Where Is Hashem When It Hurts? Rabbi YY Jacobson

Why is there suffering and pain in world? Where was God during the holocaust? Why do bad things happen to good people?
One of America’s premier Jewish scholars in Torah and Jewish mysticism, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak (YY) Jacobson is one of the most sought after speakers in the Jewish world today, lecturing to Jewish and non-Jewish audiences on six continents and in forty states, and serving as teacher and mentor to thousands across the globe. He is considered to be one of the most successful, passionate and mesmerizing communicators of Judaism today, culling his ideas from the entire spectrum of Jewish thought and making them relevant to contemporary audiences.
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[@Newstripper27]

Rabbi YY, I absolutely understand your shiur, thank you. My question is, What could we have done in a previous life that was so bad that requires us to live out such a miserable script in this life?

[@marcalhanaty4636]

B”H please pray for me. I have been sick for a long time. Mordechai Ben Esther

[@f150deic9]

🎉🎉🎉 Refuah Shelemah

[@f150deic9]

Please pray for my wife Beatrice Medeiros!!!!

[@marcalhanaty4636]

@@f150deic9 Refuah shelemah.

[@zlaticabrezinova6438]

Father God have mercy toward to Esther, comfort and healing, make shower over her. Grant her Your peace, surpassing her understanding. Touch her painful body to calm long suffering. In Yeshua name I ask, if thy your will. Amen. Halleluyah. (Yeshua is your Messiah, maybe He's waiting for you to come to Him) My deepest love to Israel 🇮🇱 from 🇨🇦

[@liliyalyubomirsky3]

Refuah shelayma!!🙏🕊️

[@saimbhat6243]

Problem of evil should not be a jewish problem, or is it? As a Muslim i believe that the life of this world is just one part of the life, afterlife is another part. And justice prevails when god bestows his justice directly in afterlife. And god is just and merciful and beneficial.

[@susie5254]

I'm not a scholar, but I think you are correct that evil should not be a Jewish problem. I say that because according to the Noahide laws which ideally apply to all mankind, man is commanded to set up a court system (may we please assume it is not a corrupt court!), to not murder, to not commit acts of sexual immorality, etc. I think a Jew knows that a non-Jew is NOT required keep any of the Torah's 613 commandments, but he does expect every person to abide by the Noahide laws.

[@jw9597]

Every human needs to help make the world better in their own unique way.

[@jakobw135]

" ... supreme wisdom TO correct ..."

[@alexcarter8807]

OK less than a minute in I'm gonna take a SWAG (Scientific Wild-Ass Guess) and say, when we hurt, we tend to close down, to essentially become deaf or at least deaf'er, and blind or at least blind'er, to G-d.

[@jakobw135]

Your three word answer - "we don't know" - is evasive and sounds like a cop out! Perhaps the following is more appropriate: what is G-D's PRIME DIRECTIVE? Your - FREE CHOICE! IOW, it has to be REAL with all the natural consequences therein. So if someone wants to eliminate or hurt you, they CAN actually do that and be successful! G-D then uses his supreme wisdom too CORRECT and bring the world to a higher state of perfection - despite the evil act. What we DON'T UNDERSTAND are the motivations and reasons behind such RANK EVIL. N.B YES - what was NOT intended to be and ensue actually IS ALLOWED to happen according to what was offered the first man and woman in the garden of Eden. The suffering we experience is not only because of such EVIL, but also because of the CORRECTIVE MEASURES enacted by The Creator!

[@susie5254]

I don't think not knowing is either evasive or a cop out because I don't expect that man's logic can comprehend the Creator. Perhaps Adam's sin was that he hoped to know as much as God (to not need God? to replace God?) and therefore he ate from the Tree of Knowledge though specifically commanded not to do so even though he already lived in paradise.

[@jakobw135]

@@susie5254 Perhaps. ☺️

[@josephgerard5473]

On this subject, I heartily recommend a track I discovered by accident (it appeared in my 'recommended' feed) by a British band called UNIT. The track is A Tribute To The Israeli Defence Force and it is excellent - tuneful and forceful without being bombastic combined with a lovely lyric. I know next to nothing about the group but on investigation I see they've recorded a whole batch of Jewish related tracks such as Pesach, Yom Kippur, Bar Mitzvah, Israel Is Real, The 613 Mitzvot and probably others I don’t know about yet. Some of them feature Rabbi Moshe Bryski which is definitely a recommendation in itself.

[@jefffinkel6840]

It’s time takes away free will