Friday, October 7, 2016



In the article "Holocaust Survivors: the Search for Faith" Mr. Menachem Daum describes the remarkable journey of his parents faith after suffering through the Holocuast. He describes how his mother cannot find it in herself to forgive G-d and his fathers strong faith that continues even after the Holocuasts. The quote that really stuck me was " A G-d who limits himself to actions that we humans can understand couldn't possibly be G-d." This quote would support his Dads views. Most people I feel would agree that his mothers arugmet is logical that G-d should have stepped in and done something. That quote sheds light on the argument if us as humans could understand everything G-d did then we wouldn't be human. If we are relating this to the story of Job we could say that this was a test of the faith of the chosen ones, the Jews. Was Hitler the work of the devil in order to make sure that the Jews would keep their beliefs in time of suffering. What G-d did to Job was awful but he kept his faith and proved to be loyal. Job was a good person and so were the Jews. The story of Job is almost identical to the holocuast the punishments got increasingly worse and worse as time went on and the strong kept faith while others turned their back on G-d. Logically its hard for some to understand why G-d would continually let his "chosen people" be pursicuted but in comparing these stories I saw a whole other side of the Holocuast.

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