The Power of YES! - R. Benzion Klatzko - TorahAnytime.com

it's a beautiful story that happened it's got tragedy as well it was during the holocaust and one of these trains these cattle cars where they would squish 100 200 people you couldn't breathe they didn't give you food they didn't give you a drink people were dying standing up there was no room to go to the bed there was no bathroom there it was soiled and smelly and hot and dehydrated awful and then when they came out what's their reward gas chamber crematorium it was one of these trains that stopped and the nazis opened the doors and they were going to have a death march to the camp it didn't stop in the camp itself it stopped right outside of the camp and the villagers these polish villagers they were there they were watching and then all the jews who are still alive they come out and the nazis to have fun the nazis called out to all of the polish villagers whoever wants to come take whatever you want where the jews are going there's nothing there for them they're not going to need any whatever you see just take it and these they went to the eden and they began to rip at them ripping the watches off their wrists and their rings off of their fingers hopping shopping hopping no rashmanas and there was this one lady and the lady was wearing a fur coat it was a beautiful luxurious expensive fur coat and these two polish ladies they see it at the same moment and they go barreling into her and they knock her over she falls to the ground she's already weak that's her her prized possession her fur coat and these two ladies they grab it and they want to fight over it and they're going through the pockets and all of a sudden in one of the pockets they feel something moving and they go off to the side and they realize that in the pocket of one of these coats was a little baby so one of the polish women who had knocked down this jewish lady she had never had children she always wanted so she said to the other lady i'll tell you what you keep the fur coat there was even money in the you keep all of that let me have the baby and the other lady say i don't want a jewish baby i don't want any baby take the baby i'll take i'll take the coat and that's it and this lady this this polish lady takes the baby brings to her house and decides she's never going to tell her that she's a jewish girl she's going to bring her up she's a newborn a tiny little baby she's going to bring up this baby as her daughter this baby had this beautiful necklace mug and duvet very beautifully crafted interesting and she took that mug and oven and she hid it in her drawer that this girl should never know that she was jewish and she called this girl hannah and hannah was a very bright precocious young young lady when she was a young child she proved herself to be very smart and as she got older she enrolled in medical school and she became a young female doctor that was rare in poland very smart very clever very becoming one day she's called home from the hospital please your mother is very very ill and she cries at her mother's bedside after as her mother passes away her polish mother a week after her mother passed away she's at home and she's mourning for her mother when there's a knock at the door and a lady comes another polish lady she says hello you're the daughter i need to tell you something that was not your mother that really wasn't what do you mean of course that was my mother no it wasn't let me tell you the story your mother and i saw the jews being taken out there was this fur coat i kept the coat she kept you hannah said impossible that's not true that's my mother no it's really not i was there i saw you as a child you know when you were grabbed there was even a jewish star that you were wearing i bet your mother didn't throw it out it's probably somewhere in her possessions and they went through all of her possessions and sure enough in the back of one of the drawers they found a little a necklace big enough for a little baby with a beautiful mug and oven on it and hannah was shocked she was shocked i'm jewish what does that mean i don't even know and so she began learning a little bit more about it very confused her mother never told her she felt a sense of betrayal that her mother never said anything one day she takes her money and she vacations in france and she's walking through the streets of paris and she sees two young chabad bakram and they're putting fill in on people and she goes over to them and she says i have an interesting story i was a war baby i found out i'm jewish i don't know what to do with that information and the bakram said we don't either know but probably the la bhava travis he'll know what to do with it why don't you write him a letter so she wrote a letter to the lamovic shahreb and the rebbe writes back you said you're a pediatrician here's what i recommend i recommend that you go to eretz israel you move there learn about your roots inherits israel they can use more pediatricians doctors to take care of children go there and this became the great question in her mind if i say yes i am denying my childhood i am denying how i grew up she grew up going to church with her religious polish mother can i possibly say yes to this rabbi from new york that i never even met and she thought about it she meditated on it and then eventually she said hiney i want to learn who i am i want to learn who my parents were what they believed where i come from and she bought a plane ticket and she moved to eretz israel and she learned more and more about her yiddish kite she got a job in hadassen karem as a pediatrician she worked with young children and the entire time she learned more and eventually she married a nice jewish young israeli and they built a house together a home together and a few years later there was a bomb and a pizza shop and the subaru pizza shop if you may remember a devastating bomb many killed the windows bloodied with yiddish blood and children who came with their parents to buy a slice of pizza dead on the floor and some of those children that were badly injured were brought to different hospitals and some of those children ended up in hadas in karim and that's where hannah was a doctor and she began to treat these children some of them were just suffering from shock some of them had wounds they need stitches they needed glass taken out of their face and their hands and their arms and as she's trying to go from one child to the next calming down the situation an old man comes in and the old man is screaming a name and he's screaming and he says please please help me find my goldie where's gold he helped me find my goldie so the doctors including hannah she came out there okay we'll help you okay absolutely who is goldie he says goldie goldie's my granddaughter help me find her okay we'll find her and finally one of the kids was crying with tears streaming down her face black from the explosion hannah takes her wipes wipes off the dirt and says is this your goldie and he says yes goldie you're alive you made it i was so worried and he grabs his granddaughter and he hugs her and he kisses her and as he's hugging her hand is standing in his watch she's watching and she's so emotional and all of a sudden she sees little goldie is wearing a necklace and she says to the grandfather where is that from that's so unique i've seen this before and the grandfather says impossible you've never seen this before you see i'm a goldsmith and i made this necklace i made two of them for my two daughters one of my daughters died in the holocaust and the other daughter moved to eretz israel and this is dad daughters this is that daughter's daughter goldie is the daughter and she had given the necklace that i made for her to her daughter and hannah reaches to her neck and she pulls out the identical mug and of it and she puts it next to goldie's and then she looks at her father and she says and he looks at the gold necklace and he breaks down crying like a baby he can't believe it he had a different name for her but he understood this was her daughter this was his daughter he recognized her facial features and they hug and they kissed and the power of yes reunited a father and a daughter my friends we have opportunities to grow like nobody has we have this vehicle called care of 20 we have our families and our wives and our husbands that encourage us that want to see the best in us don't be shy don't be bashful the word yes is waiting for you hiney when we finish this beautiful convention we come home immediately look for opportunities to say yes but as hashem whether that means to start that yomi or to start learning with the kinder luck or to be more makbanan say the magic word yes you're going to see you and i who will be yaakov together throughout this world each one of you saying yes and hashem will listen to your fearless and hashem will answer yes also you