tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981171363702395493.post5228987284922524964..comments2023-07-05T14:30:24.037+02:00Comments on Jewish Sokolow Podlaski: A few words about TreblinkaKatarzyna Markuszhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13347027968270992954noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981171363702395493.post-54446159071723289412012-08-04T01:59:14.360+02:002012-08-04T01:59:14.360+02:00The world needs more people like you, Kasia. It&#...The world needs more people like you, Kasia. It's those who continue to hate and to hurt others and who refuse to change who are the problem.Fredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07702214546760780694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981171363702395493.post-88600439759965993782012-08-02T18:39:45.133+02:002012-08-02T18:39:45.133+02:00I must say I don't feel guilty because of what...I must say I don't feel guilty because of what happend, because of the Holocaust. I can regret only my own sins. I don't regret that hatred because it wasn't my hatred. All I can (and all I want) to do is to remember the victims.Katarzyna Markuszhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13347027968270992954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6981171363702395493.post-21030027257633235762012-08-02T17:59:46.457+02:002012-08-02T17:59:46.457+02:00So many years after the Holocaust, we still ask ho...So many years after the Holocaust, we still ask how we can understand what drove the perpetrators to such horrendous acts of inhumanity and how the bystanders could look away and do nothing. <br /><br />While many ask “Where was God”, one can also ask, “Where was Humanity?”<br /><br />The fear we have is that those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.<br /><br />In Jewish tradition, there is the concept of Teshuvah as a means of change and reconciliation:<br /><br />Teshuvah and Reconciliation (Changing the direction of our lives)<br />Some think this means ‘repentance,’ but the Hebrew implies turning to others and to God (return). According to Jewish tradition, this is accomplished through the following steps:<br />• Recognizing the sin as a sin, accomplished through self-examination<br />• If a sin is committed against another person, the sin must be confessed to the person and asked for forgiveness; only the offended party can set the wrong aright<br />• Cease from committing the sin; if another asks us to forgive them, we are obligated to forgive them<br />• There must be remorse and regret for the sin<br />• It must be resolved to live in a new way and refrain from the sin in the future, but not until one is challenged and changed can he truly be forgiven<br /><br />Perhaps the most difficult part of this is forgiving those who have wronged us, but until they commit to and earnestly accomplish Teshuvah, there can be no forgiveness.<br /><br />Those who died cannot forgive; for us as survivors, only those who forgo hate and accomplish Teshuvah can merit forgiveness.<br /><br /> - Fred Feldman (survivor; son; grandson;<br /> great-grandson … of Sokolow ancestors)<br /><br />Thank you for all you do Kasia to create understanding and Teshuvah between us and all those who regret the hatredFredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07702214546760780694noreply@blogger.com