<p dir="ltr">R"n Toby Katz wrote:</p>
<p dir="ltr"><<< ... Both mothers suffer terrible pain and grief. But even if both children "only" suffered the same amount of pain before dying, you can see that there would be a huge difference between a world in which no disease would ever kill a child and a world in which no Nazi would ever kill a child. >>></p>
<p dir="ltr">The difference that I see, is that in one case the mother would have angry or otherwise negative feelings towards Hashem, and in the second case, the mother would have angry or otherwise negative feelings towards both Hashem and the Nazi.</p>
<p dir="ltr">But as I understand this conversation, we are discussing theodicy, which is the question of "How can a good God allow such a thing to happen?" And in that regard I see no difference between the two cases.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Akiva Miller</p>