Summary of the trial

The accusation: God has broken the covenant with Jewish people.

Defense 1: Shoah is a punishment: God has reserved the right to punish the wicked. It is human, not God, who has broken the covenant.

——Objection: Why he chooses to punish me for someone else's sin?

Defense 2: Shoah is a sacrifice. When you sacrifice, you always offer the best.

——Objection: Then God is demanding. He wills our suffering. He is not good, nor just.

Defense 3: Shoah is a purification. Hitler is God's knife. God is a surgeon. After each purification Jewish people were brought to better place, e.g., the flood and the destruction of the temple. Romans who destroyed the temple are now dust. And Torah is still luminating. Thus, we must not despair. The suffering is a privilege if it is God's plan.

——Objection: But purification is not written in the covenant. Also this argument means we should not resist against Hitler.

Defense 4: We cannot know God's will or intention in our finititude.

——Objection: I do not care God's intention if I cannot know it. I only know what is written in the Torah.

Decision: God is guilty. God is not good. God has chosen us, not our enemy, to suffer." Reflection on Abraham's story: Justice was in our hand. We should have stood up against him." "He is still God, but not our God. He's become our enemy. ... He's made a new covenant with someone else."

——"But what do we do now?" "Now we pray." "No matter how foolish it may seem ... The covenant is yours. God is your God even if he does not exist. Keep it. Let there be something that they cannot take away from you, from us."