The Complicity of Silence - Introduction to Kinnus 5786

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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.

redemption we will never again be able to rejoice on purim on purim has tisha marred even purim a young father took his daughter to yashm he wanted He wanted her to understand what the Holocaust was all about and why it can never be forgotten. She was all of 11 years old and the father was concerned perhaps she was too young to grasp the whole thing. But he knew he had to give her some exposure to what happened during those terrible years. So he brings her to Yadashem years. So he brings her to Yadashem and she witnesses the horrific scenes what happened to people for no reason other than the fact that they were Jewish. and she sees the pictures and she sees the atrocities and she sees the yellow star attached to the clothing of children younger than her and the father is watching her. He could tell it's impacting her. And now they come to the end of Yadashem and they come to the guest book that's and they come to the guest book that's at the exit that any visitor could come and sign and leave any comment they want in the guest book. And the father watches his daughter. The father watches his daughter reach out and grab the pen out of the father's pocket. And she writes her name in the guest book. She writes her address in the guest book. And in her childlike scroll, guest book. And in her childlike scroll, when they ask for comments, this 11year-old girl left the following comment. Why didn't somebody do something? That's all she wrote. Why didn't somebody do something? It was inconceivable even to a child how people, a civilized society, a civilized world can stand by idly and see the brutality,

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2. 4:40And just like in the times of the Holocaust, there was an evil diabolical Russia who…
3. 8:54Not self-defense morai decrees that now the Jews are going to turn around and eradicate the…
4. 13:04as I think it works helps. Now we understand in the migillah says not only will…
5. 17:16And all the Jews now turned to their hero, the man they placed all their trust…
6. 21:27December 1942, a delegation of Jewish leaders met with the president. They asked him for more…
7. 25:37perished. Silence was the chief weapon of Roosevelt and the United States, thus putting him in…
8. 29:43And as they're sailing, their engine broke off the coast of Istanbul. The Turkish authorities forbid…
9. 33:50Gestapo, declared that when the Nazis saw the indifference of the United States of America, of…
10. 38:02Silence has descended across the globe. It will not be surprising, writes Rabi Kalbar, if in…

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