Were Shimon & Levi justified in their killing the people of Shechem? When Yaakov criticizes them, why does he emphasize what they did to HIM, not what they did to the whole family?
Rabbi Dr. Sholom Gold zt"l, born in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, NY, attended Yeshiva Torah Vodaath in NY, Ner Israel in Baltimore, and Yeshivot Ponevezh and Hevron in Israel.
He received semicha from Chief Rabbi Yitzchok Isaac Halevi Herzog and from HaRav Yaacov Yitzchok Halevi Ruderman.
Rabbi Gold was in the vanguard of building communit...