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Don’t Waste a Moment!

The Vilna Gaon’s diligence in Torah study was legendary. His days were spent in his room, delving into the depths of the Torah with every ounce of strength that he possessed.
On one occasion, the Gaon’s sister arrived from a distant land in order to pay him a visit.  This was by no means a minor event, as the two had not seen each other for some fifty years !
The Gaon went out to greet his sister and, as the halachah dictates, recited the blessing that is said upon seeing an acquaintance that one has not seen for a long time – ”Blessed are You, Hashem… Who resuscitates the dead.”
After concluding the blessing, the Gaon said to his sister: ”My dear sister. I know that we have not seen one another for quite some time. However, when I leave this world and am called before the Heavenly Tribune, I will be asked to give an accounting for every single second of my life.  Each moment of time will be scrutinized and judged on whether or not it was utilized studying Torah and performing Hashem’s mitzvos.  How, then, can I waste away the precious time that I have been allotted, by engaging in trivial conversations?”
”I therefore beg your forgiveness, but I must return to my room and resume my Torah study.”

חידה: היכן בזמירות שבת תימצא המושג “פוליטיקה”?

בפיוט הרב אברהם אבן עזרא, “כי אשמרה שבת” אנו אומרים: “אסור מצא חפץ עשות דרכים. גם מלדבר בו דברי צרכים. דברי סחורה אף דברי מלכים. אהגה בתורת אל ותחכמני”. “דברי מלכים” כאן הכוונה לפוליטיקה.

The Founders of the State of Israel and their Role in the Nazi Holocaust

The Holocaust Victims Accuse

“Serufay. Ha Kivshbnim Maashimim” (“The Holocaust Victims Accuse”), serves as an attempt to show, by means of testimonies, documents and reports, how Zionism and its high-level organizations brought a catastrophe upon our people during the era of the Nazi holocaust. “Serufay Ha Kivshonim Maashimim” is a collection of nine essays which were printed in “Digleinu” in the years 1961—64 under the heading, “Ani Maashim – Min HaMaitzar” (I Accuse – From the Depths”). The fruit of the pen of Reb. Moshe Shonfeld, it constitutes a continuation of the revelations of the gaon and tzaddik, Rabbi Michael Ber Weissmandel, who devoted his life to saving his brothers, and endlessly alerted the Jewish world. But there was no one listening to him. Several paragraphs incorporated into the first nine essays and the last essay in its entirety are being published here for the first time.

The reading material in the pamphlet before us is very bitter, but it is essential that we look into it and absorb it in order to know the secular enemy and to understand his character and nature.

The essays printed in the booklet include just a small part of a serious accusation, which exposes the leaders of Zionism as war criminals, who contributed their share to the destruction of six million of our people. In the archives of the Goodman Family in London, Eisz Of Zurich Sternbuch of Montreux and Griffel and Weissmandel in the United States, are hidden documents and reports which are hair-raising and are waiting to be brought to light. Therefore, one must end the pamphlet with, “finished, but not ended”, in the hope that these matters will be completed. This is our obligation to millions of victims, as well as to clarify our consciousness and our world outlook.

The Kotzker Rebbe said, “who increases knowledge, increases pain; even though he will add pain, a person must increase his knowledge.”

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