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The Rabbi Asks The Rabbi Asks (#2): Which is worse, murder or suicide? We invite you to send in your answers. The best answer(s) will be posted in two weeks The Rabbi Asks (#1): Why is it that the earth's natural resources are distributed unevenly, some countries oil rich, others not, some heavily forested or blessed with much arable land, others not? G.L wrote: If you take away all boundaries, then it ISN'T uneven, it's balanced. The resources are meant to to be shared. One region offers desert sand, another region offers the rainforest. The world, as a whole, needs both. And the different regions are meant to learn from what they have been given. The way Israelis have learned to farm the desert -- they can become experts -- and can share what they glean with the rest of the world. The Rabbi Answers: It says in Pirkei Avos (4:3): "There is no person that does not have his hour; and no thing that does not have its place." The Maharam Shik writes that G-d wanted the whole world to be as one entity, and that the peoples of the world would need each other, so that there would be peace among them. |