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After watching a Holocaust documentary that examines Polish collaboration with the Nazis in the genocide against Jews during the Second World War, Rabbi Dunner notes that one of the documentary’s central figures – a budding Polish gentile historian – has trouble accepting the overwhelming evidence of the Polish support for Jew-killing. A warning at the beginning of Parshat Re’eh reveals that this blind spot is nothing new.
There is a particular kind of self-destructive confidence that exists only at the very top of a brutal regime. It isn’t courage, and it certainly isn’t principle. It’s raw hubris,... Read More