Hmm...What should I have for dinner?

Free will...one of the most fundamental concepts in Judaism, otherwise known as בחירה חופשי. If you weren't sure, we humans are not robots controlled by a remote. We humans have the ability to make many choices. I personally do not think I have the intellectual ability to properly convey the concept of בחירה חופשי within the realm of Judaism, and Jewish thought. However, I will attempt to do justice to it and touch upon a concept through the capacity of gematria (as always!). 

The gematria for בחירה חופשי is 629 (2+8+10+200+5 8+6+80+300+10). When I saw the same gematria for the term "רשע וטוב לו" my mind was blown. This term/phrase can be loosely translated as "an evil doer who has it good", meaning an evil person who doesn't suffer. In a more imaginary sense this can be equivalent to Eisav winning the jackpot lottery. Judaism gives many answers to why an evil person prospers in this world, while righteous people tend to suffer. One explantation to this phenomena can be see between the gematria of בחירה חופשי and רשע וטוב לו. As mentioned above, we humans have free choice. I have the choice to follow the way of the Torah, or to stray far away from it. An evil person clearly exercised his free-will to stray from the proper path (whether he is Jewish or not). You may ask; but how does this justify the good an evil person receives? The answer lies in the fact that just like a evil person chose the evil path, in essence he chose to get his reward for his few good deeds in this world. This reward is the good that frequently presents itself to evil-doers. Those who are considered "good" usually recognize that it is better to wait for their reward in the next world, which is incomprehensible compared to any reward in this world. In short, an evil person chooses to do evil, and furthermore does not value reward in the next world so he chooses to have his reward in this world. (Unfortunately I do not have the exact source for this explanation).