Hello Everyone
I fervently hope that Mashiach will arrive speedily in our days. But if this not to be then Friday will be the fast day of עשרה בטבת. This fast day commemorates the beginning of the siege on Jerusalem during the First Temple period. But it also commemorates another disaster. In 1949 the Chief Rabbi of Israel. Rav Unterman zt”l said that עשרה בטבת should be “יום הקדיש הכללי”- the day for saing Kaddish for all those who were killed by the Nazis.
So today we will talk about how various Poskim felt regarding the creation of a Holocaust memorial day.