On the one hand, all week long we have been singing Hallel, in which we acclaim how God saves us:

I called on Adonai;

I prayed that God would save me....

God has delivered me from death,

my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling.

I shall walk before Adonai in the land of the living.

On the other hand, a poem by Israeli Asaf Gur, called Kadish, offers a different reality.

Yisgadal V'yiskadash Shmei Raba

And no one came

Many thousands called Him on Shabbat morning

Crying His name out loud

Begging Him with tears just to come

But He ceased from all His work

No God came

And no God calmed

Only Satan celebrated uninterrupted

Dancing between Kibbutzim and the slaughter festival...

This poem evokes the spirit of the Kaddish we recite on Yom Hashoah:

Yitgadal

Auschwitz

Vyitkadash

Lodz

Sh'mei raba

Ponar...

What do we do with this dissonance? Is the Joseph story helpful? When Joseph is sold into slavery, when he is unjustly sent to prison for a crime he did not commit, when he lives as a prisoner, three times the Torah says "The Lord was with Joseph." What does that mean, and what does that mean to us?