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Holocaust and Genocide Studies 1989 4(4):413-433; doi:10.1093/hgs/4.4.413
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TIKKUN AS RESPONSE TO TRAGEDY: EM HABANIM SMEHA OF RABBI YISSAKHAR SHLOMO TEICHTHAL — BUDAPEST, 1943

PESACH SCHINDLER

Jerusalem, Israel

Rabbi Yissakhar Shlomo Teichthal's Em Habanim Smeha (EHS) (Budapest, 1943) represents a major break with ultra-Orthodox Jewish theology. Among the last works of Judaica published in Holocaust Europe, the martyred author castigates his ultra-religious colleagues for leading their communities astray by making peace with the realities of exile and rejecting all initiatives for self-redemption. The quietistic strategy of ‘shev ve'al ta'aseh’ (cease and desist) practiced by the galut-oriented Jewish leaders may have enhanced their own leadership positions in a beleaguered exile, but proved fatal to much of Eastern European Jewry. EHS pleads for a return to tikkun (reconstruction) as a prerequisite for self-redemption. Documentation for this activist–religious Zionist program on the background of the hurban in progress is summarized in this essay.


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