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Book-burning has been used to suppress dissent and protect totalitarian regimes <\/span>throughout history<\/span><\/a>. From the early thirteenth century when Pope Gregory IX directed King Louis IX of France to burn every copy of the Talmud in Paris to the mid twentieth century when Stalin burned the entire Judaica collection in the capital of the Jewish Oblast of Russia, Jewish texts have been prime targets.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Jews themselves have not been guiltless of this crime. The Rambam\u2019s <\/span>Guide to the Perplexed<\/span><\/i> was deemed heretical by some Jewish factions and burned in France in 1233. <\/span>In 1954 The\u00a0Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the United States and Canada (UOR, not to be confused with the OU)\u00a0burned the books of Mordecai Kaplan, co-founder of the Reconstructionist Movement.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The first recorded instance of Jewish book-burning occurs in Jeremiah Chapter 36. God instructed Jeremiah to dictate all of his prophecies since the time of King Josiah to his scribe Baruch ben Neriah, and then have his scribe read the scroll to the people in hopes that it would lead them to repentance. Word of this book got out to the ministers of King Jehoiakim, and they ordered it to be read to them. The ministers took it to heart and ordered that it also be read directly to the King, who was, in fact, the son of King Josiah. Josiah was the King who, during renovations to the Holy Temple, was presented with a newly found, but long-forgotten Torah scroll (2 Kings 22). When he was read the portion that the scroll was open to \u2013 about repentance \u2013 he tore his clothes in mourning for the loss of religious life and Torah knowledge. His son, however, in being presented with a similar message through Jeremiah, did the opposite. As the scroll of Jeremiah\u2019s prophecies was read to him, King Jehoiakim only heard it as a prophesy of his own downfall, and his loss of power. His response was to systematically tear the scroll itself into pieces and burn each piece until nothing was left. If it was going to threaten his reign, then no one else was going to hear a dissenting opinion, even if it was the word of God.<\/span><\/p>\n

But Jehoiakim underestimated who he was dealing with. The response to book-burning and to silencing the truth came swiftly from God. The answer then, which should be the answer for all time, was: write it again, and make it even more compelling (Jeremiah 36:27-32).”<\/span><\/p>\n

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