A Popular Dictionary of Judaism
The *Bible teaches that suffering is an essential part of human life (e.g.
*Gen. 3:19). The problem of the suffering of the innocent has exercised theologians; suffering tends to be understood as a means of purification or it is believed that compensation for suffering will be made in the *World to Come. The mass destruction of the European Jewish community in the *Holocaust has made the problem acutely difficult.
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