If GOD is Love Why Punish Us? Good vs Evil, Righteous vs Wicked, Suffering vs Pleasure

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

all that God does ever from the first moment of creation and even that moment before that triggered creation is love and kindness the purpose and the foundation of existence from its first moment until its last is only one thing love and kindness that is what God is in essence that is that is at least in how he relates to creation and to us is just pure love and kindness so where is all the Darkness kindness so where is all the Darkness come in where does all the suffering come in so the answer is this that God loves us it's a bit of a radical statement God loves us from two different modes two different perspectives he loves us from pure love and kindness but he also because of the world he created and our interaction with him and it he also has to kind of relate to us through a love that comes through judgment so when God loves us through judgment so when God loves us through judgment so now it depends on how we behaved whether that love will be manifest and revealed to us as love and kindness or as punishment judgment and punishment but what's the foundation of that judgment and punishment first all like this God is infinite and existed without us if God really could decide I don't I'm tired of you guys giving me a headache done I'm done with you no more world but he doesn't do that because he's not tired of us he's not done with us his love for us is infinite and

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4. 10:48punishing us there's no we don't exist we don't exist yet but God wants us to…
5. 14:53two ways I can listen and do and be rewarded for it and that's going to…
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7. 22:07God can only judge you in the only way in a way that only he can…
8. 26:15the beauty of yov the the re even praise the beauty of yakob what did he…
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