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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/
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\nIs God fair? Cl
 assical Jewish thought posits a God that is omnipotent\, omniscient and wh
 olly 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 viability 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 special covenantal relationship with Jews – allow 
 his chosen people to experience innumerable calamities?\n\nJewish thinkers
  have grappled with the thorny persistence of bad people doing evil things
 \, causing distress to those who deserve a better fate. Jewish tradition\,
  reflected in festival liturgy we continue to chant at Or Zarua\, has ofte
 n rationalized Jewish suffering as punishment for sinning. Yet cumulative 
 atrocities – most recently the Holocaust and October 7th – make that c
 ausal connection appear theologically obscene. The perennial problem of se
 emingly ineradicable evil and resulting heartrending suffering can threate
 n Jewish belief in a caring God and puncture simple optimism in a bright f
 uture. Justice in the world may seem remote or illusory\; traditional Jewi
 sh texts may offer a measure of clarity and comfort.\n\nPlease join congre
 gant Marc Ashley as he explores these pressing issues\, an inescapable fea
 ture of our fraught times\, on four successive Sunday mornings between Pas
 sover and Shavuot.
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