Against All Odds: Alone in the World - Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser

[Music] everyone in this world goes whoo nice jános trials and tribulations tests all of us are tested in life one person is tested in the area of M gonna be talkin one person is testing the area of Panozzo making a livelihood one wish she do him another one was shell and bias with keeping the peace in the house every person goes through certain things in this world sometimes we feel as though we are completely alone and nobody understands there was a great man rebbi shimon Bergstein and it was during the war that the russians trumped-up charges against them and they decided the shock was that it was to go to Siberia to sub-zero temperatures to be tortured into work from the early morning till late at night while he was standing being guarded about to go on the train to Siberia there was an individual Rev and co-op der that came quietly and pushed into his hand a little piece of folded paper he held that paper by his side rib shimon then boarded the train all the way to Siberia when he got out he was pushed immediately to go to work they tortured him they pushed him they punched him however he held on to that piece of paper in the first moment that he could he opened it up it was a page from Lakota Mehran effing ha ha raha one was Avraham Avinu and what the page discussed was the fact that I Brahma bean who stood up against the entire world he was born at a time when there was a Gazzara there was a decree that nobody could be born also he was born into a house where his father was an oven avodah Zarah his father served idols and Avraham Avinu had a fight against those idols of Rama vino had a fight against the very home that he was into and then he went to a life of struggle he went through a life where he had to convince people about emunah na Shem about believing in God f kanhaiya Avraham no matter what he went through he remembered what his job was in this world he kept his faith s on Habra hum of ROM was one against the entire world rip Shimon Bergstein often took out that paper when things really seemed dismal when things seemed dark and that gave him such peace look throughout Siberia throughout the cold throughout all of them torture and the Labour asked Lord how Abraham he stood up and no matter how many times they tried to test him no matter how many times they tried to do things to take him completely away from his faith he always had that page echoed hi Avraham one day he took it out and he said Hashem if I will ever have a miracle to survive this Siberia and I will ever be able to go to Eretz Israel to the Holy Land I promise that I'm going to start a yeshiva s kanhaiyaa Avraham dedicated to Luca Tiburon rip Shimon Bergstein held on to that page so tightly a miracle did happen he got out he went to arity soil and he did open a yeshiva s kanhaiyaa fro home dedicated to lucu Tamar on until his last day on earth rebbi shimon kept a page f1o yo abro [Music] [Applause]