Three boys.Operation Protective Edge.Women stabbed to death.Four holy kedoshim brutally butchered.How could one believe in god when such horrific things are happening all around him.Meanwhile it seems that the wicked are prospering and having good things happen to them. Why is it that bad things happen to good people while the wicked people seem to have it all? How could we explain the tragic events that have befallen Klal Yisrael throughout history and especially the past couple months.Where is god and why is he allowing good and innocent people to suffer tremendously for seemingly no good reason. The first method to answer this question can be heard from Rabbi Klapholtz of the DRS Yeshiva HS for Boys. Rabbi Klapholtz explains that in order to attempt at answering this famous question one must first make three assumptions. Assumption number one is that God knows everything;Assumption number two: God can do everything.Finally Assumption number three: God is just. With these three assumptions in mind one can now give a couple of different approaches to answer how is it that God allows seemingly bad things to happen to good people. Approach number one is that we do not understand how god works and thinks so who are we to even ask such a …show more content…
The pasuk in devarim states: ״ומשלם לשנאיו אל פניו להאבידו לא יאחר לשנאו אל פניו ישלם לו״. God will “pay” the wicked in this world but they will forfeit their olam haba.This is one of the most famous answers as to why god allows the wicked to prosper in this world.God is doing this so that in the next world they will not be able to have a share in the greatest good.Hashem would rather give the wicked reward from this world than from the next.However,when it comes to the righteous people,god wants to give them all the reward they can get from the next