A few
years ago while in Jerusalem on a Shabbas, I walked into Meah Shearim to see
the Rebbe of Ger. I had known his
father, who was the most respected and influential Hasidic Rebbe of Polish
Jewry. The gestures and mannerism of the
son were exactly the sane as those of his father in pre-Auschwitz Poland. I walked out depressed, with tears in my
eyes. We are told that when a few
Egyptians drowned in the Sea, and the angels wanted to sing praise, God silenced
them. “My creatures have drowned in the
Sea and you are going to sing praise?”
But the Gerer Rebbe, who witnessed the destruction of his family, of his
disciples, continues to sing a pre-Auschwitz song in a post-Auschwitz world.” -Rabbi Morris Shapiro
Sing your song as if the fate of the universe depended on it.
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