Rebbe Nachman’s Garden
of Souls is devoted to the age old question of how there can be evil in a
world presided over by a good God, who created a good world.
The Bratslav answer to this question is complex, and
is handled in this slim volume. The
editor has culled these responses from various sources, arranging them by topic
and theme
.
Ultimately the answer to this weighty question rests
with the expectations of the person who suffers. If he or she has a great many attachments to
the things of this world, its people, objects, luxuries and even bare
necessities, then a lack of these give the impression that the world is a place
riddled with evil.
For those who are free of those connections, there
is nothing that can cause pain. Being so
detached from the world, they are close to God, the only existent, the only
thing that is stable and permanent. This
replaces the sham joy of objects and things with an eternal joy and a total
lack of the perception of evil.
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