[Avodah] "God who knows the future"

[David Riceman]

RTK:
> From our human point of view G-d makes it appear "as if" He doesn't 
> know what we will do -- He does that by the simple expedient of keeping 
> US in the dark about the future. But of course He does know and yet that 
> does not take away our bechira, because WE don't know.

How do you see that in the Ramban?

> To say that if G-d has total foreknowledge, then we don't have free 
> will, or if we have free will, then He doesn't have foreknowledge, is a 
> plain contradiction to what Chazal said. It's in Pirkei Avos. "Hakol 
> tzafui vehareshus nesunah."

I would say that the naive translation of that is: "You can do what you 
want, but God sees what you do".  "Tzafui" need not imply prediction.

David Riceman