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SUMMARY:Exiled Because of Our Sins: Jewish Perspectives on Evil and Sufferi
 ng with Marc Ashley
DESCRIPTION:Adult Education\n27th Annual Spring Class with Marc Ashley\n\nE
 xiled Because of Our Sins: Jewish Perspectives on Evil and Suffering\n\nFo
 ur class sessions on Sunday mornings at 10 am\nApril 12\, April 19\, April
  26\, and May 3 (Zoom only)\n\nClick HERE to join by Zoom.\n\nClick on dat
 e to view the recordings: April 12\,\n\nIs God fair? Classical Jewish thou
 ght posits a God that is omnipotent\, omniscient and wholly good. Yet the 
 enduring existence of evil and suffering in the world\, on both individual
  and communal levels\, poses a formidable challenge to the logic and viabi
 lity of religious faith. How can a wholly good and just God allow the wick
 ed to prosper\, the righteous to suffer\, and injustice to prevail? Even m
 ore pointedly\, how can a merciful and attentive God – who established a
  special covenantal relationship with Jews – allow his chosen people to 
 experience innumerable calamities?\n\nJewish thinkers have grappled with t
 he thorny persistence of bad people doing evil things\, causing distress t
 o those who deserve a better fate. Jewish tradition\, reflected in festiva
 l liturgy we continue to chant at Or Zarua\, has often rationalized Jewish
  suffering as punishment for sinning. Yet cumulative atrocities – most r
 ecently the Holocaust and October 7th – make that causal connection appe
 ar theologically obscene. The perennial problem of seemingly ineradicable 
 evil and resulting heartrending suffering can threaten Jewish belief in a 
 caring God and puncture simple optimism in a bright future. Justice in the
  world may seem remote or illusory\; traditional Jewish texts may offer a 
 measure of clarity and comfort.\n\nPlease join congregant Marc Ashley as h
 e explores these pressing issues\, an inescapable feature of our fraught t
 imes\, on four successive Sunday mornings between Passover and Shavuot.
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