In our schema God manifests His care and concern for humanity-His Providence -by allowing mankind to develop in freedom and reach its fullest cosmic potentialities.⁵⁶⁹ According to Aristotle, Providence extends only to entities that are eternal, e.g., the moon (Aristotle’s assumption of the eternality of astronomical phenomena was, of course, incorrect.) Providence is manifested in laws of nature and is expressed in the constancy of these laws in their operation of the wonderment of creation. A state of Hester thus de facto brings Providence somewhat closer to the Aristotelian formulation.

Hester Panim is not a rejection of the original beri’ah (creation): this would destroy the world. Instead it is the undoing of the restraints and controls of yetzirah (formation) while God still
remains the sustainer of creation.
-Soloveitchik⁵⁷⁰

If one wishes to challenge our thesis on the (incorrect) grounds that it denies Providence , ⁵⁷¹ one might be missing the larger meaning of Providence. For the ultimate Providence may be in securing mankind’s freedom and potential for (primarily spiritual) growth and ultimate perfection, an attainment conceivably possible only in an environment of proportionate contracted real-time omniscience.

According to Philo, the miracles worked by God in nature and the miraculous power of the freedom of the human mind are two forms of the same Providence by which God governs the world. ⁵⁷²