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Podcast: The Great Sources with Rabbi Shnayor Burton
Episode: S1, E19 Tests and Trials
Description: Why does Hashem test people? Isn’t the outcome known to Him in advance?
One of the “greatest problems in the Torah” according to the Rambam, the idea of trials is given various explanations by the great Jewish thinkers. But all the reasons only serve to justify an imperfect relationship between man and the Divine, for omniscient God indeed has no need for trials; they only have a function within a world controlled through divine beings who lack perfect knowledge – the angels.
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