**צָרוֹת שֶׁל עֲשִׁירִים** *tzarot shel ashirim* — literally "troubles of the rich." A Hebrew idiom for the complaints of someone comfortably well-off, whose "sufferings" are trivial beside real hardship — the woes of a person with nothing genuine to complain about (close to the modern "first-world problems"). **In the book:** Neiman renders the idiom as "troubles of rich men" (p. 211) to capture [[Rousseau]]'s view of [[Voltaire]]'s lamentations over the Lisbon earthquake — that Voltaire, safe and wealthy, had no standing to grieve the disaster as the genuinely poor might. > [!note] Seedling — this definition is still being developed. > The Hebrew phrase is reconstructed (Neiman gives only the English "troubles of rich men"; she does not print the original). Source: [[Evil in Modern Thought - Neiman|Evil in Modern Thought]] by Susan Neiman, p. 211.