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Wrestling with the divine

by Shmuel Boteach

Rabbi Shmuel Boteach, author of The Wolf Shall Lie with the Lamb: The Messiah in Hasidic Thought, addresses the fundamental Jewish question of reward and suffering in this enlightening and riveting new volume. This book sheds light on the collective suffering of nations in general and on that of the solitary human being in particular. It also offers a lengthy rebuttal to the "powerless God" thesis of Rabbi Harold Kushner's When Bad Things Happen to Good People. Judaism sees death, illness, and suffering as aberrations in creation that were brought about through the sin of Adam in Eden. In...

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