http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2007/11/01/what-price-free-will/ A Journal of Jewish Thought and Opinion Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:43:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2007/11/01/what-price-free-will/#comment-296051 Ori Pomerantz Fri, 02 Nov 2007 02:12:14 +0000 http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2007/11/01/what-price-free-will/#comment-296051 Do you see a difference between a person who willingly accepts to observe a rule, and one that is forced into it? For example, is there a difference between you observing Shabbat for the sake of heaven, and somebody in Joshua's generation, doing it because of the death penalty for desecrating it? Do you see a difference between a person who willingly accepts to observe a rule, and one that is forced into it? For example, is there a difference between you observing Shabbat for the sake of heaven, and somebody in Joshua’s generation, doing it because of the death penalty for desecrating it?

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