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plz if anyone can tell me any hashgacha pratis in torah, neviyim, and ketuvim that would be so hepful! thank you!
Eliezer meeting Rivkah.
Yosef becoming the second in command in Egypt, after being sold into slavery by his brothers, and fulfilling the dream he had dreamed of the son, moon, and stars bowing to him.
Odom meeting chava. Otherwise how would anyone be born?
PBA, good answer.
All of it.
Did you read Megillas Esther 17 days ago? That saga is full of Hashgocho Perotis, to say the very least. {BTW yesterday Rosh Chodesh Nisson was anniversary of the beginning of the 180 day party}
If Purim is too long ago, how about vaYeishev Mikkeitz vaYigash, and that entire 22 year long asga?
The question is what do you mean by hashgacha pratis? The way everyone seems to be using it is some kind of concept that “everything works out in the end,” like a movie or a fairy tale.
But the literal meaning has nothing to do with that. It just means that there is someone watching over our personal lives. That we aren’t just blades of grass which can be trampled on without a din v’cheshbon; rather everything that happens, happens with an accounting. If everything should “work out” in the end, that might be evidence of hashgacha, but if it doesn’t, it is not evidence of a lack of hashgacha. For even if there is hashgacha, it may not have worked out because I didn’t deserve it to – which means that because of hashgacha pratis it didn’t work out, not despite it.
Point is, anywhere we find that Hashem is focused on an individual, it is called hashgacha pratis, regardless of how flowery and perfect the story ends. So to answer the OP: There is a clear and obvious hashgacha pratis in the lives of pretty much every “main character” in Tanach.
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