Workshop on the Holocaust 10

[Devora1]

Do you think hearing  about life in the ghetto in all of its terrible detail always has positive result?. The details can serve to deepen our understanding of the holocaust experience or can too much detail actually serve to distract from the picture?

Discuss in light of your personal experience and reaction to this class and previous workshops on the holocaust.


Our Torah literature is replete with great detail about how the Egyptians tortured the Jews during their long exile. One commentator even goes so far as to enumerate how each makka was middah k'neged midda for how the Egyptians conducted themselves with us. So in a sense it is important to learn what they perpetrated against us and the Torah devotes a parsha to the tochacha to teach us that sins are not forgotten and there is judgement in this world and the next but sometimes it may still be difficult to hear