[Avodah] Dying al Kiddush Hashem

[Yitzhak Grossman]

On Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:32:17 +0200
Daniel Eidensohn <yadmoshe at 012.net.il> wrote:

...

> Rav Moshe Sternbuch told me that a Jew who is killed because he is a Jew 
> has the status of a kadosh.

What is his source for this?  Is this grounded in any way in the
classic traditions on martyrdom?  I don't deny that people have asserted
this in the post-Holocaust era; my contention, as I have repeatedly
explained, is that this is a modern innovation.

> Daniel Eidensohn

Yitzhak
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