Gil Wolman - Everything happens for a reason

I think everything happens for a reason, and I also think that we can't truly understand God for all that he is. And our logic is not the ultimate logic, like the way our minds work and the way we think is not all knowing. And we can't see the past and the future and the present all at once. So, what may appear to be suffering to us in reality may be a good thing. A lot of people might say, "If God is protecting us, how did the Holocaust happen?" But I've learned that things like that happen when - I guess specifically to the Jewish people - when we aren't united and one with each other and when we don't have respect for each other. So, because of a lack of self-respect for one another, the rest of the world doesn't respect us, either, and bad things may happen. The Holocaust may ... is obviously an atrocity and not a good thing, but we did get Israel out of it, essentially. We probably wouldn't have gotten the state of Israel if something like that hadn't happened. I guess as much as it's an evil and dark thing that happened, some good may have come from it. Not to say that I am happy at all that it happened. My grandpa had to leave Germany because otherwise ... I wouldn't be here today if he hadn't left. Suffering is ... it's subjective to us, but I think there's more to it than just that. It's not all what it appears to be.