Vayelekh Ish mi-Beit Lehem

or
I Am No Better Than They
? Rabbinic
(non)Leadership During the Holocaust
Tikkun Leil-Shavuot @LSS
1.
Megillat Ruth 1:1-3

2.
Rashi, ad loc.

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Petihata, no.5

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Dr. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg,
The Murmuring Deep: Reflections on the Biblical
Unconscious,pp.347-48

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R.

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Exodus 32:32; Dueteronomy 9:14

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R. Moses b. Samuel Sofer

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DerashotHatamSofer
2:305


b.
Hiddushei Hatam Sofer
on Masechet Hullin 46a

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9.
R. Yissachar Shlomo Teichtal,
Eim ha-Banim Semeikhah

a.
[Trans. R. Moshe Lichtman, 2000] p. 467

b.
[Trans. Dr. Pesach Schindler, 1999] pp. xviii-xix

10.
R. Mordekhai of Bilgoraj [In the name of his brother, R. Aharon of Belz],
Parting Sermon
(Translated and Reprinted in: Katz, Beiderman, & Greenberg,
Wrestling With God: Jewish
Theological Responses During and After the Holocaust
; pp. 83-91
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11.
R. Shlomo David Yehoshua Weinberg of Slonim,
Zichron Kadosh
p. 13, 78

12.
R. Yisrael Frankfurter of Lemberg,
Shalshelet Komarno: Sheirit Barukh
pp.496-
98

13.
R. Kalonymus Kalman b. R. Elimelech of Piaseczno,
Aish Kod
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pp.89

14.
R. Dr. Nehemia Polen,

The Holy Fire: The Teachings of R. Kalonymus Kalman Shapira,

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pp. 67-69

15.
R. Yehoshua b. Avraham Yosef Greenwald of Chust,
Resp. Hesed Yehoshua: Hakdamat
Ayin Dimah
, pp. 9-10