[Mesorah] "Vayigva Yitzchok vayomos vayeosef el amov"

[Micha Berger]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 12:50:04AM +1100, SBA wrote:
: RARakeffet blames the unpopularity of Austritt on this phenomenon. RSRH,
: later in life, lamented how few of his own kehillah actually bought in.
: The Gemeinde owned and controlled the cemetary. We are a very mobile
: society. But to people who have generations of ancestors buried in the
: same plot, the notion of leaving the community and therefore being buried
: elsewhere was a daunting prospect.

: I disagree. 
: After all the O (and austritt) communities in Hungary had the same
: situation. They went ahead and created hundreds of new O communities and
: cemeteries.

Eventually. However, there is a memoire which records RSRH suddenly
switching topics in the middle of a speech to express his disappointment
at all the Berlin Jews who were willing to band together with koferim.

The quote certainly painted a sad picture; that RSRH died thinking
he failed.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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