"Freedom: Use it or Lose It" by Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks


I am a huge fan of Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. In the podcast linked below, Rabbi Sacks lays out, with his usual extraordinary erudition, what is at stake for both faith and human dignity if human free will is illusory. I finally don't agree with his conclusion (that we have free will and it is synonymous with resistance to bad habits and addiction), or his assertion that belief in human free will is indispensable to faith, but he places the question in context better than anyone else could:





Image: From Rabbi Sack’s podcast