Jewish Responses to the Holocaust

What sort of Jewish response can there be to the horrors of the Holocaust? Reform Rabbi Howard Goldsmith from Congregation Emanu-El of Westchester discusses this with Orthodox Rabbi Ira Ebbin from Congregation Ohav Sholom in this week's installment of Sacred Texts Left to Right. Audio Only: https://images.shulcloud.com/720/1858... Text for discussion: The four-part 614th Commandment as articulated by Emil Fackenheim in his book “God’s Presence in History: Jewish Affirmation and Philosophical Reflections” 1. We are commanded, first, to survive as Jews, lest the Jewish people perish. 2. We are commanded, second, to remember in our very guts and bones the martyrs of the holocaust, lest their memory perish. 3. We are forbidden, thirdly, to deny or despair of God, however much we may have to contend with Him or with belief in Him, lest Judaism perish. 4. We are forbidden, finally, to despair of the world as the place which is to become the kingdom of God, lest we help make it a meaningless place in which God is dead or irrelevant and everything is permitted.