Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Tuesday Tel Aviv Torah: Responding to Tragedy

Having spent the last 2 weeks looking at why bad things happen to good people, this week we focused on our response to suffering and tragedy (the what now).

Through studying and discussing a wide range of positions – from Job, to saintly Rabbi Akiva, arch-Talmudic heretic Elisha Ben Abuya, Hasidic master Levi of Berditchev and Auschwitz survivor and psychologist Victor Frankl – we tried to better understand the tapestry of opinion that makes up the Jewish tradition.

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Click here for the source sheet.

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