Ohr Chodesh, Choppy, maybe others — taking shamayim by storm, going to prison in the hundreds of thousands, civil war …. Is there something about this situation that reduces people to incoherent babblers? Rabbanim were of many minds about whether the Holocaust was a sha’at shemad. Kal va-homer nothing happening today deserves this kind of rhetoric. Believe it or not, there were times when Am Yisrael didn’t have 60,000 full-time learners, and the world spun on its axis anyway.
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