Love is the Only Solution Etty Hillesum
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2017
- In this film we discover the extraordinary message of the life of Etty Hillesum, this young Dutch Jewess, who during those tragic years in Europe, 1940 - 1943, reveals her spiritual experience to us, a dazzling and profound experience.
While she knew that she was destined to suffer the fate of the Jewish victims of the Nazi persecution, which she herself describes as having “a totalitarian form, organised on a massive scale, encompassing the whole of Europe”, Etty testifies to an extraordinary discovery: that of the presence of God in her innermost self. This discovery is all the more amazing because nothing in Etty's past seems to have prepared her for this. Etty had not received any religious education; her message is delivered without any reference to any theological or institutional structure.
A genuinely and strikingly original writer, Etty wrote a diary describing her personal journey over two years from 8 March 1941. Large extracts of this together with a part of her correspondence have been published and translated into 14 languages, under the title, “An interrupted life”.
Her writings show us her evolution which led her progressively to abandon a rather chaotic life for one of union with God and of total self-giving. Having realised that love is the “only solution”, when the Nazi occupiers were rounding up the Dutch Jews and holding them in the Westerbork camp before deporting them to Auschwitz, she refused to go into hiding or to escape and chose instead to be sent to the death camps so that she could relieve the anguish of all these unfortunate people; she sees herself as “a balm on so many wounds” and as “accompanying God” into this darkness.
On 15 September 1943, together with all her family and hundreds of other Jews, she was selected for transportation to the Auschwitz concentration camp. It is there that she died on 30 November 1943. She was 29 years of age.
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The message of Etty Hillesum can be related to many contexts and events. There are several striking points in this film:
- The action of the Spirit through a relationship with the psychic palm reader Julius Spier;
- All the grace she received through the action of the Holy Spirit within her;
- Her picture of a “disarmed” God whom she had to help: “I shall try to help you, my God, not to be extinguished in me”;
- Her total rejection of hatred;
- Her acceptance of the tragic realities she was confronted with and her confidence in God in the face of the inevitable;
- Her study of the scriptures which developed through her listening to what was “within” herself, without self-indulgence and through fidelity to the leading of the Spirit.
Ce film est réalisé par la Communauté du Chemin Neuf via le réseau international de prière « Net for God ».
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Thank you. I discovered Etty's writings in the 1980s. Have read and reread them many times. Consider her a kindred spirit. ⚘
My takeaway form This beautiful video: “What a gift it must have been for her, to be sustained in mystical communion with God for such a long period of her life. “
She sounds like an amazing woman 💪❤️ its hard to imagine what they must have went through
Truly inspirational. Thank you 🙏🏻
Thank you for posting this!
If you read her...she will tell you...
She is not a beautiful soul
not really a good writer at all...
nor a poet as well, though she always
wanted to be
She is oh so very wrong on all three !
A vastly beautiful person the likes of which
rarely appears ( or at least we ever known about in human history )
She isnt a good writer...but a great one...
who pulled you into her story.
and who had something unique and inspirational...
as her story moves along.
Though not a prolific poet...in a conventional sense
But a true poet nevertheless ,
in that her words had the feather
light touch and rythm that poetry often contains.
Inspirational in these times, or any🙏🏻
Love has no religion ❤
Beautiful .. Thank you :)))
Deeply love this video. Many thanks.
Thank you for your encouragement
I wish to visit her home one day to be blessed
Thank you.
We think of God as a powerful omnipotent being, seeing all and seeing through all. There is this in Etty’s writings, but she also sees God as vulnerable and in need, and that we must pray for Him as well as to Him - God through our prayers gains strength and returns a greater gift of prayer to us. It is prayer in its simplicity that links us to an aspect of God that lives within us - our soul, and the universal God of everywhere. Would Etty have arrived at Jesus and the possible concept that prayer lessens His suffering and would correspondingly lessen humanity’s? Maybe prayer is the solution and love the final solution.
Thank you for the film.
sorry to see some audio missing technical ? or censorship?..hmm
We're sorry. Indeed, it is a question of copyright. Normally, it does not hinder the understanding of the film.
Oh, thank goodness… I thought it was just me! I’m going along, listening in utter bliss, and then suddenly it goes blank, and I discover my inner lunatic!
May God bless her always and all those that suffered dearly in the holocaust and may we as human beings learn from the horror of this unbelievable tragedy that 😢 💔 shouldn't have happened 😢 and May God please bless man kind and gift humanity with a higher evolution to were this never happens again 🙏 in Jesus name Amen 🙏
Loved this about one of my favorite people. What is the song at minute 22? I think I used to sing it as a child but cannot remember the title or words.
I love translating the book into Arabic
Am I right in assuming that the camera shots were taken from Etty's apt.on Gabrielmesutraat looking out onto the Museumplein?
Love equals suffering
I think you've confused love with 'desire confronted with a sense of loss.' Love sets things free to be themselves without restraint/control, therefore, love is the fulfilling of the moral law because there is no transgression, e.g., love thy neighbor.
@@mcrotty very well said❤ suffering is a choice
Etty states that she takes comfort in God….but she doesn’t clarify to which God……is it the God of the Old Testament or the New? No scriptures were stated in her writings. By the sounds of it….she was yet to discover the Christian God in Jesus Christ.
She quoted from Matthew and the Psalms in her diaries :)
There is only one God - appearing in many names
How could that not be
Love has no religion
@leahsugarman This...
Wow. How did you find this? Her story resonates so deeply in multiple ways. Her love for her mentor, her spiritual awakening, how she sees reality and her rejection of hatred. Thank you for sharing this ❤
@@lbarash1 Yes, I feel all of this. So much more I could say but don't know how right now. I was watching videos on mystics and found her. ❤️