Within the school of thought associated with the ethics and morals of
             Christianity and Judaism there is a rift. Due to the history of
             Christianity being rooted in the Judaic tradition many theology experts and
             philosophers believe there to be many similarities between the moral
             infrastructures of the two faiths yet, believers often wish to point out
             the differences, as they represent additional reasons for the departure of
             the two faiths from one another. The reality is that on the issue of
             suffering, and God's purpose for it the Judaic and early Christian ideas
             are very similar to one another. It is for this reason that the issue of
             suffering can be seen as a grounding point or a point of middle ground
             between the two faiths, in both their history and their present.
             Our identities join us to communities of suffering. Being Jewish or
             Christian, for instance, is a manner of suffering and a way of valuing
             one's suffering. Veterans of wars as well as veterans of labor
             struggles) "have traditions of suffering and sacrifice that insist on
             respect and compensation. Sacrificial suffering is a moral entitlement
             that constitutes a claim upon society at large. (Amato xviii-xix)
             Within the Judaic tradition the stories and lessons of the scriptures
             represent the debt one must pay to God, through earthly suffering. "Judaic
             spirituality, which proclaimed with its most dramatic stories of Jacob's
             vow, Abraham's sacrifice, or Job's test, the principle of faith that God,
             who gave his people everything, rightly asked everything of them in return.
             " (Amato 45) Suffering through faith was and is considered an honorable
             debt bestowed upon the believer by God. In the early Christian faith the
             same can be expressed as the focus of the faithful was on their
             indebtedness to Christ for his death on the cross and God for his sacrifice
             of his only earthly son...