CLD #384

For the Refua Shlema of Mordechai Tzvi ben Sara & Binyamin ben Blanka.

Baruch Hashem I had the zchut (privelage) to listen to a remarkable (there are no words to explain the power of the speech) Shiur in the last couple of days, the Story how Rav Yitzchak Fenger shlit’a Chazar B’Tshuva (became an observant Religios Jew after growing up in a totally secular home in Israel). He went through many many years of looking for a faith, mysticism, and somehow ended up in India somewhere in a forest as a buddhist monk, Hashem Yerachem. Besides the remarkable story, he spoke about something that really reached a deep point in my heart, a Holocaust passage.

He heard from his Rabbi at the time where he began becoming observant a story about a Holocaust Survivor.

The survivor annually came to the Rabbi at a specific period of time for guidance. He always came crying hysterically to the Rabbi. One year the Rabbi couldn’t take it and just asked: Why is it you always show up at my door the same time every year?!

He began opening up his heart to the Rabbi in tears: the Nazis imach shemam (may their name be erased) forced the Jews in the camp they were at to stand in a wake-up call still for hours 6am every morning (and we complain about waking up to thank G-d we have health, happiness, companionship, wealth and go to Shacharit/minyan). One night the Nazis worked the poor souls (or lack there of) until 5 in the morning. Him and his brother had 45 minutes left until the mandatory (or death) wake up call to sleep. He was too terrified to sleep to miss the wake up call. However, his brother was exhausted, and he simply said: remember to wake me up! He said: no problem.

Obviously this is not a Rabbi.

A Nazi came into the bunker, called him over and took him out. An hour passed. He realizes everyone is standing in the wake up call area and he realizes: MY BROTHER! MY BROTHER! Running to the bunker: I HAD TO WAKE HIM UP! I WAS SUPPOSED TO WAKE HIM UP. From bed to bed, looking for his brother: a hole in his head and a splatter of blood was all it took to ruin his life.

This day struck so strongly in his heart, that it became a lot more than a day of mourning. Every year this survivor came to the Rabbi and he said: After 120 what am I going to tell Him (Hashem)? That I forgot to wake him up?!?!?!

The Rabbi answered: Hashem is going to ask you after 120: Why didn’t you wake up your brothers and sisters around you who are losing their lives?!

What does this mean and what does that mean for us ONE WEEK before Rosh HaShanah? It means we all need to be caring and far away from selfish. VeAhavta LeRe’echa Kamocha means to love your neighbor like you love yourself. Just like we hold for ourselves certain Jewish guidelines that make up who we are as JEWS, so too we need to promote this sense of LIFE to others, because the Torah tells us (even though it may seem like it is) that a life without Torah is not a life lived to the fullest.

Its ONE WEEK before Rosh HaShanah, Yom HaDin (Judgment Day), we need to do things to show that we have +++ Signs in our Spiritual accounts, some Mitzvot. A big Tikkun, fixing/repentance of one who sins is to make others AVOID doing this sin. For example, if someone used to eat a lot of non-Kosher food to do the Tikkun he/she can teach many people the severity and the logic behind eating only Kosher.

Here is the Shiur (in Hebrew, sorry):

Yom Kippur is in 17 days.

Rosh HaShanah is in 7 days.

Selichot has already BEGUN.

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