Sacred Fire: Torah from the Years of Fury (1939-1942) consists of
commentaries on each weekly Torah portion. It also includes a
number of lengthy sermons delivered on the major Jewish Festivals
as well as a few discourses alluding to people loved and lost.
Because writing is not permitted on the Sabbath, these 'words of
Torah' were transcribed from memory, after the Sabbath or festival
had ended. Although the pages of Sacred Fire are not stained with
the names of its author's tormentors, there are numerous references
to historical events through which parallels can be drawn. Rabbi
Shapira often refers, for example, to the binding of Isaac and the
martyrdom of Rabbi Akiba. Sacred Fire forms a religious, spiritual
response to the Holocaust that speaks from the heart of the
darkness. In doing so, it may well form the basis for what could
one day become Judaism's formal liturgical response to the events
that occurred during those years of fury.
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