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Free will makes us godly - and all too human

by Rabbi Louise Fiszer

Free will or God’s will? That is exactly God’s dilemma as the stories of Genesis progress. As I wrote three weeks ago, “Without free will, we would not be in the image of God; with free will, God’s equation of perfect harmony is destroyed.”

We can imagine, as it were, the abject frustration, disappointment and outrage God must feel at discovering that the free will so necessary for human beings to be Godly is exactly that which corrupts everything. This is not unlike parents who desire their children to be strong and independent, then rue the day when they act that way.

It is possible to read all of the Torah as God’s attempt to solve this quandary. Destroying the world in a flood of anger is untenable. Excising human free will is unthinkable. What other possible solution is there?

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