[Avodah] proofs of G-d
Marty Bluke
marty.bluke at gmail.com
Sun Nov 25 01:34:58 PST 2007
RnTK writes:
<that Hashem exercises constant hashgacha over each and every
individual, moment by moment, and that He has His reasons <why He
will sometimes protect people from harm, and at other times not. In
times of hester panim, His hashgacha /appears/ <random and removed.
Both the Rambam and the Ramban explicitly disagree with you. They
write that a person who is not close to hashem will be exposed to
mikreh, chance.
Meshech Chochma( Shemos 13:9) sums it up as follows:
"Divine Providence is manifest for each Jew according to his spiritual
level as the Rambam explains in Moreh Nevuchim (3:18): Divine
Providence is not equal for everyone but rather is proportional to
their spiritual level. Consequently the Divine Providence for the
prophets is extremely powerful each according to their level of
prophecy. The Divine Providence for the pious and saintly is according
to their level of perfection. In contrast the fools and the rebels
lacking spirituality are in essence in the same category as animals...
This concept that Divine Providence is proportional to spiritual level
is one of foundations of Judaism..."
The same category as animals means that they have no hashgacha pratis at all.
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