Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman, RaMBaN or Nachmanides (1194-1270), offers us a way of thinking about this. The Ramban's theological point of departure is very different from that of the Rambam. For the Ramban, God's immanence, His presence in the world, is a given, and is testified to by the whole Bible. The question for him is how that reality can be understood in the context of the experienced reality of nature – of a world that consistently works in regular ways that are seemingly insensitive to people's moral and spiritual conditions.
Lovely ideas cited in teh RambaN's name, but they are abotu hashgacha, and that w should consider everything as a miracle - whether we wake p from sleep, breathe oxygen, fight off diseases, or invent vaccines, these are miracles, even if we think theyare by our own nature, biology or science.
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what is immanence?
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