0139 - Yechidus about Hashgacha Pratis

00:01 One of the bochurim in my kiddush in 1970 went into Yechidus, and one of the things he wrote to the Rebbe was that he doesn't understand the idea of Hashgachah Protis. Now, it makes us stop the idea that every little thing is Hashgachah Protis from the Ribono Shel Olam. So he's asking the Rebbe, and bochurim would ask certain shailas ruhniyas or something, certain shailas in Limude. So he asked the shaila. And the Rebbe answered him like this. This is what he told me afterwards. But then he even wrote it down, gave it into the Rebbe to be magiya, and he showed me later what the Rebbe was magiya. So basically what he said was right. I can't say I remember everything that he said there, but this is the nekuda that the Rebbe answered him. First thing the Rebbe said to him, "Ben Geha, dos what you writes, adu fashteis nis vi she ken zayn Hashgachah Protis, ich fashtei nit vi es ken zayn Zol nit zayn ken Hashgachah Protis." He says, "Ben Geha, what you're writing that you don't understand how it's possible that there should be Hashgachah Protis, Hashem should take care of every little thing." So the Rebbe said, "I don't understand how it's possible there should not be Hashgachah Protis." And he said, "Why? Because if these things were important to Hashem that He made it, why should He later drop it? Why shouldn't it be important later what happens to it?" In other words, his question is not he doesn't

01:15 believe that everything comes from Hashem. Hashem creates everything. So you believe that everything... This I'm saying peshat. The Rebbe didn't say these words, but if you believe that you know that the Ribono Shel Olam created everything. So He cared every little thing. So if He cared about it to create it, why do you think it... Why would it be possible that He stopped caring about it? If He cared to create it, why would He not care to see what happens to it? But this is the lashon that the Rebbe used. "Du shreibst, ben Geha, what du shreibst adu fashteis nis vi she ken zayn Hashgachah Protis, ich fashtei nit vi azoi sie ken zayn Zol nit zayn ken Hashgachah Protis." And he went on to explain this, and later he showed me the tsatl that the Rebbe was magiya, that what he repeated over was correct. There were a few more velter here, but this is what the take home of the inyan.