Free Will
Everything is foreordained
Yet free will is given
Can it really be so
Skeptics say No ...
... Put it this way
He knows when you'll die, the very day ~
But that does not stop you
From seeking Life when you pray
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The first two lines are a translation
from the Hebrew Mishna (Teaching) in
Pirkey Avos (Chapters of the Fathers)
It is attributed to Rabbi Akiva, who
lived around the time of the Fall of
the Second Temple in Jerusalem
until the first third of the Second
Century, C.E.
Copyright © Gershon Wolf | Year Posted 2022
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