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Eyes to See: Recovering Ethical Torah Principles Lost in the Holocaust

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Rabbi Yom Tov Schwarz writes this book out of deep caring for the Jewish people and a deep love of the God of Israel. He tells of his own experience in the Shoah and of being saved through the generosity and caring of fellow Jews who helped a total stranger. He makes the case that this kind of caring for Clal Yisrael and for each and every member of Israel was characteristic of the generation prior to the Shoah. He writes in the hope of restoring to Am Yisrael a deeper sense of this kind of caring for each other. He writes too out of a great concern for the factionalism and misplaced emphasis on one's own small group's way at the expense of consideration for other Jews. He speak also about the whole subject of treating the stranger with consideration and compassion thereby enhancing the name of the God in the world.

This is a book which I believe should be part of every religious Jew's educational curriculum. The book is ably translated from the Hebrew by the Rabbi 's son Rabbi Abraham Leib Schwarz.