Rescue of a Torah From Fire of The Holocaust

Epopee of rescue of Lithuania's eshivas within second world war

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Throughout the history of the Jewish people renowned experts of the Torah and Talmud became the head of the famous Jewish rabbinical academies of sciences. This was especially the case for Russia , Poland and Lithuania, whose famous Yeshiva Torah study raised to unprecedented heights .

One of the most prestigious in Europe was the yeshiva world , founded in 1817 in a remote Polish province near the border with Russia . Thanks to the yeshiva , where students are engaged in different cities and countries, this shtetl became an international community . Young Jews gathered here used only from Poland, Russia and Lithuania , but also from France , Germany, Sweden, England , America and even from South Africa. Rabbi Abraham Kalmanovich , who headed the yeshiva after she moved to the United States , once said that the only country not represented in the World, was China .

That's why - he added - to escape the Holocaust , our crosslinking crossed it to Shanghai.
When the famed High School for the Study of the Torah , where before the war gathered the most promising Jewish minds , arrived in 1946 in the United States , New York passed it with all solemnity. Yeshiva was handed a symbolic key to the city - an honor which is awarded to a distinguished statesmen and celebrities of world importance. For students who defended the banner of Jewish teachings in the first years of the war in Poland and Lithuania , and later in Japan and China , the base of the yeshiva in New York City marked the beginning of a new life. Encouraged by the support of his spiritual mentors , these young people have overcome war , hunger, and all sorts of physical and moral dangers . Adjusted to their new peaceful life in America, many of them engaged in conversion of the old and the opening of new centers and institutions of higher Jewish education in the United States. Becoming leaders , mentors , organizers , professionals of the highest level , yesterday's students have made every effort to reform the system of Torah study in the free world .

Miraculous rescue yeshiva world , along with the other escapees partially yeshiva was a Divine means for transferring the eternal Torah from one continent to another , where was to begin a new era of Jewish revival .

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword by Rabbi Nachman Buhlmann Prologue 9
entry 13
1. The piety of Polish Jewry 15
2 . Mitzvah etrog 20
3 . Polish centers for the study of the Torah are removed from the scene 22
4 . The outlines of a miracle 24
5 . Lithuanian Jews - the embodiment of the Torah and Chesed 27
6. Back to the trap 31
7. Link Soviet- 33
8. The greatest folly of 35
9. NKVD under siege 37
10 . The Council of Torah 39
11. From Russia - to nowhere 41
12. For two LTL 47
13. Circumstances force 48
14. Guessing on the arm 49
15. On the wings of an eagle 52
16. Orthodox Jews desecrate Shabbat 54
17. In Moscow friends 55
18. On the train across the country 57
19. Again, a famine in the land of the hungry 59
20. Vladivostok 63
21. On the verge of death 65
22. Japanese hospitality 67
23. The idols and idolatry 70
24. The Japanese and the Ten Lost Tribes 71
25. Shanghai - Open City 72
26. The war is coming to the Far East 77
27. Etrogim in China 80
28. Japan and the "final solution" 83
29. Law and Punishment in Japanese 88
30 . In the power of the Torah 90
31. Traces of idolatry in the XX century, 92
32. The last battle of World War II 94
33. Attempts to save the Torah scholars 98
34. A look at the events of 100
35. Fuhrer and antifyurer 102
36. Epilogue 104
Glossary 107