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To learn what I do have free choice for: not chocolate v vanilla ice cream because my “choice:” is determined by underlying personality traits that I am not consciously aware of, but what constitutes the substance of moral choice, not good v evil, because I would never choose an evil act, but I might choose an “expedient” act. Does that sort of choice constitute a poor moral choice? Or are we talking more broadly about choices motivated by egoism v godliness of the Creator? Then what I need to know is how I can consistently identify what is the egoistic choice v the godly choice, because I am sure at first blush there are many such choices in the grey border region.
I was searching for answers to “life’s persistent questions” in he early 90’s when I watched a documentary narrated by Israeli foreign minister Abba Eban “Heritage- Civilization and the Jews” and a movie I watched with friends “A Night with the King,” based on the Book of Esther. I have declared myself and following the teachings of Jesus Christ I have been lead to explore the roots of our faith, the Torah, and the Kabbalists. I am a chemist working in our family laboratory business Analytech since 1981. In the 80’s and early 90’s we had the pleasure to hire immigrants from the old Soviet republics, several of which were Jewish in origin. They each went on to productive and happy lives in the US, some of whom we have kept in touch with over the years. I’m a father of four children, one perished, and have four beautiful grandchildren.
To alter and transcend the five senses we were born with in such a way as to create or enter into a shared understanding (“Binah?”) that in this world we call empathy but in the world to come (which has always existed) the capacity for unlimited giving, i.e., “bestowal.”
By understanding that the Creator has already gifted me with expanded abilities to bestow, from which I will progressively derive the pleasure that God receives in bestowing
