Is our world real?

              I think we are not living in an entirely real world. I believe that the is something out there with a higher intelligence that controls us, almost like a video game. The fact that we could be some sort of simulation may be hard for most people to digest because we are so focus on ourselves and the we humans are the highest level. But if we look beyond that there is some logical proof that we may not be living in a real world. As our knowledge of the universe continues to expand, everything we learn happens to be connected by some type of math formula, like a code. Also, how do we know that everyone around us is really alive. As latin philosophical, René Descartes once said, "i think, therefor i am." I know that i am really alive because i can think, but how do i know that the people around me are also thinking. I don't know so for all I know, everyone can just be part of a simulation.

Book Of Job compared to Holocaust

After reading the story of Moshe Yosef Daum and Fela Nussbaum I realized it is very similar to The Book of Job. While God was torturing Job and making his life miserable, Job had two choices. He could abandon this faith in God and question why God was doing this to him, which was the easy way out, or he do something a little more difficult and stay faithful to God throughout everything. Job mad the hard decision of staying true to God no matter what he did and in the end was thankful to God for keeping him alive. But not everyone could have handled what Job did because during the holocaust there were all different kinds of people that had to go through this traumatizing event unlike Job who was specially chosen to endure the pain. Menachem's father took the same approach to the situation as Job. He felt "A God who limits himself to actions that we humans can understand couldn't possible be God."  His father believed that whatever God does is for a good reason even if we can't understand why. Menachem's mom however felt the complete opposite of his father. " She told me when she's called before God in final judgement, she will turn the tables. She will demand to know why he stood by silently during the Holocaust as her large family was being destroyed." She could not accept the fact that God did not help her during the Holocaust and that God let so many other innocent people die.

The book of job

The Book of Job relates to the other stories we've read in the Old Testament in many different ways. The main similarity is how God acts. God once again tests someone to see how faithful they really are. In the story of Abraham, God told Abraham to kill his son Isaac as a test to prove his respect to God. Similar to this in The Book of Job, God faces Job with series of horrible events, once again as a test to prove how much respect Job has for God. Throughout the stories in the Old Testament, especially in this book, we have seen an insecure side to God where he consistently needs to be reassured that people look up to him and will worship him no matter what. Also in both The Book of Job and the story of Abraham it mentions how Job and Abraham were both, "blameless and upright, one who feared God, and turned away from evil. There were also some differences between the Book of Job and the other Old Testament stories. I would consider the story of Job to be more harsh than the others. God made Eve carry her child in pain for nine months and he made Abraham almost kill his son, but those are temporary. For Job in the other hand God destroyed everything that Job cared about and that cannot ever be given back to him. Also in this book God made a bet with Satan unlike in the other books where God on his own decided to punish man.