We have instructions from Above telling us how to escape suffering. The brief in simple explanation is to be found in the Kabbalah. People suffer so they can reach the purpose of their creation, the purpose towards which this constant suffering, impels them, year after year for centuries, throughout all the incarnations of their souls past and present. People suffer so that they can eventually achieve recognition of the need for spiritual elevation. There is no solution in this world, no way to escape suffering. The only way is to rise from this world to the spiritual world. The Creato sends suffering upon human beings to raise them from this world to the spiritual world.

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