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Advice to Job from a Buddhist Friend
- Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies
- Purdue University Press
- Volume 17, Number 3, Spring 1999
- pp. 58-68
- 10.1353/sho.1999.0082
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Judaism and Buddhism, like all religious systems, struggle to come to terms with the human experience of suffering. In this essay, I ask how the Book of Job, the classic Jewish text on God, suffering, and justice, might be approached from a Buddhist perspective. If Job had had a Buddhist friend who sat with him in his pain, what might have been added to his—and our—understanding of suffering?