What the Rebbe Said (and Didn't Say) About the Holocaust
From today's Haaretz.com:Holocaust scholar Yehuda Bauer on The Lubavitcher Rebbe's approach to understanding /dealing with The Holocaust.
Bauer claims that: "The (Lubavitcher) Rebbe's stance is clear: The Holocaust was a good thing because it lopped off a disease-ravaged limb of the Jewish people..."
What the Rebbe ACTUALLY Said (and Didn't Say) about the Holocaust
Labels: Definitions, History, Rav Judah, Torah
posted by Pinchas @ 12:10 AM
2 Comments:
At June 3, 2007 at 2:09 AM ,
Yishai said...
I thought this paragraph was very powerful:
"To those who argued that the Holocaust disproves the existence of G-d or His providence over our lives, the Rebbe said: On the contrary -- the Holocaust has decisively disproven any possible faith in a human-based morality. In pre-war Europe, it was the German people who epitomized culture, scientific advance and philosophic morality. And these very same people perpetrated the most vile atrocities known to human history! If nothing else, the Holocaust has taught us that a moral and civilized existence is possible only through the belief in and the acceptance of the Divine authority."
At June 3, 2007 at 3:09 AM ,
Rav Judah said...
I also thought the final point in the article clarifying the Rebbe's outlook was particularly relevant:
"...the most important thing about the Holocaust to the Rebbe was not how we do or do not understand it, nor, even, how we memorialize its victims, but what we do about it. If we allow the pain and despair to dishearten us from raising a new generation of Jews with a strong commitment to their Jewishness, then Hilter's "final solution" will be realized, G-d forbid. But if we rebuild, if we raise a generation proud of and committed to their Jewishness, we will have triumphed."
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
<< Home