Why bad things happen to good people? - Rabbi Alon Anava

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Today we're going to talk about a topic that a lot of people ask me in many different ways in many different times. People ask me the same question. Why does bad things happen to good people? And this question comes in many different ways cuz bad things it's a matter of how you look at things. Bad things can be, you know, something small can be considered to somebody a bad thing. But I get it in so many different ways and so many times that people ask me why how do you explain that bad things happened after to the good people. Yeah, it also happens to not so good people, but why it happened to the good people? And when we understand at least we're going to try to understand some of the reasons why that happens that I can actually apply to every little thing that happens in our life that we define it as we look at it as something that is bad or something negative or something that is not good. Usually the form how I get the question is you know for example, a lot of people ask me how come the Holocaust happened? Or a lot of people now when it's becoming more and more all the terror attacks and people ask me why how come you explain that you see that you know that good people they they these are the ones who get murdered. We saw not too long ago in Har Nof, you know, people in shul davening praying with

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