Longing For Shabbos | Rabbi Naftali Reich

It was 1944 and the Nazis Yakim Zikram every day were unloading in Awitz box car after box car thousands and thousands of yidden and in the town of Galant the h galantraaya booksbam hashem yim kum doi stepped off onto the platform to face mangala and there on the platform Thousands of people screaming, crying, being shoved out into the daylight from the horrendous conditions of the box cars. He saw that there was one young Yiddisha woman that was crying copious tears and he went over to her to try to console her and she said, "Rav, you don't understand. I'm a kala. I'm in the middle of my shvas and the Nazis ripped me away before Shabas and they slept us at the train station and we were shipped off here. I never had a chance to light my Shabas candles and I've been yearning so long for so many years to light my Shabas candles and I will never get a chance again. And the helicarov was so takenback that a person should have such deep spiritual rnistic aspirations. That's all that bothers them. And he told her, "I'm not giving you a braha. I guarantee you you're going to come out of this shanam and you're going to light many, many, many shabas candles." Vakava. This woman was sent to one of the labor details and she emerged after the war and she was able to rebuild her life and she has doim of beautiful thousands of Yiddish candles were lit in her by her and by her descendants. When we yearn, when we long, when we look into those candles and we're we have for the should light the world with his because in those candles, in those dancing and flickering flames is the light of it's the light of the It's the light that's going to fill the entire world. The light of Shabas. And when we yearn to bring that into our home to permeate our home with the kaduca, the light and the joy of the guarantees us that we will be to see it.