Don’t Let The Moment Pass - R. Yissocher Frand - TorahAnytime.com

Many of you, I'm sure, are familiar with the name Rav Yeshua Neubert. Rav Yeshua Neubert was born in Germany, grew up in Germany, and eventually his family, seeing what was happening in Germany in the 1930s, they fled to Holland. And there, trying to escape from Germany to Holland, he had harrowing experiences. And then in Holland, again, the Nazis invaded Holland and took over Holland. It was literally a nightmare. But he remembers that all through this experience, his father was careful never to be mechalel Shabbos. As difficult that had may have been, under the most difficult of conditions. The war ended, and Rav Neubert started making his way to Eretz Yisrael. He got to Marseille, France, to take a boat to take him to that was then Palestine. But the only boat that he could find was leaving on Shabbos. And even though the halacha says one is allowed to board a boat before Shabbos, but not on Shabbos itself, and Rav I Neubert, Yeshua Neubert, had to be mechalel Shabbos on the way to going to Eretz Yisrael. And including chillul Shabbos on the boat that was unavoidable. And he was devastated. My father was mesiras nefesh to keep Shabbos, and here, my first opportunity, I'm going to Eretz Hakodesha, and I have to mechalel Shabbos. He was so shaken by that that he said, "I'm going to do something about it. And I'm going to write a safer. A safer like never been published. Because there had been hundreds of sfarim on Hilchos Shabbos, but a sefer on Hilchos Shabbos in its time that dealt with the modern day shailos and appliances and electricity, etc. etc. I'm going to write that sefer. And he did. And today we have a sefer called Shmiras Shabbos Kehilchasa because of Rabbi Neuwirth. Because of a something that happened in his life. An event that happened. An event that changed his life. He didn't let the moment pass.