Rabbi Z.’s Quora Answer – This is one of the most asked philosophical/religious questions. The answer is actually both. Free-choice is the illusion that you are free – and this illusion creates your freedom – though ultimately the Divine Hand guides that through your own choices you come to discern – in our time literally hundreds of millions of people have come to have a personal knwoledge / relationship with the Divine – and almost all feel this was both free and guided, and eventually we reach a point that both simultaneously become normal.