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April 8, 2011 5:36 pm at 5:36 pm #757266
AinOhdMilvado
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I have a number of feelings that I will try to summarize as follows (in no particular order)…

1) EXTREME anger at our sub-human enemies (past and present).

2) Some of us feel a sense of “disappointment” (for lack of a better word) at those Yidden who lost their emunah from what they experienced, – I am awed and amazed by those that did not.

3) Terrible sadness and distress at the fact that I feel that most of us have not learned much from this horrifying chapter in our history. Every time I hear someone say “Oh, but it COULDN’T happen here”, I want to SCREAM!

4) Frustration with my fellow Jews who feel that because (for whatever reason) the Shoah was some kind of gezaira min haShamayim, that WE don’t have to do OUR histadlus, (spiritually AND) physically to prevent it (in any form, to any degree) in the future.