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Question
Hello Rabbi, you wrote in a column about your opposition to the exaggeration and inflation that, in your view, people make of Holocaust remembrance, and that they have turned remembrance itself into a kind of sacred ritual, to the point of pathos.
So I’ll ask it this way: how would you want this traumatic and difficult event to be remembered? What, so to speak, would you take away from the current atmosphere surrounding the subject, and what would you leave or add so that it would look more normal and less obsessive?
Answer
I don’t believe in top-down guidance. What the state does seems to me, broadly speaking, reasonable. The overall atmosphere and people’s behavior are very obsessive and greatly inflated.