Holocaust Video Project with Dr. Kenneth Hanson18 Elo 2020

The Shoah and Jewish Faith #17

When it comes to modern approaches toward faith, God and spirituality, the Shoah has arguably changed everything. Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel once remarked: "We have all the reasons to give up … on man, on faith, and even on God. We have the reasons to do so, but we will not invoke them. And in spite of everything, we will go on believing." Not only is it important to consider how the Jewish faith has been affected, post-Holocaust, but how observant Jews were impacted, with regard to their faith, in the midst of the tragedy. Elie Wiesel, for his part, was said to have put God on trial at Auschwitz. It will also be instructive to consider two Jewish leaders, both ultra-orthodox rabbis, who were victims of the Nazi genocide. Their perspectives (unlike post-Holocaust theology) provide a window on Jewish thought while events were unfolding. The reflections of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, who was residing in Warsaw at the outbreak of the war, were published in Israel in 1960 under the title Esh Kodesh. Taken as a whole, Rabbi Shapira's book lays out a normative theology of suffering. Another ultra-orthodox rabbi, Yissachar Teichtal, was living in Budapest during the Nazi era. His theology is even more dramatic, rejecting all exilic philosophies, and developing a religious Zionist philosophy. If there is a to be found a merging of the two approaches, it is in the idea of "reconstruction," on the one hand of the individual, and on the other, of the Jewish nation – the uniquely Jewish concept of tikkun.

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Holocaust Denial #21

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Prof. Zev Garber Meaning word "Shoah" vs. "Holocaust" #20

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18 Elo 202055min

"Between Heaven and Earth": Rabbi Leo Baeck Responds to the Rise of the Nazis #19

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18 Elo 20204min

The Response of the Allies #18

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18 Elo 202024min

Jewish Faith in the Holocaust #16

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Operation Reinhard #15

Operation Reinhard #15 How did the horror of the Nazi death camps evolve? Auschwitz didn't just sprout from the ground one day. There was an "evolution" of the murder machinery, and a cast of diabolic...

18 Elo 202024min

France:Bystanders, Collaborators, and Helpers #14

France:Bystanders, Collaborators, and Helpers #14 About 80,000 Jews were deported from France during the Holocaust years. Nothing to brag about, but far fewer than the hundreds of thousands of Jews wh...

18 Elo 202021min