[net.religion.jewish] A friendly reminder to A.I. Samet

wkp@lanl.ARPA (04/24/85)

     Dear Yitzhak:

     Why are you so quick to insult and call names?  As a self-righteous
     defender of everything you consider to be anti-religious, I find
     your behavior abominable.  Especially since you still refuse to
     answer my question:  Are German pigs now the messengers of G-d?
     WHY NOT ANSWER THE QUESTION?

     As a matter of fact, your "eggs" posting was an insult to me and
     to every other Jew who was struck by the pain of the holocaust.
     I don't care if you call me an "ass" or whatever, but to imply that
     anyone of those people who died al kiddush Hashem died because of
     a "warning" is hilul Hashem.

     Many other people have written to me in agreement with my response to  
     you.  To call me an "anti-semite" because I don't believe that G-d
     sent a bunch of pigs to murder one million Jewish children is not
     very "orthodox".   If you had an ounce of compassion in you, you
     would not be so quick to judge other people's "non-religiousness."

     Speaking of religiousness, my father (who is a gabbai of a shul
     in Jerusalem) is not as smug as you about the "meaning" of Amalek's
     attack on b'nei yisrael or about the "meaning" of the holocaust.

     But then he has an unfortunate habit of waking up, screaming, in
     the middle of the night every now and then, reliving the moment when
     as a little boy, he watched the Nazis cold-heartedly laugh and 
     bludgeon his beloved father (my grandfather, a rabbi) in front of
     his eyes.

     So I will still continue to argue with what I feel are your perverted
     concepts of Judaism.  Feel free to continue calling me an "ass", but
     remember that the Talmud says that though a man can judge another man
     by his deeds, only G-d can interpret what is in a man's heart.
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bill peter                                    ihnp4!lanl!wkp