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<div><font color="#550055">>>Like RMB, I question whether indeed one can know what exactly Hashem<br>decided, or when. <<</font> </div>
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<div>>>>><br>In certain respects that's true, but in the case of somebody being born -- well it seems to me obvious that if you are in the world, Hashem must have decided that you should be here.</div>
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<div>Yes, but the quotation under discussion was "Hashem decided that the world couldn't go on without you", not quite the same thing as "Hashem decided tht you should be born". We can entertain the possibilty that the latter is true, but not the former, and of course we cannot know one way or the other if Hashem was motivated by the former.</div>
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<div>Saul Mashbaum</div>