The Opinion of the Torah: Illuminating the Present Jewish Condition According to the Light of the Torah

Elhanan Wasserman

1936

Written on the Occasion of the Ritual Slaughter Decree in Poland, 1936 [Parliament considered a bill to have animals killed by electricity, rather than by a knife, as required by Jewish law. The bill was never adopted.]

1. It is customary that when things go well a person finds the reason for this in himself. His wisdom, his energy—“My power and…

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Elhanan Wasserman

1875–1941

Elhanan Bunim Wasserman, born in Birz, Lithuania, was a disciple of the Hafetz Chaim (Israel Meir Kagan). Wasserman served as head of the yeshiva in Brisk [today, Brest-Litovsk, Belarus] from 1910 to 1914, and he was one of the Lithuanian Misnagdic rabbis who promoted the Brisker method of Talmud study in his yeshiva Ohel Torah in Baranovitsh [today, Brest-Litovsk, Belarus]. He was active in Agudas Yisroel (Agudat Israel), strongly opposing Zionism in particular and nationalism in general. He was murdered by Lithuanian Nazi collaborators.

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The Opinion of the Torah: Illuminating the Present Jewish Condition According to the Light of the Torah

Written on the Occasion of the Ritual Slaughter Decree in Poland, 1936 [Parliament considered a bill to have animals killed by electricity, rather than by a knife, as required by Jewish law. The bill was never adopted.]

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Written on the Occasion of the Ritual Slaughter Decree in Poland, 1936 [Parliament considered a bill to have animals killed by electricity, rather than by a knife, as required by Jewish law. The bill was never adopted.]

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