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s1188HalberstamShofarSiberia

Выпуск: s1188HalberstamShofarSiberia. Темы: family_education. Поисковые термины: воспитание, дети, семья, chinuch, family, חינוך, ילדים, משפחה. [Chaya Halberstam-Evers, is an educator and writer who lives with her husband and four children in Amsterdam.] Connection: ROSH HASHANA Biographical note: Rabbi Sinai Halberstam, the first Rebbe of Zhmigrod (1869-1941), was a son of Rabbi Boruch of Gorlitz, the 4th son of the Divrei Chaim, Rabbi Chaim Halberstam, founder of the Sanz dynasty. Instead, young Meir’s uncle came forward and related to the head commander that he had an old shepherd’s horn that his father would gladly blow each morning to wake the prisoners until they received a new bell. My grandfather went through many more trials and hardships until he made it back to the shores of Israel (then Palestine) where he was welcomed and celebrated for the great miracles that happened to him. Perhaps this year, if I close my eyes and listen with my soul, I can internalize the sounds of the shofar and I will hear the sounds of faith, courage, and hope that it gave my grandfather. My grandfather, Rabbi Meir Halberstam, a young boy of 13 years old at the time, was imprisoned in a work camp together with his grandfather, the Rebbe of Zhemigrod, Rabbi Sinai Halberstam. In honor of his upcoming Bar Mitzvah, his father sent him on a boat back to Poland where he would be able to celebrate this auspicious day in the chasidic court of his holy grandfather. The Rebbe wept as he blew the horn, the prisoners cried and prayed, and young Meir stood proudly as he watched the notes of the shofar break the darkness on that crisp Siberian morning. Charging them as enemies of the state since they had Polish passports, young Meir and his Grandfather's whole entourage were sentenced to heavy slave labor in the cold Siberian plains. For me, it has always been a holiday of hope, and positivity, as we surely believe that the Al-mighty will embrace us and hold us, as he ushers us into a beautiful and sweet new year. I try to think about the shofar that Zaidy (my grandfather) heard all those years ago on that cold Siberian morning, and the strength that it gave him and all the Jews who heard it.

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Yerachmiel Tilles Story

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17 февраля 2026 г.

Темы: family_education