Trial of God
Trial of God The Trial of God (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod)A Play by Elie WieselTranslated by Marion WieselIntroduction by Robert McAfee BrownAfterword by Matthew FoxWhere is…
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Trial of God
The Trial of God (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod)A Play by Elie WieselTranslated by Marion WieselIntroduction by Robert McAfee BrownAfterword by Matthew FoxWhere is God when innocent human beings suffer? Only two Jews, Berish the innkeeper and his daughter Hannah, have survived the brutal Cossack raids. This drama lays bare the most vexing questions confronting the moral imagination.Set in a Ukranian village in the year 1649, this haunting play takes place in the aftermath of a pogrom.
Berish, a latter-day Job, is ready to take on the role of prosecutor. When three itinerant actors arrive in town to perform a Purim play, Berish demands that they stage a mock trial of God instead, indicting Him for His silence in the face of evil. But who will defend God?
A mysterious stranger named Sam, who seems oddly familiar to