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Q&A: The Holy One, blessed be He, intervened on our behalf.

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The Holy One, blessed be He, intervened on our behalf.

Question

According to what was leaked (serious, but for now that’s the information before us), the justices had already deliberated and written draft rulings and reasoning on the petition regarding what the government plotted—the cancellation of the reasonableness doctrine, meaning the process of abolishing democracy—which shall not come to pass.
 
And it was 8 justices in favor, 7 against.
Seemingly just some ordinary majority, or decided by the narrowest possible margin.
But Ben Caspit (thanks to little Moiz) pointed me toward a line of thought that the hand of God is in this.
They plotted to destroy the democracy that upholds the holy people.
By a majority of 64/120 = 53.3%.
The people did their part, went out into the streets and cried out, lost workdays, stood in the rain and in the sun, marched and did everything they could to avert the evil decree. The Holy One, blessed be He, intervened; His emissaries / our emissaries, the honorable justices, weighed and discussed, deliberated and thought, and reached a rare conclusion:
8/7 = 53.3% cancel the evil decree, and we were saved from what the government had plotted.
 
A person plans and the Holy One, blessed be He, laughs.
In Yiddish it rhymes wonderfully.
 
Does this rare statistical alignment move the Rabbi in the direction of providence in the form of
“He performs salvations in the midst of the earth”
“I call to God who completes for me”?
That is, if we do everything in our power to do (effort / hishtadlut), He finishes it in our favor—the part that we cannot do?
Because I myself, in my own honored person, tended in the direction of no intervention, and now behold, He watches through the windows, peering through the cracks. I am here.
If you do the good, don’t be lazy, I will arrange the matter for you.
 
Is the Rabbi also reconsidering this matter?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Answer

I haven’t seen the details, and I’ll answer off the cuff.
1. Nobody here wants to abolish democracy. I’m sick of this cheap propaganda.
2. One can discuss abolishing the reasonableness doctrine, and there are arguments both ways. There are no plots or conspiracies here. There is room here for a legitimate debate.
3. As for the little Torah-thought with the numerology, I recommend saving it for the next sheva berakhot, where you’ll surely get enthusiastic “well said!” responses. Or pass it on to Karhi. It’s about on the same level as his little Torah-thoughts.
4. I assume the stupid question to me at the end was just an excuse to spread your propaganda in public. So although I decided not to delete this “question,” next time there’s definitely a chance I will delete it.

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