You Don't Believe in God - Is That True in Judaism?

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I'm very interested in the question and it comes up now and then and all kinds of settings of course on this program but life yeah a thoughtful person has to wonder about it I think. You know my monadies is one of the great most people who say isone of the two or three greatest Jewish thinkers of Jewish history he believed in free will but Kreskis arrived by his time who I love did not believe it at all.

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