Tuesday, February 6, 2024

God's Gaze Distracted

 

 


How to imbue a sensitive child with a sense

of security and well-being, the comfort of knowing

their place in the world and the horizons open to

them in their future? The reassuring love of a

parent, the sense conveyed to a child of endurance

in the face of adversity, the confidence that they

have the attributes required to build upon through

exposure to education and societal norms. How

then do Jewish parents convey all of this to their

offspring in explaining that educated people had no

problem accepting a societal norm so adverse to the

enduring existence of Jews that their leaders were

enabled to destroy the lives of Jewish children just

like them, trusting and eager to learn, fully one and

a half million such children whose lives were

obliterated with full intention by those oblivious

to their humanity. The dilemma is to expose one's

questioning child to the reality of the Holocaust or

seek avoidance of any mention of the monstrous deed

that extinguished the lives of men, women and children

by the Nazi Third Reich under the eyes of the world.

 

 

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