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The Shmuz on the Parsha

Rabbi Ben Tzion Shafier

It’s not fair!

Parshas Metzorah “And you shall take a bundle of hyssops and dip it in the blood in the basin, and you shall touch it to the lintel and the two door posts, and you shall not go out, no man from the entrance of his home that night, until the morning.” — Shemos 12:22

Great affront to the Mitzrim

After months of witnessing HASHEM’s mastery over nature, the Jewish people were commanded to commit the ultimate affront to the Mitzrim: to take their very god, tie it to the bedpost, and prepare it to be slaughtered on the 14th of Nissan. They were then to take the blood of the korbon and smear it on their doorposts as a sign to protect them. Additionally, they were told that since all first-born Mitzrim were to be killed, no Jew should leave his house that night. Rashi explains that even though blood on the doorpost was a sign that that house belonged to a Jew, if a Jew were to walk in the street, he would be in danger. “Once permission is given to the destroyer to destroy, he doesn’t distinguish between innocent and guilty.”

Where is the justice?

It seems that Rashi is saying that had a Jew remained in his house that evening, he would not have been killed, and had he left his house, he might die – not because he was guilty of any sin, not because he deserved to die, but because once the destroyer is given permission to kill, anyone in his path is in danger.

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how is it possible that he would die? The basis of our entire belief system is that there is no power in this world other than HASHEM. We accept that all decisions are directly guided and carried out by Him alone. So how is it possible that someone undeserving of death would have been killed anyway, just for going outside that evening? Where is the justice?

Immutable laws of nature

The answer to this question is based on the way that Chazal understand the system of Creation. HASHEM formed this world with definite and distinct laws: heat tends to rise, gases tend to expand, and heavy objects tend to fall.

These laws are the bedrock foundation for all of physicality. Just as HASHEM created laws for the physical world, so too, He created laws for the spiritual world. These are specific and exact, and carry throughout Creation.

Before HASHEM created the world, He thought (if it could be) to create it with the middas ha’din – strict justice.

However, the world couldn’t exist if it operated according to this system, so HASHEM created the world using the middas ha’rachamim – the system of mercy. The operating principle then became compassion. The way that actions were weighed and people were judged was now with a different scale and measuring rod. However, since HASHEM acts with complete honesty, justice cannot be ignored. It is mitigated and guided by kindness, but it still demands its due.

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instant punishment for a sin. After all, in this world, you are a creation, a visitor in the King’s land, created by and supported

by Him. The King gave you laws for your good, and if you have the audacity to violate the express command of the King, even a slight transgression should be immediately punishable by death. The middah of mercy allows for a different way of judging an act: a sinner is given time to repent, the punishment isn’t as severe, and there is a system of tshuvah – of somehow undoing the sin itself.

However, din cannot be ignored, and there are times and situations where it comes into full force. For reasons that we humans will likely never understand, HASHEM runs this world in cycles and time settings. There are times of greater leniency, and times that demand more scrutiny in judgment. We are advised to daven on Yom Kippur with extra fervor because it is a time of greater rachamim.

The same amount of regret and tshuvah on our part will accomplish more. The middah of rachamim is in greater force.

Times of strict judgment

This seems to be the answer to the question on Rashi. When HASHEM was taking retribution on the firstborns of Mitzrayim, justice was being served, and so there was a global shift in the middah in operation. Din went into effect. As such, it was a very dangerous time. Now man – any man – would be judged with the system of din, and very few individuals would be able to pass as innocent. Therefore, the Klal Yisroel were warned, “Do not go out from your home.” The destructive angel was given

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A person who might be innocent under the normal mercy system would now be found guilty and might warrant death. Because of that, the Jews were advised to avoid the situation.

Understanding the middah of din

This concept has great applications to our lives. In many situations, we are tempted to ask questions on HASHEM. “It’s not fair! Why should that person suffer? Why do bad things happen to good people?” Yet when we focus on what man is capable of accomplishing, we understand that there are very few individuals who truly live up to their potential. If the middah of din were exacted, there would be few who would escape unscathed. So, there are no issues of “it’s not fair.” The only question is why in one case it seems that din is in operation more than in another.

And because there are so many factors that affect the balance, we humans may never know the answer to these global questions.

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Even more, these concepts affect our relationship to HASHEM. When we understand what strict din is, we understand that our very existence is dependent upon mercy. We can then tap into one of the most powerful forces in Creation. Even a slight change in the amount of mercy HASHEM uses in judging me can have a fantastic difference in the outcome. The question I have to ask is: how do I awaken the middah of mercy?

One of the keys is to utilize the power of tefillah, to ask HASHEM for help – not based on my merit or anything that I have done, but out of sheer mercy. Another method is to act toward other people with mercy. Chazal tell us that the way that a person is judged mirrors the way he judges others. Since he established the criteria, that itself is justice, and in Heaven that is the scale they use.

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Did the Bookkeeper of Auschwitz Redeem Himself?

by Rabbi Jack Abramowitz Oskar Groening is no hero. But he did jeopardize his own safety in order to combat Holocaust denial.

Did the Bookkeeper of Auschwitz Redeem Himself?

by Rabbi Jack Abramowitz

Oskar Groening is no hero. But he did jeopardize his own safety in order to combat Holocaust denial.

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That having been said, you may have heard that Oskar Groening, “The Bookkeeper of Auschwitz,” died a few weeks ago at age 96, before he could start a four-year prison sentence for being an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people.

Groening’s job in Auschwitz included counting the banknotes confiscated from the prisoners and hiding the victims’ luggage so that new arrivals would not be able to infer what had become of their predecessors. Groening voluntarily signed up for the SS and, according to

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prosecutors, he was fully aware that prisoners were murdered immediately after arriving at Auschwitz. That he should be convicted for his role seems a no-brainer. Here’s where things get weird.

After being released from a British prison camp following the war, Groening never spoke about his time at Auschwitz.

He went on to live an uneventful life that included stamp collecting as a hobby.

Forty-plus years after the war, he was at a philately club meeting when another member started holding court on the “alleged” Holocaust, claiming that so many bodies could never have been burned and that the volume of gas necessary for the gas chambers would have killed every living thing in the area. Ultimately, the colleague sent Groening a Holocaust denial pamphlet, which Groening sent back, marked, “I saw everything. The gas To advertise, call 718-513-9885

chambers, the cremations, the selection process. One and a half million Jews were murdered in Auschwitz. I was there.”

This response was shared, making Groening very unpopular in neo-Nazi circles, and he started receiving calls and letters from strangers telling him that Auschwitz was not a place where human beings were exterminated and that what he recalled seeing with his own eyes was actually “a big hallucination.” As a result, Groening decided to publicly contradict the Holocaust deniers, including in a 2005 BBC documentary entitled Auschwitz: the Nazis and the “Final Solution.” This is significant. According to Nazi hunter Efraim Zuroff, Groening going public with his past represents “the first (time) in recent history in which a defendant has talked about the horrors of Auschwitz.

That’s something you almost never see.”

Going public had the unfortunate consequence (for Groening) that it put him on the authorities’ radar. In 2014, he was charged by German prosecutors for his role at Auschwitz and, in 2015, he was convicted. A variety of appeals and other motions to avoid prison were denied but Groening was hospitalized and died before he could begin his sentence.

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Even among victims, there was some dissent as to the sentence. For example, Eva Mozes Kor, a survivor of Auschwitz, said that at the time of Groening’s conviction her “preference would have been to sentence him to community service by speaking out against neo-Nazis. I would like the court to prove to me, a survivor, how four years in jail will benefit anybody.”

Groening’s story reminded me of the Roman soldier who murdered Rabbi Chanina ben Tradyon, one of the “ten martyrs” about whom we read on Yom Kippur. Rabbi Chanina was sentenced to death by the Romans for the crime of publicly teaching Torah. The authorities wrapped him in a Torah scroll and bunches of thorns, which they lit on fire. They put wet wool over his heart to make it take longer and extend his suffering. Rabbi Chanina’s students urged him to open his mouth, letting in the fire so that his suffering would end sooner. This he declined, saying, “Let the One Who gave me my soul be the One to take it!” Finally, the executioner asked Rabbi Chanina, “If I increase the fire and remove the wool, will you bring me with you into the Next World?” Rabbi Chanina agreed so the executioner removed the wool and stoked the fire. He then jumped into it, dying with Rabbi Chanina.

This prompted a Heavenly voice to declare that both Rabbi Chanina and the executioner had been admitted to the Next World. When Rebbi heard this, he cried, saying that it takes some people their entire life to earn a place in the Next World while others can do it in a single moment! (Talmud, Avodah Zarah 18a) The Roman executioner is not the hero of that story. He’s a bad guy who did a good thing. Similarly, Oskar Groening is no hero. He’s no role model.

But he did a good thing. He jeopardized his own safety in order to combat Holocaust denial. That doesn’t necessarily exempt him from punishment.

Achan, the looter in Joshua chapter 7, caused a military defeat and 36 casualties. He secured a place in the Next World through his confession but he was still executed for his crime. Rabbi Chanina ben Tradyon’s Roman executioner apparently had to die to atone for his crimes. Perhaps Oskar Groening’s redemption, like theirs, was purely spiritual, in which case he still should have gone to prison. Who can say?

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people reading this have done anything even approaching the magnitude of the evil perpetrated by Achan, the executioner of Rabbi Chanina, or the bookkeeper of Auschwitz. And yet we often despair, thinking ourselves beyond redemption. If these arch-criminals can mitigate their misdeeds, we normal folk certainly haven’t done anything from which we can’t bounce back.

Rabbi Yisroel Salanter once saw an elderly cobbler mending shoes in the wee hours by fading candlelight. When he asked why the shoemaker was working so late by the last vestiges of the flame, the old man replied, “As long as the light burns, there’s still time to make repairs.” From this Rabbi Yisroel derived the equivalent spiritual lesson: as long as our lights burn, there’s still time for us to make repairs.

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Frank Foley: The Spy who Saved 10,000 Jews

by Menucha Chana Levin

This unassuming man was a hero who led a dangerous double life in Nazi Germany as head of Britain’s intelligence service.

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rank Foley lived a quiet life in a small English town after World War II. His neighbors had no idea this short, unassuming man was a hero who led a dangerous double life in Nazi Germany as head of Britain’s intelligence service. He also risked his own life to save thousands of imperiled Jews.

Based in Berlin in the 1930s, his official job was to be Britain’s passport control officer. In actuality, he was the head of the Berlin office of MI6, Britain’s secret intelligence service.

As a spy, Major Foley had a very dramatic career. He organized the operation that saved Norway’s gold reserves from being looted by the Nazis and persuaded leading German scientists not to pass on essential data about atomic research to the Nazi leadership. He also convinced scores of German spies to become double agents.

A life-long devout Catholic, Foley was greatly moved by the Nazi persecution of Jews, helping thousands to escape from Germany.

Following Kristallnacht in 1938, he wrote in a confidential report to London: “The Nazi party has not departed from its original intentions and its ultimate aim

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remains the disappearance of the Jews from Germany.”

Though immigration rules still remained strict at that time of economic depression, many Jews realized the danger and tried to flee from the Nazi threat.

Defying the unrelenting policy of his own Foreign Office, Foley issued 10,000 visas for British Mandate Palestine.

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flee Germany and Austria. He entered concentration camps to secure the release of Jewish prisoners. It is believed that he saved about 10,000 lives.

Frank Foley’s wife, Kay, reported: “Jews trying to find a way out of Germany queued in their hundreds outside the British consulate, clinging to the hope that they would get a passport or a visa. Day after day we saw them standing along the corridors, down the steps and across the large courtyard, waiting their turn to fill in the forms that might lead to freedom. In the end,

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cables and letters from other parts of the country, all pleading for visas and begging for help. For them, Frank’s yes or no really meant the difference between a new life and the concentration camps. But there were many difficulties. How could so many people be interviewed before their turn came for that dreaded knock on the door?

“Frank worked from 7 am to 10 pm without a break. He would handle as many applications himself as he could manage and would walk among his staff of examiners to see where he could assist them, or give advice and words of comfort to those who waited.”

Wim Van Leer, also involved in helping Jews to escape from Nazi Germany, noted that “the winter of 1938 was a harsh one and elderly men and women waited from six in the morning, queuing up in the snow and biting wind. Captain Foley saw to it that a uniformed commissionaire trundled a tea-urn on a trolley along the line of frozen misery…”

Miriam Posner, a Jewish girl of sixteen, traveled from East Prussia to beg for a visa to Palestine, although she did not meet Britain’s stiff conditions for entry.

She maintained: “Foley saved my life. We heard that there was this man Foley who was kind to the Jews. My mother begged him. He just paced up and down a little and then asked for my passport and put the visa stamp on it. He did not ask any

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questions.” She added, “He was small and quiet. You would never suspect he was a spy.”

Z e ’ e v Padan’s father was interned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp when Foley rescued him. Ze’ev too was saved by Foley’s defiance of authority.

By the time of the infamous Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, Foley and his wife had undertaken something even more dangerous: sheltering Jews overnight in their apartment. Among their ‘guests’ was Leo Baeck, chairman of the Association of German Rabbis.

In September, 1939, when the war began, Foley returned to England.

However he left behind a thick stack of pre-approved visas with instructions they should be distributed to people fleeing the Nazis.

After the war Frank Foley and his wife Kay retired to the small town of Stourbridge. He lived quietly, enjoying his garden and chatting with the local children. Since he rarely mentioned his wartime experiences, the neighbors had no idea that a hero lived in their midst.

He died in 1958 at the age of 74. Three years after his death, Mrs. Foley finally revealed the brave exploits of her late husband.

British journalist Michael Smith brought Foley’s unknown story to light in his book Foley, the Spy who saved 10,000 Jews, published in 1999: Foley clearly ranked alongside the likes of Oskar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg and yet his name was virtually unknown.

I set out to find out the truth about Foley.

One of my first stops was Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust Memorial Center, where I asked if Foley had ever been considered for the honor of Righteous Among Nations, the accolade accorded to any gentile who helped save even one Jew from the Holocaust.”

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Although officials at Yad Vashem had heard of Foley, they claimed there was no evidence to support his case. However a document in their archives written by Hubert Pollack, a Jewish aid worker, who had worked alongside Foley in Berlin, described how Foley had saved tens of thousands of Jews from the Nazis.

This was the first of many testimonies by prominent Jews who had known Foley.

The most dramatic came during the 1961 trial in Israel of Adolf Eichmann. One of the chief prosecution witnesses, Benno Cohn, former chairman of the Zionist Organization of Germany, paid tribute to Foley: “There was one man who stood out above all others like a beacon. Captain Foley, Passport Officer in the British Consulate in the Tiergarten in Berlin, a man who in my opinion was one of the greatest among the nations of the world.

It was possible to bring a great number of people to Israel through the help of this most wonderful person. He rescued thousands of Jews from the jaws of death.”

Hubert Pollack, a Zionist agent, pointed out that Foley was also aware of the secret Zionist organization Mossad LeAliyah Bet which smuggled Jews into British-controlled Palestine. However Foley had not reported it, as required, to his superiors.

Thanks to the Holocaust Educational Trust, the evidence collected by Michael Smith was given to Yad Vashem. After officials interviewed the living witnesses he found in researching the book, in 1999 they finally awarded Foley the well-deserved title of Righteous Among the Nations and a tree was planted in Jerusalem for this quiet hero.

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Counting the Omer: 49-Day Program for Change

by Dr. Lisa Aiken, Ph.D.

Every small step we take to become better has an effect on everyone around us.

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ow many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb?

Only one. But the light bulb has to really want to

change.

Lots of people hate change. Actually, they love change, but only if it is others who are changing to make life more comfortable for the person who doesn’t want to change. Many of us want our boss to change, our spouse to change, our kids to change, our teachers to change… the only one we don’t think needs to change is us!

As a psychologist, part of my job is to help people to realize that the only person they can definitely change to be the way they want is themselves.

Judaism teaches us that the entire reason we are here is to change! The Almighty created all of us imperfect and our job is to change to become better and better. If we want the world to be a better place, it starts with us. Every small step we take to become better has an effect on everyone around us.

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lives during the seven weeks between the holidays of Passover and Shavuot. We all have good and bad character traits that continually affect us and those around

Altogether, we do 49 steps with each emphasizing a different trait that can help us to become kinder, to be more selfdisciplined and have proper boundaries, To advertise, call 718-513-9885

us. Kabbalah tells us that there are seven main character traits and we have the ability to develop them in ourselves. Each day between Passover and Shavuot, we count another day of the Omer. Each day has a special spiritual energy that enables us to work on one important aspect of our character that is especially accessible to us that day. We take a few minutes each day putting one angle of a trait into practice with ourselves, with other people, and in our relationship with God. Altogether, we do 49 steps with each emphasizing a different trait that can help us to become kinder, to be more selfdisciplined and have proper boundaries, and to live life more meaningfully. At the end of those 49 days, we are on our way to being noticeably better people.

The first character trait that we work on is kindness. The first day of the Omer we can devote time to doing something kind for ourselves. For example, lots of people think negatively about themselves. During the course of a day they might think, “I’m not pretty,” or “I’m not smart,” or “I can’t do that,” or “People don’t like me.” You can start to

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change your life for the better by being kind to yourself. Notice when you are having negative thoughts and substitute them with positive ones instead. For example, instead of “Things never work out the way I want,” you can think, “I am good at _____. When I put my energy and effort into that, things usually work out well.” Or, when you think “Nobody cares about me,” substitute, “These people do care about me...”

Next, think about a kind deed that you would like to do for others and do it!

Simply having nice thoughts about what you would like to do does not make you into a kind person. Actually doing things does! Give someone a compliment, visit a sick person in the hospital, make a phone call or visit someone who is lonely, help a child with his homework, spend a few hours working in a soup kitchen. Judaism teaches us that each kind deed that we do transforms us into a kinder person and can make a difference in someone else’s

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life.

Finally, do one kind deed for your Creator. He doesn’t need anything from us, but the entire purpose for which He created the world is to be good to us.

When we live meaningfully, it gives Him the greatest pleasure, so to speak. Choose one thing that He would like you to do.

For example, make a gratitude list and tell Him that you appreciate the talents, friends, opportunities, or gifts that He has given you. Noticing that you have received good things instead of only expecting what you don’t have is something that research on happiness has shown will make you a happier person. Showing appreciation to the One who makes it all possible and verbalizing thanks to Him is a great way to do this.

It is said, “The journey of 1,000 miles starts with one small step.” During the Omer, you can take 49 meaningful steps on a journey that can change your life for the better.

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Margit Kirsche and her husband Sandor survived Auschwitz and opened the first kosher food emporium in Chicago.

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argit Kirsche, a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor, lost her sight 20 years ago and these days she relies on a wheelchair to get about. But that’s not preventing her from cooking up a storm, preparing delicacies for her large family – and cooking industrial quantities of food

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to sell to thousands of customers as well.

Cooking for others is part of Margit’s family history. “My grandfather used to make the charoset for our town every Passover,” Margit recalled in an Aish.com exclusive interview. Born in 1923 in the small Hungarian town of Gergely, Margit grew up in an intensely spiritual Chassidic Jewish home. Her town had no rabbi, but Margit’s grandfather Yaakov Yehuda

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Hacohen Cheimovics was a learned man and he served as the town’s spiritual leader and shochet, or kosher butcher.

Margit remembers villagers coming to him with questions. One day, when she was just five years old, Margit copied her grandfather and proffered advice to a visiting townsperson herself. Perhaps Margit inherited her grandfather’s wisdom because the visitor took Margit’s

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advice and “many years later she came back to thank me for that answer” Margit remembers with a warm smile.

Jewish holidays were special times in Margit’s family home. Her grandfather would slaughter meat for the Jewish villagers’ holiday feasts, and the day before Passover he would bake matzah to distribute to the entire community. He would also make charoset, using an old family recipe he’d learned from his own grandfather as a child. “Everybody in the town came and he’d give them a scoop,” Margit recalls of his rich cinnamoninfused charoset.

Life wasn’t easy in Hungary in the 1920s and 1930s. Margit’s parents realized there was little future for Jews there, and Margit’s father left for Cuba in 1923, hoping to be able to bring his family to America one day. When World War II broke out, conditions became dire.

Hungary’s new pro-Nazi government banned Kosher slaughter. When it came to treatment of Hungary’s Jews, their cruelty knew no bounds. Local children attacked Margit’s brothers and beat them up. In 1941, Jews living in Hungary without Hungarian citizenship were deported. In 1942, all Hungarian Jewish men aged 24-33 were conscripted into forced labor. In 1943, Hungarian Jews were forced out of public jobs and schools and their land and property was confiscated.

In 1944, the decree came: all of Hungary’s Jews were to be deported to concentration camps and murdered.

Margit’s last moments in her beloved family home came in the period between the holidays of Passover and Shavuot in 1944. Food was scarce and most of the working-age men had been taken away, requisitioned to perform slave labor. Margit’s family held their usual Passover Seders, eating the matzah and charoset her grandfather made, even though their holiday was infused with sadness. In the morning, after going to the synagogue, Margit’s Uncle Hersh Meilech came rushing to their house. “I was happy to see him because I loved this uncle very much,” Margit explains. Then she saw that he was crying. “He said all the Jews had to leave their home” – news he had just heard from neighbors in synagogue.

Soon, the entire family, including Margit’s three younger brothers, were in tears,

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Margit and Sandor moved to Chicago in 1948 and worked at a variety of jobs until they were able to save enough to open their own business. In 1973,

wondering what the future held.

That night, as Passover concluded, Margit’s family and her Uncle Hersh Meilech’s family hired wagons to take them away, hoping to find safety in another region. They managed to flee about 30 kilometers before they were apprehended and brought back to town. The next day, the entire region’s Jews were imprisoned in the Beregszas Ghetto. Six weeks later, they were taken on a second transport to Auschwitz. On the cattle train to Auschwitz, Margit remembers her little brother Yitzchak Isaac crying out that he was hungry. Margit had a couple of walnut cookies her mother had made – a last remnant of the life they were leaving behind – and she gave them to him. That To advertise, call 718-513-9885

is her final memory of her brother; he was herded into a gas chamber as soon as the family arrived at Auschwitz.

In Auschwitz, Margit was assigned to slave labor and was later transferred to another concentration camp. Even in that hellish nightmare, she never lost her faith. “I always said Modeh Ani,” Margit recalls, referring to the traditional Jewish prayer thanking God for waking up each morning.

Asked what advice she has for the current generation, Margit stresses this gratitude for life: “Be thankful for every day.”

Margit was liberated on April 27, 1945. Out of her entire family, only she and her older brother Morton, who had been living in Budapest, survived.

Building a Life After the war, Margit made her way to Germany and met another Holocaust survivor, Sandor Kirsche. Like hers, Sandor’s family had also been intensely spiritual and giving – and was also wiped out in the Holocaust.

His grandfather had been a rabbi in Czechoslovakia, and in an amazing coincidence, Sandor’s family had also baked the matzah that the Jews in his town used to rely on each Passover.

In 1944, Sandor and his family baked matzah in secret, ensuring the Jews in his town that they could celebrate one last Passover. On the eve of Shavuot in 1944, Sandor and his entire family were deported to Auschwitz. Of his large family, only Sandor survived.

When he was liberated the following year, he weighed just 70 pounds and never fully recovered his former strength.

These two broken survivors were determined to build a life together. Steeped in Judaism as children, it was crucial that they resurrect the Jewish life and hold on to the Jewish values that the Nazis had tried to erase. Even when it seemed virtually impossible to live an Orthodox life, Margit and Sandor persevered. When they married in Germany in 1947, kosher food was impossible to find. Determined that her wedding feast be strictly kosher, Margit cooked everything herself, serving her guests a meal that included delicious challah and kosher fish – Jewish delicacies that were difficult to come by in post-war German.

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Hungarian Kosher Foods Margit and Sandor moved to Chicago in 1948 and worked at a variety of jobs until they were able to save enough to open their own business. In 1973, they bought an old storefront on Devon Avenue in Chicago and opened something pioneering: an all-kosher supermarket they named Hungarian Kosher Foods. At the time, this was the only completelykosher food emporium anywhere in the world outside of Israel. The idea was revolutionary, but Sandor and Margit were undeterred: they had always been committed to keeping kosher and wanted to help others do the same.

An all-kosher supermarket where customers could buy everything they needed – from meat and cheese to canned goods and bakery products – in one convenient place promised to change the way Jewish shoppers bought food. Hungarian Kosher Foods had an enormous impact, first in Chicago, then across the United States as other kosher vendors emulated their business model.

Margit did much of the cooking and baking, sharing her beloved family recipes in the supermarket deli and bakery.

Each holiday, that meant producing vast quantities of her family’s signature recipes.

In addition to the thousands of orders for Shabbat and holiday meals and deli items, through the years Margit and Sandor donated countless meals to synagogues and to people in the community who couldn’t afford to buy food at Passover and other times of the year. For a time, they donated weekly kiddushes to a local synagogue that served Jews who fled from the former Soviet Union, ensuring that these refugees enjoyed a substantial meal each Shabbat.

When Hungarian Kosher Foods moved to a huge 25,000 square foot location in the nearby suburb of Skokie, Illinois in 1986, the amount of food Margit prepared each week increased. Each year, she found herself helping cook tens of thousands of meals, and preparing a hundred pounds or more of treasured family dishes like her signature cheese blintzes for Shavuot and her Chicken Paprikas with Dumplings

for Shabbat. Even in their sixties, Sandor and Margit put in 14 hour days at the supermarket, six days each week.

In 2007, just before Passover, Sandor received dire news: he was gravely ill and had only a few more weeks to live. Undaunted, he left the hospital, not to go home, but to visit Hungarian Kosher Foods where he oversaw holiday preparations one last time.

Today, Sandor and Margit’s children run Hungarian Kosher Foods, and their many grandchildren and greatgrandchildren help during busy holiday periods. Margit hasn’t been in the best health and she no longer cooks many of the foods in the supermarket’s vast deli.

However, this year, as she has for the past 45 years, Margit helped prepare the 120 pounds of charoset the supermarket sells. On Shavuot, Hungarian Kosher Foods will once again serve thousands of delicious cheese blintzes, made according to Margit’s treasured family recipe.

Once again, Margit, even at the age of 95, even in diminished health, is serving her community, as her family has for

Margit’s Non-Dairy Dill Dip Here is one of Margit Kirshe’s signature creations: a non-dairy dill dip that she invented decades ago when fancy hotels started calling Hungarian Kosher Foods asking for non-dairy dips to serve during kosher events. Margit recalled that instead of looking for a recipe, she envisioned the type of fresh, herb-infused dip she’d like to create – and then found a way to make that a reality. Through the years, this has become one of the supermarket’s most popular dips, selling out immediately each time Margit and the store’s other cooks make a batch.

Margit Kirsh’s Non-Dairy Dill Dip 1 bunch fresh dill, about ½ pound

¾ cup parve sour cream 1 cup mayonnaise 1 cup salad dressing 2 cloves garlic Salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste Cut the roots, but not the stems, off the dill and discard. Soak the dill in a large bowl of cold water for 30 minutes, swishing often to remove sand a grit.

Remove from water, place in colander and rinse well under cold water. Pat dry or spin in a salad spinner.

Place dill and remaining ingredients in the work bowl of a large-capacity food processor fitted with a metal blade. Pulse to process to a coarse puree.

Transfer to a medium bowl, add

sour cream, mayonnaise and salad dressing and mix well. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Refrigerate, covered, for up to 4 days.

Serve as a dip with raw vegetables, crackers, chips.

(This and other recipes can be found in the award-winning book Food, Family and Tradition: Hungarian Kosher Family Recipes and Remembrances by Lynn Kirsche Shapiro. The Cherry Press, LLC, Skokie IL: 2013.)

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Garlic Eggplant Tomato Fusion Many of us are familiar with Israeli chatzilim, the eggplant salad in tomato sauce. If you’ve grown tired of it and want to revolutionize the way you use eggplant, this soup is for you. It comes off sophisticated and gourmet for its smooth texture and deep red color, but surprisingly only takes 15 minutes.

Ingredients 1 large eggplant 1 large onion 2 large tomatoes 3 pieces sun dried tomato 1 small can diced tomatoes 3 garlic gloves Tsp each of powdered thyme and sweet paprika Pinch cayenne pepper Handful fresh basil leaves Raw pumpkin seeds for garnish Olive oil Salt and pepper to taste Handful crackers- I use gluten free but also croutons and leftover hard bread work just as well Fry diced eggplant, onions, and sun dried tomato with the above spices in olive oil excluding the basil. Cook with the lid on, removing it once the vegetables are soft. Continue to cook on a low heat until golden. Add the diced garlic for just a minute or 2 for a roasted flavor. Add the diced fresh and canned tomatoes. Cook uncovered on medium heat until the liquid boils out. Take off heat, crush 2 handfuls of crackers, add fresh basil, and blend in a food processor or with an immersion blender.

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Chickpea Burger Salad Chickpeas are a great vegetarian source of fiber and protein.

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Chickpea Burger (makes 10 small patties) 1 large bunch cilantro 1 fresh squeezed lime 1 clove fresh garlic 1 small hot pepper 1/4 cup olive oil Salt and pepper to taste

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Serve the chickpea burger on a bed of spinach, tomato, cucumber, olives, and portobello mushrooms. Add feta cheese if you want and drizzle the salsa verde over the top. Another great idea is to turn the patties into open face burgers. Food process the salsa verde with goat cheese to use as a spread and top the burger with veggies.

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1 fresh squeezed lemon 1 tsp grated fresh ginger Large leafy greens (chard, spinach, romaine lettuce) Half tsp raw honey Thinly sliced radish 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil Chickpeas 1 small clove garlic Handful almonds Salt and pepper to taste Handful sunflower seeds Smoked salmon Food process the dressing and even double the recipe Roughly diced heirloom tomatoes so you have some for the whole week.

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Half cup olive oil 3 cloves garlic 1 medium bunch fresh cilantro Salt and pepper to taste Add chopped avocado and cherry tomatoes whole, halfed, and diced. Slice red onion ahead of time to marinate in lemon juice. The longer the better but even half an hour is enough. Blend the cilantro, mustard, lemon juice, olive oil, crushed garlic, salt and pepper. Garnish with fresh cilantro on top.

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