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Kalonymus Kalman Shapira
1889–1943
Kalonymus Kalman Shapira was an educator and Hasidic master who, beginning in 1913, served as the rabbi of Piascezno, Poland; in 1923, he founded Yeshiva Da‘at Moshe, a major Hasidic yeshiva in Warsaw. Shapira transcribed and translated his weekly sermons, which he delivered to his followers in the Warsaw ghetto and bequeathed to the Oyneg Shabes archive. He perished in the Trawniki camp near Lublin.
Content by Kalonymus Kalman Shapira
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Seudah Shelishit as the Yom Kippur of the Entire Week
Kalonymus Kalman Shapira describes how during the Sabbath third meal, mystics experience a freeing of the soul from weekday constraints.
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The Holy Fire
These sermons offer religious guidance and theological insights to Jews questioning the role of God amid insurmountable evil.
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