GEN1124 Maimonides does not think that life is a test. He does not believe that God is obligated to requite anyone.  He rejects the rabbinic, midrashic idea of the sufferings of love as unbiblical and untrue. Nowhere in the Torah is this doctrine stated, he says.   Nowhere is it even hinted, except in the binding of Isaac [this Chapter], where the notion has been read into the text quite improperly “that God causes injuries to descend upon a person who has not previously sinned in order to increase that person’s reward.”   Many of the Rabbis, Maimonides explains, rejected this idea of the sufferings of love; and rightly so, for the doctrine is incompatible with God’s justice Guide [for the Perplexed] III, 17, 24. On the contrary, “The biblical principle is diametrically opposite to this view and is enunciated in His words: “A God of faithfulness and without injustice” Deuteronomy 32:4.  JHRHV 68