[Avodah] we live in good times

[Zev Sero]

Eli Turkel wrote:

> A generation later the Jews of Poland were decimated and after the
> rabbis introduced several
> decrees including a fast on the 20th of Sivan. This did not extend to
> Lithuania. Nevertheless the Schach
> from Vilna writes that he personally undertook to fast.

The Shach was not personally affected?  I realise that the story about
his daughter is fictional, but I assumed that at least the background
facts, that he survived the massacres but was made homeless and lost
family members, was true.  Wasn't it?


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