On Mon, November 26, 2007 9:54 pm, R Richard Wolpoe wrote: : maybe what the BESHT meant is the G-d decreed gravity and therefore : that no leaf falls unless it is obedient of G-d's law Given that he was explicitly speaking of HP as opposed to hashgachah minis, I do not see how that could have been his intent. SheTir'u baTov! -micha