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Life Is Unfair (A Rosh Hashanah D’Var)

September 9, 2010 by Patrick Beaulier

A simple math equation:

A banished surrogate mother and child + child sacrifice + a great leader dying for no good reason = totally messed up.

But life is messed up. And G-d, in this week’s Torah portions, represents life. What’s the solution to a moral crisis when you live in an amoral (non-moral) universe?

GET MORAL!

G-d is limited. G-d cannot do the great work that we can of making the world a holy and moral place. That’s why we have mitzvot: this is our ability to “play G-d” and make the world what it should be…the world that G-d wants it to be, through our actions, thoughts and feelings.

Happy 5771!

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_XP2SGROcI

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