[Avodah] Heroes, Victims and Kedoshim

[Zev Sero]

Micha Berger wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 05:36:34PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
> :>Most Shabbasos we say "Av haRachamim". The Crusaders didn't give them a
> :>chance to choose between Torah and death.
> 
> : Yes they did.  Meshumadim were accepted as the equal of any Xian.
> 
> They reached Germany about three weeks before the Worms ghetto fell. What
> opportunity to shmad do you think people had? Or in London. The only way
> out of London's ghetto led to Clifford's Tower in York.

Any one of them could easily have called out his willingness to shmad,
and would have been let out.  None of them chose to do so.


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