From a Holocaust Labor Camp to the Shofar of Mashiach - Rabbi Shlomo Landau

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Shlomo Landau’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

L 1943 in a forced labor camp somewhere deep in Hungary. The hundreds and hundreds of Yidden look towards their leader, Rabbi Shaya Markovitz, a great tzaddik and a big talmid chacham, wondering what's going to be with Rosh Hashanah. They're working 14 hours a day of forced labor. When are they going to daven? How are they going to experience the loftiness and the holiness of that very special day? With great trepidation, Rabbi Shaya Markovitz puts his own life on the line and goes to speak to the chief of the entire forced labor camp. He begs and he pleads on behalf of so many Yidden there to please give them a chance to daven on Rosh Hashanah. His pleas pierced the evil heart of the commandant and he agreed they could daven each day of Rosh Hashanah together with Rabbi Shaya. When the news spread in the labor camp that there would be a Rosh Hashanah davening, it filled the Yidden's hearts with hope. And on Rosh Hashanah morning, hundreds and hundreds of Yidden packed together

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1. 0:05L 1943 in a forced labor camp somewhere deep in Hungary. The hundreds and hundreds of…
2. 0:36and goes to speak to the chief of the entire forced labor camp. He begs and…
3. 1:06in a barrack led by the holy Rabbi Shaya Markovitz. The tefillos were le'eila u'le'eila, so…
4. 1:36"What's wrong?" And the fellow asked him some trivial question. "That's what you disturbed davening for?"…
5. 2:07shofar of Moshiach, the shofar of Moshiach. He couldn't believe it. They didn't have a shofar…
6. 2:37That shofar survived the war. It was super precious to the Yidden. And eventually it made…
7. 3:07needed. But one thing is clear. Whether you're a Jew in a labor camp and miraculously…

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