R. Elazar Symon on Yom HaShoah: After the Silence: Rebuilding from the Holy of Holies

When we think of the Holocaust, we can only be silent.We are incapacitated emotionally, morally, theologically.  At times it seems that the countless museums and memorials, the ceremonies and journeys, the songs and the prayers, are but a desperate attempt to break free from the paralysis that grips us in its shadow.The Torah, too, knows such a moment when children are consumed by fire, and their surviving family is left with nothing but silence.