Miracles, Nature and what Lies Between: Ramban on Hashgacha

 https://etzion.org.il/en/philosophy/issues-jewish-thought/issues-mussar-and-faith/miracles-nature-and-what-lies-between

The Ramban's conception of hashgacha is a vision of divine concern for His creation which is not merely good design but actual responsiveness to human action.  The good are rewarded and wrongdoers are punished, as we would expect in a just world (I will return to this theme in a later shiur).  God cares about us, to the extent that He is willing to change the order of nature in order to show that care.  Yet the order of nature exists; it is not an illusion and there is meaning and value to the human endeavor to understand and, at least to some extent, to control it.  God is present in history, particularly guiding the nation of Israel on its long course, intervening when necessary, as described in the Torah and the Prophets.  In a sense, the Ramban's notion of hashgacha is constructed to provide us with a way of synthesizing all of our concerns into a delicate balance: we want God to be involved but not so much as to constrain human freedom.  We want divine intervention, alongside a stable natural order.  The key this balance is the Ramban's idea of hidden miracles in which God's intervention is so subtle that it is not recognizable as such.