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The Radical Responsibility of Rabbi Sacks: The Problem of Evil as Call To Action

Hosted By: Orange County Community Scholar Program (CSP)

How do we manage the dissonance between the world as it is and the world as it ought to be? This question has haunted mankind since its inception and is the driving force behind our constant desire to understand why evil and suffering exist in the world. In this class, explore this perennial human dilemma through the prism of Rabbi Sack’s iconic book Radical Then Radical Now. Through studying both Biblical and Midrashic sources as well as contemporary Jewish thought, discover a re-reading of the issue that will aim to provide an innovative and paradigm shifting approach to the subject.

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