Abstract
Throughout Jewish history, the experience of suffering has affected the Jewish people at both a personal and a communal level. It is therefore not surprising that the religious leadership of the Jewish people—the rabbis—have responded to the challenge of how an Omnipotent, Omniscient and Benevolent God can allow mankind to suffer through illness, acts of nature or, indeed, acts of mankind. How could God have created a being that can inflict more suffering on mankind than God Himself? This chapter analyzes how the rich tradition of rabbinical literature has grappled with the issues of theodicy in the face of the experience of suffering, while maintaining its steadfast belief in the traditional Jewish view of God.
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