Miriam comments: “The holocaust is a sensitive subject that baffles human comprehension, only Hashem can explain this, humans should not give their opinions about it as 6 million Jews murdered is a tragedy beyond our logic.”<\/p>\n
Luke: Is it more or less beyond logic than any of a hundred other genocides? Is the Ukrainian genocide beyond logic? The Armenian genocide? The Chinese genocides? Is it a sacrilege to study genocide objectively?<\/p>\n
(JTA)<\/a> \u2014 A New York-based haredi Orthodox rabbi who has posted thousands of popular outreach lectures online said only about 1 million halachic Jews died in the Holocaust.<\/p>\n Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi in a video posted Tuesday on his YouTube channel, cited high assimilation rates in Europe before World War II to make his claim that 80 percent of those identified as Jews killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust were not Jewish according to halachah, or Jewish law.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you look at the percent of assimilation that there was in Europe, which already reached 80 percent, it\u2019s reasonable to assume that 80 percent of the 6 million were not Jews,\u201d said Mizrachi, who teaches at a yeshiva in Monsey.<\/p>\n \u201cThe truth is that not even 1 million Jews were killed. Not that this is, God forbid, an insignificant number, it\u2019s massive, but there is a difference between 1 million and 6 million.\u201d<\/p>\n Mizrachi also posts his videos on Divineinformation.com, his outreach website launched in 2004.<\/p>\n \u201cThese lectures and videos have created an enormous amount of followers in more than 50 countries, mainly in the USA, Israel, Canada, England,\u201d the website says.<\/p>\n Mizrachi was born in Israel and moved to the United States in his 20s, where he received ordination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Miriam comments: “The holocaust is a sensitive subject that baffles human comprehension, only Hashem can explain this, humans should not give their opinions about it as 6 million Jews murdered is a tragedy beyond our logic.” Luke: Is it more … Continue reading