Etty Hillesum. La condivisione nel profondo.

In Etty Hillesum's thought the choice of partaking of her people's "mass destiny", the choice of undergoing the same fate of the Shoah victims has a deep mystical root. A mystic loves the world because he/she can become aware of his/her bond to God, the source of life, which springs within himself. Consequently, the love-compassion that the young Jew lady had for the ill-fated ones feeds itself and gets its strength from God's love; indeed, it is God's love in itself. The love that consumes the mystic - as Henri Bergson said - is God's love for all of His creatures. Through God, with God, the mystic loves the whole humanmankind in a divine love.