Jewish views on suffering Flashcards
What do Jews believe?
Suffering comes from two different sources: humanmade and natural
OFten suffering has arisen because God has gien free will to people to do good or bad. Jews see evil and suffering as a cosequennce of human beings wrong choicces and they do not believe in orginal sin
What is God to Jews?
God is the source of all life and referred to throughout the Torah as the sole creator. He is the judge and he is merciful and will always care and protect for all he has created. The goodness of God is shown by the creation of the world ad the giving of the torah
What are the solutions to the problem of evil?
The biblical book of Job suggests that is is fruitless for humans to rty and figure out why God causes people to suffer
Other traditional solution include the idea of suffering isn’t really bad. Jews interpret the “suffering servant” in saiah 53 as being about the Jewish people in isreal in general throughout the ages which suggests that they suffer inordeer to redeem the wicked of humanist
they also believe that this will bring about the salvation of all nations in the messianic age to come
What do JEwish people share with Christians?
They share part of their holy scriptures with Christians. THe book that make up the TOrah are the same first five books of the old testament.
quote from a rabbi
” “It is not in our powers to explain either the well-being of the wicked or the sufferings of the righteous.”
How will this change a Jewish persons life?
Jewish people will try help those who are suffering by volunteering their time or money to charities.
