The Purpose of Exile - Why Didn't G-d Create a World Without Suffering?

Why Didn't G-d Create a World Without Suffering?

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Topics: Dwelling for G-d in the Physical World, Galut, Moshiach and the Future Redemption

By Dov Yonah Korn

Rabbi Dov Yona Korn is director of the Chabad House at NYU.

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August 29, 2011

Redemption

I learned that it is good to have evil so we can overcome and bring light..... Thank You!

Anonymous
Houston, Texas

August 29, 2011

Hide-and-Seek

Fine metaphor. It makes us wake up and realize we have a Friend somewhere we've forgotten about. Bravo Rabbi Korn.

F. Lembeck
New York, NY

August 23, 2011

Thanks

Thank you.

Richard bruxvoort colligan
Strawberry Point, IA, USA

August 22, 2011

The purpose of Exile

Exile is an obstacle. And we have to overcome this blockage to grow up. Then we'll be in the next step of spiritual evolution.
Shalom

Martha
Bogotá, Colombia

August 22, 2011

A question

Nice class and might be very interesting for beginners, but there is one question to make it clear: your example of “child separate from mother’s womb” serves to illustrate purpose of hardship for personal growth, right?
Birth cannot be analogy of exile; on the contrary it is usually compared with redemption, isn’t it?

Meira
League City