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[quote=Anonymous]I heard it described this way.

We are here to learn.  God wants us to learn.  If your kid is learning to ride a skateboard, she is going to fall off.  She probably will get hurt.  But that is how she will learn.

We think of illness, pain and death as bad things because we are human.  God sees pain and death as temporary and short lived.  We all die.  We all go to God, either at age five or 105 or in between.  What did we learn in the time we had?  What did we learn while tending our sick five year old with cancer?  Or while doing chemo ourselves?  What did we learn waiting to go into the gas chamber at Aushwitz?  Or while guarding the doors there?

I don't pretend to really be capable of this perspective.  Being philosophical about mass murder or little kids with cancer is almost impossible.  But if to God, our time here is just a temporary visit on an eternal journey of the soul, then our sufferings don't seem so interminable and intolerable.

http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/108398/jewish/Belief-After-the-Holocaust.htm

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