Beacon Of Light
A story related by Rav Yosef Soloveitchik Shlita [of the Rova].
This Tisha b'av, I was reading the autobiography, entitled "Bas Ami," of Hadassah Levine, H"YD, a great Tzaddekes, a Kedosha, who went through the gehinom of the shoah, recorded the events, and shortly afterwards died of tuberculosis. May Hashem avenge her blood and the blood of all the Kedoshei Elyon.
She was present in the Telzer camp, on the spot when all the men were brutally shot by the german and lithuanian men-beasts. By the fresh mass grave she cried Kaddish and read out the perek lamed-zayin in Yechezkel about Tchiyas Hamaisim. What gave her the strength to continue?
That night, she describes how, utterly numbed and exhausted, her spirit broken, Hadassah fell asleep... and beheld a wondrous and astonishing dream, a spectacle of splendour and of awe, a vision not of this world. A great, great clear and bright light filled the barn in which she was interned. She shut her eyes. The deceased were rising from their graves!! All the men, all the nation. They were shaking off the earth from their clothes, a huge, huge multitude of people!!
She understood the meaning of the vision, with perfect clairvoyance. THE DAY WOULD COME, EVEN THOUGH IT MIGHT TAKE TIME, THAT THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD WOULD BE JUDGED, AND HASHEM'S PEOPLE WOULD BE RESTRENGTHENED AND REVIVED AND WE WILL BE RESTORED TO OUR FORMER GLORY. (Bas Ami, p.35)
This awesome vision gave her strength to withstand her further sufferings and trials.
Let Hadassah Levine's faith be a beacon of light to us.
May Hashem avenge the blood of all His faithful servants.
This Tisha b'av, I was reading the autobiography, entitled "Bas Ami," of Hadassah Levine, H"YD, a great Tzaddekes, a Kedosha, who went through the gehinom of the shoah, recorded the events, and shortly afterwards died of tuberculosis. May Hashem avenge her blood and the blood of all the Kedoshei Elyon.
She was present in the Telzer camp, on the spot when all the men were brutally shot by the german and lithuanian men-beasts. By the fresh mass grave she cried Kaddish and read out the perek lamed-zayin in Yechezkel about Tchiyas Hamaisim. What gave her the strength to continue?
That night, she describes how, utterly numbed and exhausted, her spirit broken, Hadassah fell asleep... and beheld a wondrous and astonishing dream, a spectacle of splendour and of awe, a vision not of this world. A great, great clear and bright light filled the barn in which she was interned. She shut her eyes. The deceased were rising from their graves!! All the men, all the nation. They were shaking off the earth from their clothes, a huge, huge multitude of people!!
She understood the meaning of the vision, with perfect clairvoyance. THE DAY WOULD COME, EVEN THOUGH IT MIGHT TAKE TIME, THAT THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD WOULD BE JUDGED, AND HASHEM'S PEOPLE WOULD BE RESTRENGTHENED AND REVIVED AND WE WILL BE RESTORED TO OUR FORMER GLORY. (Bas Ami, p.35)
This awesome vision gave her strength to withstand her further sufferings and trials.
Let Hadassah Levine's faith be a beacon of light to us.
May Hashem avenge the blood of all His faithful servants.
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