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שו”תCategory: faithPrivate supervision
asked 2 years ago

Hello Rabbi
Is it possible to say that God has established laws and rules by which the world operates (and not just natural laws), meaning that if I choose this way, then it will be this way, and if I choose differently, it will be different, and so on with regard to every person’s choice, then there is no need for providence at all, because everything is determined and predictable in advance (it is not predictable what I will choose, but what will happen if I choose this way or that way)?


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מיכי Staff answered 2 years ago
I don’t understand. Are you arguing in favor of the possibility that there are spiritual laws of nature, that if I committed a crime, such and such will happen to me, even if the laws of nature don’t require it? You can say anything, but I don’t think it’s true. You just don’t see anything that deviates from the laws of nature.

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הלל replied 2 years ago

Spiritual laws of nature but not contrary to the laws of nature. That is, where luck comes into the picture.

מיכי Staff replied 2 years ago

There is no such situation because there is no luck within the laws of nature. I have written here more than once about the absence of gaps in the laws of nature, because they are deterministic.

הלל replied 2 years ago

Once everything is predictable, it is possible to plan everything, starting with the laws of nature and with the choices that each person has (meaning the paths are predictable, but it is not known which path will happen according to each person's choice).

מיכי Staff replied 2 years ago

That's absolutely true. But it has nothing to do with the question of divine intervention and deviations from the laws of nature. The laws of nature are the plan for what will happen with every choice I make.

הלל replied 2 years ago

That's what I meant. But what's hard for me is that if that's the case, then what's the point of saying there's providence at all? What does providence mean? And what's the difference between private providence and general providence?

מיכי Staff replied 2 years ago

In my opinion, there is no providence in the sense of divine involvement in the world. What I called active providence. It is possible that in rare cases this happens (it cannot be ruled out). The matter has been detailed and discussed at length here on the site.

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