Monday, March 5, 2018

God is Everywhere, Even There





Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust by Yaffa Eliach is a unique collection of stories about the Shoah.  Hasidic tales are essentially modern in tone.  The Almighty does not intervene in the lives of the characters through direct action, but behind the scenes, in the social or natural world.  Often, a character is saved from a word or deed that happens, seemingly, by accident.

Yet there are no accidents.  Everything is guided from the hand of HaShem.  Including, it seems, in the ghetto and camps of World War II.  These stories may strain credulity for some, but that is the point.  If G-d works through everything, than meaning can even be found in the most dehumanizing and cruel of places.

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