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From: teitz@aecom.UUCP (Eliyahu Teitz)
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Subject: Re: Re: Escalating the Egg
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Date: Thu, 2-May-85 11:40:10 EDT
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> From a Jewish perspective, I see two possible interpretations
> of anti-semitism:
> 
> 	2)  God is punishing the Jews for not being "better".
> 
> 	Note:	   God does not similarly punish the gentiles.
> 	Inference: The gentiles are somehow "better" than we are.
> 	Result:	   This interpretation leads to Jewish self-hatred, etc.

	I think your inference is wrong. Just because G-D chooses someone
 to carry out His will does not make the person better than us. G-D had
 some reason for the Holocaust. I don't know what the reason was and I don't
 think anyone does. There was a reason for it though. Does that mean that
 the person who carries out G-D's wishes is the best person in the world.
 The g'mara discusses this: How can a person ever be blamed for killing a

 another perosn, for it was G-D's will that it happen. The answer is simple:
 true it is G-D's will, but who do you think you are to undertake such a 
 task. G-D will find His own way of taking care of a situation, why do you go
 and volunteer to do His work.

	This does not mean that anti-semitism should be looked at as a 
 reminder only, and not to look at who is doing the action. We should be
 wary of anti-semites, and try to show them teir fallacies. However, we
 should also take this as a message from G-D. So really you are both right
 when it comes to anti-semitism.


			Eliyahu Teitz.