[Avodah] Was Esav a Rasha in the womb?

[Richard Wolberg]

R' Marty wrote: 
Where is the free will here? Esav did not yet have a Yetzer Hara yet
he wants to go to Avoda Zara?
How do you understand this Maharal?

So why should this be any different from the whole problem of free will?
HaShem knows what you will choose even before you are conceived.
I have taught that if we were given the answer to the whole problem of free will,
we would no longer have it.
The analogy I like to give is the following:  If there was a video of your life up until
today and you watched it, would the fact that it has already been done, affect your
ability to have exercised free will? In the same way, God has a video of your life even
before you live it. For Him, past, present and future are all together. It is merely a 
construct for us mortals.  Therefore, just as our video of our past had no influence on
our free will, neither does God's video of the future.
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