Torah as a Nazi Notebook Cover

From http://www.cross-currents.com/archives/2006/03/30/torah-as-nazi-notebook-cover/
By R' Yaakov Menken, quoted in full

Haaretz has a fascinating piece on a Nazi officer's notebook,
which was covered by a fragment sliced from a Torah scroll.
<http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/700344.html> It was given by the
Nazi officer's son to Moti Dotan, the head of the Lower Galilee Regional
Council, for him to give to "a holy man in the Lower Galilee."

What passage might you imagine being most appropriate to the Nazis?

Rabbi Grossman turns over the piece of parchment and reads from
the text. The parchment is from the book of Deuteronomy, from the
weekly portion "Ki Tavo." The rabbi reads: "...and distress wherewith
thy enemy shall distress thee in thy gates... then the Lord will
make thy plagues remarkable, and the plagues of thy offspring, even
great plagues, and of long continuance, and severe sicknesses, and
of long continuance... also every sickness and every plague which
is not written in the book of this Torah, them will the Lord bring
upon thee, until thou art destroyed. And you shall be left few in
number, whereas you were as the stars of the heaven for multitude"
(Deuteronomy 28, 57-62).

Read. Shudder. Repeat.

I wonder, though if the text wasn't chosen by Nazi to spite, rather
than "randmonly" chosen by G-d to teach.

:-)BBii!
-mi

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