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From: dimitrov@csd2.UUCP (Isaac Dimitrovsky)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Interpreting Antisemitism
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Date: Sun, 12-May-85 13:00:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 12 13:00:00 1985
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Yitzchok Samet writes:
> The argument that Jewish tragedies "prove" that our  religion  is
> wrong  is  a  familiar Christain theme. Christianity considers it
> valid to "prove" or "disprove" the basic  validity of a  religion
> from history. We don't. The validity of our tradition is based on
> logic (this is a broad issue which has to be treated  separately)
> rather than interpretation of prophecies miracles, and historical
> events.

But weren't you doing exactly this (i.e. trying to show that history
agrees with the predictions of the Jewish religion, which certainly
can be interpreted as trying to "prove" the Jewish religion from
history) when earlier you wrote:

> This major theme, that our security is tied to our allegiance  to
> the  Torah, is reiterated in the prophets and the sages. However,
> one may have to be a prophet, or a great sage, to relate specific
> Divine retributions to specific sins. However, this does not stop
> us from recognizing,  in  general,  that  Divine  retribution  or
> chastisement is behind major catastrophes. Also, some Rabbis feel
> that they can extract general object lessons from something  like
> the  holocaust.

Isaac Dimitrovsky