You are all assuming that there is a greater being. If you assume that then you have to live with these incongruities and try to explain them away. The people--before Monotheism--had the same beliefs. Seems beliefs change as the tides change---just more slowly.

Perhaps it is best to realize we know not what happens once we go and also what makes us what we are.

The more I read here the more I am believing that science and genetics and evolution are the answer to these questions---all else being superstion.   Albeit, superstion and faith that helps people through their lives. I envy them. Would I had such faith that it would make me feel a reason for it all.

So--Kosher Chickens, Ridding oneself of dishes, scrubbing eternally, etc; surely helps a believer and makes me just say---(Yiddish) Narishkeit.   I respect their doing it but cannot empathize in any way other than hoping for a succsesfull conclusion to the prosecution of the perpetrator of the fraud---the butcher. The Jewish version of the Sopranos. Though more a hypocrite than they.

Bill H