Did Balaam and Korah have a choice?
On the question of predestination and choice, the Rabbi concluded that it is reasonable to assume that God does not know the future, because if He does, then it is necessarily a contradiction to choice and there is no disadvantage in that, etc.
As it is known that ten things were created among the stars and their sons were the mouth of the donkey and the mouth of the earth, meaning that the story of Korah and Balaam was known and planned even among the stars, does this prove, in your opinion, that they had no choice? And so why are they considered sinners?!
Or alternatively, from this it is proven that knowledge is not a contradiction to choice, (how exactly, God the Provider, in 21, has a certain source for knowledge of the future, and from the Torah’s reference to Hanel, who also has a claim on them, and in any case, the assumption is that they had a choice).
Thank you in advance and keep up the wonderful work.
I didn’t understand what you saw here more than any other prophecy in the Bible.
As the Lord God explains all prophecies. Either they are about the possible and if man chooses otherwise it will not happen, or God decides that He wants it to be so, and then He takes the reins into His own hands and deprives man of the choice.
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