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Rabbi, Where Was God During The Holocaust?!
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Oorah's founder, Rabbi Chaim Mintz, giving his weekly Tuesday night class at Oorah's Torah Spot in Staten Island. The class is streamed live at http://www.oorah.org/rabbimintzlive each Tuesday night at . "Ask the Rabbi" session begins at . Send your question to be answered by Rabbi Mintz to [email protected] ALL QUESTIONS ARE WELCOME!
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okay I um I'm a second generation for
Holocaust when uh the Holocaust when the
sh happened my father said where was God
when he killed my entire family and he
became an orphan at a very young age how
can he or I how can we start theing we
always got
then well this is the question that so
many hoca survivors go through
and uh that's why I brought the holy
Torah here to tell us that this is not
something happened all of a sudden this
is God warned us from years before it's
in the Torah and uh as believing Jews we
know that this world is only a pathway
to the world to come and in scheme of
time it's like you go to a dentist and
he pulls out the needle to give that
overan everybody shutters and puts it
your gums especially hits a nerve then
you feel terrible pain so why does the
person do it for I don't want pain so
why do you get a shot for person goes to
the hospital and has to have this
ganging foot amputated so what are you
doing that for you're going through pain
because it's worth the pain for those
few seconds in order to be able to be
able to eat normally afterwards in order
to be able to live normally afterwards
so a person is willing to endure pain
for a short time in order for in the
long run for many hours days or weeks
and months afterwards will'll be
enjoying life and that's how we look at
this world this world compared to
Eternity is not let even like a few
seconds if we compare this world to A
Thousand Years to a million years this
we we live forever afterwards we live
eternally so when we go through this
world it's like a shadow of Nova even
it's difficult for us to Bear but we
have to know that God's preparing us for
the world to come and then we'll look
back just like the sh it was worth it
even though it was terrible pain we went
through but God knows what he's doing
and uh we as Believers we know that this
is not a world in itself this is not the
end of life there's no end of life our
our soul will live forever and that
would pain we went through will be
forgotten and even when we're going
through it it's difficult to to to Bear
but still we have to have a and believe
inem King David says in
Psalms what God will bring the
Redemption it'll bring the world to come
we look back it'll be like a bad dream
happened before but bad dreams will get
over but it's something very difficult
to live through but we have the right
amuna that this world is only stepping
stone to the world to come they were
able to like many people went through
the Holocaust and they are very uh
strong strong Jewish people because they
believe that God knows what he's doing
and uh ultimately we will appreciate
what happen just like a child gets a hit
by a parent and the parent makes the
child cry but ultimately the child
appreciates what the father parent did
for them because was with it for their
good and the ultimately will understand
why God did what he did they bring
a
parable to
understand talking about families that
were destroyed since
terrible uh wickedness that Jews had to
suffer through they
bring that you have a woman who's
pregnant she has twins
inside and uh they're there for nine
months and they're with each other very
good brothers and have everything they
need the food and the warmth and some
wonderful
uh place for them to be together and all
of a sudden one of them is born goes out
the other one is so
upset what happened to
him he was here had such a good life
over here all the food he needed the
warmth everything is wonderful and he
gone so that one that stays inside is so
upset what happened to his brother and
realistically speaking what happened
he's born in the world he came out
that's what he's in there for to come
out be in the world to be grow up to
accomplish to do the one inside doesn't
nothing about that he he just knows what
his world is inside not realizing what
really life is all about the same way we
live in this world we think this is it
and then if somebody dies you oh it's a
terrible thing the person die dying is
not a terrible thing dying is is really
what we're here for to live for a short
time he died in our and soul lives
forever and that's we Coast get together
with our families from before lose our
family in this world but we get together
with our family our grandparents
great-grandparents all it's it's a
reunion in the other world the the
Eternal world so we look at somebody
that leaves the world as if the worst
thing in the world happened to them
we're the ones that are the baby inside
is is really very limited and doesn't
have no life's all about they think
that's the main life but he's so limited
and and so not
knowledgeable the same way it comes to
this world people think because we're so
used to it we think all around us seems
to be this is it and this is what what
we we created for but that's not really
the truth as as as uh as God-fearing
believing Jews we know that the main
thing is the world to come the Hereafter
not this world this world is only a a a
thoroughfare on road to something
greater something more important so we
talk about the people dying and they
come to the other world they're happier
they're looking back what are you so
upset about the thing that we're much
better off than you are we're in the
world in the real world you're in the
fake world this the world of of of of of
of of she falseness of of wickedness
they're in the real world of truth of
honesty of of greatness of of elevation
so we can't be uh very uh a
a to involved in our life in this world
that we shouldn't realize that this is
not what it's all about this is not the
is not the purpose the real purpose of
the world is the world to come not not
this world so we looking at think those
terms we believe that with a real belief
so don't see the tragedy is as the same
it's a tragedy but not an eternal
Eternal tragedy it's a it's a it's a uh
temporary tragedy that we have to live
through but that's what God has in mind
for us much something much greater
nobody lives forever and people who die
earlier we feel bad but we have to
realize that where they went to much
better world that we're living in over
here they better off than we are so
after after thought to bring out and
point a little bit
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