Religious people of many religions around the world need an answer to the Holocaust to understand what to believe, why it happened, and what can be done to prevent it from happening Still. Some religious people need a response to the Holocaust to justify their belief in God after such destruction took place, even though God is supposed to be benevolent and loving. Jews specifically need a response to the Holocaust. Most of those who died in the Holocaust were Jews, and since then many theologians have tried to decipher the message of the Holocaust. Fackenheim has a unique response to the Holocaust and his theory of a new commandment, and his answers about how to prevail after such evil has been committed are unusual and controversial. The "Commandment" is explicit and detailed, and although Fackenheim's theories do not explain why the Holocaust happened or how to prevent it, he does explain how to live after the Holocaust. Sacks continued to believe in God after the Holocaust and does not believe the Holocaust was unique and recognizes the previous persecutions of the Jewish people. While this constant destruction against the Jewish people is not positive, the idea that the Jewish people can always survive and recover from such events is encouraging and hopeful. Jonathan Sacks, the former Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, believes that the Holocaust was neither a one-off nor a unique event. nor special in that Jews have been persecuted frequently throughout history. Therefore, he uses a lowercase "h" in the word Holocaust, to emphasize his indifference towards other mass persecutions against the Jewish people. He believes the Holocaust changes nothing, but accepts that the Jewish people "will never understand the... middle of paper..." Heim said that to despair of the world in which God exists would be to "make it a place devoid of meaning and to abandon any of these imperatives… would be to grant him yet more posthumous victories,” meaning that anyone of Jewish origin who ignores these commands would let Hitler triumph and be satisfied. Furthermore, to prevent Hitler from winning further, the law includes the grandchildren of Jews and secular Jews (all those whom the Nazis would construe as Jews). Furthermore, Fackenheim recognizes that since 1 million Jewish children died because of their grandparents' faith, the Holocaust could not have been divine punishment. Overall, Fackenheim believed that despite the horrific evil experienced exclusively during the Holocaust, it is now a commandment to persist in one's faith in God and remain as a Jewish people, to ensure that Hitler cannot "win".'.
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