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URL:https://www.orzarua.org/events/exiled-because-of-our-sins-jewish-persp
 ectives-on-evil-and-suffering-with-marc-ashley-3/
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 Zoom.\n\nClick on date t
 o view recording: April 12\, April 19\, April 26\n\nIs God fair? Classical
  Jewish thought posits a God that is omnipotent\, omniscient and wholly go
 od. Yet the enduring existence of evil and suffering in the world\, on bot
 h individual and communal levels\, poses a formidable challenge to the log
 ic and viability of religious faith. How can a wholly good and just God al
 low the wicked to prosper\, the righteous to suffer\, and injustice to pre
 vail? Even more pointedly\, how can a merciful and attentive God – who e
 stablished a special covenantal relationship with Jews – allow his chose
 n people to experience innumerable calamities?\n\nJewish thinkers have gra
 ppled with the thorny persistence of bad people doing evil things\, causin
 g distress to those who deserve a better fate. Jewish tradition\, reflecte
 d in festival liturgy we continue to chant at Or Zarua\, has often rationa
 lized Jewish suffering as punishment for sinning. Yet cumulative atrocitie
 s – most recently the Holocaust and October 7th – make that causal con
 nection appear theologically obscene. The perennial problem of seemingly i
 neradicable evil and resulting heartrending suffering can threaten Jewish 
 belief in a caring God and puncture simple optimism in a bright future. Ju
 stice 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 he explores these pressing issues\, an inescapable feature of o
 ur fraught times\, on four successive Sunday mornings between Passover and
  Shavuot.
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