Strong as Its Spirit

[This dug up Torah from a grave at Auschwitz] is a very concrete, tactile ... remembrance – of what people, some of whom [Nazis] did it in the name of Christ, did to people who were Jewish.... [This restored holy book] enables us to be prepared to prevent that from happening again.... The Nazis really thought they had wiped Jews off the face of the earth, and Judaism. Here we are taking the ultimate symbol of hope and of Judaism and rededicating it.... And we’ll take it to Auschwitz. You can’t beat that. ~a Lutheran Pastor and Jewish Rabbi speaking in “From Auschwitz, a Torah as Strong as Its Spirit,” by James Barron, nytimes.com, 4/30/08

Symbols for a new future, born out of evil from the past, raise consciousness. ~jpc

Let us never forget. We rededicate ourselves to living and let live. Namaste.

image: Running with the Sefer Torah http://tinyurl.com/4qlcls