Reply To: The first flowering of our redemption.

Coffee Addict, what other ruler planned to destroy ALL of Am Yisrael? The Iranians do not want to kill Jews. Their restrictions on their own Jews do not come near those of the Nazis. Their goal is to Islamize the world. Thus they are more like Antiochus.

Golfer, the first teshuva is returning to EY(see “Em HaBnaim Semeicha”) . The Nazi laws caused a wave of aliya among Jews who had considered themselves completely German. The Holcaust caused another wave and was according to all opinions the deciding factor in the UN’s decision to create a Jewish state. It also removed the objections of politically powerful American Jews who were worried about the effect on their status as Americans. The second teshuva is returning to observance. B’chasdei Hashem we are seeing this in our generation.

DR, you saw the opening post of this thread. When Rav Herzog was in DC to ask FDR to bomb the tracks leading to the camps the latter urged him to stay in the US as Rommel was already at the gates of Egypt. Rav Herzog described the Jewish settlement in EY as the Third Temple and said that it will not be destroyed. At the same time that Rommel was defeated and turned back at El Alamein the Germans were so defeated at Stalingrad.