Evil and suffering are part of human history, and have been witnessed and deliberated by many theologians from both Catholic and Jewish faith traditions and still affect mankind today (ABC, 2015). When Catholicism and Judaism teachings consider suffering and evil, the source and meaning of suffering are divergent. This essay will investigation these differences concerning the ultimate reason for suffering and evil in the world today. and why it differs according to different interpretations of sacred text. The Sacred texts being analysed are: The Bible and Catholic Catechism as official teachings of Catholicism, and the Torah, Talmud, and The Midrash as official teachings of Judaism; these religious texts will be compared and contrasted concerning ideas around Suffering and Evil , where it originates from, while looking at the question ‘why do we suffer’. Judaism is renowned for the ‘First Religion’ (Kahn-Harris, 2012) which has a strong presence dating back as far as 1800 BCE (Patheos, 2015) when God made Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the prophet Moses sacred people and gave them the holy land[i]. The Jewish culture is throughout the world with an estimated following of 14 million people (Patheos, 2015). The Jewish culture has suffered as a whole and as individuals and it has been stated that the ‘problem of suffering is twofold’ (My Jewish Learning , 2015); this statement means that the problem is double the suffering. In contrast to the past statement an extract from the Torah ‘See, I have put before you today, life and good, and death and evil’ (Deuteronomy, 30:15) both statements show that there the followers have a choice and the consequences and pains which are also embellished. Historically Judaism’s followers have suffered through the events with the holocaust which was identified as a source evil, lead to the suffering which was felt nationally which was basis of the idea of National Suffering. These Ideas of