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In the Footsteps of Abraham: Abe Zelmanowitz

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Want to know what real courage looks like? Real morality? Ask the relatives of Abe Avremel Zelmanowitz, who lived Rev. Sensing's sermon about "Suicide Bombers, Abraham & Issac." Haaretz reports:

"Abe Avremel Zelmanowitz, an Orthodox Jew from Brooklyn, N.Y., has been buried in Jerusalem. He died Sept. 11, but his remains were identified only last week. Zelmanowitz worked on the 27th floor of 1 World Trade Center, the second tower to collapse, so he surely could have escaped. Instead he stayed behind to look out for a paraplegic colleague, Ed Beyea, urging Beyea's full-time nurse to save herself instead. Ha'aretz recounts a story Zelmanowitz told at his funeral:

"A few days before the terrorist attack," Yankel Zelmanowitz related Monday, "Avremel attended a Sabbath shiur [lesson]. The rabbi spoke about sacrificing oneself for the love of God. Avremel told the rabbi: 'You speak of the great historical heroes, like Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yochai, but how can a simple Jew like myself show his love of God?' The rabbi made some suggestions, but Avremel was not satisfied, so he asked the same question once again. The second reply didn't satisfy him either, nor did the third. But a few days later, he got the reply."

Wall Street Journal's "Best of the Web chimes in:

"Next time some moral cretin like Susan Sontag opines that thugs who knife stewardesses and slam planes into buildings are 'courageous,' make him read the story of Abe Avremel Zelmanowitz."

It won't compute for them. Abe is a Jew, and a dead white male. That makes him ineligible for morality or salvation, barring acceptance of the faith of the Postmordernist Leftist Church and its masters.

Fortunately, Abe belonged to a better faith, and a better master. "How can a simple Jew like myself show his love of God?" Many have striven all their lives to answer Abe's question. Abe's answer marks him as an equal of those great Jewish Rabbinical heroes he revered. He gave Issac's answer - but with full foreknowledge. He also gave Abraham's answer, as one of his relatives notes in a tribute page:

"[Like Abraham] Our Uncle Avremel was also thrown into a fiery furnace, but his supreme act proclaimed to the world, that his G-d was a G-d of kindness, and he would not forsake Him. He gave his life in a totally selfless way to help another person, and sanctified the Name of G-d before all mankind."

The Jewish prayer for the dead. A prayer of continuance in life: "Yitgadal v'yitgadash, shemay rabah... (Magnified and sanctified be the name of the Lord...)" You did, Avremel. It was.

"Next time some moral cretin like Susan Sontag opines that thugs who knife stewardesses and slam planes into buildings are 'courageous,' make him read the story of Abe Avremel Zelmanowitz."

It won't compute for them. Abe is a Jew, and a dead white male. That makes him ineligible for morality or salvation, barring acceptance of the faith of the Postmordernist Leftist Church and its masters.

Fortunately, Abe belonged to a better faith, and a better master. "How can a simple Jew like myself show his love of God?" Many have striven all their lives to answer Abe's question. Abe's answer marks him as an equal of those great Jewish Rabbinical heroes he revered. He gave Issac's answer - but with full foreknowledge. He also gave Abraham's answer, as one of his relatives notes in a tribute page:

"[Like Abraham] Our Uncle Avremel was also thrown into a fiery furnace, but his supreme act proclaimed to the world, that his G-d was a G-d of kindness, and he would not forsake Him. He gave his life in a totally selfless way to help another person, and sanctified the Name of G-d before all mankind."

The Jewish prayer for the dead. A prayer of continuance in life: "Yitgadal v'yitgadash, shemay rabah... (Magnified and sanctified be the name of the Lord...)" You did, Avremel. It was.

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