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LOTE 245:
WASSERMAN, ELCHANAN. Ma’amar Ikvatha DeMeshicha ...
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WASSERMAN, ELCHANAN.
Ma’amar Ikvatha DeMeshicha VeMa’amar al Ha’Emunah.
Text in Yiddish. Image of the Baranovich Yeshiva on cover and final page.
pp. 52. Original printed wrappers. 8vo.
New York (1939).
A work outlining R. Elchanan Wasserman’s views concerning the widespread secularization of European Jewry. Mere months before the start of World War Two, R. Elchanan predicted Nazi devastation, which he saw as Divine punishment for abandoning traditional religious lifestyle.
‘In our times, the Jews have chosen two Avodah Zaras; that of socialism and nationalism… and so Heaven has combined these two idolatries into one, National-Socialism. [Nazism] will serve as the stick of intense fury which shall strike the Jews with murderous rage all across the land. The very impurities to which we have bowed will be the ones that attack us’ (pp. 21).
R. Elchanan Wasserman (1874-1941) was one of the most distinguished leaders of Eastern European Orthodoxy. Seen as the spiritual successor of the Chofetz Chaim, he served as the Rosh Yeshivah of Baranovitch for 20 years. A staunch opponent of Zionism, R. Wasserman wrote his essay Ikvatha DeMeshicha as a response to the burgeoning Zionist movement. Dismayed by the blatant disregard many Zionist leaders and followers had for Jewish tradition, R. Wasserman here argues that the movement could not possibly have a role in the future Redemption. Furthermore, he states, it would be better for Orthodox Jews to remain in Russia oberving the Torah, than live in the Land of Israel without attachment to Torah priorities.
R. Wasserman was murdered on the 13th Tammuz by Lithuanian Nazi collaborators.
