Questions tagged [holocaust-shoah]
Questions relating to the Holocaust, the period of history between 1941-45 which saw the systematic genocide of 6 millions Jews.
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Music for Yom Hashoah [duplicate]
Is it permissable to listen to live music during the Omer for the sake of Yom Hashoah commemoration?
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The Klausenburger Rebbe's speech and Zionism
In the new book on the Klausenburger Rebbe, "The Klausenburger Rebbe
Building Torah and Emunah in the Aftermath of the Holocaust", the famous story is told about when (the then) General ...
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Halacha Sefer Quoting Reason for Holocaust [duplicate]
A while ago I saw in a Shailos u'Teshuvos sefer (I think Divrei Yatziv or Be'er Moshe) saying that the Posek saw a woman crying out that this tragedy was happening to Klal Yisroel because of talking ...
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The nature of the specific Pharoah when we left Egypt, and his relation to Amalek?
Who was the specific Pharoah of Egypt when the Jews left Egypt? And also, given "Remember what Amalek did to you along the way when you came out from Egypt, how he met you along the way and ...
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Why did the Piasezcner's students give his writings the title Aish Kodesh?
I have a copy of Polen's The holy fire but I don't currently have access to the Hebrew or English versions of Aish Kodesh. Is it known why the Piasezcner's students in Israel gave this title to his ...
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Bobover Rebbe Shlomo and Lubavitch Yechidus
I read in only one source that the Bobover Rebbe, Reb Shlomo zt”l went to seek guidance from the Freidiker Rebbe, the Rayatz, post holocaust, because he didn’t want to be Rebbe. He purportedly visited ...
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Why was Yom HaShoah not established as a fast day?
Why was Yom HaShoah, the memorial day for the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust, not established as a fast day? That would be consistent as we fast on other days when we commemorate past ...
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Aish Kodesh - Edition Recommendations
Can someone recommend a good edition of Aish Kodesh by R. Kalonymus Kalman Shapiro? I am looking for an English or Hebrew edition.
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Rabbinical reaction to Milgram's experiments
Were/are there rabbis that wrote or spoke about Milgram's experiments, presenting a Torah view on the matter (the question of whether the Nazis were unique or the theory that anyone could potentially ...
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Remove Holocaust tattoos?
Jewish law says that tattoos must be voluntary to be reprehensible:
If [the tattoo] was made [involuntarily] in the flesh of another, the one to whom it was done is blameless. [Shulḥan Arukh, Yoreh ...
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Was Nazi sadism a case of "surrender your life if they're trying to stamp out religion"?
The Gemara Sanhedrin 74b reads:
נכרי דאמר ליה להאי ישראל קטול אספסתא בשבתא ושדי לחיותא ואי לא קטילנא לך ליקטיל ולא לקטליה שדי לנהרא ליקטליה ולא ליקטול מ"ט לעבורי מילתא קא בעי
If a non-Jew tells ...
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Holocaust Remembrance Fast Day
Rabbi Yom Tov Schwarz (See: “EYES TO SEE: Recovering Ethical Torah Principles Lost in the Holocaust”) argues that the Jewish people (led by the Torah observant community) should designate a fast day ...
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Gedolim During the Holocaust
During a lecture addressing the Torah perspective on the Holocaust, a Rosh Yeshiva mentioned a letter which Rav Aharon Kotler z"tl wrote telling someone to remain in Europe because the war would blow ...
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Does the Tokhacha (Leviticus 26:14-41; Deuteronomy 28:15-68) apply to the Holocaust?
Does the curse of the Law (Leviticus 26:14-41 and Deuteronomy 28:15-68) apply in some way to the Shoah/Holocaust? Likewise, the prayer of Daniel in Daniel 9:4-19, in which he does not blame the ...
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