Lvov Ghetto Diary by David Kahane6/27/2023 From early on, as we know, the persecutors uprooted Jewish communities and deprived them of basic physical and cultural necessities. The upheaval of the Holocaust, which destroyed much of European Jewry between the years 56 (1939-1945), also wreaked havoc on Jewish timekeeping. The Jewish calendar, marking Shabbat, chagim and Rosh Chodesh, is clearly one of the institutions at the heart of Jewish life and survival. If it wouldn’t be for Hillel, literally we would be out of business we wouldn’t have a Yiddishkeit.īecause we can’t have a Yiddishkeit without a calendar, and we can’t have a calendar without a Sanhedrin. Speaking passionately about the shift to a fixed calendar brought about by Roman persecution some 1,700 years ago, Rabbi Yissocher Frand, senior lecturer at Ner Israel Rabbinical College, details what was at stake: The threat to the calendar and the concomitant threat to Jewish life is nothing new in Jewish history. Courtesy of Rabbi and Rebbetzin Yehoshua Neuwirth, with the assistance of Dr. Digitally adjusted image of the calendar Rabbi Yehoshua Neuwirth, author of Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchata, created when he was seventeen years old while hiding in a bunker in Amsterdam during the war years.
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