Schabbos Schekolim שבת שקלים

 

 

„Bibel und Talmudschatz“ J.H. Kohn Hamburg 5691 – 1931 (13. Auflage) S. 199

Momentbilder aus der Zentralratstagung Breslau (J.P.W. 1923,1)

„Jüdische Presse“, Wien Jahrgang 1923,1

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Rakower Row – Chasam Sofer – Slowakische Orthodoxie – ROSENHEIM

 

Rabbiner Dr. Pinchos KOHN Die Kenessio Gedaulo (J.P.W. 1923,1)

 Rabbiner Dr. Pinchos KOHN

                 (1867-1942)

„Jüdische Presse", Wien Jahrgang 1923,1

MiKatowitz Ad Hei B’Iyar (Excerpt)

 

Reb Elyakim Shlessinger once asked the Brisker Rav why his wife’s grandfather, Reb Yaakov Rosenheim, changed his views on Zionism in his old age. Throughout the pre-State era, Rosenheim constantly reiterated the decision of the Moetzes Gedolei Hatorah, that Jewish law did not permit the founding of the proposed Jewish state. We must see the planned state as a great misfortune for Jewry, Rosenheim wrote in a 1944 letter to Rabbi Chaim Bloch. But after the State was founded and the Agudah activists, without the benefit of any explicit ruling from the Moetzes, began to participate in the government, Rosenheim began to speak more positively of it. “I will tell you something the Kotzker said,” said the Brisker Rav. “The Torah says that Yisro heard about the Exodus and came to join the Jewish people in the desert. Rashi explains that he heard about the parting of the Red Sea and the war with Amalek. Why did Rashi select these two things? So the Kotzker said, Yisro heard about the great miracle of the Red Sea and he wanted to be a Jew, but that didn’t mean he had to come out to the desert to join the Jewish people. He could have waited till they entered the Land of Canaan and joined them there. But then he heard about Amalek’s attack. The Amalekites had also heard about the miracles, and yet they continued to be wicked. How could that be? Because Amalek didn’t have a rebbe. One must never rely on his own reading of events; one must always have a rebbe. In that case, said Yisro, I must come to be with the Jewish people right away. Your grandfather,” the Brisker Rav concluded, “in his younger years, always had a rebbe. He listened to my father and to the Chofetz Chaim. The Gedolim then were all much older than he. But I and the other Rabbanim of today are closer to his age. In his formative years, we were all mere yungerleit, and that is the permanent picture he formed of us. Now, in his old age, when all his rebbes are gone, it’s no wonder that he can’t see us as his rebbes. So he is left without a rebbe. And without a rebbe, it is impossible to stay on the proper path.” (Mikatowitz Ad Hei B’Iyar, p. 343)

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