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Sacred FireKalonymus Kalman Shapira

Judaism: Torah, Talmud and Tradition

Sacred Fire

Torah from the Years of Fury 1939–1942

by Kalonymus Kalman Shapira · J. Hershy Worch (trans.), Deborah Miller (ed.)

An English translation of the sermons preached in the Warsaw Ghetto by the Hasidic rebbe of Piaseczno, published in Hebrew in 1960 as Esh Kodesh. The sermons record a religious leader's struggle to give meaning to suffering as conditions in the ghetto worsened.

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