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<div style="text-align: justify;">I am working on the issue of feedback.
I can not find any Jewish sources regarding feedback - to pick a
reference and modify behavior or processes or efforts to maximize the
referent. This is a fundamental Western idea - but not Jewish. It seems
that the official Jewish view is that human effort does not cause
success but only provides merit which justifies G-d making you
successful. This issue cuts across a wide range of issues from child
abuse, education, parnossa etc etc.<br>
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I also can't find where and when this idea developed in the Western World.<br>
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Any and all help in this area would be appreciated. I also don't see
that there is any difference between chareidi, Modern Orthodox and
Hirschian theology regarding this issue.<br>
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<b>Chovas HaLevavos (4:4)</b> Even when you are fully aware that effort
is worthless without G‑d’s decree, nevertheless you must act like the
farmer who plows, removes the thorns, seeds and waters his field if
there is no rain. At the same time he trusts that G‑d will make it
fertile, guard it from calamity, make a bountiful crop and bless it. In
other words he knows that it is wrong to leave the field unworked and
unsown even though he has full faith that G‑d could decree that the land
produce a crop even without planting beforehand. Similarly workers,
merchants and laborers are commanded to earn a living in their
occupation even though they have full trust in G‑d to provide them with
sustenance. They make this effort despite the fact they accept that
everything is totally in His hands and according to His wishes and that
in fact He has promised them a livelihood. They understand that He will
provide this sustenance anyway He wants. Since everything is in G‑d’s
hands you shouldn’t think that one profession is more likely to provide a
livelihood than another. Similarly you shouldn’t take pride in what
seems to be professional success or even to make special efforts to
achieve success. Total involvement in a job serves merely to weaken
trust in G‑d because the effort is in fact not the cause of success.
Instead of depending totally on your efforts you should be grateful to
G‑d for providing sustenance for you after your efforts and that your
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