Monday, December 21, 2015

Va-y'chi

Genesis 47:28–50:26

D'var Torah By Rabbi Edwin C. Goldberg for ReformJudaism.org

In Place of God? In God’s Place?


After a natural calamity or terrorist attack an understandable question presents itself: Where is God in all this?

We've seen the evil that people can do, and we've seen the spirit of sacrifice and service in firefighters, emergency workers, police officers, and ordinary citizens. But the question remains, "Where is God in all this?"

And as we look for answers, it makes sense to go back to the beginning, to the Book of Genesis, and discover how our ancestors responded to attacks that were as unexpected and as evil as the suicide missions of 2001 and all those that followed.

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