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The Rabbi Sacks Legacy

Free Will and Divine Foreknowledge

The Rabbi Sacks Legacy

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

Religion & Spirituality

4.8601 Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

This is a recording of a shiur at Eretz HaTzvi by the Chief Rabbi Sacks on Free Will and Divine Foreknowledge including short Q&A. It was recorded on 10th March 2011.

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0:00.0

I just said to the chief rabbi that this would be the brief suffering or an introduction.

0:27.6

All this time, we didn't know what that means, about inverse proportions.

0:32.3

So let me begin with a tangent.

0:35.0

So this is the introduction.

0:37.0

The tangent is that the first time I met the chief rabbi,

0:42.5

I was then in Yeshua Mithar,

0:44.9

and I had to come to England for the first time

0:47.2

to attend a Lehmud conference in Portsmouth,

0:52.0

the second Lehmud conference.

0:53.9

It was so long ago that Dianin didn't even know it existed.

0:58.4

You know, maybe they knew Portsmouth existed, but not the Le Mood Conference.

1:02.8

Then I spent a few days in England, and it was what is called New Year's Day, January 1st.

1:09.9

Somebody had said to me from Yeshivatamivtar

1:12.4

that it would be worthwhile to call then Rabbi Saksaub

1:16.0

and say that I would like to meet him and speak with him

1:21.4

and discuss how we would take over the world,

1:24.8

which is exactly what I said, and the chief rabbi was very kind,

1:29.5

and I came, and we spoke for a couple of hours, and then I asked you, where could I find a

1:34.0

double-decker bus to do the American thing? And you told me how to go downtown, and indeed,

1:38.9

I saw many buildings that Christopher Wren had built.

1:48.5

At that time, though, as a result of that wonderful discussion,

1:53.0

I said, I have serious doubts whether I'm going to take over the world,

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