Rabbi Daniel Glatstein I GiveChazaq.com

last night I had the privilege to speak at their parlour meeting in cuarón Hills and the home of ramadi Krauss and I just want to share with you a brief thought a story I've said the story many times but I think the story becomes very poignant especially when we talk about the life-saving work that has act does here in the new in the New York community especially for the Bukharian community my very dear friends reveal on of Yaniv they've informed me that in this immediate area there are 10,000 Jewish boys and girls in the public schools and when I heard that number 10,000 I stopped it sitter I shuddered when I heard that number that there are 10,000 boys and girls there's a story I said over many times something that I read an interview with Ribeiro wine who is a well-known Jewish Jewish personality a very multifaceted multi-talented personality he was a rough he is a rabbi today a Russia Shiva a writer a historian journalist a producer well he he records that when he was 11 years old in that in 1946 he was an only child and his father told him you barrel were going to the airport they lived in Chicago Chicago Midway Airport so he asked his father what's in the airport his father said we're going to to meet and greet a great Sadiq which Sadiq who we going to greet we're going to greet brother Isaac Halevi Hertzog the first chief rabbi of Palestine and the host Skokie Sheva went out to greet him all the balla bottom in the community all the yeshiva students and Hertzog was a very aristocratic personality he was a regal personality he wore a top hat he had a silver cane he carried a Tanakh in his hands and he a lid from the plane and they squirted him to the Skokie Shiva and refers I gave a 45 minutes Shira Popo sure and Yiddish and when he finished his complex Talmudic discussion he turns to the buckram the young tourist students in the audience and he says now I would like had to have a word with the students and he says you know where I just came from I just came back from Rome where I had a private audience with Pope Pius the 12th and I had with me the names of 10,000 boys and girls who were given over but during the war two monasteries two Christian families two Christian couples by Jews who didn't know what would be with their children they didn't think they would survive and they felt the only way to save their children would be to give them over to these Christian families and he turned to the Pope he says I have the first and last name of all these 10,000 children they're our children you've kidnapped them we only gave them to you because we didn't think we would survive but we're here now we want our children back and the Pope looks of Hertzog in the eye and he says rabbi I will not give back even one child the law is that once a child is baptized he can never be returned to another religion these 10,000 children have all been baptized we will not give back even one of them and refer tog was asked to leave and the door was slammed in his face and I read this accountant to me this is not only a story because my grandfather told me and he records in his personal memoirs that he met referred saag in the DP camps right after the war and refers I've told him that during the Holocaust he went to the Vatican to plead with the Pope to shut down the gas chambers in the crematoria and after the war efforts Agua went to the Pope asking to return these Jewish children and he refused and rubber tog is standing there at the podium and he breaks down crying like a baby and after a few moments the Tzadik rears his head and his face is beet red and he raises his head like a lion and he roars he says there's nothing I could do to save these ten thousand children but what will you do for the future of the Jewish people what will you do for the children of the Jewish people and then rabbi wine says we all lined up to greet of Hertzog and he shook each one of our hands and he turns to us and he says don't forget what I told you never forget the message what will you do for the children for the future of the Jewish people and Rabbi wine recounts that if ever he hired or he wants to throw in the towel he is haunted by the words of f Hertzog what will you do for the future of the Jewish people ladies and gentlemen just want to share with you could you imagine if in 1946 these children were up for sale if we could have paid a few bucks to redeem these children if you imagine if money could have bought these children back if we had those 10,000 children back today we would have millions and millions of more Jews in the world but in 1946 these children were not for sale but robbed Ilan ravine if have told me that in this immediate area there are 10,000 boys and girls in the public school the assimilation rate in the United States of America is alarming seven out of every 10 weddings of Jewish people in this country are intermarriage more people have disappeared in a spiritual holocaust in America and then have been destroyed in between 1939 and 1945 today we have a new list of 10,000 boys and girls but the difference is today these boys and girls are for sale today all we need is money and with a few bucks these boys and girls can be registered new shivah they could get a Jewish education there are Jewish identity will be restored they can be infused with feelings of kedusha and dedication to the tyro and the jewish people today these boys and girls are for sale they're available it's within our ability all we need is I beg you if there's any Mitzvah to participate in it's the Mitzvah of saving hats so last in the foster school I'm not still nefesh a custome swell ki-woo key aim eylem male it gives me great pride to be able to participate in this campaign for Kazak there is no greater Mitzvah than to save the spiritual life of the children of Claudius well we are all looking for the merit for the salute for Akhilesh Marco to give us all knock us from our own children what could be a bigger Mitzvah than to help out the children of the reeben asylum and and measure for measure God will give us tremendous novice from our own children at be Oscar al-sadiq we should all merit to see the rebuilding the basis of makers from heavy Amina