Did God abandon the Jews during the holocaust?

Answer 1

Why focus on God? Didn't the world abandon the Jews?

As for your question, the Jews have been persecuted for millennia. The Nazis threw everything at them mid-20th century technology allowed, but they were unable to bring about their Final Solution. The Jews have survived, as a people, what would have destroyed another culture. That strength, that perseverence, that bitter triumph may be proof that God did not abandon them, even though all else did.

Answer 2

Religious Jews say that God goes through periods in which is is more active and periods in which he doesn't show himself as much, or at all. The holocaust was one of those times. The biblical times were a more active time.

What at_window says about 90% of the Jews not being decedents of the ancient Jews is not true. Even genetically the Jews are closer to each other (Ashkenazim and Sephardi alike) to each other than to any other people in the world.

Answer 3

Yes during, but not after, he also abandoned more than 30 million non-Jews killed in labor camps in soviet Russia between WWI and II, those didn't have much PR strength so they went undocumented for.
But still God works in mysterious ways!
Right after the holocaust, they immediately founded Israel in the land of Palestine. Now a Zionist Jew is more protected that he/she can be a citizen of two states even if he was born in Haiti. So if Jews were suffering anywhere in the globe they could settle back to their homeland and save themselves the hatred of the vicious Goys.

Answer 4

It is a difficult question to answer from a religious perspective because the Ashkenazi Jews (about 90% of Jews living today) are not descended from the ancient Jews of Israel.

The Sephardic and North African Jews are their descendants. They were certainly affected by the Holocaust but not to the same extent as the Ashkenazi Jews.

So what religious meaning it had, if any, is up for grabs.

Answer 5

No,

Keep in mind the scale of the horror was different. Specially in the mind of people it was huge, it was the concentration in one spot that made it so memorable. No pun intended, that's was why they called it concentration-camps. Keep in mind this: There weren't 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust, 6 million times there was a murder.

Bad stuff like that has been going on for ages and still is going on. Since the dawn of man people have killed each other for all sorts of reasons in all sorts of destructive, sadistic ways. God does not abandon anybody specially not in time of need.

Sure makes me wonder why God hasn't abandoned us... maybe he got used to it..... perish the thought.

Answer 6

God never abandons anyone...
but the point when salvation is turned to the gentiles and the Jewish nation is no longer the chosen of God is at the point of Stephen's death... acts 8:56
when the son of Man stands, it signifys the close of probation...
thats why Jesus tells his disciples to go to the jewish peoples houses first Mat 10:5... because their probation is closing..
after that, the Jewsih nation is no longer the chosen of God..
and the rest of the prophecies concerning God's people is reffered to the spiritual israelites..

but concerning the holocaust, i believe that is a result of the Jews claiming for the blood of Jesus to be on their heads and their descendents Mat 27:25

Answer 7

No, God abandons no one. We all must suffer through our trial's, and expiation's. It is God's perfect justice. We do not die, we continue to live. If you understand this concept truly, there is nothing to fear in this corporeal life.

The Jews, the entire holocaust and WWII were the cause of man, as well, it incorporated the Law of Destruction and the evolution of the planet. the millions of people who left Earth during WWII left a gap, ushering in a new generation of Spirits.

Why the Jews had to personally suffer almost to extinction of their society, I cannot reflect on because I have no knowledge of why they where chosen.

God bless them for their suffering, as well as the rest of people who perished in that massive war.

Answer 8

Are you trying to show people that God is not here because tragedy occurs? People who believe in God do not always look or need physical or factual evidence. They have faith.

You need to understand what reliogious people know about their religions and how they have faith in God and then perhaps you may understand how such vulgar questions like this one do not really prove or disprove anything.

God does not have to be one entitiy who intervenes in human tradgedy. And you can ask the billions of religius people on this planet about that if you like.

I would say that humanity abandoned the Jews.

Answer 9

No God works in mysterious ways!!! He He.. He! So do the terrorists and George Bush!!!

If Jews believed or even learned anything from what happened to them (for which i feel sorry being a human-being) they should not have created a racist state based on genocide of Palestinians.

I think they got deranged as a people due to the genocide and they need help.

Answer 10

If you believe in God (or Higher power) and have faith then you will come to see that everything happens for a reason (atrocious or not) and there are always lessons to be learned from every situation. So No, I don't think they were abandoned.