There seemed to be a theme today at Mayanot. When Rabbi Levinger was talking about the chapter, he discussed why something as simple as a flat denial of a yid's jewishness strikes us so deeply. He gave the example of the visa office giving students a hard time. Nothing could have stuck me deeper.
Rabbi Braun also brought up this concept in his class. He spoke of the difference between people who openly express their closeness with H', and people in which this closeness is less revealed. He then gave a story about a man who gave his life for Judaism. The man was in Auschwitz, and he was still completely agianst all things Jewish. As all the people around him were celebrating Simchas Torah, he sat with scorn. But when the Nazi's came in, with their guns in hand, he was the one that explained to them what they were doing. The song they heard, the man bravely said, was sung to express the Holyness of G-d and the purity of the Jewish people. He was shot on the spot. He gave his life for Judaism, the one thing he thought he didn't believe in before this trying moment.
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