Emunah and the Holocaust

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

So the topic for today is the moon and the holocaust and uh obviously you've been deal doing names not numbers and you've come into contact with some of the things which have to holocaust and we're going to of course in the course of the year later on we're going to come into even more about the holocaust and obviously this raises question amuna and there are people holocaust survivors who as a result of their experience in the holocaust they did lose their amuna they gave up their faith in our so question is how do we deal with this how do we understand what hashem did and it's obviously something which which requires a lot of analysis going to give an overview today. Again, as I said, don't hesitate to ask questions in the future. So, we have to distinguish between amuna and there's amuna which is belief in and there's which is trust in they're two separate things and one can believe in god but not trust god. How so? So amuna is the belief that there's a creator which is based on many many pieces of evidence. We have a lot of evidence there's a creator in Judaism. Our primary evidence that there's a creator is the fact that we have a misora tradition stretching back to matan tora to mosh raenu that all the Jewish people were at hari and received the Torah and they all heard at least the first two dros from and this tradition has come down to us historically in an unbroken chain from the time of moshen till today and that's the basis of our issu there other reasons why a person should have a

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