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Even Better Than We Thought<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I had a friend who used to say, \u201cIf it could be better, it would be better.\u201d Then there was a quote I read somewhere, which said, \u201cThere\u2019s one thing Hashem (God) doesn\u2019t do well, and that\u2019s second-best.\u201d The idea, of course, is that Hashem knows what He\u2019s doing even if we aren\u2019t so sure, and when we think we can improve on His plans we are often spinning our wheels. This is believing in Hashgachah Pratit<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Funny story. Some time ago, I purchased an app for my phone. It is a siddur<\/em> (prayer book), and my whole family uses it as well. Well, my daughter had a problem. She was trying to daven<\/em> (pray) from her American phone on the second night of Shavuot, but the app wouldn\u2019t let her because it was yom tov<\/em> in the U.S.. All she got was a notice that said, \u201cPlease don\u2019t use this siddur on Shabbos and yom tov<\/em>.\u201d Except that it wasn\u2019t yom tov<\/em> for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She lives in Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) and keeps one day of yom tov<\/em>. So, on motzaei yom tov<\/em>, i.e. a weekday, she was trying to use her phone but it didn\u2019t work. We figured the GPS in the phone would realize she was in Eretz Yisrael (Israel) and that it wasn\u2019t yom tov<\/em> anymore, but alas, it was a flaw in the program. It couldn\u2019t differentiate between someone in Sderot keeping one day of yom tov,<\/em> and someone in South Bend, Indiana, keeping two days. Or so we thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several months after Shavuot, I met the programmer of the siddur app in shul. I mentioned this \u201cupgrade\u201d I wished he would make and he told me, \u201cIt\u2019s in the settings.\u201d I looked, and sure enough he was right! There was a slide to push to tell the program you were in Israel. There was another one to say you are in Jerusalem, but I didn\u2019t understand why. What difference does it make what city you\u2019re in? Then it hit me \u2013 Purim! On Purim, you need different davening depending on where you are in Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrong Assumptions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

However, the point of this story was that I had thought there was something lacking in the app, when there truly wasn\u2019t. I found something the programmer hadn\u2019t thought of, and I suggested how he could improve it. Then, to my surprise, I found that he had thought of it, and it was just the fact that I didn\u2019t know all the intricacies of the program which gave me trouble. The app wasn\u2019t flawed; the shortcoming was in my lack of knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because I doubted the programmer\u2019s skill, I failed to get full benefit of the program. Because I didn\u2019t think he had thought of this scenario, I failed to ask him how to use it. I simply assumed he hadn\u2019t thought of this situation. And I think you get where I\u2019m going with this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When We Realize…<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Yes, Hashem created an intricate world, and He thought of everything. Every situation, every circumstance, they have all been accounted for<\/a>. When we think Hashem didn\u2019t think of something, that He didn\u2019t imagine this particular situation, we are making a mistake. We might want to offer Him suggestions on how to improve the world or our lives, but if we understood more, we would know that it’s already taken care of<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hashem is more skilled than any programmer, and He also not only knows what\u2019s happening in your life, but He\u2019s a part of it. If English could be looked at like Hebrew, the word \u201chappen,\u201d as in, \u201cIt happened to be,\u201d or \u201cI happened to see\/go\/say\/hear\u201d would have a two-letter shoresh (root word). That would be HP, short for Hashgacha Pratit. This means more than just Divine intervention. It means detailed Divine guidance<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Divine Guidance in Every Detail<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hashem isn\u2019t watching things happen and responding to them. He is the causality of everything that occurs in the world, and it\u2019s going according to plan even when we don\u2019t see it. He is making us experience the very things that we think are broken or wrong. There\u2019s a reason for it built into the system Hashem has gifted us with and asked us to utilize. What we think we would be much happier living without could be the thing that makes our lives successful in the grand scheme of things. We think we\u2019re living in chaos, but He prepared for those times we think are chaotic. They are, in fact, perfectly tuned to our needs. Yes, He knows the system works and hopes we figure that out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He hopes we finally understand it’s those settings we don\u2019t see that make things work just a little differently. It\u2019s the little things hidden behind the user interface that take all the details into account and give us just what we need to have on any given day.  It\u2019s like the answer to our prayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Want to learn more about Divine Intervention? Join TorahMates today and learn from anywhere, with your own study partner!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

By Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025 \u2013 All Rights Reserved<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rabbi Gewirtz (Operation Inspiration<\/a>) welcomes comments and feedback. Write to him at info@JewishSpeechWriter.com<\/a> to share your thoughts. You never know when you may be the lamp that enlightens someone else.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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