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mussarman613
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In my small humble opinion, I believe that

every person was given the ability to chose his actions-not to be puppet in the hands of his master. “BaalHabooze”and “hello99”, good call with the rambam and parshas reah. we see many examples throughout the torah that humans have free will, besides for the ones that you mentioned. for example, the gemara in brachos (i think) says that “everything is in the hands of heaven accept for fear of heaven”. the mishna in avos says “everythig is known, yet permission is given”. The Tiferes Yom Tov says that even though Hashem knows our choices, His knowledge does not force us to act in that manner. I other words, we have a choice in how to conduct our daily lives.