Sam Nadler found answers about God and the Holocaust in the most surprising place!

my name is shmuel eliezer ben moshe nadler i grew up in new york city so you'll pardon me i'm still learning english but growing up there i had a lot of questions how could we believe in a good god who allowed such a horror of the holocaust to happen to our people the rabbi a very dear and sweet and gentle man he said well the only thing i can tell you is what i tell myself he who believes uh cannot question and who questions really cannot believe well that that didn't help me at all and so i went from appearing very religious growing up to then uh becoming quite rebellious in the sense for the us army in vietnam during the battle of tet we were under such attack horrors were going on either you were on drugs or you were drunk my commander of my unit he thought he was like john wayne and he had scotch in his in his canteen and he was drinking scotch he passed out just before the battle begin some of the sergeants got so overwrought they were breaking down crying in the bunkers you know they say there's no atheists in the foxholes and so even though i was pretty sure there was no god whatsoever the whole thing was like idiocy you know the opiate of the people but because of the kind of horrors that go on in warfare all the time i might have been interested to hear some good news even in vietnam there and the chaplain comes by and all he said was i'm getting out of here but good luck to you some of you won't be here in the morning i thought this is a religious person you know they were bringing troops through uh and going on to other areas of the deployment and so they were sleeping out in the open and we were under attack uh all the time incoming missiles and i remember saying you know to the officer in charge i said listen let them sleep in the barn because at least i'll have some protection and the officer said no they don't have the clearance to sleep in the barn with the maps the next morning all there was the puddle of blood pillows of blood from these fellas and all i could think of is the heartache war is a horrific thing everything i was what might be considered politely an english and unregistered pharmacist a drug dealer not particularly kosher i would run into people who had the nerve to be on the streets of san francisco proclaiming this messiah jesus i was a little bit off put by it because they smiled too much i didn't think that people should smile that much who could be that happy but one of them one night had the nerve to try to tell me that i needed to believe in jesus i felt so offended let me tell you why i thought oh my goodness they want me to go to the side of our enemy it turns out that he was he said he was jewish my heart broke for him i thought a jew who believes this this has to be the dumbest jew who ever lived what kind of jew believes in such nourish such foolishness he invited me to go to what he called a bible study i thought maybe it was like an archaeological find of a bible they'll look at it from different sides i couldn't figure out what that might be i would go there to laugh at them i thought it would be my evening entertainment now i got there and there was a pretty ordinary looking group of people each one had a bible i thought that was pretty interesting they each had their own bible but they were taking everything so seriously what do they think these are god's love letters to them and the portion that they were looking at was in the prophets in isaiah chapter 53 in traditional judaism where we don't study isaiah 53 that portion is skipped over by our rabbis they wanted me to give my opinion of who i thought the prophet was talking about give me a minute let me take a look at this thing as i was reading through it it would talk about the one it said or all we like sheep have all gone astray each one has turned to his own way but hashem has laid on him the iniquity of us all it said there that he would be killed cut off from the land of the living for the transgression of my people what a strange thing for our scriptures to say and i got to his the last verse in that section and even though he'd been cut off it said that that he would give the gifts the spoils uh to the stronger faith because he had been cut off for my people for my sins how could he i thought he had died and i was giving i said and came to me that he hadn't maybe he came back to life at that point it came very clear what this section of scripture was speaking about it seemed to be talking about you know who that jesus nothing is supposed to be this clear these are really tricky sneaky people they put part of their bible in what's supposed to be my bible but a bunch of idiots think they're going to be able to trick real jews you know and so when they said so who finally who do you think it's speaking about i looked at them and i said i don't know i don't think anyone can tell the bible is such a mystery no one can ever figure this out they look so disappointed and they said to me well we'll be praying for you i said fat chance what kind of god is there they'll want to answer prayers for someone like me where was this god in the holocaust i said to them over that period of time i found myself thinking more and more about it my goodness this is this might be our messiah i didn't like that i remember you know okay god if if you have a messiah for us that's fine but please someone besides this jesus i was living in a very bad place where people were doing drugs but some thoughts entered my mind it seemed somehow clear to my thinking that drugs were opening me up to the spirit but it was the wrong spirit that there was a spiritual battle for my soul but i was on the losing side i wasn't sure i got on my knees there and i cried out for jesus to save me i woke up that next morning somehow i knew my life was different i wasn't sure about all the details but some things and in my heart i actually believe that that jesus is lord is our messiah i wasn't sure what to do i wasn't sure where to go who do you talk to about these things not in that world well there was a restaurant there were pictures of jesus on the wall i really didn't know what would make someone a believer or something so i thought that was a pretty good shot so i went in there it was really early in the morning i didn't know what to do when they're just opening up the place you know the manager opening up i said to hey listen jesus saved me last night what do i do now the guy looked at me and said i don't know you want breakfast then i remembered that a long time before i had gone to this couldn't remember what they called it the bible thing but they maybe they would know what to do i couldn't believe that they would remember me but nonetheless i called them up and i said listen my name is sam nadler i came to your bible thing a long time ago and well listen jesus saved me last night what do i do now they were so happy they had been praying for me every day today when people ask me how can you believe in god in light of the holocaust in all of our afflictions he was afflicted and so to be his people means to be kind of uh his raw nerve endings and all of these matters he has afflicted uh he mourns and he cries over all of our pains and issues let alone something like the holocaust but he may his name be blessed forever our messiah he loved the unlovable he forgave the unforgivable but yet he died a horrible evil torturous death by crucifixion he understands the pain of the holocaust he knows what it's like to go to your personal holocaust this is what he brings to our hearts as well [Music]

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Keywords: Gospel, yeshua, testimony, Hebrew, Christian, saved, Israeli, messiah, Israel, one for israel, i am second, Yeshua, Jerusalem, Jews, messianic, Judaism, Christ, Elohim, Jesus, Jewish, israel, Bible, God, witness, Christianity, jewish

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Length: 9min 31sec (571 seconds)

Published: Tue Mar 07 2017