Anger and Fury

Anger

AND FU FURY

The Prophets tell us:

Because of all your sins these things have come upon

you!

The Torah and the Prophets speak of calamities that come (or threaten to come) as divine consequences. Maimonides exhorts us to search our deed and repent our failing ways when tragedy strikes.

So from this point of view we seek to understand what our sins were for which the Holocaust came upon us.

Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the last rebbe of Chabad writes:

The destruction of six million Jews in such a horrific manner that surpassed the cruelty of all previous generations, could not possibly be because of a punishment for sins.

What greater conceit and what greater heartlessness can there be than to give a ‘reason’ for the death and torture of millions of innocent men, women and children? Can

Finding by Professor Rips

we presume to assume that an explanation small enough to fit inside the finite bounds of human reason can explain a horror of such magnitude?

Nevertheless, we look and seek some explanation, not so much to explain the past, but to guide our future and to help us understand how we have to live. And although our influence on others may not be so significant, shortcomings of others are also shortcomings in us, each in its own way, at its own level.

The shortcoming suggested in the next table is desecration. Our shortcoming is the small and the large, the conscious and unconscious desecration of what is holy. This is what we have to work on.

The Auschwitz table with the additional a priori key word meaning desecration. The probabilty that a text from the ELS random placement monkey text population would produce a table as small as the one produced by the Torah text is 27/100,000.

Anger And Fury

After Professor Rips, added the key word ל ו ל ח , desecration, to the key words Hitler and Auschwitz and found it had an ELS in the original table, he examined the table. He found that a skip -1 ELS of the key word ל ו ל ח appears right in the middle of the table, where the ל of ל ו ל ח is in common with the ל of Hitler. Furthermore, it has a skip -1 extension: the word ם ו ש מ , meaning on account of or because of. Sharing the ש of ם ו ש מ is a skip -12 ELS of the word ת ב ש ה The Sabbath. In the table is also a second occurrence of a skip -12 ELS of ת ב ש ה with its ש being shared with the ש of Auschwitz.

How can this association help

us live in the better way the Torah teaches us to live? Perhaps we might put more effort in spending the Shabbat joyously.

The serpent was craftier than any beast of the field that G-d had made. (Genesis 3:1)

On this verse, the commentary of Rabbi Ashlag on the Zohar brings:

Rabbi Yitzchak said: The Serpent is the evil inclination, which incites one to sin. Rabbi Yehuda said, It is a real Serpent. They approached Rabbi Shimon, who said: Both interpretations are correct. It was the angel Samael and he was seen riding on the Serpent. The image of the Serpent is Satan, namely the evil inclination that incites humans to sin and then ascends to demand punishment above. They are both the same. You can say that the serpent is the evil inclination and is a real serpent.

As it says in the Zohar of Parashah Va’era, the angel associated with death and destruction is Satan.

When Judgment hangs over the world, and the Holy One, blessed be He, sits upon the Throne of Judgment, then the Satan, who accuses above and below, comes to destroy the world and snatch away the souls of human beings, because the Satan is also the angel of death.

We conclude that the angel associated with death and destruction is Satan, ן ט ש . And the animal associated with Satan is the snake, ש ח נ . It is interesting that both are found in the Auschwitz Hitler table. In addition, the ELS for the key word Hitler has a prefix extension: the initial א , standing for Hitler’s first name Adolf.

The developed table. Finding by Professor Rips

Another development of the Auschwitz table. Finding by Rabbi Glazerson