[Avodah] Free Will vs. Physics

Zev Sero zev at sero.name
Wed Sep 24 08:44:39 PDT 2008


T613K at aol.com wrote:

> If you meant to do a mitzva and through no fault of your own you were 
> unable to complete the action, you still get schar

But not as if you had actually done it.  The mitzvah didn't actually get
done, so its results didn't happen.  The friend who was to get the kugel
surely appreciated and was comforted by the thought, but she still had
to eat something else.  That's physics too.

-- 
Zev Sero               Something has gone seriously awry with this Court's
zev at sero.name          interpretation of the Constitution.
                       	                          - Clarence Thomas



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