Rabbi apologizes for lowballing number of halachic Jews killed in Holocaust

Yosef Mizrachi says his words were taken out of context, as only part of video broadcast

ed note–an example of what we are constantly complaining about here viz a viz ‘the movement’ and the depressingly high number of individuals who don’t use the brains which God gave them.

As soon as this story broke, I was inundated with a flood of emails from people talking about it with obvious glee and vindication, in that even a ‘rabbi’ was ‘coming clean’ and telling the truth about how the Hollercost was inflated, both in numbers and in drama, in order to further the aims of organized Jewry.

If they had bothered to read the article and/or listen to what the Rebbe was actually saying however, what they would have seen immediately was that the issue was NOT that the number of people killed was less than 6 million, but rather that due to assimilation (becoming Gentilized) the number of REAL Jews was much lower.

This was in fact a ‘no brainer’ and ‘the movement’ failed MISERABLY on it. Is there any surprise then that with bigger and more complicated issues, these same ‘truthers’ fall flat on their faces and  make asses of themselves and the rest of us in front of the entire world?

Times of Israel

A New York-based haredi Orthodox rabbi apologized for saying that only about 1 million halachic Jews died in the Holocaust.

“I wish to apologize for my incorrect statement regarding the six million Kedoshim (holy ones) that were tragically murdered in the Holocaust,” Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi said in an apology emailed to the Yeshiva World News, the news website reported Sunday.

Mizrachi, who has posted thousands of popular outreach lectures online, said in the apology, “I have been shown the accurate statistics and I realize that those that were not halachically Jewish were a very small minimal number. I do not wish to offend any of the Holocaust survivors or their family members it has never ever been my intention.

“The Kedoshim of the Holocaust need to be remembered and sanctified in the most honorable way possible. My goal was to wake up our nation to the silent holocaust that is happening now which is the increasing intermarriage cases in the USA and the rest of the world.”

Mizrachi said his words were taken out of context since only part of the video, made several years ago, was broadcast.

In the video posted Tuesday on his YouTube channel, Mizrachi 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.

“If you look at the percent of assimilation that there was in Europe, which already reached 80 percent, it’s reasonable to assume that 80 percent of the 6 million were not Jews,” said Mizrachi, who teaches at a yeshiva in Monsey.

“The truth is that not even 1 million Jews were killed. Not that this is, God forbid, an insignificant number, it’s massive, but there is a difference between 1 million and 6 million.”