An amazing story printed in a Sefer close to hundred years
ago.
Years later this story was reprinted in other Seforim
The story appeared in the Mishpacha Magazine and I even
heard a Godol repeating it.
The Mechaber in his Sefer writes that he read this story in The London Times dated
the 19th of Tammuz 5676 (July 20 1916).
The Mechaber in his Sefer
writes that he read this story in
The London Times
dated the 19th of
Tammuz 5676 (July 20 1916).
The Times quotes the Hungarian newspaper called Pesti Hirlap
A Hungarian soldier sitting
in the trenches wrote to his wife and asked her to find
out from Chaim their Jewish
neighbor about the Jewish prayer of “Shema
Yisroel”.
He claimed to have noticed that whenever the
enemy fires at them, the Gentile soldiers get
killed,while the Jewish soldiers say the prayer of Shema Yisroel all are saved and don't get killed. He would like to know how to be saved by this prayer.
Believing the story to be true, I was hoping to find a copy of this
article, publicize it and be Mekadesh Sheim
Shomayim.
My nephew R. Ari shlita helped me in searching for this article.
The London Times (1916) and
the Pesti Hirlap are both available online.
R. Ari spent hours searching
for the story in both newspapers.
Key words in both English & Hungarian were entered and not a single match or a slightly similar match came
up.
The London Times of
July 20 1916 definitely has no such story
.
The London Times quotes a
number of times (different dates) The Pesti Hirlap but not with
this or similar story. My personal belief is, this story will not
be found in The London Times or in
The Pesti Hirlap.
Thanks to you and R. Ari for taking the trouble to research it.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you can do the same for other things as well.
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