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<DIV><BR><that Hashem exercises constant hashgacha over each and
every<BR>individual, moment by moment, and that He has His reasons <why
He<BR>will sometimes protect people from harm, and at other times
not. In<BR>times of hester panim, His hashgacha /appears/ <random
and removed. [--old TK]<BR><BR>R' Marty Bluke: >>Both the Rambam and
the Ramban explicitly disagree with you. They<BR>write that a person who is not
close to hashem will be exposed to<BR>mikreh, chance.<BR><BR>Meshech Chochma(
Shemos 13:9) sums it up as follows:<BR><BR>"Divine Providence is manifest for
each Jew according to his spiritual<BR>level as the Rambam explains in Moreh
Nevuchim (3:18): Divine<BR>Providence is not equal for everyone but rather is
proportional to<BR>their spiritual level.....</DIV>
<DIV>The same category as animals means that they have no hashgacha pratis at
all.<<<BR></DIV>
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<DIV>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").</DIV>
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<DIV></FONT><FONT lang=0 face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10"><BR><B>--Toby
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