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i'll tell you something
right after
world war ii was over
and they liberated the concentration
camps
and there was tens of thousands of
people that had no family nowhere to
grow
and they created these deep
these dp camps
displaced people
and in this camp
there was thousands of jews thousands
and in this camp there was all kinds of
jews
from the enlightened so-called
enlightened movement the reformed jews
to ultra orthodox khasid
and there was one man amongst the crowd
who was revered
it was a closing burger rebbe
closing burger ebby
who was left for dead maybe a dozen
times lost his whole family and he
refused to even give up on him and hag
the years he was in auschwitz
even him in hank
and he was beaten and left for dead many
times
now they're in a dp camp and the rebbe
was the leader of many many
it's middle age at the time
and
guess what happens
the united states armed forces and
delegation comes to this dp camp
and tells them
that
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general eisenhower is coming to visit
them
wants to see how they're faring
general eisenhower the chief of the
united states armed forces
wow
okay
they tell them he's coming on such and
such day at two o'clock in the afternoon
they look in the calendar it's yom
kippur
he says he can't come that day it's our
holiest day of the year
they said we can't change the general's
schedule it is what it is and we'll be
here on that day okay what are you going
to do
then they tell them the following
you can only have one spokesman
there will be an interpreter
but only one spokesman to speak to the
general in front of everybody no one
else could speak
you'll let us know who that spoken is
going to be goodbye
now of course many hundreds thousand
people want the weber
and the other the other side the
enlightenment side said well we're going
to put up a man from back from the stone
ages
old-fashioned
rebbe
a modern man modern times generalization
fighting back and forth back and forth
back and forth finally they had no
choice but to relent
the the enlightenment movement they gave
in on three conditions
three conditions what are the conditions
condition number one
the rebbe is not allowed to mention
god's name to eisenhower
condition number two
condition number he's not allowed to
mention god's name
he's not allowed to give us any mussad
while talking
and to be short because maybe if he
speaks short we'll get a chance
they have a certain a lot of the amount
of time maybe we'll get a chance so they
went back to the remember they told them
i mean this is ridiculous
these are the terms that they want the
baby says good give it to them no
problem
okay
yom kippur comes
comes in the middle of it they built the
big platform out of yom kippur the
united states army for when eisenhower
comes
a gigantic makeshift building in a bow
where thousands of people were able to
sit in this building
probably the biggest makeshift show that
was ever made
comes the time
in the middle of yom kippur and in walks
an entourage of soldiers
and
eisenhower is there the general
and he comes to the front
and they introduce him to the rebbe
what does the baby do
they told them you're not allowed to
mention god's name in your speech okay
he took out a new talent where the rebbe
got it from nobody knows and he made a
shahianu it's not part of the speech
that he explained why he did that
and then the rebbe went on
to tell eisenhower in front of thousand
people what the jewish people mean to
the world
there was not a dry eye in the place
including those tough
irreligious reformed jews
everybody was bowling
they say that even eisenhower spilled
the tear
and eisenhower says to the rabbi after
they finished
holy rabbi
what could i do for your people tell me
and i'll do it
you know what he told them
he said in four days there's a holiday
of success
we need our bombing
we need to love it
we can't get in here
he says and they explained to eisenhower
what that was
that's what you need
these people don't have a shirt on their
back
they have nowhere to go
and that's what you need
what's talking about
eisenhower told his
his office is there that he immediately
wants a plane dispatched to italy to
bring the rabbi back how about me name
for the people
and they got out by my name
what was the rebbe thinking
nothing else you need except that
the rebbe knew he was dealing with a
bunch of depressed people
no family no money no home no shirt on
your back
nothing i have to make them happy
doing the mitzvah
will make you happy
that's why he did it
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