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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>From: David Riceman <driceman@optimum.net><BR>>>...But
doesn't that last clause imply that God didn't know the future here? <BR>The
naive reading of this passage is that the Ramban agrees, if you'll <BR>pardon
the anachronism, with the Ralbag, who says that God can't know <BR>all the
details of the future because that would deny human free
will.<<<BR><BR>David Riceman<BR><BR><BR><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>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."</DIV>
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<DIV><B><BR><FONT color=#0000ff>--Toby Katz<BR>================</FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10"></B><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>_____________________ </DIV>
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