Tisha B'Av and Viktor Frankl
(and some Rav Dessler too!)
Introductions to Selected Kinnos
From the Kinnos of Tisha B'Av 5785 at Cong. Ohaiv Yisroel of Blueberry Hill, under the auspices of Rabbi Eliyahu Wincelberg shilta, Mara D'Asra, recorded by Reb Yossi Becker, Gabbai.
There are numerous stories of Nazis ימ"ש forcing Jews to eat/work on Yom Kippur and the like. I figured it's not a להעביר על הדת case of יהרג ואל יעבור as even if the Jew gave up all of his faith, would the Nazis then have been satisfied and left him alone? It was just plain sadism. Would you agree? (The HaModia piece on the ptirah of R' Joseph Elias zt'l misses that distinction.)
ReplyDeleteI mention it as R' Isaiah Wohlgemuth zt'l told people to apply וחי בהם -- and then to bench with Yaaleh VeYavo! In a Frankl-esque sense, showing we still had control over how we would frame the situation.
I definitely agree!
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