[Avodah] God of Love, vs. Just God

[Moshe Y. Gluck]

I had this discussion with someone recently and I wonder what the Chevra
think: Is Hashem a Loving God? Or is he a Just God? 

This is in the context of the question I was addressing, "How can a Loving
God do ___(many terrible things)_____ to me?" My answer to the gentleman, in
a nutshell, was that although Hashem loves us and has mercy on us, he is not
a Loving God, which, I think, is a Christian conceit, but a Just God. As
humans we suffer from not having the ability to scan the entire scope of the
human experience so as to understand the justness of what Hashem does, but
He is always just, our perceptions notwithstanding. 

My interlocutor responded that he spoke to many people about this question
of his, all way more scholarly than I am, and none of them responded like I
did, proving that I am wrong. 

What does the Chevra think? Am I right? Wrong? Or is there more than one
right answer here?

 

KT,

MYG

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