{"id":23189,"date":"2010-09-01T19:38:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-02T03:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=23189"},"modified":"2010-09-01T19:38:35","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T03:38:35","slug":"blaming-ourselves-for-the-holocaust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=23189","title":{"rendered":"Blaming Ourselves For The Holocaust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his 1998 lecture on Exodus 33, Dennis Prager says: Jewish history holds the Jews responsible for leaving their land. It&#8217;s the only history I know of where the people have taken 100% responsibility for their own misfortune.<\/p>\n<p>The Holocaust is the first time Jews started to think they didn&#8217;t deserve what happened. Still, there are a few Jews who say the Holocaust is a punishment for failing to live up to God&#8217;s law.<\/p>\n<p>Jews understand from the Torah that their misfortunes come from God. Human agents are used and not excused&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his 1998 lecture on Exodus 33, Dennis Prager says: Jewish history holds the Jews responsible for leaving their land. It&#8217;s the only history I know of where the people have taken 100% responsibility for their own misfortune. The Holocaust &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=23189\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,196,590],"tags":[29761,23621,1234,23623,23622],"class_list":["post-23189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","category-holocaust","category-torah","tag-dennis-prager","tag-exodus-33","tag-jewish-history","tag-misfortune","tag-misfortunes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23190,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23189\/revisions\/23190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}