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Q&A: The Difference Between Those Days and the Present Time

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The Difference Between Those Days and the Present Time

Question

Greetings to our rabbi, Michi.
In the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), cases like success at work or in war are described as the hand of God — “the Lord made his way prosper,” “and the Lord your God delivered them into your hands,” and so on. That seems to imply that all parts of life in the biblical period were governed by special providence, at least in general matters concerning the Jewish people.
On the other hand, the Hebrew Bible also contains many descriptions of divine injustice and cries out to the Holy One, blessed be He: why does He let the wicked prosper, and why does He hide Himself, and so on.
That seems to imply that they too had cases in which providence disappeared, and at least on the personal level, between the righteous and the wicked, there was no essential difference.
If so, can one say that all the cases in the Hebrew Bible where God stood behind events are speaking about the collective plane, or about a few particular individuals? At that point I no longer see the difference between the situation then and the situation today: on the personal plane injustice runs rampant, while on the collective Israeli plane, every few thousand years events happen that can be interpreted as miracles.

Answer

Indeed, that is possible. But even regarding events affecting the collective, the accepted scientific picture is that they have a natural explanation. That is nothing more than the sum of the events experienced by the individual people.

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