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Are Climate Disasters a Punishment for our Sins?
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In this week’s episode we look at a text from the end of the book of Job (and Rashi’s commentary on it) about the power that G-d holds over the weather. We discuss the idea of divine punishment for sins, and how, while there are clear articulations of this concept in our sacred texts, we have a tradition, as seen in Job, of acknowledging that humans are not able to understand the ways of the divine and cannot claim to know why tragedies occur. We then go on to note that doing a “chesbon hanefesh” or searching for how we might have contributed to a situation, such as human contributions to climate change, can help motivate us to change our behavior. We also explore the idea that taking on new spiritual practices such as giving more charity or learning more Torah can help us come closer to the people we want to be and be able to meet the hard parts of life with more strength, generosity, and hope. Follow along with the source sheet here: www.sefaria.org/sheets/603551
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