Beautiful speech by Rabbi Bentzion Klatzko

perfect first i'd like to say thank you to hashem that i grew up in cleveland ohio so i don't speak english very well thank you hashem for cleveland that's the first time anyone ever said that cleveland's good i want to thank the drivers who drove made sure there was a safer torah claudius syrah understands that ruchnius when rookhnis is missing there's a chance for a makha to spread but hashem says i'm the doctor i'm the doctor for cancer i'm the doctor for heart attacks and i'm the doctor for covid so i'm going to tell the organizers a little secret it's a funny secret maybe not so funny i got a call will i come and speak at this event of course you never know where the other person is when you call them sometimes you call them and they just answer and you don't know so i want to tell you where i was when you called when you called to ask me to speak i was in the emergency room you see i got corona and it affected my heart it did it did i'm working with cardiologists to try but i had a major episode and i had to be rushed to the hospital and i was on the bed when i got the phone call my son was sitting next to me and i didn't put it to my ear you know i had tubes and this and that so i put it on speaker and they said will you speak thank you hashem i said of course so i put the phone down and my son turns to me says you're on the you're in the emergency room for a hard uh i lost the mic it's working okay he said how how could it be that you say yes i said you know what thank you means i'll call nishima uneshima every beat of our heart every breath in our lungs every time we could hear beautiful music every time we could bring home a paycheck every time we could digest food and go to the bathroom we need to say thank you and not take it for granted you see there are times that saying thank you is easy we've got good twin stakes here are two in stake you have to say thank you it tastes good make a good bracha but sometimes it's hard to say thank you sometimes you're not sure if you're going to see nachos from the you're not sure if you're going to keep your job sometimes you're not sure and you feel shaky my wife told me yesterday i told her i'm speaking here she said i want to tell you what i learned maybe you want to say it and of course i said i want to say it she said i learned that you say thank you for the good outcome before the good outcome happens you say thank you even before you know for sure if it's going to happen that's what thank you means means i have so much accuracy it's hard to do that i want to tell you a true story an incredible story i told it to my wife today and she broke down and she broke down tears it was in poland and they were taking the eden to concentration camps from the ghettos and if any of you have not been to a ghetto if you've not been to warsaw or to krakow or to auschwitz or treblinka go say thank hashem that you're a niece that you're here eating steak when so many didn't akon shimonoshima so at one of the stops where the eden deboarded the trains there were a bunch of polish citizens who were watching they were watching with morbid curiosity and they saw these poor hidden starving and filthy and dehydrated and at this point the nazis with their with their guard dogs pulled the eden off of the train and then turned to the polish citizens who were nearby from the village and said listen anything that any of you didn't have you're going to take it we don't need it we have nowhere to store it and believe me the jews they're not going to need it where they're going and there was a lady there and she had a big beautiful fur coat and there were two polish glitters and these polish guides they saw the lady with a fur coat and they said wow we're gonna take her coat and they both ran together at the same time and they they smashed this lady to the ground they ripped the coat off of her body and they took it away and then they were excited because the folk the coat felt heavy they said wow not only are we going to get a nice fur coat but apparently the jewish put jewelry in the goat diamonds expensive objects and they began to put their hands in this fur coat and sure enough there was gold there was silver wow jackpot and then after they had looted the pockets of the coat they tried to move the coat and they saw there was still something there it was a little bit on the heavier side they didn't expect it to be that heavy so they looked around perhaps there's a secret pocket and they they found a secret pocket an inside pocket and there was something there they put their hands in and they found inside this pocket was the little baby girl this yiddish mama knew that they're gonna grab the coat and they thought and she thought perhaps they'll have rahman hassan my daughter and one of these guys she said you know i never had children i would love to take the child you know what you could take the coach you could take the jewelry let me have the child and the other guys sure i don't need another child take the jew i'll take the coat i'll take the jewelry and there's great them she brought up this little girl as a guy called her paula and paula grew up thinking she was really the daughter of this gaiter and she was a wonderful child attractive and smart and studious with derek eretz wow what a great girl what a great find eventually paula became a doctor and after she became a doctor a few years later her mother passed away or her geyser mother the one who grabbed her the one who brought her up and a little while after that as people were coming and they were paying their respects an old lady comes into the house and the old lady says listen paula i have to tell you something she said i want to tell you as much as you love this lady and you owe her tremendous gratitude but she's not really your mother let me tell you the story and she told her the story and she said i was that other lady i took the coat i took the jewelry but you you're really a jew and paul said impossible that's my mother i know i grew up with her impossible this old lady said it is true i will even tell you that when we found you you had a little pendant necklace that had a star of david with words on it i bet your mother still has it somewhere look through her belongings and they went through all of her belongings and sure enough they found this little mug and duvet with writing on it so she paula realized i'm actually jewish now she didn't plan on being jewish but she said at least i've got a connection she took the necklace she made the chain of the necklace a little bit bigger so that she could wear it as an adult and secretly she had pride that she comes from jews even though she didn't look at herself as jewish a few years later she is traveling abroad she's on vacation and she passes in the street these two young men lubavitch has seen him and they were putting filling on people stopping them in the streets so paula dr paula she says okay i want to show you something i want to tell you a story i don't know what to do with it but look i always wear this it's a star of david i don't know what it says on it so right away these two bachram said it says a name that's probably your name she says what should i do am i jewish am i not jewish they said we don't know we don't know we can't tell you but maybe you'll write a letter to the rabbi he'll say so they wrote a letter she wrote a letter that day paula wrote a letter and she got a letter back from the ribbon the letter said the following the letter said you are jewish and because you're a doctor she was a pediatrician eric's israel could use pediatricians connect to your judaism go to israel move to israel that's what the rebbe advised paula dr paula she thought about it and she decided you know what i'm gonna jump i'm gonna leap and she moved to eretz israel and she got a job in an israeli hospital in the yerushalayim she even ended up nearing a yid she was jewish the beds and boston she was jewish and then came the 8th of august 2001. for those of you that remember there was a bombing in a in a pizza shop shibara pizza shop i remember it very clearly lots of stories lots of tragedy lots of heartache and the blood and the bodies of people mother morgan david adam came and they took all sorts of people they brought them to different hospitals trying to help those whose lives were in danger those who were dying those who were bleeding out and some of the patients some of the victims that were brought to dr paul's hospital and she was there on call and she was trying to treat one person to the next clean off this person's blood comfort this person and an old man comes in a very old man and he's looking around and he's frantic so dr paul says tell me what is it what are you looking for he said it's my granddaughter i must find my granddaughter what does she look like she's a little girl you try to describe her then he said she's got a little necklace with a star of david mug and david or dumb i'm sorry mug and duvet mug and duvet on it and she and he and dr paul they went looking around and finally they located the little girl and dr paula looks at the little girl and sees the the the mug and david and stops in her tracks and she says where did you get this from where did you get this from i've seen this before and this old man says no you couldn't have seen this before impossible you see i'm a goldsmith and i only made two of these by hand for my two daughters one who passed away in the holocaust and one who survived and then gave the necklace to the daughter and dr paula takes out her her mug and david and she looks at this older man and she said you're my father this is a true story there's so much to be learned but i want to tell you what i take out of this story this story is really one of tragedy it involves a holocaust it involves people being sent to their death it involves a bombing there is so much that a person can say hashem why why would you do this and instead at the end if not for this sin if not for that dayenu dayenu i was in the coat diano i was brought up healthy diano i ended up bumping into these two bachelor in the street thank you that i ended up moving dead so thank you that i found my husband thank you that i found my father thank you hashem it's what you didn't do it's what we are i think if we're misbending on how important it is to say thank you our diving will become better i brought us with more kavanagh that hashem gives us will allow us to overcome the difficult times of parnosa the difficult times of covid i'm not saying it's easy sometimes you have to think that's what feel is called avoid it's hard sometimes to say thank you but the more grateful we are the more accuracy the more we will see hashem loves us and for that more than anything else we say today thank you so much