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It is clear that I am not “my own person.” Nearly everything that has any relevance or importance in my life has already been predetermined: my gender, race, sex, age, level of intelligence, parents, family, place and time of birth, and, first and foremost, my mazal. The only salient feature of my life that I can really chose is my attitude and, by extension, the quality of my experience of all of the above parameters.
Just like Adam and Chavah in Gan Eden, they could not choose to be born anywhere but the garden, but what they could choose was whether to eat from the Tree of Life, or from the Tree of the Knowledge of the Things-I-Like and the Things-I-Dislike, which was really the same Tree: a mystical plant that the Creator has super-positioned “betokh ha-gan” (in quantum superposition) as both the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge. It was only our primordial parents’ attitude toward the non-dual, superpositioned Tree(s) that made the wave function collapsed, the outcome of which we are all to painfully familiar.
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