Thursday, November 8, 2012

Following Hurricane Sandy, A Discourse on Gratitude

Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz's View

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Most of us relate to distress by experiencing a certain sadness or bitterness. We might think that we do not deserve the pain and sorrow, that we have somehow been unfairly or wrongly treated.
We need not see suffering as a punishment for real or imagined misdeeds. It may be more helpful to view suffering as a test, which is admittedly not immediately apparent as such.
It takes a while to distinguish it.
Suffering is a trial. For suffering can lead to many things.
Some rise; others fall. Suffering is the test.
Can a person receive it without sliding into hatred or despair?

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