Fascinating. Did not realize the concept of free will was not universally agreed to, so dominant is the Maimonidean position. I recall having a similar feeling when I first learned about Teshuvas HaMishkal, and similarly realized the Maimonidean conception of teshuvah was not universal. Is this position today - again, like Teshuvas HaMishkal - basically extinct, or do we know of other adherents? (Within the otherwise strictly traditional mold, I mean.)
Thank you! It may be endangered, but it is not extinct. I was just as shocked as you were when I first heard this position—espoused by Rabbi Avigdor Miller in a public lecture—and when I looked into it, I learned that it first entered the rabbinical bloodstream through its featuring in Rabbi Crescas's Or Hashem.
Fascinating. Did not realize the concept of free will was not universally agreed to, so dominant is the Maimonidean position. I recall having a similar feeling when I first learned about Teshuvas HaMishkal, and similarly realized the Maimonidean conception of teshuvah was not universal. Is this position today - again, like Teshuvas HaMishkal - basically extinct, or do we know of other adherents? (Within the otherwise strictly traditional mold, I mean.)
Thank you! It may be endangered, but it is not extinct. I was just as shocked as you were when I first heard this position—espoused by Rabbi Avigdor Miller in a public lecture—and when I looked into it, I learned that it first entered the rabbinical bloodstream through its featuring in Rabbi Crescas's Or Hashem.