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Brave New Words: Taking God To Task For The Shoah

JL;DR SUMMARY Menachem Rosensaft's book, "Burning Psalms: Confronting Adonai After Auschwitz," challenges the traditional portrayal of God through a series of 150 psalms that express deep anger and a sense of abandonment during the Holocaust. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish HistoryAuschwitzHolocaustJewish LiturgyJewish TheologyPsalmsRemembranceMenachem RosensaftTheodicyDivine Silence

Places mentioned

New York, United States
"Menachem Rosensaft, 76, an attorney, educator and New York-based Jewish communal leader, has gone a step further."
Bergen-Belsen, Lower Saxony, Germany
"His earliest memories are of the Bergen-Belsen DP (displaced persons) Camp in Germany, where he was born and where his parents, concentration camp survivors Josef Rosensaft and his physician wife, Hadassah, played heroic roles in caring for the thousands of broken bodies and souls there living in limbo."
Stockholm, Sweden
"he was one of five American Jews who met in December 1988 with PLO chairman Yasir Arafat in Stockholm, hoping to establish peaceful Israel-Arab relations."
Auschwitz, Lesser Poland, Poland
"I have dared to imagine myself in the mindset of my brother in the Birkenau gas chamber on the night of August 3-4, 1943 and in the mindset of the victims of the Holocaust as they were confronted with its horrors and still sought to address Adonai, to question mimaamakim, from the depths."
Treblinka, Mazovia, Poland
"And yet we know that no such divine intervention was forthcoming, that no divine loving kindness manifested itself at Auschwitz or Treblinka..."

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