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Answer 1
The following answer is going to anger just about anyone who reads it.
It has been pointed out that for 150 years leading up to the Holocaust, there was rampant assimilation among European Jewry; first in Germany and then elsewhere too. See Deuteronomy chapters 28, 31 and 32 and see how they address your question.
Answer 2
The important thing worth noting is that God allowing permission for people to exercise free will does not necessarily mean that God approves of every action taken with that free will. It is for us as people to decide right from wrong and act in a proper way. Judaism believes that the proper path is outlined clearly in the Written and Oral Torah. The Talmud most clearly advocates against genocide when it says that "Murdering one person is as if you have murdered the whole world."
A person could easily ask why God stood by during the Armenian, Cambodian, Kurdish, and Rwandan genocides inter alia. A person could also ask why God did not grant immediate victory to righteous individuals and nations in this world. The answers are the same. We rise or fall on our own actions and we have a broken world in which we work. Sometimes the tables turn our way and sometimes not, but it is incumbent on man to make the right or wrong choice as if God were not there since we have moved out of the period of strong Divine intercession in Earthly affairs. The struggle against our broken world is what allows us the ability to grow in our understanding of ourselves and the law we are to follow.
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Why did the Jews including Elie Wiesel lose their faith?
The Jews had a strong belief and Faith in God , So they didnt understand why God allowed them to suffer harsh treatments during the Holocaust. Therefore, they began to question their faith in God .
Jews should give up their belief in god after the Holocaust?
No.
Was Hitler killing Jews for God?
Hitler's opinion of Jews had nothing to do with God, and the Holocaust had almost nothing to do with religion: the Nazis saw the Jews as Communists.
Why the holocaust is a problem for Jews?
it forced them to answer difficult questions about their relationship with God
What was it called when Hitler killed all the Jews?
the holocaust Hebrew for "destruction" and by god it was
Why did the Jews including Elie Wiesel lose their faith?
The Jews had a strong belief and Faith in God , So they didnt understand why God allowed them to suffer harsh treatments during the Holocaust. Therefore, they began to question their faith in God .
Jews should give up their belief in god after the Holocaust?
No.
Was Hitler killing Jews for God?
Hitler's opinion of Jews had nothing to do with God, and the Holocaust had almost nothing to do with religion: the Nazis saw the Jews as Communists.
Why the holocaust is a problem for Jews?
it forced them to answer difficult questions about their relationship with God
What was it called when Hitler killed all the Jews?
the holocaust Hebrew for "destruction" and by god it was
Why did the Jews make the Holocaust?
The Jews did not make the Holocaust. Six million Jews were killed IN the Holocaust. The Holocaust was created by Hitler, Himmler, and those in their political realm, not by Jews. The Jews were innocent. They were not guilty of anything
How has the Holocaust caused some Jews to become atheist?
well if there was a god wouldn't he have stopped it? this is my answer
Why did the Jews create the God the white people worship Please explain?
Its The God who created White people who worship him as well as the Jews
How can you get information about dogs that were unleashed on prisoners in the Holocaust?
You can't as the holocaust did not actually happen. It was invented by Jews to create pity for them as another ordeal they endured for their "god".
How did the Jews respond to the change that happened during the Holocaust?
The Jews responded by having more faith in god and by trying to help the allies in any way possible
How does the Holocaust challenge Jewish faith?
The holocaust degraded the jews, so it was a challange to the jewish faith. Either the jew will hold on to thier faith stronger because they want salvation from God. Or a Jew might get angry at God, he blames god for the pain he is in!
What questions about the nature of God have arisen in response to the Holocaust?
The Holocaust has had one great impact on theology. It has showed us the destructive effects of thanking God. The Jews (and Christians and Muslims) often put God into the events of their lives. If a man decides to become a teacher, believers of those three religions say that God's plan for him was to be a teacher, and that he found his vocation. If their crops succeed, they say that God has blessed them with their crops. However, when we attribute our worldly successes to God's love for us (or to a reward for our good deeds, or to some other divine intervention), then when we fail in life, we are met with a question. Why is God no longer intervening to help us? Some say that is is because God is teaching us, that is, punishing us for something wrong we have done. Some say that it is because God is testing us (testing our faith). Some say that God is making our happiness (when it will come) more meaningful by having it be preceded by suffering. Some say that God is showing us (in a way that we did not expect) what our vocation is. Some even say that God has forgotten us, or that God is evil (which is absurd). But the Holocaust denied the possibility of the first four ideas. The Jews had done nothing wrong to deserve the Holocaust (and if they had, God would have punished them in such a way long before then). And it was quite hard for Holocaust victims to believe that God was testing their faith. Did God value faith so much that he would put people through the Holocaust just to test it? And why did he pick that specific time to test the Jews' faith so cruelly? And after a few months, why would God not accept that the Jews had faith and liberate them? The third idea also could not be true; it was apparent to most Jews in the Holocaust that their experience in the Holocaust, even if they survived, was enough to prevent any future happiness ever (although not for Viktor Frankl, one survivor). And if God had created the Holocaust to make future happiness more meaningful, why did he do this so severly only once in the history of the world and only to the Jews living in Europe? And finally, the Holocaust experience could hardly serve to show Jews their vocation; there is no vocation to be had in a slave camp full of death. Because the Jews had been so used to attributing worldly happenings to God (e g they would thank God for the food they received), and becaue it is absurd to think that God is cruel, most Jews of the Holocaust concluded that there was no God. And their conclusion evidenced the real danger of attributing wordly happenings to God, that is of thanking God: if we thank God for success, then how do we explain failure but by atheism? But the Holocaust victims' conclusion that there is no God is not entirely logical. We are certain now that there is no God who in any way affects the happenings of the world, but there could still be a God who does not "touch" the world at all. This makes sense. Christians, Jews, and Muslims all believe in free will (except Calvinists). So couldn't the events of the world be the result of people's choices? The Holocaust, then, occured because the collective decisions of people caused it to happen. And if there is no free will, we can attribute the Holocaust to the laws of physics, psychology, etc., which (as fatalists say) have caused every event in the universe, rather than to decisions on the part of God. In short, the Holocaust has showed us that God does not in any way affect the happenings of the world and it is dangerous to believe that he does.
