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  • Giving up one's life for general Mitzvos - v5 #14 by R' Aaron Cohen

    Rav Oshry was given the task of running a bathhouse that was a lifesaver for the Jews in the Kovno Ghetto, who were suffering ailments and sickness brought on by the terrible hygiene in the ghetto. He made sure that the bathhouse remained closed on Shabbos and Yom Tov. Community leaders expressed concern that if the Nazis found out, Rav Oshry would be killed. Was Rav Oshry permitted to endanger himself in order to prevent Jews from desecrating Shabbos?

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    17 min
  • Entrusting children to non-Jews to save them - v5 #9 by R' Aaron Cohen

    As word spread that the Nazis were planning to conduct a mass murder of children, parents frantically sought ways to save their children. Could they give the children to a priest or church, knowing that they would be inculcated with Christian beliefs? Could they entrust the children with non-Jewish acquaintances who avowed that they would return the children to their families after the war

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    12 min

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Explore hundreds of shiurim from our Rav, Rabbi Aaron Cohen; our late, previous Rav, Rabbi Solomon Weinberger זצ“ל or the many guest speakers of Tifereth Israel of Passaic, in topics spanning halacha, machshava, parsha, and the moadim.