The provided text is an excerpt from a 1987 article by Hans Jonas titled “The Concept of God after Auschwitz: A Jewish Voice,” originally a lecture delivered upon receiving an award. Jonas grapples with the theological challenge posed by the Holocaust, specifically Auschwitz, which he argues cannot be explained by traditional Jewish concepts of sin, punishment, or martyrdom. To address this unprecedented evil, Jonas proposes a speculative theology rooted in a myth of a self-limiting God, suggesting that the Divine renounced its omnipotence at creation. This reimagined God is suffering, becoming, and caring but is also endangered and powerless to intervene in the physical world, thus necessitating a rejection of t ...