Responsa from the Holocaust

Rating:
Summary: When good people want to do the right thing all the time.
Review: "Rabbi, does Jewish law obligate me to eradicate the tatoo identification numbers the Nazis gave me?"

A book full of questions from people we would today call "dead men walking". Questions prompted by the occupation of their home town by murderous, soulless ghouls. Questions from a people persecuted since the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E. Questions from a people who lived, and died, by the word of God in the Torah and Talmud no matter what the circumstances.

Rabbi Oshry, who lived through the Nazi occupation of the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania, kept notes on the heart-wrenching legal questions his flock asked him on discarded cement bags. He hid the bags during the occupation and recovered them after the liberation. This book is based on those notes.

Rabbi Oshry thouroughly researched each question under trying circumstances; the Nazis burned most of the books and were killing anyone whom they caught practicing Judaism.

To begin to understand the times and the horrors of the Kovno ghetto, read this book.

Rating:
Summary: When good people want to do the right thing all the time.
Review: "Rabbi, does Jewish law obligate me to eradicate the tatoo identification numbers the Nazis gave me?"

A book full of questions from people we would today call "dead men walking". Questions prompted by the occupation of their home town by murderous, soulless ghouls. Questions from a people persecuted since the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E. Questions from a people who lived, and died, by the word of God in the Torah and Talmud no matter what the circumstances.

Rabbi Oshry, who lived through the Nazi occupation of the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania, kept notes on the heart-wrenching legal questions his flock asked him on discarded cement bags. He hid the bags during the occupation and recovered them after the liberation. This book is based on those notes.

Rabbi Oshry thouroughly researched each question under trying circumstances; the Nazis burned most of the books and were killing anyone whom they caught practicing Judaism.

To begin to understand the times and the horrors of the Kovno ghetto, read this book.