The branches can't simply change sides on the tree. Old ones die and new ones begin to develop. Season by season.

[@drbsd8024]

The study you mention about Leonard Luvovichi, in a double blind experiment of people praying for sick people from the past, it’s very impressive... But this kind of tefilot it’s halahicaly forbidden, as is stated in masechet berahot. It is Tefila Shav: It is forbidden to pray for past events, because it’s a lie.

[@cuz6657]

Do the names of a goy have an effect on his destiny as well?

[@jonfrey9365]

Nice shiur but I have a question. While insurance companies only denote hurricanes, earthquakes, tornados, floods as 'Acts of G-D', I believe the Jewish view is crucially different. Hence acts done by other people TO us are also 'Acts of G-D' as, by saying anything less, you are limiting G-Ds power. Thus HE can both reward or punish us by using an 'agent' (eg. any other person) to deliver HIS will (eg. that person steals your car as a punishment for a sin you have committed). Just because a person (the thief in this case) has free will that does not prevent or undermine this process. There will always be SOME person 'available' who will decide to carry out the action on the recipient that G-D has chosen in HIS infinite wisdom to bestow (cf. Mordechai telling Esther that if she doesn't 'step up' and act to save the Jewish people then salvation would come from something (or someone) else). I would really appreciate any insights on this thought!

[@SeedOfElijah]

Well you didn't say who could comment you are right and reincarnation is not so, because John was of Elijah he had the same Spirit. We even have Caleb WITH another spirit with him by having a help from heaven. I have experienced this and still do, yet they are girls, which is better. So why reincarnate? It's not like I can go marry the one I was supposed to marry because she is gone. So I am not with that teaching.

[@AntoinetteCourtois]

Efraim have you ever watched the TV series. FRINGE?

[@EfraimPalvanov]

Nope

[@moftheinternets606]

@@EfraimPalvanov its an excellent series please watch it, also the Lost Room. But i was wondering can you do a series on the Zohar history more indepth. I like your teaching style as opposed to many others for some reason they cant keep my attention, you tell it more as a conversation and story type while theirs seems like a lecture. I hope that makes sense

[@ralphowen3367]

Rom. 9:16 says that it is not he who wills or he who runs, but God who shows the mercy. Also, in Jeremiah it says that it is not in a man that walks to direct his own steps.

[@ralphowen3367]

I wondered why Texans speak with a drawl, when time slows down to a crawl--Rulifi.

[@asherf501]

14:34 הבחירה שלנו היא להתפלל

[@montysouther-f9i]

But Doesn’t MOSES COMMAND us to only GREVE FOR 30 days? Then we are to MOVE ON.

[@telasmshinges6850]

Marlboro

[@wordoftruthwjdnijah3467]

No free will....he guided my steps...not me.

[@robertcummins7739]

Of course we have free will only watched two minutes. That is not the million dollar question is it. Why do we have free will you brushed upon this in the first 2 minutes. Nothing else matters. In two minutes you proved Christianity and Other Religions correct. My Understanding is Israel’s JOB was to be a light to the nations? Why side dressing always.

[@TienkeBosherPelzmann]

When Elohim created our reality, He claimed that it was good. During this period we were endowed with Free Will. That meaning, for as long as our choices are embedded in doing good, we will remain free. As soon as we believe we have the freedom to choose evil, our will have been taken in bondage and we are connected to evil. Did not YHWH say to Cain, Bereshith 4:7 Is it not if you do good, you are to be accepted? and if you do not do good, towards the door is a sin. He is lying and towards you is his desire wanting to devour you, and you must rule over him.

[@rutbrea8796]

Sin is your door. You can control it by making the right choice. That's the way I see it!!! HALLELUJAH!!!🎉😂😅

[@TienkeBosherPelzmann]

@@rutbrea8796 absolutely true. We only have free choice when we do good. In South Africa we have a tribe called the San. According to their custom, they dance around the fire at night until they go into a trans state. They call this moment 'spoilt for choice.' This is a very popular marketing tool, causing people to believe they have many choices when really, they are put into a trans.

[@newnewsbrooklyn1513]

Avrom became avrohom Sarei became sara This was needed for them to have children Proof change of name changes mazal

[@SophiaHall74]

I just want God to settle everything now!! Stop the madness!

[@advocateagainstantisemitism]

i kept the textbook for this one page.....words can sometimes be like gems worth saving.

[@lookupfromdownunder5218]

God gave Adam and Eve free will but Adam threw it away!!!

[@panleygoobis1289]

I'd prefer free will to not exist, and for God to save the world now! Just think of all the horrors of "free will" luckily, I believe free will doesn't exist.

[@rutbrea8796]

There are people with psychosis and there are those who are not! Life on this planet is complicated it's up to you to believe in the Creator of the universe, as well as to deny it! That's free will!! The consequences of your behavior will come on its due time !!!😊

[@wordoftruthwjdnijah3467]

Universe?? There is no space ....bro! Really? I suppose you think we are on a globe too.😂

[@TienkeBosherPelzmann]

You are confusing the Theory of Evolution. Theo - means Gd's gift. Theory meaning the supposition of ideas trying to describe a hypothesis or a system of ideas trying to explain something. The nothing theory belongs to the evolutionists. The Torah do not make that claim. First watch The Mandelbrot set by Dr Jason lisle so you may grasp eternal so you can grasp that concept. The secret code of creation. It is fascinating being exposed to the mind of Gd.

[@Desertphile]

No, "we" do not have "free will." But it does not matter.

[@hdog679]

Doesn’t it? The Torah constantly says to “choose life,” “fear God,” and hundreds of other commandments of paramount importance. If humans cannot actually choose anything, that has ramifications for the whole moral frame of the Torah

[@Desertphile]

@@hdog679 ; I do not give a shit what the Torah "constantly says." There is no such thing as "free will:" you will just have to adjust.

[@hdog679]

@@Desertphile apologies, I mistakenly thought a comment under a 45-minute rabbinic lecture would be participating in good faith in the discussion, not simply calling the discussion and its cultural context stupid

[@Desertphile]

@@hdog679 ; The fact is that "free will" does not exist, and no paper idol changes that fact no matter what it says.

[@oprrrah3498]

Garbage

[@greensage395]

The "Will" of GOD is the Inheritance held by an Angel Seated upon the Right Hand...it is the Scroll with 7-Seals, and it is held for the Lamb of GOD! None were found Worthy to open the Scroll...there is no "Free-Will", only Choices to make!

[@rutbrea8796]

It comes to the same thing!! God gave you free will because He is not a dictator, He is a Giver of life because He chose to!! That's the reason He, Master of the universe, gives you freedom to choose!! Baruch HaShem Elohim Tzevaot!! HALLELUJAH!! The greatest God who exists forever!!! 🙏 ❤🎉🎉🎉

[@greensage395]

@@rutbrea8796 The Scroll shall be broken, and it is the "Will" of GOD that the Beast be given its Power...for this Day! Wake up!

[@fusestation2839]

free is when we let people free to do what they want to do... either they want they break God rule or not it's up to them...satan is enemies of man and not enemies of God, but for God satan is his enemies, God don't actually don't really have enemies.

[@rutbrea8796]

Don't blame Satan for your wrongdoing, but instead, recognise that you, yourself, did wrong and repent before your Creator Who gives you life every day!! HaShm is the Giver of Life!! There's no other God!! Baruch HaShem Elohim Tzevaot!❤🎉🎉🎉