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if there's anything that brings all of
the nation of Israel together every
single Jew doesn't matter if it's
ashkenaz or sephard or eduta mizra or
whatever everybody it's the Shema
it's the Shema that has kept us alive
for thousands of years that Central
mantra for the entire nation of Israel
some of you actually may have heard the
uh this beautiful story about the famous
Rabbi yitzlaka lady Herzog who in 1946
left Israel just after the Holocaust
and went to Europe and he was visiting
these various uh monasteries you know
the few righteous monasteries who agreed
to take in Jewish children whose parents
sent them to these monasteries and hoped
that they would survive and so Rabbi
Herzog turned to the Reverend mother of
one of these largest monasteries
um and uh when he when he arrived there
he thanked her and he blessed her and
the monastery for endangering themselves
in in hiding these Jewish children and
he requested that the monasteries turn
over the children to him
so he can bring them back to the land of
Israel to be raised by their people by
their Nation by their families not by
their actual literal families in almost
every case their families were or had
been murdered but to go back to their
people and The Story Goes that the
Reverend mother said that she was more
than willing to turn the children over
to the rabbi but she said that they uh
you know they couldn't keep records and
uh by this point they already didn't
know who was who and there was no way
that they could definitively tell uh who
were the Jewish kids and who are not the
Jewish kids particularly being that most
of the children themselves didn't know
because they were little toddlers babies
infants at the time that they were sent
there so Rabbi Herzog assured the
Reverend mother that he would know that
he'd be able to tell and that the
children were then gathered into a large
Holland when they were all congregated
in one place the rabbi cried out in a
loud voice said
he bellowed out
hear o Israel the Lord Our God the Lord
is one and immediately dozens of
children from the hundreds of children
there thousands of children dozens of
children rushed up to the rabbi shouting
mama papa mommy tati Tati
they're calling for their parents with
tears filling their eyes and rolling
down their cheeks many of them are
sobbing uncontrollably they probably
didn't you know remember much in their
heads and their brains but those
memories of their parents singing the
Shema to them before they went to sleep
well that's not a memory in the head
that's a memory in the heart that's a
memory burned into the soul of the of
the nation of Israel
