{"id":1988,"date":"2015-02-08T09:09:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-08T14:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ramchal.wordpress.com\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2015-02-08T09:09:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-08T14:09:25","slug":"ramchal-on-theodicy-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/2015\/02\/08\/ramchal-on-theodicy-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramchal on Theodicy (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

(We\u2019d ordinarily offer citations from the Zohar and Ari about the subject at this point, put since we\u2019re still researching that, we\u2019ll now cite Ramchal\u2019s own remarks about Theodicy in other works as well as in Klach.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Ramchal agrees that the righteous suffer for the few sins they\u2019d have committed and that they\u2019ll be rewarded in the Afterlife, he nonetheless doesn\u2019t take the suffering as instances of Divine retribution but rather as \u201cremedies\u201d for the harm they\u2019d done to themselves (Derech<\/em> Hashem<\/em> 2:2:5). In fact, Ramchal very often avoids the whole notion of wrath or retribution, but that\u2019s a subject unto itself.<\/p>\n

He also offers that the righteous sometimes suffer for the sake of others of their generation and so as to bring about the ultimate Tikkun<\/em> in the future, for which they are to be rewarded in the Afterlife (Ibid. 2:3:8, also see Da\u2019at<\/em> Tevunot<\/em> 166 for reference to the seeming unfairness that will be proven not to be so after the great Tikkun<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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(c) 2014 Rabbi Yaakov Feldman
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(We\u2019d ordinarily offer citations from the Zohar and Ari about the subject at this point, put since we\u2019re still researching that, we\u2019ll now cite Ramchal\u2019s own remarks about Theodicy in other works as well as in Klach.) Ramchal agrees that … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kabbalah-jewish-thought-ramchal-torah-hashkafa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabbiyaakovfeldman.aishdas.org\/ramchal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}