In
Philosophy and Theology, the Theodicy problem arises, i.e. why the
good suffer and the bad have good lives. Various attempts at
answering this are made, but not very convincingly. In Orthodox
Judaism, we see various attempts to brush this world aside and claim
that it is all compensated for in the next world. The argument gets
worse when moral terrorists of Orthodoxy make claims like this one
http://tanakhemet.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/aryeh-kaplan-blasphemer.html
.
Some
try to use the argument of reincarnation, that suffering here is in a
reincarnation of a previous life. This is also quite ridiculous.
I
am unable to explain the Holocaust, or why children are murdered even
today. However, as far as the Torah goes, there is no nonsensical
statements of a world to come as compensation, or reincarnation etc.
Quite the contrary. The proof of God brought by Moses is the precise
punishment of bad and reward of good, in this world. Whether or not
the world of the Torah exists today or in reality, is a question that
the skeptic can justifiably ask. However, for a rabbi to to make
comments like Kaplan, and many others do, is itself denial of the
Torah of Moses.
Thus,
we see in Deuteronomy Chapter 4 , that Moses says:
3
Your eyes have seen what the LORD did in Baal-peor; for all the men
that followed the Baal of Peor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them
from the midst of thee.
4
But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of
you this day.
The
Torah is very clear about reward and punishment here and now. Whether
this was only in Biblical or Prophetic times is an important issue,
but we are forced to see this as the authentic Torah view, whether we
like it or not.
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