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YEHOSHUA SISKIN
Jerusalem Post
12-10-2004
Headline: Falling leaves
Byline: YEHOSHUA SISKIN
Edition; Up Front
Section: Features
Page: 45

Friday, December 10, 2004 -- As autumn wanes and winter rapidly approaches, leaves are falling everywhere. For nearly a thousand years, the subject of falling leaves - or, more precisely, God's involvement in this event - has been discussed by some of our greatest thinkers and teachers.

In his Guide for the Perplexed, finished in 1190, Maimonides declared: "I do not believe that it is through the interference of divine providence that a certain leaf drops from a ...

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