Why Is There So Much Suffering?

Our life is off-kilter. And that should be enough for most of us to turn around and say, "How come the world is the way it is?" Even if not being killed on Shemini Atzeret or dragged into captivity, even if we're not suffering all of the horrors and destructions, why can't our lives be filled with happiness and satisfaction? Why do people have to worry whether they're going to make a living? Or illnesses, how many illnesses do we encounter of people? Terrible machlokes. And even if people aren't suffering terrible machlokes, what about the people suffering from chronic pain? And on Tisha B'Av we say, "Look at all of the suffering that's going on in the world." And all of that's for one reason, because there's no Beit Hamikdash. Because when there's a Beit Hamikdash, then the world is the way it's supposed to be. And when it's not, then the world is completely off-kilter.