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Curing anti-Semitism with More Semitism
Toward Tradition ^ | 4/14/'07 | Rabbi Daniel Lapin

Posted on 04/20/2007 9:21:58 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator

It is the period of Holocaust Remembrance Day or Yom HaShoah—the Day of the Holocaust. In Israel, traffic comes to a halt for two minutes of respectful silence. In America, the day is observed by many Jewish communities as the dead are mourned. But for some, the Holocaust challenges faith.

Anyone who believes in the God of Abraham, has only two choices when contemplating the Holocaust: (1) God was powerless to stop evil men from perpetrating the Holocaust and therefore allowed this unspeakable calamity to occur; or (2) He made it happen.

Nobody with faith can adopt the first explanation. It violates every principle of an all-powerful God. Though it presents the fundamental question of how so many innocent people could be made to endure such tragic suffering, we are left with alternative number two. As hard as it is to comprehend, God must have made the Holocaust happen.

(Excerpt) Read more at towardtradition.org ...


TOPICS: Apologetics; Current Events; Judaism; Theology
KEYWORDS: holocaust; providence; theodicy
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To: Zionist Conspirator
"Please don't even try to understand this. We are dealing with Omnipotence here. This is so far beyond our understanding that I don't even understand the need to understand it. I just accept it."

...agreed that it's far beyond our understanding. I've joined a cabal as an alien and still don't understand. [Little humor in choice of words and sincerity in statement for you there.]
21 posted on 04/22/2007 1:49:20 PM PDT by familyop (Greetings. Take me to your leader.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

And thank you.


22 posted on 04/22/2007 1:50:28 PM PDT by familyop (Greetings. Take me to your leader.)
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To: familyop

You’re welcome.


23 posted on 04/22/2007 4:56:01 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Please pray for the refu'ah shelemah of Yehudah Ben Rivqah, father of Binyamin Jolkovsky.)
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