Dedicated to
***
Yaakov Yitzchok
Kalonymos Yehuda
Sheind’l
Shmuel Chaim
Sima Gitt’l Baylah
Meshulem Shragge Feivish
Mordechai Yosef
Wolf
and
Liba Roisa

The children: may they enjoy all the blessings promised in this book.

Finally, I want to acknowledge the living memory of all the Holy Jewish Martyrs to whom this work is a testimony, among them my grandparents and their extended families. I have missed them all my life.
—J. Hershy Worch

The Book of
SACRED FIRE Holy Sayings from the Years of Destruction 1939–1942
said on Sabbaths and festival days in the tormented ghetto of Warsaw

by

His Honor, His Holiness, Jewish Saint and Exilarch, Lamp of Holy Light, Pious and Abstemious, Scion of a Holy Dynasty, etc., The Holy, our Teacher, our rabbi, Rabbi Kalonymos Kalmish, of Saintly Blessed Memory. God will avenge his blood. Head of the Rabbinical Court of the Community of Piacezna. Author of the book Duties of the Student.

Son of His Honor, His Holiness, our Master, teacher and rabbi, The Saint, Holy Man of God, Scion of the Holy Dynastic Chain of Distinguished Lineage, our Teacher, our rabbi, Rabbi Elimelech, of Saintly Blessed Memory. Head of the Rabbinical Court of the Community of Grodzysk. Author of the books Words of Elimelech and Speech of Elimelech.

Son-in-Law of His Honor, His Holiness, our Master, teacher and rabbi, The Saint, Holy Man of God, Scion of the Holy Dynastic Chain of Distinguished Lineage, our Teacher, our rabbi, Rabbi Yerachmiel Moshe, of Saintly Blessed Memory. Elegant preacher and head of the Rabbinical Court of the Community of Koznitz.

May their merit shield us and all of Israel;
Amen.
The Holy City Jerusalem, May it be rebuilt swiftly.
This year 5720 (1950).

 

 

 

Published by the Committee of Piacezna Hasidim, with permission of the author’s nephew, our Teacher, our rabbi, etc., Rabbi Elimelech. May he be blessed with long life, Son of the Rabbi R. Yeshaya Shapira of Saintly Blessed Memory. 80 Sokolov Street, Corner Amos 2, Tel Aviv