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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000
size=2>From: "Richard Wolpoe" <rabbirichwolpoe@gmail.com><BR>>>See
The Siyyum of Sota in which 2 rabbis in the same city who do NOT learn<BR>from
each other [nocheh to learn] one dies and one is exiled. This sounds a<BR>LOT
like the reality of the holocaust, that rabbis who refused to talk<BR>were
either killed or exiled from their homes. How prescient of the Talmud<BR>to
see that Rabbis who cannot get
along.....<<<BR><BR></FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>I've heard some pretty far-fetched explanations of what caused the Shoah,
but this is a new one on me. Whenever anyone even hints that such and such
a sin was the "reason" for the Holocaust or that the actions of such and such a
group (Reform, maskilim, Zionists, anti-Zionists) "led to" the Holocaust, or
that a particular group somehow "deserved" to die or brought their fate on
themselves, there are always cries of outraged indignation. Let me be the
first to express outraged indignation on this occasion. It is outrageous
to suggest that the principles of austritt ("rabbis who refused to talk to
each other") somehow led to or triggered the Holocaust or were foreseen by the
Talmud as the reason for chachamim being "either killed or exiled" in the
Shoah. </DIV>
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PTSIZE="10"><B><BR></B><BR><B>--Toby
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