The Greatest Yom Tov - Tisha B'Av

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yerma Yahoo who was born on Tish above cursed the day of his birth from time immemorial Tish above has been the most tragic day for Claudius Ron the mission says five tragedies happened on Tish above digamara says in fact the Raman says in the perishamas even when the base stood they still fasted on tissue the mission that tells us and throughout history Tish above has been like a lightning rod of tragedy for Claudia Israel the city of Alexandria which was even larger than beta was destroyed on tishabab there are barbarinal writes in his commentary to Hosea that England was expelled on Tish above in the year 1295. now barbarinal says the remnants is in the year color France was expelled on Tish above of course we know the Spanish explosion was on Tish above World War One began on tissue love I remember when I was a kid it was the Shabbos before my bar mitzvah it was a year that tush above fell out on Shabbos so I'm walking to shul on Shabbos Tish above I grew up in Flatbush Avenue a block away it was the Shabbos before my bar mitzvah I look lost in the distance the shul was not there anymore the shul had burned down on tishova Russia plunged his sword into the Paris why did Blood come out of the parisas to teach Claudius is the source of life it's destroyed it's as if we suffered Cardiac Arrest that's what a miserable day Tish above is and yet at the same time if you look in McGill I say hello just means an appointed time right it's been a tough good enough in fact we don't say taco because it's called the Mayes foreign we're celebrating horben we're celebrating disaster what is the first Yom Kippur after the war they had just finished kriya Satora on a DP Camp called felda Fink which was a collection and a gathering of many of the broken shells those who had survived the terrible catastrophe who are groping to put the shattered pieces of their lives back together again and they had just finished leaning on Yom Kippur and they received the word that General Eisenhower supreme commander of the Allied Forces and soon to be the 34th president of the United States he was coming to pay a visit and when the general would come the survivors would have to appoint a representative someone who could speak on their behalf someone who could invent the pent-up emotion in their souls and they said to themselves to share my Tyrone missiles in the camps said to themselves who better to represent us than the closenberger ever someone who even though he lost his 11 children and his wife he would go from one broken ashama to the next breathing life into the Embers reinvigorating the spark of Yiddish guide he's the only one who could relay our true feelings only the Reva could represent us and then the more Progressive ones the enlightened ones the ones who had forsaken Terror on its voice they said him we've long forgotten about that the other side we don't want to bring that back again he's an embarrassment to us we want someone who could speak to the president a man of today not a man of the past someone we're not embarrassed of and there was a big argument in the cans who should be appointed to represent and they came to some type of compromise they said okay the rebel could speak but there are three conditions number one he cannot mention the name of God number two he can't give any muscle and number three we're going to have the last word we need to speak last and so Eisenhower came and they set up the big platform and they sat at the table and the revo goes up to the podium and as he's going up to the podium he grabs the talus and he dons himself with the talus and he makes the brochure conditions and he manages to this to say the name of Hashem and then he greets the general and he says general we will forever be thankful to the role that you played in saving the lives of a people completely innocent hounded and for that we will be forever grateful and then he turns to the people and he encourages the people and he says my dear brothers and sisters we must never forget that we are the amashem we must never forget that we have a purpose and a tactless in this world and if the Republic selected us and he saved us then we have a job to be Makati shame shamayam wherever we go to save our lives you have to realize we have a toughness in this world we have a purpose in this world and as he's talking he's pulling on the drawstrings of these broken assurance and the people began to cry and there were many people who said they hadn't cried in six years that the Wellsprings of Tears had long ago dried up and the thousands of people in the crowd who are listening rivers of Tears were flowing through the crowd and Eisenhower was sitting there and Eisenhower was shaken to the Core he was visibly and profoundly moved and all the others who supposedly prepared speeches they said there's nothing left to say and Eisenhower gets up and he goes over to the kleisenberger rabban he says holy rabbi tell me what can I do for you what can I do for your people and the rebel looks to him in the eye and the river had piercing eyes and who knows what the rebel is going to ask for and the reper says today is the Yom Kippur we only have four days until sukkas we need thalad medium could you get us dollar Nina and Eisenberg I was looking at him like what planet is and on that day he dispatched the plane to Italy where he retrieved thousands of dollar minim for the survivors to give over a message to give over the message of Claudius rile the feelings of our suffering and the Triumph of our continuous Survivor survival we needed someone at least as great as a closenberger rabba to give over to Eisenhower we needed a closing for guerreva how great do we have to be to give over to our children to our families Karma to give over in the proper way the agony of Jewish destruction and the glory of our continuous survival how do we know what to emphasize how do we know what to stress how do we know how to articulate it you need Godless Patera and that is something I am completely Unworthy of foreign I stand before you know like a that stands on the shoulders of a giant because what I would like to share with you this evening are not my thoughts and not my perspectives and at my experiences it's a great coven for me to share with you the perspectives of literally a giant a giant of spirit Majestic personality and a great Sadiq and someone who's very dear and close to me want to share with you very briefly some of the experiences of my grandfather foreign Pittsburgh since 1951. and if you're a rough that's a very long time he's a survivor of all the infamous camps that's how Auschwitz radam and in 1945 when the American and Russian armies were coming the Germans had to make a very important decision the Germans could either Focus the resources at the warfront to try to win the war or they could dedicate all of their abilities to exterminate whatever Jews were still left in Europe they chose to exterminate so they rounded up whatever Jews were left in the camps my grandfather included and they packed them like animals onto cattle cars where they were headed to the Tyrell mountains to dig their own Graves so I happened to chance upon a book that describes what the conditions were on these cattle cars but more importantly this book contains a historical treasure that my family was not aware of the book is called a brush with death it was written by a year Morris wizagrad he was an artist in the camps he writes there were more than 100 men stuffed into our car it was so crowded that no one was able to sit the doers were shut immediately it took three hours before the train moved finally the train began to move but then it stopped again at the gedansky terminal for an hour and a half after four and a half hours without air the heat was unbearable the ukrainians guarding us said that they would give us water in exchange for valuables we gave them valuables and they took the water and they splashed it in our face people had to perform functions right in the car the stench became unbearable no one around me could even react says Morris wasigrad death was imminent at about midnight there was a rabbi on the car Rabbi Mordechai glanced in Rabbi Gladstone called out Jews save vidoy and then he writes in parentheses Rabbi gladstein and his brother survived the war and settled in the United States how did it happen with the help of the Almighty the Americans discovered the plot of the Germans and under the direction of Brigadier General Henning Linden the U.S Air Force bombed the railroad tracks thwarting the plan of these Russian my grandfather set over many times that when the Americans landed and the Germans realized that they were coming they quickly exchanged uniforms with the uniforms of the inmates but the Americans were not duped by this scheme because the German soldiers were robust they were Corporal and they were kazirim and the Jewish prisoners were skeletons they were walking cadavers the American General Henning Linden handed my grandfather his pistol he said rabbi the war is over take revenge against the enemy to which my grandfather responded Revenge I leave Revenge to the rebel initial Island it's been five years since I had now I'm going to have access to myself though that's my freedom I leave Revenge to the revenues my grandfather before the war was the Venn values he was together with him in the same house in the Warsaw Ghetto passed through the war my grandfather was appointed the head of the religious Department Of The Joint distribution committee aside from being a rabbi before the war he also studied English so he was given a Jeep he was given an American army uniform and he was the liaison between Eisenhower and the survivors when Eisenhower came to fill the thing my grandfather was the one who served as Eisenhower's translator to the pleisenberg when Eisenhower shipped in the Dallas minim arrived at my grandfather's desk and I'm very proud to say that Maize was the shluchad rahmana he was the agent of the Revolution to distribute thousands of dollar minimum on that very first circus for the Jews in felda Fink and I'm not telling you stories that I heard I'm very glad to show you I have photographed my grandfather handing out valid meaning to the survivors in the first sukis right after the war so let me share the following question with you Tish above is such a wretched day it's a culmination of three weeks you don't take a haircut we have nine days we don't bathe we don't eat meat yes so you would expect Tisha love would be and you sit on the floor at night you sit on the floor a few hours in the morning and it's all over you get up another day you don't sit on the floor the availa says come on over you put on your children you don't sit it's not even sugar what happened you know you're moving up more intense more intense more and as you're you hit it you can't even give it a full day you can't even get it's like part of Tish above is getting up you have to get up on Dish above what's the meaning of the Minnesota to get up I have to redo this account it's an article my grandfather wrote about his account Vivid first-hand account of the worst of ghetto uprising these are his words not a translation he says I am the man who saw the Affliction of my people I am the victim and I am the witness I saw the Warsaw Ghetto with thousands of skeletons extending their bony arms as if begging for mercy and life I saw the worstalgetto littered with corpses their faces distorted swollen eyes open wide skulls crushed and blood everywhere blood of our children of our brothers sisters fathers and mothers no imagination no matter how Deering could conceive of anything that we saw no language has been created to describe the enormity of the Holocaust let me share with you a feeling that is mascara me every year as Tish above comes let me tell you a story my grandfather writes from random we were transported to daphal DACA was the IMA kabaka the valley of weeping of the Germans malachimovas killings every day by the way this doesn't a sign the Grandfather said many times when he was an Auschwitz he saw the Malachi and Eisman invited a special guest to join him in Auschwitz and who is that the Mufti from Jerusalem and I human and Namaste would sit together arm in arm like saverim and they would pass Jews in front of them and they would beat them in a certain way that there should be no continuity of Khal Israel and that was the entertainment for Eichmann and the Mufti it's an amazing thing the going rights and the commentary to tasa so my grandfather said that was mercuryum Mufti and Eichmann in Auschwitz together that was so my grandfather was in dacao when he was together with his halika brother heinach and on one occasion they were kicked and chased to the crematorium my grandfather rides at the doorstep of the base how sweet father where there were already tens of thousands burning inside people on the outside were already convulsing from the heat of the smoke and his brother turns to him and says my Indian breather I need some water I'm gonna die before I even get in my grandfather said we can't drink water now it will just cause the pain to be greater inside and with the foot in the basement at the last moment the SS officer appeared yanked me and my brother apply are here could work get out of here this Godly wonder will remain in our Memories Forever certainly it was a time of Hester upon him but just like in the time that the basement was destroyed if he would go inside you would see the crew him embracing each other which meant that even though we're not Matilda protest but at the same time there's a certain guilo that we never saw before people want to know so where was the ribena he was at the threshold of the crematoria and he yanked my grandfather around but then a very simple thought occurred to me that it wasn't only my grandfather who their lunchtime pulled out of the crematorium that saved him I would not be here today I wouldn't be so regards some save Maize them saved my father save me save my children I don't know I guess he wanted us and you know something if you're sitting in this room tonight then the Republican rescued YouTube many many many times you know people say if only I would see a nice dollar then I would really have a Muna if I would see a kriya sauce oh I would dive in with such a Muna you want to see an s you look around this room tonight and you see a face of a yet in touch in Iron Zion this is the greatest mess that ever existed in the history of the world if only you knew how many museums in the Flies has been performing for 3 300 years so you could be here tonight in Miss Ryan 80 percent of Claudia saw perished but apparently your direct ancestor made it through was from that otherwise he wouldn't be here today destruction of the first base the death toll was enormous Josephus writes that 1.1 million Jews were slaughtered and then the Romans hunted down every last year they could find Crusades tens of thousands 1391 200 000 year then converted in Spain 1492 tens of thousands were murdered but your direct ancestors made it through otherwise we wouldn't be here saved us from pogroms from Holocaust from crematoria from gas chamber Time After Time After Time for a Jew to be here tonight it's not statistically unlikely it's not highly improbable it's downright impossible it's a nest goloy of the greatest proportions how can we not say over from a yakubendin it says the react of him then an introduction to the sither not be utterly ashamed [Music] just look at how you throw today foreign they're greater to me than all the Miracles Israel you didn't see Chris Young he's still greater and from Jack of emden was is astonished by The Wonder of ayid in the 18th century can we even begin to imagine what rabiac of England would say if he saw a room full of Yemen today how would he describe that miracle did no words maybe you would say it's a Nash and think for a moment if this is the greatest nest in the history of the world who did revansha make the nest for not from oyster albino and not for Yahoo and after the rambam and not for the Valentine he made it for me and he made it for you I guess he wants us he doesn't want us he wants hour to be loved he wants our Torah he wants our amazing he wants to because he wanted us to be the ones to cry out please rebuild the basement can any generation in the history of call Israel cry out to the ribanish and say I have a rabbit look how much you love us and can we be so daring mimble to say and we often wonder ing asks that if they couldn't do it how are we gonna do it is they didn't bring mashiach and there are many answers but we and yes me um we're gonna do it you kidding me can we be so bold to say yeah because never heard had more invested in a yid in the history of the world than a year alive today how many Nissan had to perform so that we should be here why us we don't know why but one thing's for sure he wants us he wants our Torah he wants an hour to be loved he wants us to be the ones to cry out and to bring machines and it's hour to be lice and our mice and tell them that are the most valuable but in action so Tish above is a day of tragedy but it's also a tremendous foreign can we say that Tish above is a Zafar to the greatest miracle in the history of the entire world it's zachar Le nitzrius Israel says is far greater than any miracle that ever was allow me to direct your attention to Nayak the whole world is destroyed the plants the animals the birds and the fish he should have planted something else he should have planted grain what's wrong with planting the vineyard he sees the world destroyed mankind is decimated he's an avell what do you give a downtrodden person to drink says Apostle commercial was merely consoling himself he's comforting himself over the depressed situation of the world says he sees the world destroyed he looks around mankind does not exist anymore normal human reaction should be forget it throw in the towel there's no energy there's nothing left to do plant the proverbial Vineyard and sip the wine of consolation foreign how does a Jew react to tragedy we don't plan the proverbial Vineyard we cannot allow ourselves to feel sorry for ourselves we can't throw in the towel and we can't sip the proverbial line there's work to do there's a world to build we can plant a Vineyard we need to build for the future of planted grain to build for the future how do you react to tragedy you get off the floor you dust yourself off you roll up your sleeves and you say what am I going to do to build for the future of Claud Israel after the Holocaust my grandfather did not allow himself to feel sorry for himself he invested every fiber of his being to try to rebuild the lives of the shaver he said that after the Holocaust he felt tremendous was empowering him investing in him kayak to help rebuild the lives of the survivors in his capacity as the head of the religious Department of the joint and through his connections to Eisenhower and through his work as an American officer he shipped in to Europe who love him tillen there were no storm in the camps Isaiah published the very first starring after the holocausted I can show you a picture and the Evan schlam of the donorgan I have letters here from all thrabonim of the DP camps you can't even believe such a thing thanking my grandfather omo viagia rabba after much effort sweat and toil although I live noise he built a Mikvah in each and every DP camp aign he could have easily folded up his hands and despair planted the proverbial Vineyard and sipping the wine of consolation but that's not how we react we never stay on the floor we always get up we dust ourselves off we stand on our two feet and we say what are we going to do to rectify the situation when my grandfather considered his most rewarding task was if he was able to help the survivors find a relative in America or in Canada so then he could secure for them papers passports and help them move either to Earth Israel to Canada or to America recently we discovered my grandfather helped thousands of families relocated after the war and I read in an article of the city of Arts that one of the great individuals who my grandfather was helped was able to help to relocate to America was none other than the closenberger rabbit himself and this is Tisha love yes we have three weeks we have nine days but when the day comes in middle of the day we get off the floor and we stand up and we dust ourselves off and we say to ourselves and we say to each other and we say to rebanish them enough of the mess already what are we going to do to help rectify the situation how are we going to take advantage of all the beautiful messages that the rav shlita shared with us how are we going to build Taira further in America how are we going to strengthen the yeshivas in America how are we going to strengthen our children how are we going to strengthen our families what are we going to do to ensure that kalisol is stronger what can I do what can my family do what could my community do what could we all do together so in middle of the day in middle of the bitter avelos you stand up we get off the floor we don't allow ourselves to wallow in self-pity sushi an exclusive coming together tonight exclusive of hearing such beautiful words from the roshlita to come together to be misaki in whatever we can to rectify whatever we can to the coming of the gulaima of the vs you've just experienced another Torah class brought to you by torahanytime.com