<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-monospace; ">: All I can say is that looking back at events in life, etc. etc., it<br>: becomes apparent that there was much good not apparent at the time.<br>: The more you look back, the more you can gain bitachon.<br><br>"You are speaking to someone who lost a child, so I have a hard time<br>embracing that idea..."</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">You are absolutely correct and there is no way to justify what I said in light of what happened to you.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">There was a book that an O. rabbi wrote regarding the Holocaust. His thesis was very interesting.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">He said that if someone actually experienced the horrors of the holocaust or had loved ones killed, then</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">that person has every right to be angry at God or even not believe in Him. The interesting twist on his </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">thesis was that if someone was NOT in the holocaust and only knew about it through others or history books,</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">then this person was not entitled to be angry at God or to become an atheist because of it.</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="-webkit-monospace">ri</font></div></body></html>