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Introduction- This shiur outline will present some of the basic sources regarding suffering
and evil in the world. For further reading:
a. Kol Dodi Dofek by R. Yosef D. Soloveitchik
b. Out of the Whirlwind by R. Yosef D. Soloveitchik
c. Article in Machanayim by R. Yosef Goren on the different opinions in the Rishonim
regarding schar v'onesh.
d. Article in Machanayim by Dr. Yehoshua Horowitz on schar va'onesh in rabbinic
literature.
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(without referencing Rambam or Ramban) writes that the two ideas are not
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