One of Rabbi Sacks’ many points on free will is how it is directly correlated with how moral a person is. As an individual begins to act immoral, he risks embarking on a spiral away from free will. An example of this, as Rabbi Sacks points out is addiction. “The first few times you smoke a cigarette or drink alcohol or take drugs, you do so freely. You know the risks but you ignore them. As time goes on, your dependency increases until the craving is so intense that you are almost powerless to resist it. At that point, you may have to go into rehabilitation. You no longer, on your own, have the ability to stop.” (Freewill, Sacks, 2015) Rabbi Sacks perfectly summarizes how due to an individual’s free choice to act immorally, he progressively
