Menashe Klein was a survivor of Buchwald with Elie Wiesel. Klein became a rabbi and he and Wiesel spoke often.
“He was a very important rabbinic authority, and he became a very pious rabbi,” said Wiesel. “And I told him my problems. And surely you cannot say I am a religiously pious person. But nevertheless our relationship never suffered. And one day, eve of Rosh Hashanah, I get up unusually very early in the morning, say my prayers, and in my prayer there are a few names- the prayer for the sick, for the ill. And he was one of them. And I forgot him – the prayer for his recovery.
“And then, eleven o’clock: ‘Oh, God! I forgot his name in my prayer.’ I ran to the telephone, called. Answering machine: ‘The funeral left’.” - from The Inventing the Art of Hope
Pray for those who are in need. Do not forget them.
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