On not Predicting the Future (Rabbi Sacks on Vayechi)
The Office of Rabbi Sacks
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We Can Choose. We Have No Choice
Judaism doesn't believe in fate as something blind, inevitable and inexorable. A prophet delivers not a prediction but a warning: this will happen unless you change. We pray for a good fate but we do not reconcile ourselves to fatalism. There is no sentence against which we cannot appeal by showing that we have repented or changed.
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