On private supervision
Enlightenment regarding your understanding of the concept of private providence,
Private providence does not contradict that everything proceeds according to natural law – Maimonides, in the name of Chazal [‘Ten Things Were Created Between the Suns’], writes that God does not need to intervene at every moment for there to be private providence: it is enough that He created the world in a specific configuration so that from now on, everything that happens in it – down to the smallest detail – will happen exactly as God planned. It’s like a device that you build and then you operate it.
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I didn’t understand the argument. If He created the world in a given state and from then on it proceeds according to the laws without divine intervention, that is not providence. Otherwise, it empties the distinction between providence and proceeding according to laws.
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Asks:
Teleology is not something we learn a posteriori but rather we approach observations a priori with it.
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Rabbi:
And therefore?
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Asks:
Therefore, “It is necessary to extend this to Tuba, and I will not say anything. I am only saying that the leadership of God has changed from the time of the Bible to the present day. Just as prophecy has disappeared and miracles have ceased, so too has God’s intervention no longer existed (except perhaps in very exceptional cases, if at all).”
Problematic
If every event that occurs, down to its details, happened precisely because God wanted it to happen, isn’t this private providence?
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Rabbi:
not. Private providence means a response by God according to what is happening in the world. Planning is not private providence. But to be honest, pre-planning is not really possible in my opinion because there are points where a person chooses and the laws of nature cannot respond accordingly. If you are talking about pre-planned miracles (as the R.A.L. in the introduction to the mighty acts of God) that is something else, but it does not seem to really exist because when we examine everything responds according to what is expected from the laws.
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A. Completely free choice is a dubious idea in my opinion; b. If God knows what you will choose in a given situation, then there is no reason why He would not plan everything so that your choices will fit into His plan.
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Rabbi:
A. I don’t know what is completely or not completely free choice. Either there is or there isn’t. When there is, it doesn’t mean that you always choose, but that you can choose.
on. Indeed, there is no prevention, but this is not providence, but rather coordinated laws of nature.
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