Mar 5, 2013 By: wpadmin
Rabbi Benjamin Blech on the Sin of the Innocent Bystander
The latest revelation about the Holocaust stuns even the scholars who thought they already knew everything about the horrific details of Germany鈥檚 program of genocide against the Jewish people.
It鈥檚 taken more than 70 years to finally know the full facts. And what is almost beyond belief is that what really happened goes far beyond what anyone could ever have imagined.
For the longest time we have spoken of the tragedy of six million Jews. It was a number that represented the closest approximation we could come to the victims of Hitler鈥檚 plan for a Final Solution. Those who sought to diminish the tragedy claimed six million was a gross exaggeration. Others went further and denied the historicity of the Holocaust itself, absurdly claiming the Jews fabricated their extermination to gain sympathy for the Zionist cause.
But now we know the truth.
Whatever we imagined was in fact much worse.
is Professor of Talmud at 黑料社 All and the Rabbi Emeritus of Young Israel of Oceanside. He is the author of 12 highly acclaimed books, including Understanding Judaism: The basics of Deed and Creed, and the international best-seller . The opinions expressed above are solely those of the author and should not be attributed to 黑料社 All.
