Burning Psalms: Confronting Adonai after Auschwitz

My brother was only five years old // Adonai

our mother taught him // to love You

that You // would not let him stumble //

would not let him fall

Out of the horror of the abyss, the narrow places of his family's history, Menachem Rosensaft has written a Book of Psalms that laments, accuses, rages, weeps and yet, somehow, still addresses God. The son of two Auschwitz survivors, Rosensaft imagines the voice of his older brother, Benjamin, who perished in the gas chambers before Menachem was born....