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Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?





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Manis Friedman
Rabbi Manis Friedman is a world-renowned author, counselor, lecturer and philosopher; and co-founder of Bais Chana Institute of Jewish Studies in Minnesota. He also served as simultaneous translator for the live televised talks by the Lubavitcher Rebbe.

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Posted: Jan 16, 2008
BAD VS GOOD
Blessings to you Rabbi on job well done in breaching a very difficult topic that weighs heavily and every Jewish mind today. No, I am not going to be able to sleep better now because of new answers to old questions, but because you validated the way I have already thought and believed, with some gifted insight and analogies. As a middle aged Jew, I seemed to never have the time to answer my desire to attend Yeshiva, until recently, and as a result feel fortunate, closer to Hashem, and realize the purpose Hashem brought me jnto this world. I know many Jews who use the Holocaust or the premature death of a loved one as justification for living a secular life. I now will not only attempt to share my optimism with them, but also will refer them to this web site and your lecture on this subject. I feel as if I fabrengened with you this evening in Southern California, and I thank you with all my heart and soul for allowing me to welcome you into my home. Zai Gazunt, Hillel ben Mayer
Posted By Hillel ben Mayer, San Bernardino, CA/USA

Posted: Aug 28, 2006
Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?
Rabbi Friedman, you can not imagine, how much you tought me in your lecture.
About the people I was born in, the Germans,
About us, the Jews (I am a ger),
About Pain, that it is not getting in my way, but it is my way,
And some things were totally new for me, because I heard them for the first time in my life.
This Lecture I will listen too more than one time. (As I do with many others.)

I was a child at the time of the holocaust.
But - even if it nearly does not count - may I, as a born German, ask your slicha, that we killed your grandmother? I can not change facts, but I feel so sorry for all that happened.
Michal
Posted By Michal Evenari, Passau, Germany



 

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Do Bad Things Happen to Good People?
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