Day 66
What Does Judaism Say about Theodicy?
In loving memory of our grandparents and great grandparents. Michelle & Bradley together with Simone, Alison & Jonathan Mervish.
In loving memory of our grandparents and great grandparents. Michelle & Bradley together with Simone, Alison & Jonathan Mervish.
Third Army Headquarters sent elements of the 80th Infantry Division to take control of the camp on the morning of Thursday, April 12, 1945. Several journalists arrived on the same day, perhaps with the 80th, including Edward R. Murrow, whose radio report of his arrival and reception was broadcast on CBS and became one of his most famous:
“I asked to see one of the barracks. It happened to be occupied by Czechoslovaks. When I entered, men crowded around, tried to lift me to their shoulders. They were too weak. Many of them could not get out of bed. I was told that this building had once stabled 80 horses. There were 1,200 men in it, five to a bunk. The stink was beyond all description.
They called the doctor. We inspected his records. There were only names in the little black book, nothing more. Nothing about who these men were, what they had done, or hoped. Behind the names of those who had died, there was a cross. I counted them. They totalled 242. 242 out of 1,200, in one month.
As we walked out into the courtyard, a man fell dead. Two others, they must have been over 60, were crawling toward the latrine. I saw it, but will not describe it.” —Extract from Edward R. Murrow‘s Buchenwald report. April 15, 1945.
The age old question of why does G-d allow evil in this world, answered with a combination of animation and philosophy