[Avodah] proofs of G-d

[T613K at aol.com]

<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. [--old 
TK]

R' Marty Bluke:  >>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.....
The same category as animals means that they have no hashgacha pratis at  
all.<<


>>>>>
I just always understood that to mean that from the point of view of us  
humans, ordinary people (and animals) /appear/ to be subject to mere  chance.  But 
"He is hiding behind the wall."  Hiding in the laws of  nature that He set 
up, hiding in the perturbations of the Butterfly's Wings of  chaos theory, 
hiding in the statistical probabilities of quantum mechanics,  hiding in the 
weather forecast ("30% chance of rain tomorrow, with a 100% chance  that Yankel will 
get soaked").
 


--Toby  Katz
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