Am I Wasting My Time?

Response to Jim Gallagher I can understand your dilemma about G-d's creation of life on earth. He created everything good and blessed it for His children. My thoughts wandered as I read your comments to the book of Job. If you read the last chapters of Job, he too questions G-d because he was overwhelmed by his sufferings and did not comprehend G-d's mercy and kindness. He was in the box and once outside the box searching for G-d, he found what he was looking for. Job had to be an outcast; he was alone in his misery to find G-d. He had no distractions of the earthly things.
After much contemplation, Job repents ( in the last chapters) and states that he was foolish in questioning G-d's greatness. He had heard about G-d but now his eyes have seen his glory and greatness.
It is from His word, we are able to see His greatness and our purpose for life eternity. Reply

Additional thoughts The Torah may hint at life after life, but nowhere does it say that that life includes G-d. For those who lose their faith there are no spiritual rewards. It seems to me that the spiritual rewards one may garner on earth pale in comparison with rhe soul's union with G-d prior to creation. Why then create?The soul's union with G-d equals perfection, the soul's seperation from G-d through creation equals imperfection. As in the Albert Camus " Myth of Sisyphus", for some soul's the climb back to G-d will never succeed. How tragic. Why then a creation? Reply

Rabbi,
Your answer/analogy is complete nonsense. You see, there is no guarantee that your adventurer/scientist will ever return home. Further, life is about suffering, misery and disappointment. It is a gauntlet of trials and pain. What your quasi scientist did was to enrich his physical/cognitive life which has nothing whatsoever to do with his spiritual life. It would have been better never to have been born. But now that we are here, the real question is what now? Reply