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How to make meaning out of suffering

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

You Can't Take Away Someone's Suffering

Rabbi: As soon as you explain away someone else's suffering, you're wrong. One of the reasons that we seek explanations is it is easier to feel guilty than to feel helpless. The only thing we haven't in our control is how we react to what happens. And so it's our own response that we have to focus on.

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