There's a pattern in history which puzzles me. To
give some recent examples: Hashem imposes Communism on vast areas which contain
millions of Jews. Judaism and its observance is forbidden. This goes on for
about seventy years, and countless Jews are lost to their people by marrying out
and death. The rest know next to nothing about Judaism.
Then the Iron Curtain comes down and Judaism is slowly being revived.
So what was the point of taking it away, only to bring it back decades later?
Another example: Hashem makes life in Eastern Europe so miserable with poverty, persecution and pogroms that millions of Jews emigrate to America where most of them drop Yiddishkeit. Now we have kiruv organizations bringing back the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of those original Jews to Judaism. So why take it away to begin with?
Yemenites and most Jews from North African countries lived religious or at least traditional lives. Then they were taken to Israel or had to flee to Israel and had Yiddishkeit torn away from them by their fellow Jews, r'l. Now we are being mekarev their children and grandchildren. So what was the point in G-d arranging for their Yiddishkeit to be taken away, only to give it back years later after so much fall-out?
Then the Iron Curtain comes down and Judaism is slowly being revived.
So what was the point of taking it away, only to bring it back decades later?
Another example: Hashem makes life in Eastern Europe so miserable with poverty, persecution and pogroms that millions of Jews emigrate to America where most of them drop Yiddishkeit. Now we have kiruv organizations bringing back the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of those original Jews to Judaism. So why take it away to begin with?
Yemenites and most Jews from North African countries lived religious or at least traditional lives. Then they were taken to Israel or had to flee to Israel and had Yiddishkeit torn away from them by their fellow Jews, r'l. Now we are being mekarev their children and grandchildren. So what was the point in G-d arranging for their Yiddishkeit to be taken away, only to give it back years later after so much fall-out?
This is mostly a rhetorical question since we cannot know the ways of Hashem, "For My thoughts are not your thoughts." There is the idea of a "descent for the sake of an ascent," though I cannot see how it applies here.
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We could ask those questions about any test or challenge that has come on the Jewish people. I would suppose that the fact that there is still frum Judaism despite all of that is evidence of the perseverance of the Jews even when the odds were against them. A trickle still remained, came back, and brought others back into the fold.
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