<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 23, 2007 7:46 AM, Eli Turkel <<a href="mailto:eliturkel@gmail.com">eliturkel@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<<Why is it so difficult for so many to believe in the concept of Hashgachah<br>Pratis (without getting into if it is correct according to the Mesorah or<br>not)? Is it because of conflicts with Bechirah?>><br>
<br>Mainly because it goes against common sense and modern science.<br>We know from physics that objects fall due to gravity. According to<br>the Baal Shem Tov<br>no leaf falls or any action occurs without G-d decreeing it.
<br>Seems somewhat silly for G-d to decree what we know will happen anyway.<br><br><br>kol tuv<br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br>Eli Turkel<br></font></blockquote></div><br>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
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