Think Torah – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Rabi Ari Katz

Purim teaches us to reexamine cause and effect. what is the real reason that things transpire?

Rabbi W0hlgelernterss purim class given on 3.13.2022

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In preparation for his film " the last days" remastered release on Netflix, we get the opportunity to speak to Dr. Michael Berenbaum.

Dr. Berenbaum was the historical consultant for this academy award-winning holocaust film.

We Talk About what inspired him to work on holocaust related projects his entire life.

What is the message for our generation about what happened in Germany? What is his life mission?

Why is this film so important?

Michael Berenbaum is an American scholar, professor, rabbi, writer, and filmmaker, who specializes in the study of the Holocaust. He served as Deputy Director of the President's Commission on the Holocaust Project Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), and Director of the USHMM's Holocaust Research Institute

Berenbaum, who is Jewish, graduated from Queens College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967 and received his doctorate from Florida State University in 1975. He also attended The Hebrew University, the Jewish Theological Seminary, and Boston University. Berenbaum received Rabbinic ordination (Orthodox) by Rabbi Yaakov Rabin at the age of 23. Berenbaum held teaching posts at Florida State University, Yale University, Georgetown University, Wesleyan University, George Washington University, the University of Maryland, College Park, and American University, and is currently a Professor of Jewish Studies at the American Jewish University (Los Angeles).

He is the author and editor of eighteen books, including After Tragedy and Triumph, a study of the state of American Jewry in the early 1990s, as well as The World Must Know, Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp. He co-edited After The Passion is Gone: American Religious Consequences with Shawn Landres (2004) which examines the social impact of the film The Passion of Christ on religious groups. Berenbaum and Landres took a public role in shaping the interreligious response to the film.

Berenbaum is the Executive Editor of the New Encyclopedia Judaica, 2nd ed., that includes 22 volumes, six million words, and 25,000 individual contributions to Jewish knowledge, published in December 2006 (ISBN 0028659287); it won the Dartmouth Medal of the American Library Association for the outstanding reference work of 2006.

Berenbaum co-produced One Survivor Remembers: The Gerda Weissmann Klein Story,[9] a film which was recognized with an Academy Award an Emmy Award, and the Cable Ace Award. He was the chief historical consultant for Last Days, which also won an Academy Award in 1998. In 2001, Berenbaum was a historical consultant for the History Channel's The Holocaust: The Untold Story, which won the CINE Golden Eagle Award and a silver medal at the US International Film and Video Festival. He was also Executive Producer of a film entitled Desperate Hours about the unique and rarely acknowledged role The Republic of Turkey played in rescuing Jews from Nazi Germany's final solution and "About Face: The Story of The Jewish Refugee Soldiers of WWII". Berenbaum was executive producer of Swimming in Auschwitz and was a consultant for Defiance and Uprising, among other Holocaust-related films and documentaries.

Berenbaum is the founding partner of Berenbaum Jacobs Associates, a firm designing Museums, Special Exhibitions, Memorials, and Educational Centers.

In 2019 and 2020 he served as a history consultant for the Serbian historical drama film Dara of Jasenovac.

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Over the past few weeks, a story has been unfolding here in Israel. In Jerusalem, there has been a Christian missionary posing as a Chassidic rabbi. the rabbi is Michael Elkohen, previously Elk, and his late wife Amanda Elk.

This story begs many questions as well as Rabbi Wohlgelernters own experiences with missionaries over the years.

We also talk about what is the threat of missionary work to the Jews and what we can do to prevent it.

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This week we have a special guest Rabbi Lewis Wienerkur. Rabbi Wienerkur is a Rebbi in HAFTR high school, Rabbi of the Woodsburgh minyan, and CPA at his family firm.

In his humorous, witty, and insightful way, we talk about the ever-changing field of Jewish education and how he stays relevant as a Rebbi to his Jewish high school students. He also tells us what he thinks is the most important characteristic of a successful teacher and Mechanech.

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We talk about our upcoming show with Dr. Micheal Berenbaum who is the historical consultant for the Remastered Netflix documentary, The Last Days. Thie remastered version of the Academy award-winning documentary follows the story of five Hungarian survivors.

We discuss the relevance of holocaust films for the younger generation and how the previous generations viewed their responsibilities as rebuilders of the Jewish nation.

This brings us to a very important conversation about having an emotional relationship with God. Hashem has many different roles in our life and today we focus on the spousal analogy between us and God.

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This past week 45 men died while celebrating Lag Baomer in Meron at the gravesite of the Rashbi.

We share the names of the 45 and react to the news.

Rabbi Wohlgelernter shares some insights on how to cope with the pain and how to potentially grow from the experience.

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This week was Pesach Sheini, the second Passover if you will.

We talk about why this day was instituted and what it represents for us today.

We talk about the importance of infusing our daily Jewish practices with desire for Hashem and we even get into what does desire without the structure of the Mitzvot and Laws of the Torah look like.

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This week we talk about Israel and some of the sights, sounds, and experiences we missed so many years of not living in Eretz Yisroel.

At the end of the episode, we invite you to share your thoughts on how YOU keep Eretz Yisroel in focus in your own life!

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This week we are joined by great long time friend Lori Friedman from the early days getting settled in Israel. She shares with us about her late husband Rabbi Yaakov Friedman who was a wonderful Jew and a addictions counselor at Neve Tzion Yeshiva in Yerushalayim.

Lori gives us an insight into how she makes her Shabbos meals meaningful today and how they did while raising their family.

She is an artist painting what she calls "moments".

Check out her work here:

https://www.instagram.com/loriannfriedman/

Lori is also the Administrator for the Mishpacha magazine office in Israel.

We talk about some of the meaningful people and experiences she has working at Mishpacha Magazine.

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