(Ed: You may ask why is Jonathan Rosenblum, a well-known frum writer going on about Honest Abe in the middle of Elul in the Yated?!)
by Jonathan Rosenblum
Jerusalem Post, Yated Ne’eman
July 26, 2013
For those who subscribe to Thomas Carlyle’s Great Man Theory of History, two proofs stand above all others in the past two centuries, at least on the positive side: Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill. As president, Lincoln both succeeded in saving the Union and ending slavery, even as Northerners were almost equally divided over which was the proper end of the war.
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