Rachel Naomi Remen interviewed a Holocaust survivor, Yitzchak, at a retreat for people with cancer for her book "Kitchen Table Wisdom." Yitzchak was a brilliant physicist who was more comfortable using his mind than expressing his feelings. Initially uncomfortable being vulnerable with a group of strangers, he complained about all the "huggy-huggy stuff" at the retreat. Yitzchak tells Rachel at their last meeting that he took up the matter with G-d and asked G-d what this retreat was about. Rachel wanted to know what G-d said in response to Yitzchak.
"…I say to Him, 'G-d is it okay to luff strangers?' And G-d says to me, 'Yitzchak, vat is dis strangers? You make strangers. I don't make strangers.'"
To Yitzchak, the fellow cancer sufferers were strangers. To G-d, no one is a stranger.
"…I say to Him, 'G-d is it okay to luff strangers?' And G-d says to me, 'Yitzchak, vat is dis strangers? You make strangers. I don't make strangers.'"
To Yitzchak, the fellow cancer sufferers were strangers. To G-d, no one is a stranger.
