{"id":67716,"date":"2019-12-25T15:06:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-25T13:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=67716"},"modified":"2023-07-20T13:37:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T10:37:04","slug":"natural-law-and-supernatural-providence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/natural-law-and-supernatural-providence\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural Law And Supernatural Providence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[414,756],"acf":{"old_id":"67716","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"380","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"And the dynamic between faith and enlightenment\u00a0","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regarding 44:5, Malbim* (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/378\/post\/67586\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">see our comments there<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), identified the one who will \u201cadopt the name of Israel\u201d as someone subject to supernatural providence. In his commentary to 46:10, he elaborated on the singularity of that status as follows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">God will act in two ways. [A] According to the laws of nature that He set in place and the results that they cause to occur. Of this, the verse says \u201cforetell the end from the beginning,\u201d because He set the limits of the laws of nature and their consequences and when such a [natural] process begins, He can foretell the conclusion that will derive therefrom according to those laws that He established. [B] He can act above (beyond) nature, performing deeds that are independent of any causation. Of this, it states \u201cfrom the start, things that had not occurred\u201d; even if the results could be determined beforehand, i.e., before the causation occurred or even the causes themselves, He could perform signs and wonders that are independent of their causes because \u201cHe spoke and so it was\u201d (Ps. 33:9).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Isaiah] elaborated through parallelism: In parallel with \u201cforetell the end from the beginning,\u201d he said, \u201cMy plan shall be fulfilled.\u201d This refers to the plans I made for the conduct of the world based on the laws [of nature] that I established\u2014they shall be fulfilled. In contrast to \u201cfrom the start, things that had not occurred,\u201d [he said] \u201cI will do all that I purposed,\u201d i.e., in doing whatever I please, I will not be bound by the limits of nature, but My will surpasses the laws of nature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Drawing and maintaining this distinction between natural law and supernatural providence was an essential ingredient in Malbim\u2019s opposition to the Enlightenment (Haskalah) and the nascent Reform movement, which invoked science in their assaults on tradition. It was also consistent with his repeated assertion that \u201cenlightenment without faith is folly.\u201d (See David Berger: <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Malbim\u2019s Secular Knowledge and his Relationship to the Spirit of the Haskalah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*For the significance of Malbim\u2019s commentary to the Book of Isaiah,<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.929.org.il\/lang\/en\/page\/335\/post\/64640\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> see our introduction to chapter 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