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2 lip 2016 · It is important to know that the question of evil in this world is grounded upon some of the most fundamental assumptions of Judaism: The two main things that we know about God are: 1) God is the ultimate in goodness and truth; 2) God enjoys ultimate power and strength.
Whether as a result of God’s contraction from this world (tzimtzum, in the language of Jewish mysticism), or certain worldly evil forces (like the sitra achra, literally “the other side”), the kabbalists pointed to certain things God created or left in the world that retain the autonomy to do evil. Offering a different explanation ...
Kabbalah teaches that the forces of evil were created by God and the strongest ones are a counterfeit of good. They look just like goodness. That’s why they present such a great challenge.
A major corollary of the Jewish belief in the One God is that, seen in its totality, life is good. Viewing the cosmos as it emerged from chaos, God said, "It is good" (Gen. 1:10). In a monotheistic world view, a persistent problem is to account for the existence of evil in its many forms – natural catastrophes, pain and anguish in human life ...
23 maj 2024 · This chapter addresses this gap by offering a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the problem of evil. It argues that the general scheme of the problem of evil consists of the following three variables: (i) God, (ii) evil, and (iii) an allegedly conflicting relationship between (i) and (ii).
25 paź 2024 · In the typical Rabbinic doctrine, with far-reaching consequences in Jewish religious thought, every human being has two inclinations or instincts, one pulling upwards, the other downwards. These are the ‘good inclination’— yetzer ha-tov —and the ‘evil inclination’— yetzer ha-ra.
Key fact. Judaism teaches that suffering originated from the original sin by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Revise what Judaism teaches about the concepts of good and evil and what...
