tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448657.post114601805903425493..comments2023-09-30T08:07:26.165-04:00Comments on Mystical Politics: Yom Ha-Shoah - Mordekhai Falkon (originally published on April 25, 2006)Rebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17626228106192215280noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448657.post-1146105272667903782006-04-26T22:34:00.000-04:002006-04-26T22:34:00.000-04:00Thank you, Toby. I remember an exchange, perhaps a...Thank you, Toby. I remember an exchange, perhaps a year ago, mostly on Dov Bear's blog, on this issue, that connected the rise of the Nazis in some way to the Reform movement in Germany. We don't need to revisit it, I think. I agree with you that the people responsible are the German Nazis and their collaboratorsRebeccahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17626228106192215280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5448657.post-1146073862022545902006-04-26T13:51:00.000-04:002006-04-26T13:51:00.000-04:00You wrote a sad and thoughtful remembrance for you...You wrote a sad and thoughtful remembrance for your lost family members, may their memory be blessed.<BR/><BR/>On another blog you wrote that you had discussed with me the issue of whether "the reason" for the Holocaust was that German Jews ate non-kosher food, failed to keep Shabbos, and started heterodox movements. <BR/><BR/>I do not remember discussing this with you. If you still have the correspondence, please refresh my memory, or if you remember the gist of my argument, please tell me that. Thank you. As it happens, I do not believe there was any one reason or even ten reasons for the Holocaust, in the sense of reasons that can be perfectly fathomed and accepted by the human mind. So many innocent children and so many holy, rightous people died. It would be a defamation of their memories to claim that we know "the reason" and "they deserved it." <BR/><BR/>Of course the Torah does contain a passage called the Tochacha, and that must serve as a partial -- but very partial, very incomplete -- source of study as to "the reasons" for the Holocaust. <BR/><BR/>Recently I saw someone claim that "the reason" was the failure of Jews to go to Eretz Yisrael, and I saw that others blame the rabbis who failed to foresee the Holocaust and failed to warn their flocks. "Explanations" like these explain nothing, and take the blame from the people whose behavior is most blameworthy: the Germans themselves.<BR/><BR/>If you wish to contact me off list my email address is t613k@aol.comToby Katzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13504004868603205176noreply@blogger.com