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Suffering & Evil Quiz

Why do bad things happen to good people?

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Jewish thinkers throughout the ages have asked: Why do bad things happen to good people?

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Question 1 of 10
How does the Bahir, the earliest kabbalistic work, describe the sefirah (God’s emanation) of "power"?
Question 2 of 10
True or false: The concept of reward and punishment is the Torah's explanation for the existence of suffering.
Question 3 of 10
What did Abraham Isaac Kook think about the relationship between God and evil?
Question 4 of 10
What was the reaction of the Jewish philosophical community in the first 20 years following the Holocaust?
Question 5 of 10
Which of the following did Mordecai Kaplan, the founder of Reconstructionist Judaism, believe?
Question 6 of 10
Which approach to a painful experience does Rabbi Harold Kushner recommend?
Question 7 of 10
Who wrote the book When Bad Things Happen to Good People?
Question 8 of 10
True or false: In traditional Jewish thought, Satan does not exist.
Question 9 of 10
What is the name for the vindication of God’s justice despite the existence of evil?
Question 10 of 10
Why is the question of suffering and evil unique among theological and philosophical problems?
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