Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place? Five Approaches - By Rabbi YY Jacobson

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of her siblings were sent to Auschwitz and her mother and seven siblings were all murdered on the same day when they arrived Yud Sivan Tofshin Daled, that's June 1944. Together with aunts and many cousins, a large extended family exterminated in one day. Her father was murdered a few months later, Simcha Shteira Tofshin Hey, Simcha Shteira 1944. And she was a literally a sole survivor of a large family. And yet although she lost everything she did not lose her generosity, her humanness, her humanity, her spirit her faith and her uh kindness. And she built a uh big family after the war. Her husband was uh Reb Akiva Silberberg, aleiha shalom, the son of the famous Pittsburgher Reb. And she was a descendant of the famous Eichenstein and Laufer dynasties. Tehei nishmaso tzerura b'tzeror hachaim. I want to ask you a question. Are you an escapist? Are you a conformist? Are Are a fighter? Or do you just remain passive? Anybody wants to answer? What about this morning? If you came here, you had to fight, right? Just to get into the parking lot. It turns out that at one of the earliest moments of our history our people divided into four groups. And when one studies about these four groups one learns not only about what happened then but also what continues to happen now. The Jewish people in the beginning of Parshat Beshalach have left Egypt. Paroi at last has sent out the nation. The man who for a long time said lo yishlach ya. I will not send them was compelled to send them. At last

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