[Avodah] Heroes, Victims and Kedoshim

[Micha Berger]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 05:44:58PM -0400, Zev Sero wrote:
: 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.

Mid pillaging?

This wasn't about any alleged "saving souls". They came to a ghetto and
had themselves a pogrom. Yes, shmad would get someone out of the ghetto,
but by the time the Crusaders got there, it was too late for someone to
save themselves. The qedoshim of the tefillah are called such despite
not choosing to die for the cause.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha