Guide to the Perplexed, Part 3, Chapter 12, Maimonides
The evils that befall man are of three kinds:
(1) The first kind of evil is that which is caused to man by the circumstance that he is subject to genesis and destruction, or that he possesses a body.
(2) The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g., some of them use their strength against others.
(3) The third class of evils comprises those which every one causes to himself by his own action.
The Great Partnership, Lord Jonathan Sacks
Abrahamic faith is the religion of freedom as responsible self-restraint. (Page 245)
(1) Afterward, Job began to speak and cursed the day of his birth. (2) Job spoke up and said: (3) Perish the day on which I was born, And the night it was announced, “A male has been conceived!” (4) May that day be darkness; May God above have no concern for it; May light not shine on it;
The Great Partnership, Lord Jonathan Sacks
Abrahamic monotheism is not a religion of acceptance. It is a religion of protest...God exists and evil exists. The more powerfully I feel the existence of God, the more strongly I protest the existence of evil. That is why in the abrahamic faith, it is the giants of faith...who cry aloud, as Moses and Jeremiah and Habakkuk...That is why Job refuses to be comforted and why he would not let go of God. (Pages 240-241)
The Great Partnership, Lord Jonathan Sacks
The religious mind starts with the world that is, not the world that might have been. Within this world it seeks meaning. It does not seek explanation...The religious question is about meaning. (Page 237)