{"id":60165,"date":"2014-11-14T10:22:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T18:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=60165"},"modified":"2014-11-14T14:53:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T22:53:33","slug":"god-full-of-compassion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=60165","title":{"rendered":"God, Full Of Compassion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Pious-Ones-Hasidim-Battles\/dp\/0062123343\">Joseph Berger writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Duvid sensed his fate was likely to be a firing squad. But the commandant, Amon Goth, asked him what type of work he did, and he replied:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am a professional singer, and I have a trained soprano voice. Would you like to hear something?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sing the song you Jews chant when you bury your dead,&#8221; Goth ordered.<\/p>\n<p>Werdyger sang the verse heard at all Jewish funerals, El Molei Rachammim (&#8220;God, Full of Compassion&#8221;), and did so with such piercing tenderness that Goth, visibly moved, ordered him back to the camps.<\/p>\n<p>LUKE: Why would a guy describe himself as having a soprano voice?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joseph Berger writes: Duvid sensed his fate was likely to be a firing squad. But the commandant, Amon Goth, asked him what type of work he did, and he replied: &#8220;I am a professional singer, and I have a trained &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=60165\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holocaust"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60195,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60165\/revisions\/60195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}