Questioning Apparent Injustice

There is a fascinating Midrash that speaks of some of the background behind the subjugation of the Israelites in Egypt, and the subsequent redemption. As I have pointed out previously, some take Midrash literally, other take it allegorically. In any case, this story contains powerful messages for us.
The Egyptians, among other atrocities, sealed up Hebrew children into the walls of their buildings. (This belief is also shared by Egyptian Muslims, who have barren women pray at ancient ruins for the murdered children to enter their wombs. This is especially done at the village of San El Hagar). Moses pleaded "G-d! What did these innocents do to deserve this?!" G-d answered "take one out and you will see what will happen".Moses removes a child from the building. His name is Michah. Now, when Joseph had died, he first commanded that his body be brought to the Holy Land when the Israelites would finally leave. The Torah says that "he was placed in a coffin in Egypt". The rabbis say that the Egyptians, wanting the Israelites to always remain at slaves, sunk Joseph's coffin at a secret location in the Nile. At the Exodus, Moses sought someone who was still alive from the time of Joseph's death. A granddaughter of Jacob, Serah, daughter of Asher, was still alive. (This involves yet another Midrash). She pointed out the approximate location of Joseph's coffin. Moses took a piece of gold, and wrote on it "Come up, Ox!" (Each of Jacob's children were compared to an animal, with Joseph being the ox.See Deut, 33:17). The coffin floated to the surface, and Moses saw to it that it was carried out of Egypt with full honors.honors. Michah saw the gold with its inscription, and picked it up to keep as a souvenir. When the Israelites, under the influence of the Mixed Multitude, saw that Moses was delayed in coming down from Mt. Sinai, they assumed him to be dead, and threw their gold into the furnace in order to make an idol. Michah threw in that inscribed piece of gold, and out jumped a golden calf; a baby ox. This explains Aaron's strange statement to Moses "I threw the gold into the furnace, and out came this calf". The calf seemed to be alive, and most of the people took it as a sign of its divinity.
The implications here are huge. The obvious, and very human, question of an apparently nedless, innocent death, resulted in one of the greatest sins in the history of Man. Also, the illusory nature of Evil can be such that even good people are fooled. The mysteries of life and death, the struggle of good and evil, often have causes and meanings not immediately evident to our limited senses. Like the old saying that "hindsight is 20/20" (or 6/6 if you are talking metric), we simply don't see and don't know. This goes much further when speaking of Spiritual processes. We need to know that G-d is in charge, and we cannot always tell if an event is good or bad. We need to know that every story has a prologue, every story has an epilogue. We only see a tiny sliver of history. We often delude ourselves into thinking that our tiny sliver of history is all there is. History is vast. G-d is yet vaster. We are simply building links in the chain of history; doing our part in the Divine plan.