[Avodah] Xmas and easter

[Eli Turkel]

> Does anyone have an answer for:  If one of the reasons for this minhag
> was the danger of getting beaten up outside, then why isn't there a such
> minhag for Easter?>>

Having just spent nittel nacht in Madrid it was a nice for revelry
and drunkedness (good to stay at home). From what I read this
is not unusual. Easter is more solemn. Hence, I assume that
anti-Jewish riots occurred when the peasants got drunk

BTW one of the calendar books has a few pages on the Jewish
importance of Xmas in kabbalah thought (and not a reference to
Yom haazmaut)

<<heard it said about the Sochachover (IIRC) that he was willing to  risk
whatever Gehenom he would get for learning Torah on Tisha B'Av.   Can anyone
confirm that?>>

I assume you mean Rogatochower. That is brought down in books


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Eli Turkel