[Avodah] Changing God's Mind

[kennethgmiller at juno.com]

R' Richard Wolpoe wrote:
> Perhaps God's deicsions are by defintion conditional
> I will sdestroy sodom UNLESS I finx x number of
> righteous people etc. ... ...
> So Perhaps in a way God is talking in shorthand.  As
> He becons Avraham re: Sodom or Moshe re: the Israelites
> at the masecha, an implicit condtion always exists

Of course! Isn't this what "baasher hu sham" teaches us? All His decisions are implicitly conditional on the current conditions. Change the status quo, and a whole new decision is called for.

Akiva Miller
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