The Pittsburgh Massacre: Theological & Philosophical Reflections on Kiddush Hashem & the Holocaust

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Daniel Glatstein’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

lifetime really and really in the history of the United States of America According to some accounts this is the worst anti-semitic act ever committed in the United States of America and for me personally probably many of you are aware my family comes from Pittsburgh um my grandfather was a rabbi in Pittsburgh for well over 60 years in that immediate neighborhood he was a robin Squirrel Hill he only moved out uh recently when my grandmother was in The Terrace at the beginning of the year so we're very familiar with that Community with the Squirrel Hill Community that's where my father grew up and I've been there many many times I brought my children there it's a community that's very close to us um so obviously when something like this happens the first and most prominent reaction has to be just the human compassion fellow Jews were killed in Cold Blood regardless of their affiliation it's irrelevant what what type of uh um segment of the of the Jewish people they belong to whether we agree with it or not innocent people were killed the bottom line is a guy a self-declared Nazi came in and mowed down Jewish people on Shabbos when they're trying to damant Hashem so it should send shivers down anyone's spine and that's really uh that's the feeling that we still have human compassion um but aside from that I think that's so we all know that and everybody said that you don't need me to say that I'm sure you heard a million different clips of basically everybody saying the same thing so what I always look for is something more profound that's something that should give the

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1. 0:30lifetime really and really in the history of the United States of America According to some…
2. 5:22say that somebody who was killed because they're a Jew died out because I mean the…
3. 10:16the um the the base guy safe and yet the Malik said look basically safe we're…
4. 15:08happen obviously that's you know the question of the center the question of our lifetime but…
5. 19:58if a Nazi kills somebody just because they're a Jew they died then he wouldn't have…
6. 24:49where the deaths of these Jews who never suffered can we say that they died again…
7. 29:32he doesn't want to help other people why is he a kadash this was the Kasha…
8. 34:14that you should sweat when you do that reason says if you sweat when you bake…
9. 38:57look the ones that died Hashem so they certainly they died okay and yeah he says…
10. 43:42and in terms of what our responsibility is the way we should look at it is…

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