On a visit with leaders from many religions, we saw so much to test even the strongest faith, writes Jonathan Wittenberg, rabbi of North London New Synagogue
, a Patient Association – a pan-European, non-partisan coalition of leaders in economics, politics, culture and faith – met Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Greek Catholic church of Ukraine. A leader of profound faith and courage, he was on the hitlist of people the Russians planned to kill when they captured Kyiv. “In the days after Russia withdrew from Bucha, I saw so many dead people in the street, so many men and women in mass graves.” He was left with questions.
In the face of such suffering, what could we say to Archbishop Shevchuk in Kyiv as he questioned the role of God? I could only think of the words of the 13th-century rabbi Moses ben Nachman, himself an exile like so many Ukrainians today: “God sees the tears of the oppressed, whoever they are, and weeps with them.
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