Beit Midrash with Rabbi Rebecca Richman

We Will Outlive Them: Martyrology and Our Ancestors’ Call for Our Survival:  During World War II, the Nazis backed a group of Hasidic Jews in Poland up against barbed wire, demanding that they sing as they were being executed. One man’s Yiddish singing morphed into a chant that rang out among the crowd, “Mir veln zey iberlebn, iberlebn, iberlebn,” translated as, “We will outlive them.” In recent years, these words have become a rallying cry for justice. The Jews who died singing were, as we know, neither the first nor the last to die with a strong sense of Jewish conviction and selfhood. Together, we will explore the martyrology portion of the Yom Kippur service and unpack our ancestors’ call for later generations to keep fighting for our survival.

Yom Kippur, 12:00-1:00 PM in Room 302