In another clip from the Bnei David Yeshiva published by Channel 13, Rabbi Giora Redler can be heard praising Hilter’s ideology during a lesson about the Holocaust.
“Let’s just start with whether Hitler was right or not,” he told students. “He was the most correct person there ever was, and was correct in every word he said… he was just on the wrong side.”
Redler goes on to say that pluralism is the “real” genocide being perpetrated against the Jewish people, not Nazi Germany’s Final Solution.
When I was a kid in Talmud Torah, we learned about the Holocaust and the thinking the Germans had, like the racial superiority stuff and the untermensch stuff. Then I went to a Lubavitch farbreng. The Lubavitcher had a son my age so we sat talking and when he heard i played with Gentile kids at school (I went to public school) I got to listen to him explain how Gentiles are subhumans with animal souls because only Jews are true human beings with real souls. That's what the Baal HaTanya said so it must be true.
ReplyDeleteOr one could go back to Chazal who said that the Egyptians (and by extensions, all the Gentiles) are the same as animals because only we are called "Adam"
As for genocide, I've read that if you exclude not-actual-Jews from the numbers, there's actually only 4 million Jews in the US, not 6 million as is commonly stated. Since, a couple of generations ago there were 6 million actual Jews, that means assimilation has wiped out 1/3 of the Jewish population, the same ratio as the Holocaust did to world Jewry.
Truth is, there's superiority stuff in our religion that's pretty nasty and the main way we justify it is "The Nazis made it up but we got ours from God!"
Those guys are nuts
DeleteClearly nuts
Maybe they have no actual knowledge of the Holocaust
Most people's knowledge of the Holocaust comes from movies and TV, not actual history.
DeleteGoing back to a previous discussion - if you can have shaatnez tziztit,
DeleteWhy can't you have tattoo tefillin?
The tefillin are black. You wouldn't see the tatoo.
DeleteWe've learned that shaatnez is permitted on tziztit.. astrology is permitted since we don't have neviim.
DeleteI've seen pictures of people with religious tattoos, so maybe also for tefillin.
What about niddah?. Is there an exception for that as well?