Why do bad things happen to good people?

How does Real Judaism – without blind faith or stoicism – give you a contented, full and exciting life in the face of the worst tragedies and suffering? Without our answer of course horrific ‘meaningless’ tragedy supports atheism.

This subject is not actually within my original brief covered in Book One. – proving judicially Real Judaism’s veracity. Rather it explores its core logic which explains the conundrum that we call ‘Life’ Let’s really scrutinise how the Talmud and our writings deal with that most ancient scream – when things get too tough -‘Why? What is it all about? Why must I exist?’

‘It’s all for the good!’ Who defines ‘good’?? Do I shoot the innocent child about unwittingly to detonate the atomic bomb? Do I kill over 200,000 Japanese ostensibly to avoid the continuation of a war that still killed 72 million?

Also, importantly, this does not explain, in any way, the suffering caused by non-human agency – ‘chance’, ‘fate’ or ‘nature’ – tsunamis, drought, famine, disease – nor pain itself, the grisly Law of the Jungle, innocent suffering or indeed our lack of absolute answers.

‘With a faith, to answer ‘So that you still have Freewill to rebel’ is no answer. There are contradictory choices. First, I choose the faith. Secondly, I choose to keep this in a world of suffering. So my Freewill ‘to rebel’ is against only my own choice to believe... It is an adopted mindset. Therefore Freewill becomes causal and not a challenge. If I endure - then I keep my faith – by choice.

But Jews have no choice but to ‘choose’ Judaism. Their Freewill is in the face of that. Book One proves beyond any reasonable doubt that it is a fact their family passed down in our proven unbroken chain. We are ‘stuck’ with it. We can rebel, ignore, hate, run away – but we cannot gainsay the religion because it is judicially proven. Now the Jew must deal with suffering. I do not mean endure it – any stoic can do that. I mean explain to himself why a loving, caring Omniscient Creator should have put unfathomable pain in His ‘perfect’ world.
The answer was given with the Torah in the Book of Job and the Talmud. Yes, it boils down to Freewill. We are only here to be challenged. The post-Christian moral expectations that you have imbibed are simply wrong. We are not meant to see justice. The inner world of the honest and disappointed man is caused by a thousand years or so of fiction in which good is obviously rewarded and evil punished which has completely destroyed our inner ability to cope with reality. This is comforting in its promises but deadly in its inaccuracy. Real Judaism’s message accords with Mankind’s experience. 

Real Judaism says it simply and says it straight Let us be brutal. Death in agony has been and will be the lot of trillions of creatures. Pain, hopeless illness, sudden blinding tragedy, irreplaceable loss – a tortured life and death both physically and mentally is all most can expect. If we are very fortunate, we may not suffer quite as badly if we live in the First World.

So what about all this loving Creator stuff? So what if Sinai proves

that He exists? Who cares? Just look at the world. Now, you just might not be the first to voice such outrage. Millions of your Jewish ancestors also have asked this. They were Talmudic polymaths with photographic memories and awesome minds, trained

in questioning everything. They asked of course – but they were answered. Did they miss something – or perhaps did you?

There must be an answer!! Well, we had it 3000 years ago – all written down in exhaustive detail.