In particular as an Orthodox Jew he should be very familiar with Deuteronomy, Isaiah, and Jeremiah where the scattering of the Jews and there centuries of oppression and persecution are predicted as well as there eventual gathering after they have reached the point that they thought they were going to be forgotten forever and utterly destroyed, such that the survivors of the horrors are predicted to say at the number of them, these where did they come from? for we were left alone to paraphrase Isaiah 49:21.
In particular as an Orthodox Jew he should be very familiar with Deuteronomy, Isaiah, and Jeremiah where the scattering of the Jews and there centuries of oppression and persecution are predicted as well as there eventual gathering after they have reached the point that they thought they were going to be forgotten forever and utterly destroyed, such that the survivors of the horrors are predicted to say at the number of them, these where did they come from? for we were left alone to paraphrase Isaiah 49:21.