Private supervision
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Hello Rabbi,
I wanted to ask what you think about my wonderful words, consultant, regarding private supervision? It sounds very, very logical to me.
He divides the decrees into three parts: either you are above nature for good or you are above nature for evil decree, God willing. There is a concept that a person is subject to the ways of nature and to his system because of his seasons that assume this according to nature. In my understanding, it can be said that this is the situation for the average person.
And now the investigation has found a place to rest, since God causes death and gives life, what can the doctor give or add, if it is decreed that he will die, if all the doctors in the world were to stand, they would not be able to save his soul from death, and about this they said, the doctor’s mistake, the will of the Creator. And there is no one to save him from his hand, and if it is decreed that he will live without a doctor, the Holy One, blessed be He, rolls over incarnations and brings him his healing, for many ways to the place and many with Him are redeemed, and He will send His word and heal them. But the answer to this and many such investigations is that there are three types of decrees, if he is a man of God who has a merit attached to him, and a man whose merit is not, and who is healthy by his fortune, even if he does not have a doctor and does things contrary to his illness, he will not die, but rather he will live. And there is one who is decreed death, mercifully, for a shepherd, if he guards himself with all the precautions in the world, it is in vain that he guards and the doctors will not be of any use or save him. There are those who, because of their sins, are placed under nature. If they are careful and behave in accordance with nature, they will live, and if not, they will die. It is said of such a person (Proverbs 13:23), and there are those who perish without justice:
Therefore, every person who is ill and needs to engage in medicine when necessary, and if he does not do so and is destroyed without trial, then this is binding on his soul. And it is fitting for him to be kind to his soul since he is transgressing what is written in the Torah (Deuteronomy 4:15) and you should be very careful for your souls. And the person who is not careful and does not behave according to nature to seek healing for his illness when it is within his reach, besides being punished for his past according to what is written in the Torah, moreover in it it is found that he relies on the miracle, and if a miracle is performed for him, his rights are taken away from him (Shabbat Lev): (And perhaps it can be clarified from this that the moment his rights are removed for relying on the miracle, he returns to being subject to nature… alas, he is entirely righteous)
And one must be very careful not to get sick, and if one does get sick, one must pursue the cures and the doctors who cure him and not whisper in his ear, because everything that a person gives for his life. And they said in the Holy Zohar, “Whoever hastened to afflict me with his possessions, has fallen into my pasture and has not hesitated until the price of his property has risen. Behold, it is good to get them out quickly, and how good it is to increase in charity, which is a commandment in His hand and its faculty that nullifies the circumcision. And before ever he engages in medicine, he should believe with complete faith that his healing is in the hand of the Holy One, blessed be He, the merciful and faithful physician, the physician of the sick of His people Israel, and he should pray before Him first (and I am already sick, I have arranged a prayer for the sick and its instructions in the house of my prayers in the heavenly help): (Here this is not understood here because he again introduces providence and is it referring to the side that was given a bad decree, may God have mercy on him, or is it the nature of the illness?)
I also found a source for this method in the Book of Ezra. When Ezra went up with his men to Israel with a great deal of property in their hands, he prayed that they would not be captured by highway robbers. He did not ask for help from the king at the time to provide him with a guard and a cavalry force to guard them on the way, so that there would be no blasphemy against God after he spoke to the king about God’s providence. But through his prayer, he was saved from the natural path of the robbers and arrived in Israel in peace.
” And I proclaimed a fast there by the river Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before our God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our cattle, and for all our merchandise. For I was ashamed to ask of the king an army and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: for we spake unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them that seek him for good, and his strength and power is upon all them that forsake him.” “And we fasted and besought our God for this, and he was intreated of us.” (Chapter 8)
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This is a ridiculous concept that on the one hand God decrees that a person will live or die, and on the other hand everything that happens on the way to fulfilling the decree is not from God. ” The doctor's mistake, the Creator's will ” and why not say “The doctor's success, the Creator's will”. There is no investigation here, just superstition.
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