Ouch! We all have bad days from time to time, but most of us won’t even come close to what Job was experiencing when he uttered those painful words. In case you’re not familiar with his story, Job was ...

Harold S. Kushner is a rare bird: a popular religious writer set apart by his humility and lack of proselytizing. This rabbi’s long list of best-selling books, including his 1981 hit “When Bad Things ...

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"Do you really want to read the entire book of Job?" my pastor asked me, horrified. I'd asked him to help me read this ancient Biblical book, to understand why it spoke to people who suffer greatly. I ...

It is the classic story of bad things happening to someone trying to do good. Like the Old Testament tale that befell the tragic biblical figure of Job; students and staff at the federally funded ...

Before Covid-19 (BC for short), a group at a local synagogue invited me to learn with them a text of their choosing from the Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible. As a newly minted Orthodox Rabbi, who happens to ...

After the coronavirus pandemic, a war in Ukraine that threatens to cascade into a thermonuclear apocalypse and other problems from inflation to political polarization, nearly everybody is stressed, ...

This is a slightly adapted version of a sermon presented earlier this month at the Festival of Preaching. “Then Job answered the Lord: ‘I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours ...

So God says to Satan, “You there, what have you been up to?” And Satan says, “Oh, you know, just hanging around, minding my own business.” And God says, “Well, take a look at my man Job over there. He ...