Re: Was Adam a vegetarian?

moshes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
For every life that Hitler's minions summarily ended, they ruined 2 more.

I'm not sure what you mean here.

We all speak of the 6 million who died. But the price didn't
end there. Many of the survivors, and the survivors' children and
grandchildren continue to pay a burden. Every interrupted life that was
never put back together again. Nightmares and pain that play themselves
out, robbing people of happiness and potential.

Who knows how many greats never reassembled their lives to the point
that we could benefit from their greatness? How many people never spread
their wings for fear that they may again get clipped? Or simply were
never again able to be physically or mentally free of pain?

And so, a genius with an edietic memory quietly lived out his life
teaching in a tiny shtiebl and a small city college, carrying a headache
that never went away. He had a beautiful life, raising 4 children who
followed in his religious path (his oldest is the Mucaczer Rebbe's
gabbai). But still, he never put all the pieces back together.

The rav of that little shteibl, R' Shaul Margolis, went from being the
rebbe of a town and the father of a large family to being a waiter
in a restaurant in the Lower East Side. Thank G-d someone with whom
he would exchange Torah realized that he didn't belong there, and set
him up with a little shtella in the then Jewish-outlands of Queens. I
carry in my head tunes from my childhood, a melody for the prayers for
Shabbos before Rosh Chodesh, another for the Priestly Blessing, that
represent an entire community that is no longer with us. He remarried,
and had one daughter, whose husband is the shul's current rav (as well
as being a psychologist -- good combination!). They had a TV in their
bedroom, only because the rebbetzin couldn't sleep at night without the
distraction keeping away the nightmares.

We here on our list should have been made very aware in the past months
of the continuing pain Hitler caused. Vehameivin yavin, but although I
don't feel it's appropriate for me to name names, a person explicitly
made themselves an example of how the suffering continues, of how a life
didn't play out as happily as it could have.

May this month of redemption spell the end of all such pain and suffering,
bringing not only redemption to the world, but its echos within our
souls.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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