<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">R’ Micha wrote in regard to the Shelach posting:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><i class="">Similarly, if someone wants to argue that the Torah wants us to be<br class="">optimistic, don't we have to address what the Torah would tell a Jew<br class="">living in Lodz in 1939?</i></div><div class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></div><div class="">Along the same lines there was a fascinating book written many years</div><div class="">ago by a legitimate, authentic, respected orthodox rabbi who wrote that</div><div class="">someone who was not a victim in the holocaust has no right to say there</div><div class="">is no God. Here is what was really an astonishing and somewhat shocking</div><div class="">statement he made: if someone was actually in the Concentration Camp, this</div><div class="">person has the right to deny God. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I can see many raised eyebrows, but I would greatly appreciate someone </div><div class="">remembering this book. Since it was rather revolutionary to be coming from a</div><div class="">musmach who is respected by other orthodox rabbis.</div></body></html>