The Lighthouse | Yom Hashoah

Yom Hazikaron 2018 – Let us do Better

By Erik Zimerman On April 18, 2018 · Add Comment · In Joab's Men

A few days ago we remembered the countless millions who perished at the hand of the nazis and their collaborators. Unimaginable millions with their talent, potential, goodness and dreams were gone like chaff. But many other incredible individuals survived, such as this exemplary Mench (I believe it looks like Cantor Moshe Kraus but not sure). In this stirring clip (gotten from non other than Rabbi Zajac, via Edo), he speaks (in a little English sprinkled in his Yiddish) about how he got 1000 dollars to Rabbi Baruch Rabinovicz, the Munkaczer Rebbe who was being taken on a train bound to the Ghetto of Kamenets-Podolsk, from where no one was returning (The Rebbe of Munkacs survived the war, perhaps due to this help). The clarity of the Rebbe’s reply to a young Moishele is beyond human… it is a reply that is deep, wise and poignant to us now, looking back the better part of a century. But to have spoken it in that situation requires qualities hard to fathom. People are naturally very much concerned with and consumed by what is immediately around them, even when its trivial and banal. When it is of catastrophic and enormous proportions, they [...]

[Continue Reading...]

“Never Again” We keep saying, as we already Forget

By Erik Zimerman On April 30, 2014 · Add Comment · In Joab's Men

The very connotation this piece’s title probably brought to you mind, illustrates perfectly the point it is meant to make. You expect another article complaining that we have forgotten the horrors, the unspeakable depths of depravity that man, more specifically the Germans, reached and inflicted on his fellow man, more specifically the Jews. That we should watch more Holocaust films, make sure we can still cry when we watch them (lest we doubt our own humanity), campaign more strongly against Holocaust deniers, decry with outrage at the first sight of intolerance and even nationalism and/or religious pride (since only “gay” pride is acceptable in modern society), make sure every gentile is taught continuously about the Holocaust, send more and more people on trips like the “March of the Living”, and of course keep shoving guilt in everyone’s face. Nothing could be further from the truth. Jewry today, and specifically American Jewry, have reduced the immensely rich heritage that is Judaism, and what it means to be a Jew, to the Holocaust. Being a Jew means that we were slaughtered during WWII, and being a good Jew means remembering it (or at least watching Schindler’s List). Furthermore, while trading thousands of [...]

[Continue Reading...]

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30

Yom Hazikaron 2018 – Let us do Better

“Never Again” We keep saying, as we already Forget

Recent Posts

Top Posts & Pages

Halls

Archives

Subscribe to Blog via Email

Yom Hazikaron 2018 – Let us do Better

“Never Again” We keep saying, as we already Forget

Recent Posts

Top Posts & Pages

Tags

Halls

Archives

Subscribe to Blog via Email