Question about free choice
Hello Rabbi,
What do you think about the following method:
Humans do many things that do not require attention, consideration, or judgment. Do you think it is correct to say that such people do not act out of free choice, but rather out of instinct? For example, if a person has two ways to get home and they are very similar in length and difficulty, a person may find himself escaping from them without paying any attention or consideration to either…
Thank you in advance.
P. B. Chaim Salomon (son of my son, of blessed memory) sends you greetings. I am his brother-in-law.
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Hello.
Thank you very much and best regards in return (I understand you are Tzlil’s brother).
You are confusing two types of actions here: 1. Those that do not involve actual deliberation and are therefore done unconsciously. 2. Those that do require a decision and yet the person does them unconsciously (busies himself).
These two types were discussed in the books on the science of freedom, and there I explained that these are indeed actions that are done out of choice, but there is a difference between these two types: In type 1, your decision really has no meaning, since there is no value difference between the two options (everything is in the hands of God except for the fear of God). But in type 2 (where there is a implication for the fear of God), if you did something inappropriate, you bear responsibility. You should have paid attention and exercised judgment.
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