Rosh Hashanah Inspiration: Rosh Hashanah in Auschwitz 1944 - What is Our Akeida?

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

he records with great emotion how miraculously he was successful and smuggling a shaufer into auschwitz on that faithful rosh hashanah in 1944 he writes the recollection of that faithful rosh hashanah shall forever be implanted in my memory against all odds i was able to bring a shayfer into the camp on the first day of rosh hashanah i went from black to black shay for in hand to blow this kiosk my life was in danger the entire time but thanks to hashem's kindness i was able to avoid both the nazis and the kapos i had the privilege to sound the shaffer on that rosh hashanah 20 different times this literally revived the spirits of my emaciated brothers and sisters blowing new life into their souls i then blew the scheifer for a group of about one thousand a group who were about to be herded onto trains for transport i can still hear the sobs that burst forth from these men and boys as i blew that's chaos at that moment i recall the explanation written by the shloch about the mystical meaning of the kiosk says shlock the sound of the shaffer begins with its kia a long straight blast and then it breaks down into shivarim trua this is compared to the state of the jewish people who at one time were strong who were upright in the times that we had a base hamikdash and we were in arts israel and we had great naviam and great sages but now we are broken and bent in our long and bitter galas yet despite our suffering there is a great ray of hope just as the kiosks end with its kia gedoyla

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1. 0:31he records with great emotion how miraculously he was successful and smuggling a shaufer into auschwitz…
2. 2:01trua this is compared to the state of the jewish people who at one time were…
3. 3:32risk because it was nearly dusk and a very very dangerous time very soon the nazis…
4. 5:06says of sri harsh myself when i gazed at my son who i loved so much…
5. 6:36sent to the gas chambers together with them i agreed i asked my son to serve…
6. 8:09rabba have mercy on us their whales reach the shamayim when i started to prepare myself…
7. 9:42i escaped the block in the nick of time that night the boys were taken to…
8. 11:13sacrifice in earlier generations for them every day every rosh hashanah was a reenactment of but…
9. 12:55the challenge of success the challenge to pursue the american dream the challenge that makes us…
10. 14:27is to get up early in the morning to fight our laziness to fight our inertia…

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