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Supervision of the righteous

שו”תCategory: philosophySupervision of the righteous
asked 6 years ago

Hello Rabbi,
I know your position on providence well.

In “No One Has a Ruler in His Spirit,” you referred in the comments to an article by Rabbi Shmuel Ariel ( https://otniel.org/lesson/%D7%94%D7%90%D7%9D-%D7%9B%D7%9C-%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A2-%D7%9E%D7%9B%D7%95%D7%95%D7%9F-%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9F-%D7%91%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%92%D7%99%D7%99/ )
In the article, he cites quite a few methods of rishonim who believe that there is indeed no private supervision in general, but only over the righteous and Hasidim (or more correctly, the closer a person is, the more supervision there is over him).
Do these views contradict your opinion or are you willing to accept that there is supervision over certain people?
It is true that no experiment has ever been conducted on the matter, but perhaps the first ones to say this were righteous and personally witnessed God’s providence over them.
(Of course, providence does not necessarily mean that their lives are beautiful, for even the righteous of today are sick and damaged, but God intervenes in their lives for good and evil.)

thanks,
given

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מיכי Staff answered 6 years ago

I am willing to accept this, and I even wrote about this possibility.

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