Shabbat VaYera Readings and Commentary...

Genesis 18:1 – 22:24; 2 Kings 4:1-37 Please notice Current Themes article: Kristallnacht LUTHER Pogromnacht Summary of the Commentary by Michael Schneider, Jerusalem: We read in our weekly portion about good hospitality of Abraham and Sarah, as they hurried to prepare the best of the best for the three men of God who visited them in the heat of the day in Alon Mamre. This kind of extravagant hospitality is found in...

Kristallnacht LUTHER Pogromnacht...

It was the night of 9th on the 10th of November – Martin Luther’s birthday! – that should be, in 1938, as a birthday present dedicated to him, the man who has called the Germans and the entire Christianity 400 years prior to this date: „Firstly, that their synagogues or schools be set on fire and, what may not burn, be heaped over with earth, so that no human being could see a stone or cinder for ever....

Luther: Firstly, that their synagogues be set on f...

To make a long story short – the one and only consequence of the “Kristallnacht”, the German pronunciation, is that man may free themselves completely from Luther’s mind and to leave his church immediately.