<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 14, 2007 12:27 AM, Zev Sero <<a href="mailto:zev@sero.name">zev@sero.name</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Richard Wolberg wrote:<br><br>> There is a fundamental theological concept here. HKBH didn't *_let_*<br>> Ya'akov have relations with Leah. God has endowed us with "bechira<br>> *chofshis**" *which means that He *_allowed_* Ya'akov to fall prey to
<br>> the subterfuge because that was the machination of Laban who exercised<br>> his free will. (There was no nepotism there). And to further expand on this:<br><br></div>But had Lavan tried to feed him treif, Hashem would have saved Yaakov
<br>from eating it. Lavan's bechira ra'ah doesn't mean Yaacov has to do<br>an avera; his evil plans don't have to succeed.<br><font color="#888888"><br>--</font></blockquote></div><br>Right. I do not see God saving Ya'kov from Lavan as interfering in bechira. Aderabbah, I think Ya'akov's choice would have been NOT to fall prey to Lavan. That is the point of my post that God protects one from unwitting error. But this protection - according to Tosafos - is at times limited to eating etc.
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