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Are We Asking the Wrong Questions About

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While prominent Jewish thinkers like Elie Wiesel and Richard Rubenstein view the Holocaust as a unique theological rupture that shatters traditional faith, Eliezer Berkovits charts a radically different course. His distinctive post-Holocaust theology places the Shoah within Judaism's broader history of catastrophe and survival, arguing that it represents a quantitative rather than qualitative break from previous suffering. Through textual analysis and theological examination, this research reveals how Berkovits maintains traditional Jewish faith by deploying the concept of Hester Panim (the hiding of God's face) - a recurring divine attribute throughout Jewish history. His apologetic draws strength from extensive documentation of continued religious observance within the death camps themselves. By grounding Jewish faith in historical revelation and covenant rather than experiential circumstances, Berkovits creates a framework where believers can maintain religious commitment despite divine silence. His theology ultimately conceptualizes Jews as a "supernatural" people whose very survival evidences divine presence, finding redemptive meaning in Israel's establishment as the fulfillment of messianic destiny. This analysis demonstrates how Berkovits presents a compelling counter-narrative to post-Holocaust theological revisionism, offering a path to preserve traditional Jewish religious commitment while fully acknowledging the horror of the Shoah.

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    John Johnson