Weekly Newsletter Volume 5, Issue 26, Acharei Mos - Kedoshim
- Sefas Tamim
- Jul 9
- 1 min read
May 10, 2025; 12 Iyar, 5785 Sponsored anonymously for the Refuah Shleimah of Yair Nissan Ben Sara
The year was 1844. The notorious Nicholai the First was the Tsar of Russia. Count Sergei S. Uvarov (the “Count”) was Nicholai’s minister of education for the entire Russian Empire. The Count’s goal and mission? To implement a malevolent scheme aimed at converting Jews to Russian Orthodoxy – the first step of which was to order the teaching of the Russian language in all of the schools in Russia. Russian Jewry was in a quandary. Would they relent and begin to teach Russian in Yeshivas? What else could be done? Perhaps a trip to St. Petersburg, the Russian capital at the time, to directly appeal to the Count to rescind his order could work...