“We cannot pretend we do not see, we do not hear, we do not know. We need to take a stand, because history can repeat itself. It can happen to any group of people.” – Barbara Turkeltaub, Holocaust survivor. This evening (sunset) is the start of #YomHashoah, the Day of Remembrance of the Holocaust. Adat Yeshua will be marking this solemn day this evening with a service. A little more than one generation ago one-third of the worlds Jewish population was butchered by humanity gone mad. This unthinkable historical fact occurred in 20th century Europe; in a civilization shaped by western religious values, moral and intellectual traditions. For the Nazis, mass murder and the exploitation of human corpses became a civic duty and obliterated societys moral, religious and intellectual traditions. Humanity became irreparably stained with guilt, for the persecutor, no longer considering his victim human, ceased to act in a way recognizably human. And the world, so deaf and so indifferent to the atrocity, ultimately became an accomplice. The German mind followed the path of the philosophy of moral nihilism to its logical end point where nothing was of value. ‘G-d was dead’ it said. Humanity, created in the image of G-d, and specifically the Jew whose very presence pointed to G-d, became to the Nazi mind, an intolerable reminder. In the insanity of their revolt against G-d, a revolt against reason was born and a journey toward limitless pursuit of the irrational was tragically launched. For the sad truth is, that the same anti-Semitic Beast, which was unleashed by the Nazis, lives even today somewhere in every human being. And it is true that if the world will not learn from history, then sadly, it is doomed to repeat it. Even more true is that those who tolerate evil are just as guilty as those who perpetrate it. #NeverAgain
Posted on: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 09:33:49 +0000
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