ZD: “Rav Menchem Ziemba who was one of the last Gedolim in the Warsaw Ghetto, Personally gave his blessing to the uprsing”
ZD – thank you very much for that information! I wasn’t sure what the Gedolim felt about it; all I knew was that they consider those that fought spiritually to be greater heroes. That does not in any way take away from the greatness of those who were moiser nefesh to fight physically (when it was warranted), and I did not mean to imply that it did.
I was not sure how the Gedolim felt about it so on the one hand I didn’t want to imply that they approved in case they didn’t, but at the same time, I didn’t want to imply that they were not heroes as well in case the Gedolim did feel so.
That is why I very carefully wrote “While the Torah world may possibly also consider them heroes,” in order to avoid erring in either direction.
I very much appreciate your post since I would not want anyone to come away thinking they were not heroes if in fact they were. And that was certainly not the point of my post at all.
Thank you!