I”If something like this were to happen right now in Israel, would akuperma say “Oh, that again! Pogroms happen- live with it!”? I sincerely hope not. “
It would be sad if the Jewish community of Eretz Yisrael, or Brooklyn, or Lakewood, was destroyed, but it would not be the end of the world. Such things will happen, have always happened, and will always happen. It is inevitable.
Remember that Stalin and his disciples, could only perceive the world of sheker, and from that perspective a murder, or a massacre, or an act of genocide is definitive. You live only for this world. We however know this world is a mere “prozdor” and nothing more. We perceive the world of emes, and realize that the problems in the prozdor are, in the final analysis, inconsequential.