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<p>In 1929, Arab leadership fomented a wave of violence across Palestine by
inventing rumors of a Jewish plans to take over Har haBayis. By Friday, August
23<sup>rd</sup>, 1929, the local Arabs in Chevron were explicitly declaring
their intent to kill. Stones were thrown through house windows.</p>
<p>At 4<sup>pm</sup> the Slabodka Yeshiva was attacked. Only a couple of
people were inside as it was a couple of hours before Shabbos. The <em>gabbai
</em>escaped by hiding in a well. One talmid who tried to escape was stabbed
to death by a mob.</p>
<p>The wholesale slaughter began early on Shabbos, the <strong>18<sup>th</sup>
of Av</strong>. (The 90<sup>th</sup> <em>yahrzeit</em> of those martyred
begins a few hours from when I write this.)</p>
<p>By the time the massacre was over, 67 to 69 of Chevron’s Jews were
murdered. The community fled, largely to Yerushalayim <em>ir haqodesh</em>.
See, for example, <a
href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/the-hebron-massacre-of-1929">this
page on the Jewish Virtual Library</a>. I want to focus on one aspect people
with better skill at history than I do haven’t described.</p>
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<p>In an alternate universe, Yeshivas Slabodka never had to flee Chevron,
never became Yeshivas Chevron in Yerushalayim, never succumbed to the social
atmosphere of Yerushalayim, and stayed a unique mussar institution in
Chevron.</p>
<p>In this universe, when European Jewry <em>Hy”d</em> fell, Mussar
didn’t collapse into an idea paid lip service with the
<em>shmuessen </em>of <em>mashgichim</em> and a 15 minute seder in
<em>shemiras halashon</em> that we find in typical Litvish <em>yeshivos</em>.
Slabodka lived on. And perhaps it would have continued turning out leaders and
great thinkers, <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeshivas_Knesses_Yisrael_(Slabodka)#Prominent_alumni">just
as it did in Slabodka</a>.</p>
<p>The entire complexion of Chareidi life, especially but not exclusively in
Israel would today look different, because there would have been another
vector, one that looked to ideals, one in which <em>derekh eretz qodmah
laTorah </em>remained a lifestyle, not a platitude.</p>
<p dir="rtl" style="text-align: center;">חבל על דאבדין ולא
משתכחין</p>
<p>Woe for those who were lost, and people like them cannot be found!</p>
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