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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 Zoom.\n\nClick on date t
 o view the recordings: April 12\,\n\nIs God fair? Classical Jewish thought
  posits a God that is omnipotent\, omniscient and wholly good. Yet the end
 uring existence of evil and suffering in the world\, on both individual an
 d communal levels\, poses a formidable challenge to the logic and viabilit
 y of religious faith. How can a wholly good and just God allow the wicked 
 to prosper\, the righteous to suffer\, and injustice to prevail? Even more
  pointedly\, how can a merciful and attentive God – who established a sp
 ecial covenantal relationship with Jews – allow his chosen people to exp
 erience innumerable calamities?\n\nJewish thinkers have grappled with the 
 thorny persistence of bad people doing evil things\, causing distress to t
 hose who deserve a better fate. Jewish tradition\, reflected in festival l
 iturgy we continue to chant at Or Zarua\, has often rationalized Jewish su
 ffering as punishment for sinning. Yet cumulative atrocities – most rece
 ntly the Holocaust and October 7th – make that causal connection appear 
 theologically obscene. The perennial problem of seemingly ineradicable evi
 l and resulting heartrending suffering can threaten Jewish belief in a car
 ing God and puncture simple optimism in a bright future. Justice in the wo
 rld may seem remote or illusory\; traditional Jewish texts may offer a mea
 sure of clarity and comfort.\n\nPlease join congregant Marc Ashley as he e
 xplores these pressing issues\, an inescapable feature of our fraught time
 s\, on four successive Sunday mornings between Passover and Shavuot.
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