In this episode Gili and Tal take on deep, challenging questions about whether free will exists and what it means. Drawing on the Kabbalists, they ask whether there is such a thing as free will at all, and what drives us as human beings.
Gili and Tal explore will as a deceptive force: how we sometimes think we're in control of what we want, when in fact it's our will that draws a particular life toward us. They talk about the deep connection between outer reality and a person's inner structure, and about how a person can be carrying a confusion of wants inside them.
Our sages said: "Everything is foreseen, yet permission is granted." That's the difference between the events we have no control over and our response to those events, which is the moment we're given permission to choose and to control whether and how we respond.
The episode explains how the whole universe is built on the will to receive and driven by it, and offers a new perspective on the difference between the will to receive for yourself and the will to receive in order to give.
As always, in Gili's tips corner you'll find practical tools for dealing with your different wants, for telling the will to receive apart from the will to give, and for finding a balance that allows a life of free and conscious will.
