{"title":"Rabbi Asher Resnick","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"pain_is_a_reality_suffering_is_a_choice__grappling_with_divine_justice","title":"Pain Is A Reality, Suffering Is A Choice: Grappling With Divine Justice","description":"\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #006600; font-size: small;\"\u003eNo one is immune from difficulties and challenges.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #006600; font-size: small;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #006600; font-size: small;\"\u003eIn response to the devastating news of his two-year-old daughter’s leukemia, her years of illness, and her subsequent passing at the age of fourteen, Rabbi Asher Resnick has devoted decades of study to comprehend and share the Jewish perspective on suffering and Divine Justice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #006600; font-size: small;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #006600; font-size: small;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003ePain Is a Reality, Suffering Is a Choice\u003c\/span\u003e provides a deeply personal and profoundly human Torah perspective on some of life's most basic and essential questions. Drawing on his own personal experience and a wealth of classical Jewish sources, the author sheds light on the Torah view of many fundamental topics:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #006600; font-size: small;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #006600; font-size: small;\"\u003ePainful emotions and anger at God\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #006600; font-size: small;\"\u003eMaintaining a connection with the deceased\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #006600; font-size: small;\"\u003eThe World to Come and reincarnation\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #006600; font-size: small;\"\u003eGrappling with difficult tests in life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #006600; font-size: small;\"\u003eWhy painful things happen to good people\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #006600; font-size: small;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px;\"\u003e\u003ci style=\"box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #006600; font-size: small;\"\u003e“A most remarkable work that only a most sensitive talmid chacham who himself lived through that harrowing pain can produce… The reader will gain great insight and knowledge from studying the deep and powerful topics that he presents — so thoroughly, clearly, and poignantly.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #006600; font-size: small;\"\u003eRav Ahron Lopiansky\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #006600; font-size: small;\"\u003eRosh Yeshiva, Yeshiva of Greater Washington\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #006600; font-size: small;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box; outline: none;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #006600; font-size: small;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: top; font-weight: 700 !important;\"\u003eRabbi Asher Resnick\u003c\/span\u003e was born and raised in LA, and graduated from UCLA with a BA in Psychology. He received rabbinic ordination from Aish HaTorah and the Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem. He served as a senior lecturer at the Institute of Jewish Legal and Medical Ethics in San Francisco and at the Aish HaTorah Branch in New York.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #006600; font-size: small;\"\u003eHe has been teaching the foundations of Judaism for over thirty years at Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem, as well as in numerous other yeshivas, seminaries, and kiruv training programs. As a close student of Rav Noach Weinberg, zt”l, he developed a special expertise in addressing fundamental issues in Judaism, as well as in bringing classical texts to life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #006600; font-size: small;\"\u003eAs a bereaved parent, Rabbi Resnick’s extensive writings on loss, difficulties, and trauma provide a sensitive Jewish perspective on coping with these fundamental life issues.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding-top: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #006600; font-size: small;\"\u003eHis website, JewishClarity.com, brings his expertise from over thirty-five years of teaching and writing to the wider Jewish world. It contains proofs of God and Torah, core philosophical and theological issues, accessible and meaningful messages for all of the Jewish holidays, teaching materials for the Rambam, as well as classical Jewish sources addressing painful difficulties and challenges in life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mosaica Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44909361725752,"sku":null,"price":22.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/9497\/8104\/files\/p16620_1.jpg?v=1698355592"}],"url":"https:\/\/mysefer.com\/collections\/rabbi-asher-resnick.oembed","provider":"My Sefer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}