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<font size="-1"><font face="Arial">I always understood the idea as
being related to "ein mazal l'Yisrael". That is to say, for Jews,
possibly excepting those who are porek ol, hashgacha pratit operates on
a very tight level. That the ordinary laws of history and nature don't
apply to us. The example I always heard was lottery tickets, the idea
being that when a non-Jew buys a lottery ticket, he wins or loses based
on probability. But when a Jew buys one, at least a frum Jew, he wins
or loses based on whether God determines he should win or lose. And
that therefore (this was the correlary), one shouldn't buy more than a
single lottery ticket for a given drawing (other than for charitable
reasons), because it demonstrates a lack of emunah, since if God wants
you to win, one ticket is enough.<br>
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Lisa<br>
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On 3/6/2013 12:32 PM, MPoppers wrote:
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cite="mid:CAOwnx4-U4M4EpCja6J7k=GGy60Myo8DSKfTOeRg-yGvDkcAhjA@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">
<pre wrap="">An article like this (by a descendant of the Dor R'vi'i
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Shmuel_Glasner"><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Shmuel_Glasner></a>) may provoke more
questions than it answers, but hey, hQbH granted us some grey cells
so that we should utilize them every once in a while (and that is no
coincidence :)) ...
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/6078">http://www.jewishideasdaily.com/6078</a>
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