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letter from the Rebbe asking his brother, Rabbi
Yeshayahu Shapira, and his friends in Israel to publish his writings. Dubdevani saw the discovery of the letter as a "holy will" and decided to find the writings come what may. Indeed, he managed to find them. Letters from the Rebbe of Piaseczno to the finder of the writings and to his friends in Israel are also printed at the beginning of the book.
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In 2017, a scholarly revised edition titled "Sermons from the Years of Wrath" was published in two volumes. This edition was edited based on the original manuscript found in the
Ringelblum Archive at the Jewish Historical Institute in Poland. The first volume includes the revised sermons with added
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The exceptional intellectual effort invested in the book, under dire conditions, makes it an extraordinary
Hasidic, theological-philosophical, and historical document. Rabbi Shapira poignantly describes the immense suffering he and his followers endured. His religious questions and attempts to cope
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In 1957, the pages were identified, and copies were sent by Baruch
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Treblinka and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, after which the Rebbe was murdered in Trawniki, he handed the manuscript to a member of the Oyneg Shabbos Archive. The manuscript was buried in a milk jug in the ghetto soil, along with other documents collected by the
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source references and explanations. The second volume contains a facsimile edition where, alongside a color photograph of the manuscript, an accurate transcription in four colors (black, red, blue, and green) distinguishes between different layers of revisions made by the author.
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underground archive members. The pages were discovered in Poland a few years after the war by a worker during foundation laying for a new building in Warsaw on the ruins of the ghetto, and they were handed over to the Jewish
Historical Institute in Warsaw.
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Esther Judith Teidor Baumel, "Holy Fire", Rabbi Kalman
Shapira of Piaseczno's Book and its Role in Understanding Religious Life in the Warsaw Ghetto", Yalkut Moreshet, Journal for Documentation and Study, Issue 29, Nisan 1980, May, pp.
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The sermons are not consecutive throughout the three years; there are periods of several weeks or months without any. In the year 1939โ1940, the Rebbe gave 41 sermons; in 1940โ1941, only 21; and in 1941โ1942, 24 sermons, up to
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Farbstein, "In the Shadow of Thunder: Halacha, Thought, and Leadership during the Holocaust", Rabbi Kook Institute, 2002, Chapter Twelve "The Voice of God in Fire - Sermons of the Rebbe of Piaseczno in the Warsaw
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Gershon Kitsis, "Rabbi Kalonymus of Piaseczno: A Conversation with His Legacy", Machanayim: A Quarterly for Research, Thought, and Jewish Culture 8, Center for Sefir Culture and Jewish Education, Kislev 1995, pp.
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Dr. Ofer Schiff: "A Model of Hasidic Leadership during the Holocaust", Machanayim, a Quarterly for Research, Thought, and Jewish Culture, Issue No. 8, Center for Sefir Culture and Jewish Education, Kislev 1995, pp.
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Pesach Schindler, "Holocaust and Spiritual Despair", Studies in the Holocaust Period, a collection of essays in memory of Meir Dvorjetski, edited by Mordechai Eliav, Bar-Ilan University Press, Ramat Gan, 1979, pp.
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Yitzhak Hershkowitz, "Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira of Piaseczno: Holocaust Theology versus Pre-Holocaust Thought, Continuation or Transformation?", Master's Thesis, Bar-Ilan University, 2005.
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The collection of sermons was published under the name "Holy Fire" for the first time in 1960 by the Committee of Piaseczno Hasidim. Since then, the book has been printed in several editions.
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Pesach Schindler, "The Response of Hasidism to the Holocaust", Faith in the Holocaust, Ministry of Education and Culture, Department of Torah Culture, Jerusalem, 1980, pp. 69-78.
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The pages themselves, written by the Rebbe, are located, along with the entire "Oyneg Shabbos" archive of Ringelblum, in the governmental archive of the Polish government.
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Daniel Reiser (Editor), Kalonymus Kalman Shapira (Author), "Sermons from the Years of Wrath: A Precise Edition Based on the Manuscript", Jerusalem, 2017, in two volumes.
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and holidays, arranged according to the calendar year. The book contains 86 sermons delivered over three years, 1939โ1942. The first sermon was given on
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Eliezer Shvid, "Between Destruction and Salvation โ Responses of Ultra-Orthodox Thought to the Holocaust", Kibbutz HaMeuchad Publishing House, 1994.
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Ron Wax, "The Blaze of Holy Fire: Gateways to the Teachings of the Rebbe of Piaseczno", Tavunot Press, Herzog College, Alon Shvut, 2010 (360 pages).
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suffering, and imbue meaning in sanctifying God's name; as a leader, he tries to encourage his listeners and provide direction to his followers.
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