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He's doing the best he can ...
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So at services this morning someone asked why a perfect G-d would create so much imperfection (Adam and Eve, the generations leading up to the Flood, Sodom and Gomorrah). The immediate, almost reflexive response of the Rabbi was: "Because G-d is not perfect. The idea of a perfect G-d is a product of a much later period and not a tenet of Judaism."

While positing an imperfect G-d has always been one of the options in dealing with the Problem of Evil, I don't believe that I've ever heard a rabbi respond so quickly and so definitively.

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To be is to stand for. - Abraham Joshua Heschel
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He's doing the best he can ... - by nili - 02-10-2019, 12:27 AM
RE: He's doing the best he can ... - by Channalee - 02-10-2019, 04:17 AM
RE: He's doing the best he can ... - by nili - 02-10-2019, 12:41 PM
RE: He's doing the best he can ... - by Channalee - 02-10-2019, 01:50 PM
RE: He's doing the best he can ... - by nili - 02-10-2019, 03:18 PM

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