My God, I recently visited with my son the synagogue in Groningue. Would You like to comment on this visit?
I will.
I saw you both sitting there with a yarmulke on
and was delighted.Because the spiritual world is always pleased, from guardian angel to the Unnameable, when man pauses briefly at the Holy, the Infinite, the Big Picture. That’s what you did. And do not underestimate the impact of this House on your adolescent son, who finds everything boring and silly that tastes of religion, buildings and religious stuff. The guide did his best, but the spiritual world does the rest.
The devotion of the orthodox Jews, the sanctity
of the place where you were sitting and where is read from the Torah Scroll,
the old building with its sad history of destruction of the Jewish community in
Groningen, the sincere and gentle stories of the guide have entered as subtle food the hearts of all visitors,
from you, but do not underestimate it, including the heart from your son.
The destruction of the Jewish population in
Europe.
Why does this great unspeakable suffering
exist?Why is this destruction of a poor and afflicted and already oppressed people?
Wasn’t this the limit?
Did this people not suffer enough?
Didn’t you
visitors of this historical place feel what the guide failed to say?
Didn’t the pictures of a vanished people speak for
themselves?Wasn’t the hushed photo of Clara Assher Pinkhof painful?
She should be lucky that she survived the war, where only two of her six children were killed, whereas further 98% of the Jewish community over there was killed?
Clara was a saint with her great love for the Jewish children of Groningue.
Did she not went voluntarily on transport to protect "her children"?
Did she not run inhumane risks, out of charity?
Did the Unnamable not work through her?
Why was this beautiful people murdered?
Why? Why, are you asking the Unnameable?The question sounds back sadly from out of the spiritual world: why? Why is asked to you men?
Why? And the answer is not there.
How will it be ever possible to give an answer to this question?
Cruel people, cruel society, cruel laws which have enslaved, persecuted destroyed an entire people. Why, asks the spiritual world? And the answer is not there.
Cruel price of evolution, cruel price of free will, cruel price of prejudice and ignorance.
My son, let every human being be moved by a
visit to this oh so empty synagogue and wonder: will we together can and will prevent
the bankruptcy of a humane society the next time?
The Jewish people is blessed.Every oppressed people is blessed.
My blessings to you all
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