Lecture
Jeremy Rosen
When Things Go Wrong: Should We Blame Ourselves or Our Maker?
Summary
As we approach the season of atonement, we may ask if God controls everything, and if we do not have free will, then who is responsible for humanity’s mistakes? The Bible suggests we might blame God.
Jeremy Rosen
Manchester-born Jeremy Rosen was educated at Cambridge University England and Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem. He has practiced as an orthodox rabbi, as principal of Carmel College in the UK, and as professor at the Faculty for Comparative Religion in Antwerp, Belgium. He has written and lectured extensively in the UK and the US, where he now resides and was the rabbi of the Persian-Jewish community in Manhattan.