<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Asking the question: <i>Can we force Hashem to do something? </i>is like asking can HaShem make a rock so heavy that He cannot lift it?</div><div>It's a supra rational and illogical question.</div><div><br></div><div>R' Micha wrote:</div><div><i>The notion that mal'akhim have no bechirah is implied by R' Yaaqov Qatina<br>who notes they are called omedim / nitzavim</i>.</div><div><br></div><div>I thought that was a very common concept. I've learned it many times. And... as malachim have no bechirah, so, too, </div><div>it is brought down that animals have no bechirah (which some vets would take issue with), and that is why the synthesis </div><div>of the angel and animal is the only combination that gives bechirah. </div><div>Interestingly, ANgel and ANimal both begin with AN. It's what you do afterwards, that's crucial.</div><div><br></div><div>Kol tuv.</div><div>ri</div></body></html>