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Does God have choices?

שו"תDoes God have choices?
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I saw in one of the columns that you claim that good and evil are the necessity of reality, and more than that, that perhaps the commandments (halakhah) are also the necessity of some spiritual reality that we do not understand.
This implies that God did not command us to wear tefillin or keep kosher just because He wanted to, but rather because it was a necessity of reality, just like logic. And perhaps He also created the entire world out of some necessity (to pay for itself?), and perhaps the type of world was also 'forced' upon Him, because there were no other options for the world that would meet the other necessities.

This raises the question: What is left of God? He has become a kind of deterministic entity bound by reality, and not really an 'intelligent planner' with desires, almost a logical derivative of reality.


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These realities are necessary with abstract principles. Their application depends on the created world. In every world that God created, those moral and halakhic principles would have a different expression, and therefore the actual applications depend on it. He could have created a world without humans, except for other creatures, for whom morality would determine that their extinction is the moral issue. With regard to humans, morality determines that their lives have value, and God cannot change this. But He can decide to create a world without humans or with other creatures. Think about the rules of modesty in our world. They are clearly a function of the circumstances and culture in which we operate. In every culture, the same rules of modesty themselves are applied differently, but they are the same rules. It is not that modesty becomes something different. The application changes. You probably mean column 457. There I explained that if you do not assume this, then the claim that God is good turns from a claim into a definition. God meets the standards that He Himself has arbitrarily set. What does this say about Him? Is this praise? In my opinion, no.

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