Pain, Suffering & Tragedy

Why is it that the biggest question we have for G-d receives no better answer than heaven's silent tear?

It is a pain we must feel, a pain that must be healed, until we have healed humanity itself. Until no such tragedy could ever happen again.

My mother has often said, “We give our children wings, we have to let them fly.” Perhaps this is the toughest part of parenting...

For many a person of faith, the earthquake triggered a personal spiritual upheaval. A tragedy of such unthinkable proportions raises theological questions. Why does G-d allow such suffering?

And then there are those who will take it upon themselves to interpret for us the meaning of the disaster. They will try to extract moral lessons from what happened. Please, do not listen to those who exploit human suffering for rhetorical flair.

If to You the darkness is as light, it is not to me; the darkness comes hard...

Why, G-d? If Your nature is "good and to do good," why did You so painfully upset the lives of hundreds of thousands, destroy their homes, ruin their property, and crush their hopes of a normal life for the foreseeable future?

Every time He's asked the million-dollar question, He refuses to answer it

Ten minutes after the disaster hit the news, my phone started ringing. It's been ringing ever since, 24 hours a day. Husbands looking for wives. Mothers looking for daughters. Friends looking for their traveling companions...

A group of medical professionals, journalists and thinkers gathered last month at the Chabad Belgravia Community Centre in London for the launch of “A Time to Heal,” Rabbi Mendel Kalmenson’s rendering of the response of the Lubavitcher Rebbe—Rabbi Menache...