Reply To: The Bombadier Beetle

no Rabbi

you are certainly correct about Hashgacha Pratis.

but the issue i am talking about is quite distinct from Hashgacha Pratis

Hashem controls every movement of every atom (indeed every quark and whatever quarks might be composed of). every movement of every person, Jew and goy, every animal, every plant.

Hashgocho Pratis has to do with the “interest”, mida kneged mida, mercy, and other parameters that are distinguished between the Jew and goy.

in addition Hashem deals with the Jew directly, not through melachim as he does with the goy. this is all quite clear in Derech Hashem

the “laws of nature” are merely the ways in which Hashem has chosen to limit himself, so to speak. the sun does not come up every morning because Hashem “wound its spring” 5,000 years ago. Hashem brings up the sun every morning.

a miracle is not Hashem intervening in “nature”. it is the same as all other phenomena except that it differs from the “laws” of the Briah, except for those miracles that were placed into the Briah at the time of creation. it’s essential nature is no different however. Ramchal is not ambiguous about this.