Reb Yechezkel Halevi of Ostrovtzeh H”YD

Just want to end that when Reb Mordecai quoted the Ostrovtzer Gaon So, he says Hashem yimkom damo. Which I understood meant that he must have been the Rebbe the time of the Holocaust, at the time of the war, and was killed by the Nazis in maximum of his years. So, I looked at the beginning of his kuntres, this Hebrew Kuntres Chidushei Hascal, and what I saw blew my mind. There's a little bit of a hakdama that was written by one of the chassidim, one of the talmidim of this great guy. His name was Chaim Yitzchak Wolgelenter. Just want to read a little bit just to get a little bit of a of a feel. So, this Yid, Chaim Yitzchak Wolgelenter, lived in Ostrovtza, and when the Nazis came, they killed his wife, and they killed his I'm sorry. They killed his father, they killed his mother, and they killed his sister. And he had to run away, and he was hiding in the attic of a barn by some uh publisher in the Yehudah. While he was sitting shiva for his father, his mother, and his sister, he got word that the Nazis came and finished doing their thing. They killed the Rebbe and his seven sons. His entire family was wiped out. And he says, "I'm sitting here in the middle of the aveilus, and I just got word that the Rebbe and his seven sons were killed." And he says, "I want to write a little bit of a kinna." And and this is Pulitzer Prize worthy. I can't read the whole thing cuz it's too long, but just not much I can tell you about to get a little bit of a sense what's going on. Rotuv umisboses, said, "I'm wet and I'm immersed b'dmei avi imi v'achosi, in [snorts] the blood of my father, my mother, and my sister, shenikdafu b'miktzar at a very very young age. Bodod otuv b'aveilus chula, I'm by myself, and I'm wrapped in a double chvelos, l'vovi hanikra l'gzarim. He said, "Not only my clothing but my heart is torn into pieces. I'm sitting in the alley in the attic of a reference book of a barn. The mystery of the connection and in my hiding I'm sitting and I'm crying. And then all of a sudden and then all of a sudden as this was going on I was bewildered cuz I heard >> [snorts] >> so with the seven sons were killed on one day that's [snorts] the next line so these next lines this little poetry that I'm writing I'm being mocked at the circle of the safer fun of said the rebel would sit and he would show and he had the safer open in front of him >> [snorts] >> the same about safer the solution should be the magic of the fire since the last time I saw him he had been fasting already for three days because of the end he was trying to stop it he was being in Kabbalah the piece of the same of the maker to try to come up with a piece of some answer to the the questions that were being that were banging on his head I know the spinner talk to me about the pasta maker the same thing maker and if that's the case I don't know the same thing maker there's a dinner of the same thing maker I don't know the same thing maker how come we're witnessing this the food of the same thing maker is in the maker of the same thing maker they were the food of the same thing maker that were flying they were floating around his the mind of this great maker I don't know me my old maker the maker and it goes on he talks about how great he was and he He the son of this great he He was the Ben Yahid of the famous Austerlitz going. He says I'm skipping all the way to the end. Mysterious Nefesh But from all the things that he was my reckon life He had a regas especially regas we had with his Hadushan. I remember when we got it. When I was only 17 years old. The rabbit shows me from all this time we done. The one day I should be the one that's going to be massage this I'm going to put them on a safer. He says he gave me the chance of all this stuff in And then he told me He says please watch this. He says The last couple were very hard for him. He is fighting now. And he was in the room with him. He was being in Kabbalah. He was pissed and he was trying to come up with some pissed for these second. But pissed off pissed off Hey, all of a sudden while he was trying to figure this out >> [snorts] >> I mean the poetry is off the rails. This is what he writes. On the bottom of this is a little bit of a footnote. The footnote is that this Yid Yitzchak Wolgelenter he spent the rest of the war years in the attic of this Refus Packer and he was moist in nefesh. He had the so with the Rebbe and he was mean maser to them and he was writing them. And then when Poland was liberated from the Germans he came out and he was a free man and he was walking around and a Polish saw him and he killed him. He killed him for no reason. But he killed him. So this Yid Chaim Yitzchak Wolgelenter he too was killed by the the Polackian. Yimach shmo um vezichro. Hashem yimkom damo. He had a brother. His brother's name was Yaakov Dovid. And Yaakov Dovid knew where his brother had been hiding and he knew that he was being oisek in the so and he said he went to the so and he he went to the attic and he found it all there and he came to America and he made up his mind that he was going to print these so and these are some of the so that he printed. This shtickel siman yud zayin in Kuntres Yechaskel comes from this chibur Sifsei Sofer Devey Vo'az Bekever Sifsei Sofer Shel Yechaskel Halevi ben Lagoyna Godol Rabbeinu Meir Yechiel Halevi Zechutzal Hakadosh and Sifsei Sofer Shel this Yid Chaim Yitzchak Wolgelenter Reb Chaim Yitzchak ben Hakadosh Reb Yeshaya ben Reb Yechiel ben Reb Shmuel Zechutzal Livrocho. Hashem yimkom damo.