[Avodah] Hashgacha Pratis for goyim

[M Cohen]

RTK wrote ...You are assuming something that is actually a non-resolved
issue, much 
discussed in these pages:  that Hashgacha Pratis applies to goyim.   
..I am among those who believe that indeed Hashgacha  Pratis does apply to
the nations of the world 
(the literal definition of  "goyim") as well as to the Jewish people

I may have a faulty memory of those discussions.. 
but as far as I remember they were NOT "a non-resolved issue"

There were those Areivim members that "believed" or that "it's only fair
that" there s/be be HP for goyim.
NO proofs. NO sources.

OTOH, most rishonim held that there isn't HP for Jews either (except for
individual tzadikim).
R Chaim Friedlander z'l in his (controversial ?) sefer on the subject felt
that this was 
the view of ALL rishonim.

The Baal Shem Tov's view, which is now the mainstream
one, is that hashgacha pratis applies to all Jews.
(BSTov's falling leaves means HP as it affects Jews)

This is explicit in Ramchal's Derech Hashem - ayin sham b'arichus.

(btw, interestingly, the Pri Tzadik says that when the BSTov's opinion
became mainstream,
that Hashem 'adjusted' his HP in the world to coincide with the BSTov's
opinion)

Mordechai Cohen