By Steven T. Katz, Shlomo Biderman, Gershon Greenberg
This quantity provides a wide-ranging collection of Jewish theological responses to the Holocaust. it will likely be the main entire anthology of its type, bringing jointly for the 1st time: (1) a wide pattern of ultra-orthodox writings, translated from the Hebrew and Yiddish; (2) a considerable number of essays through Israeli authors, additionally translated from the Hebrew; (3) a extensive sampling of works written in English by means of American and eu authors. those various decisions signify almost each major theological place that has been articulated by means of a Jewish philosopher in accordance with the Holocaust. incorporated are infrequently studied responses that have been written whereas the Holocaust used to be taking place.
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Sanhedrin 46a). Land of Israel: Issues of Past and Future The issue of the relationship of the Land of Israel to the Holocaust constituted its own thread in the theologizing of the war years. For some, it was an issue anchored in the past; for others, in the future. In terms of the past, some thought that initiatives taken to restore the land brought on the catastrophe. The Zionist revolt against the British, Ehrenreich believed, attempted to precipitate and force the settlement of the land, and incited God’s judgment to ‘‘permit your flesh to be a prey like that of the gazelles and the hinds of the field’’ (B.
70–71; Arthur A. Cohen, Thinking the Tremendum: Some Theological Implications of the Death Camps (New York, 1974), pp. 4–5. 4. On R. , 2005), pp. 113–128. A. thesis, Touro College, 1993), pp. 56–64; and Esther Farbstein, ‘‘Derashot Harav Mipintchov,’’ in Esther Farbstein, Beseter Ra’am: Halakhah, Hagut Vemanhigut Bimei Hashoah (2002), pp. 448–452. ak Bloch and Eliahu Meir Bloch,’’ in The Vanished World of Lithuanian Jews, edited by Stefan Schreiner, Darius Staliunas, and Alvydas Nikzentaitis (New York, 2004), pp.
If you are separated from the nations, you are Mine. If not, you are with Nebuchadnezzar and his friends’’ [Rashi ad Leviticus 20:26]. 32 Part I Ultra-Orthodox Responses during and following the War The Shepherds 8. In Ezekiel [ch. 34] there is a clear picture of the generation of the ‘‘footsteps of the Messiah’’ and its shepherds. The generation is divided into five classes [regarding spirituality]: (1) weak ones, (2) sick ones, (3) ones with broken limbs, (4) those led astray, (5) lost ones.