The holy
Erlauer Rav, son of the
Ksav Sofer, who was killed at Auschwitz at the age of 94, sent a
shliach to the Neology Rabbi in Budapest to speak about
Shmiras Shabbos. Had he not been the
z'kan hoRabbonim and a grandson of the holy
Chasam Sofer - and had it been in the age of the internet - it would've gotten him into a whole lot of trouble with the more zealous factions of Hungarian Jewry, who forbade any contact with the Neologues. This kind of reminds of me of what the holy
Lubavitcher Rebbe would do years later, realize that unaffiliated Jews are still Jews, even if they were ostracized, and as such need to keep the
Torah and
Mitzvos. And if they don't they need to be told about it.
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