A message to the chareidi leadership in Israel that follow voodoo judaism!
Hashgacha Pratis isn’t God reaching down – it’s man reaching up.
In this week’s parsha, Yaakov sees the angels going up the ladder first, and only then coming down. And at the top stands Hashem – “nitzav alav” (Bereishit 28:13).
The Rambam (Moreh Nevuchim 1:15) explains that when the Torah says God is “nitzav” (standing), it’s not about a body. It means God is eternal, unchanging, constant – absolutely steady, never moving, never changing.
So if God doesn’t change, how does personal hashgacha happen? How does God “get involved” in our lives?
The Rambam answers this beautifully in the exact same chapter: the torah says that the angels go up first, and only then come down. A person has to climb – through thought, learning, prophecy– and only after that ascent does he bring something down-action to this world, to fix it, to teach it, to lead it.
That descent, says the Rambam elsewhere (1:10), is what the torah calls “God coming down.” In truth, it’s man who went up (mentally/prophecy)and is now bringing God’s light back into the world through revelation and action.
Yaakov’s dream isn’t showing some magical divine intervention. It’s showing the real mechanism: the tzaddik, the prophet, the leader – anyone created b’tzelem Elokim – climbs the ladder in his mind and soul, grasps God’s will, and then comes back down to change reality via action.
That’s hashgacha pratis in action.
Not God moving.
Us moving – and becoming the hands of heaven right here on earth.
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