Goldberg and Davidiy.
Amnon Goldberg and Yair Davidiy.
The first part of this article is repeated from Holocaust Foreseen while the second part has new information.
Basic Facts and Main Text Supplied by Amnon Goldberg.
Some Background and supplementary information by Yair Davidiy.
Holocaust - Foreseen?
Why Did It Happen?
Part -1.
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"Coming events cast their shadows before them" (Wolfgang Goethe):
Goethe (1749 - 1832) was a native of Thuringia in Central Germany. He may have had Turkish or Hungarian ancestry. His grandfather was a tailor but managed to purchase a tavern and became relatively well-off.
Goethe became a poet, playwright, author, and philosopher. He authored the story of Fauste that told of someone who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for power over the physical world.
Goethe was very influential in the German -speaking world.
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1773 - "We must not stay in this place. Jewish blood will one day be spilt here - I can sense it, I can feel it" (Rabbi Zushya of Anipol). The place: Oswiecim, later renamed.....Auschwitz.
Rabbi Zushya of Anipol (1718-1800) was an early Rabbi of Hasidic Movement. This had been founded by the Baal Shem Tov in Ukraine in the 1700s. It emphasized spiritual commitment, good deeds, emotional involvement, collective experiences, companionship of the group under a Rabbinical Mentor and mystical appreciation of Jewish Lore. The Maggid of Mezeritch succeeded the Baal Shem Tov, Rabbi Zusha and his brother, Rebbe Elimelech of Lizhensk, were prominent followers of the Maggid of Mezritch. Many of the major Hasidic groups known today derive from followers of these early luminaries.
To their followers these Rabbis are considered to have had spiritual insights and to have been Heavenly inspired, at least to some degree.
Auschwitz was a collection of ca. 40 concentration camps established by the Germans in Poland in 1940. A portion of it was designed as a work camp primarily though most of the workers were also eventually done to death as well. Another section, known as '"Birkenau" was an explicit killing center.
Auschwitz was probably the largest and most important of all the camps and has become representative of all of them. At least 1.3 million people (possibly many more) were sent to Auschwitz between 1940 and 1945, and at least 1.1 million died. Those murdered included both Gentiles (mainly Poles) and Jews but more Jews were killed at Auschwitz than others..
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1870 - "Because of the sin of Geiger's Reform Shulchan Aruch, a new German 'Shulchan Aruch' is going to be written with one 'halacha': Leave no Jew alive!" (Maggid of Kelm).
Maggid of Kelm. A "Maggid" is a popular preacher among the Jews who arouses them to repentance. The Maggid of Kelm is usually identified with Rabbi Leib Chassid though here the intention may be to Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv Broida (1824-1898), one of the foremost students of Yisrael Salanter who helped found the Musar Movement. "Musar" in Hebrew means literally "Reproval and is the name given to a movement among non-Hasidic mainstream Eastern Rabbinical Jews emphasizing the need for good intentions and ethical improvement.
Abraham Geiger 1810 - 1874) was a German rabbi and scholar who is considered the founding father of Reform Judaism. # Geiger sought to demonstrate Judaism's central influence on Christianity and Islam. He believed that neither movement possessed religious originality, but were simply a vehicle to transmit the Jewish monotheistic belief to the pagan world. #
Geiger tried to reform Judaism, make it more rational in his opinion and and similar to German Bourgeois Protestant practices. He had a liberal approach and was opposed to study of the Talmud and to the Shulchan Aruch, see below. Geiger was accused of having Karaite leanings.
The Shukchan Aruch is the Code of Jewish Law for Orthodox Jews. It is based on the Talmud, Responsa, and earlier Codes of Law. It was published Joseph Karo in 1563 in Tsefat in the Galilee of the Land of Israel. Shorty afterwards Rabbi Moses Iserles in Poland published a Gloss (commentary on the text printed as part of it) bringing it more in line with Ashkenazic practice since Joseph Karo had emphasized the Sephardic rulings.
The Shulchan Aruch says that Jews are forbidden to intermarry with gentiles. The Reform Movement headed by Geiger in practice facilitated intermarriage.
The Maggid Kel is quoted as predicting that because the Jews of Germany wanted to do away with the Shulchan Aruch and facilitate intermarriage the Gentile Germans will react by producing a Code of their own forbidding Gentiles to marry Jews. This happened with the Nuremburg Laws of Nazi Germany (1935).
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1881 - Rabbi Elchanan Wechsler writes a book "Azhara", about dreams he had of Jews being rounded up, taken to concentration camps, exterminated and burned.
Rabbi Elchanan Wechsler (1843-1894) Bavaria, was an Orthodox Rabbi in a small town in Germany but not much is reported about him other than that he had this prophetic dream and felt a compulsion to publish it.
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1843-1894
1889 - "Zugt Tehillim! I can sense that a man who will be even more evil than Homon has just been born: pray that he dies a missa meshuneh!" (Shinever Tzaddik). The date: April 20th, at the very hour of Adolf Hitler's birth! Hitler himself was conceived on July 20 1888 - a Tisha b'Av.
Zugt Tehillim" is Yiddish for "Say Psalms." pray for Salvation.
"Tsadik" literally connotes "Saint," Extremely Pious," very righteous. Many Hasidic leaders were considered "Tsadikim."
"Missa Meshuneh" literally "an unusual death." This was usually understood to mean a cruel death occurring in such a way as to signify obvious Divine Displeasure.
Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam (1813-1898) was the son of the Zanzer Hasidic Rabbi but apparently left to found his own Hasidic group.
"Homon" is the East European pronunciation of "Haman" in the Book of Esther. Haman was the minister of the King of Persia. He plotted to ahve all the Jews in the Kingdom exterminated but Esther and Mordecai succeeded in confounding his nefarious machinations.
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1891 - "When the Jew loses his Torah, which is his very essence, he actually becomes like an imitative ape. And then the goyim start to consider the Jew as being something less than human, literally worthy of extermination - an untermensch: a subhuman!" (R.Naftali Zvi Berlin).
Rabbi Naftali Zvi Berlin author of "Ha-Emek Davar" commentary on the Bioble (that we have quoted several times in the past) and other works of importance. He was a great Rabbi and helped create the Yeshivah (Rabbinical Institute of Higher Study) as we know it today.
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1896 - The English author M.P.Shiel writes a story about a future band of monstrous criminals that ravage across Europe, slaughtering and burning their victims corpses. The story was entitled "The S.S.".
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1923 - The Yiddish poet Uri Zvi Greenberg pens "In the Crucifix Kingdom" ("In malchus fun tseylem") anticipating the Holocaust, about a future European wasteland of Jewish agony and death, with corpses hanging from the continent's trees, its rivers disgorging naked bodies of murdered victims, its soil toxic with Jewish blood.
Uri Zvi Greenburg also wrote powerful poems in Hebrew. He is considered the "Court Poet" on the Ideological nationalist Zionists in Israel.
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1925 - "Men think that Berlin is the new Jerusalem. But the coming storm of destruction will emanate davka from Berlin" (R.Simcha Meir of Dvinsk).
Rabbi Simcha Meir of Dvinsk (1843-1926) also known as "Rabbi Meir Simcha ha-Kohen." Authored "Ohr Somayach," on the Talmud and "Meshech Chochma," a commentary on the Torah.
In the Talmud there is an opinion that the Jews are forbidden to take the Land of Israel without permission of the Gentiles and other matters. These are known as the "Three Oaths."
After the Balfour Declaration, Rabbi Simcha Meir was of the opinion that the Three Oaths were no longer in effect.
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1929 - "The 12 million dead of the Great War? That was child's play. The real thing will start in 10 years time" (Chofetz Chaim).
"Chofetz Chaim" ("He who desitres life": Psalms 34.
cf.
Psalms (TCT Tanakh) 34:
13 WHO IS THE MAN WHO DESIRES LIFE, WHO LOVES DAYS TO SEE GOODNESS?
14 GUARD YOUR TONGUE FROM EVIL AND YOUR LIPS FROM SPEAKING DECEITFULLY.
Rabbi Yisrael Meir ha-Kohen Kagan (1838 - 1933), "Kagan" means "Cohen." He was an influential Lithuanian Jewish rabbi, Halakhist, posek, and ethicist whose works continue to be widely influential in Orthodox Jewish life. He was known popularly as the "Chofetz Chaim," after his book against slander and harmful gossip. He was also well known for the Mishna Berurah ("Law Clarified") , his book on ritual law.
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