Some years ago a book was published: After Auschwitz by Richard Rubenstein. The author argued that after the Holocaust no Jew could believe in a God who was all good and all powerful. How to deal with catastrophic loss and undeserved pain is a perennial issue for all believers and has been since Biblical times. For example, the experience of exile caused the Jewish people to wonder why their God did not protect them from the enemy. Those who raised the question saw God’s hand at work in giving them a new chance in the return to the land of Israel. “God has given us new life to raise again the house of our God and restore its ruins and has granted us a fence.”
