Wrestling with the Divine
A Jewish Response to Suffering
Description:... Starting from the premise that the suffering of the Holocaust, more than anything else, "serves as the primary challenge to the religious convictions of our generation" and the argument that Judaism is unique among systems of religious belief in that it offers no satisfactory answer to the question of suffering (e.g. the Holocaust cannot be understood), proposes how Jews should relate to the disaster of the Holocaust while arguing against approaches offered by several prominent Jewish thinkers. Contends that the proper Jewish approach to the Holocaust is to wrestle with God. Boteach bases his thinking on the Torah, classic Jewish sources, and contemporary Jewish thinkers.
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