TORAH TEACHES

“EVERYTHING IS VERY GOOD”

Authors

  • Allen S Maller Rabbi of Temple Akiba in Culver City, California

Keywords:

Torah, Goodness

Abstract

Some people are optimistic and some others are pessimistic. Some are hopeful and positive while some are despairing and negative about life and everything that surrounds it. A basic teaching of Judaism is that optimism, hope, and positive outlook are Mitsvot (Jewish religious duties). The natural world is neither fundamentally a place of suffering, pain, cruelty and sorrow, nor is the human world basically evil: a community filled with lust, violence and greed. Nature is good. Human society or history is improvable. Each individual’s personal world can be good and improvable if he or she makes it so. Here are three examples of Jewish teachings of positive affirmation applied to nature, personal psychology, and a vision of historical development.

Author Biography

Allen S Maller, Rabbi of Temple Akiba in Culver City, California

Allen S. Maller, an ordained a Rabbi serving as the Rabbi of Temple Akiba in Culver City, California, has authored or edited several books related to Jewish spirituality. He has also taught theology for several years at Loyola Mary Mount University in Los Angeles, USA.

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Published

2005-03-31

How to Cite

Maller, A. S. (2005). TORAH TEACHES: “EVERYTHING IS VERY GOOD”. Journal of Dharma, 30(1), 93–101. Retrieved from https://dvkjournals.in/index.php/jd/article/view/541