Existence of
divine providence now is proved mathematically!
What is divine providence?
The word "providence" comes from Latin providentia "foresight". The current meaning of the word "Divine Providence" derives from the sense "knowledge of the future", which is the privilege of God.
Divine providence is discussed by all of the major thinkers, but its extent and nature is a matter of dispute. Nachmanides ("Ramban") holds that the Creator endowed the Universe with physical properties, and sustains the natural order, and that any act of divine providence involves, by definition, an intrusion into the laws of nature. In Ramban's view, reward and punishment are the typical expressions of such holy providence.
All events (natural or providential) are the result of the direct will of God, and, as such, the seemingly natural order of the world is an illusion. And the Divine Providence is thus exercised in a "seemingly natural" manner. Thus, whereas the fate of the Jews as a nation is guided by holy providence, only the righteous and the wicked can expect providential treatment. The fate of more "average" individuals is primarily guided by natural law.
According to Maimonides ("Rambam") divine providence is an essentially natural process. For the jewish nation here individual providence depends on the development of the human mind: that is, the more a man develops his mind the more he is subject to the providence of God. Divine Providence is, in fact, a function of intellectual and spiritual activity: it is the activity, not the person that merits holy providence. "Divine Providence is connected with Divine intellectual influence, and the same beings which are benefited by the latter so as to become intellectual, and to comprehend things comprehensible to rational beings, are also under the control of Divine Providence, which examines all their deeds in order to reward or punish them. It may be by mere chance that a ship goes down with all her contents or the roof of a house falls upon those within; but it is not due to chance that in the one instance the men went into the ship, or remained in the house in the other instance: it is due to the will of God, and is in accordance with the justice of His judgments, the method of which our mind is incapable of understanding" (The Guide for the Perplexed 3:17).
Rambam therefore defines Divine providence as that which facilitates intellectual attainment as opposed to as an instrument of reward and punishment.
What new
has been reveal about
the divine providence?
1. Divine Providence in statistics of terror attacks victims
The book explains that, according to Kabbalah perception, Arabs subdivided to 2 large groups.
Based on an understanding of the characteristics of each group, there was a hypothesis that the terror attacks perpetrated by suicide and those who shoot from ambush, with the intention to stay alive are made by people belonging to different groups
Since each group has committed a crime, seeking to achieve their specific spiritual purpose, so, based on the data about 1000 victims of the Intifada in 2000-2003, a study was carried out, which revealed who has a higher probability to dye in this or another kind of terrorist attack.
Jews still preserved subdivision to priests (Cohanim), who are directly involved in bringing the Temple sacrifices and Levites, who fulfilled in the Temple service functions, and all other - so called Israelis.
Priests have the highest status of sanctity, followed by the Levites, who on the one hand also served in the Temple, and on the other hand, by performing their service functions, have the best features of Israelis.
Sometimes, belonging to priests (Cohanim), and the Levites maybe identified by name, for example, Cogan, Levy, or their derivatives. The study, based on the Israeli Yellow Pages, revealed the typical percentages of the similar names among others.
Then the same process was proceed with the given names of the deceased from various kinds of terrorist attacks. It was found that the percentage of deaths among the Levites, two times higher than their average percent of the population, and this percentage does not depend on the type of attack. As was mentioned above Levites represent in the best manner two components of sanctity - of the Temple and of Israelis in general.
Same percentage of killed priests in the total number of victims almost no different from their percent of the population. But when we look at the percentage of dead priests within each group separately, we get a completely different picture.
Among those who were killed by suicides the percentage of priests, one and a half times lower than the average percent of the population. A percentage of priests, killed by the bullets of terrorists wanted to remain unharmed in one and a half times upper the average percent among general Jewish population.
Thus, two types of terrorist acts are like two poles of how one draws to a priests (Cohanim), and another repels. Explanation you can find in the book.