Yanki Tauber writes of
the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s opinion on the Holocaust that “Only G-d Himself can answer for what He allowed to happen.”
Having spoken with
Hashem, I imagine Hashem’s answer for the tremendous suffering of the Holocaust
would most likely be something like, “I care very deeply. That is
why I made you suffer. I was trying to reach you, but when I did you
ran away. I was scared that if I spoke to you, that you would leave
Me and that you would run even further in the wrong direction. I,
Hashem, tried everything in my power, except suspend freewill, to get My
precious Jews to hearken to my voice.”
What is my evidence that this would be Hashem's answer?
G-d answered me in my time of suffering by saying, “I never
thought you would get this far (astray from an upright path. - Thus, I suggest that being
"far" from the truth is why the Jews suffered during the
Holocaust).” Then, He told me, “I AM punishing you,” which was music to
my ears because I thought that G-d not only did not exist, but that if He did
exist that He must not care what is happening to me. To find that G-d was
punishing me to the extent of taking action in my well being meant that He
cares indeed! Thus, the next step was to find out what to do to get G-d
to stop punishing me, through changing my heart and my actions primarily to
that of love and good deeds.
G-d struggles with empathy for His created beings. The
infinite G=d and Founder of the Universe has no more of a clue what it is like
to be human, than we have ability to see things from His perspective.
The article is entitled: The Rebbe on the Holocaust: What the Rebbe Said (and Didn't Say)
About the Holocaust
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