EXOD79 Everything is foreseen [on high], yet freedom of choice is given; and the world is judged with goodness, and all is according to the majority of deeds. ... Pirkei Avot, Perek III mIshnah 19. Admittedly, it is sometimes extremely difficult to reconcile this principle – "the world is judged for the good" – with the actual facts as we perceive and experience them. There is so much agony and pain in the world, so much grinding poverty and suffering that befalls the innocent and righteous. It requires faith to believe that the principle holds good eternally and everywhere--faith that were we able to see a whole picture, the complete ramifications and consequences of every person's every action, in the past, present and future, we would understand the good involved in every judgment that must be borne. We can truly appreciate how "the world is judged with goodness" only if and when we can perceive "the multitude of deeds" that are involved. When Moses was commanded to liberate his brethren from Egypt, he begged leave to refuse, "for I am slow of speech and of a slow tongue." Scripture continues: "Then the Lord said to him: Who has given man a mouth? Who makes him mute, or death, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord?" [this and following verses]. Could the Supreme Intelligence that has created the continuing miracle of life, consciousness and articulation not obviate such defects as deafness and blindness? If a physical handicap is an "act of God," do not imply that it is a defect, that the Almighty has produced something imperfect and defective. If for the purposes of a person's life, for the tasks he is destined to do, the goals he is destined to achieve, he requires a physical handicap, he is given it. If the Almighty sends a Moses, with a speech defect, to Egypt, then He wants, needs an agent with a speech defect--for reasons known to Him alone. In His infinite wisdom and infinite power, the Almighty has designed the world as it is because it thus best suits His purposes and the purposes of His world. The same holds true for every individual, in accordance with the "multitude of deeds" involved in each case. Were we in a position to see the "multitude of deeds" we would realize His infinite goodness and kindness.