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asked 12 months ago

So basically the Rabbi claims that since there is no space in nature, then there is no option for Hashem to enter naturally and assuming that there are no miracles except in specific cases (maybe). So I have two questions for that.
1. Is the Rabbi sure that there is no space in nature? Have we cracked the galaxy formula so that there is no place for what is called an operator without any law-like force that repeats itself. A seemingly random force?
2. Why not assume that Hashem intervenes in the world regularly (according to His will, of course) and that the intervention is miraculous but hidden, because if it were visible, there would be no choice for evil because everyone would be afraid, and if it were not hidden at all, then there would be no reward for good or evil?


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מיכי Staff answered 12 months ago
  1. Nothing is certain, not even in science. Are you sure there are miracles? We act on our assumptions and conclusions. Scientific conclusions are with a high level of certainty. But there is no complete certainty.
  2. You can assume whatever you want. If it plays hide-and-seek with us, then we will indeed not discover it. In fact, it is possible that the law of gravity is also playing hide-and-seek with us. In fact, it is not true even without the intervention of God. But every time it is measured, it appears in its familiar form.

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חיים replied 12 months ago

True.
Now if the matter is uncertain
Why should I or you change from the tradition of Chazal from the simplicity of the Torah. From the simple understanding that if Hashem gave a commandment and said that whoever keeps it will be well for him and whoever does not then it will not. That Hashem intervenes in the world and does intervene and hears prayers. You don't have to look at it in an ultra-Orthodox way that Hashem intervenes in everything and everything is like a puppet show that Hashem is playing at this moment, but you can certainly argue for intervention and you don't need the theory you proposed that Hashem leaves the world. Because He does not leave and will not leave, there are no changes with Him, the changes are only with us who experience fewer miracles, etc. Just like the accepted explanations for the hiding of Hashem.
Without a doubt, in philosophical thought there is no gap in nature because everything is causal, but philosophy alone and reality alone. From the philosophical side, we would not imagine quantum theory. Perhaps simply and purely there is some gap that is “coincidental” through which there is an option for change. Of course this is just theoretical, but for something that is uncertain, in my opinion, it is clearly wrong to neglect the tradition of the Sages and the Torah's simplicity.
Incidentally, perhaps if there is a gap, then the words of the Sages that permitted prayer about the future and not about the past are understandable.

מיכי Staff replied 12 months ago

I've explained it many times. Maybe and maybe. There's common sense.

חיים replied 12 months ago

In any case, Rabbi. Common sense is also knowing that I don't know. And knowing how to understand what is better. To bring a new theory that is also in doubt as you said. Or to remain in the view of our sages throughout the generations that indeed there is a situation that is also in doubt. But I have no reason to leave the accepted doubt for a new doubt.

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