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Thursday, September 10, 2026

The last Mitzvah תקיעת שופר

לז"נ ר' יצחק עמרם אליהו
בן ר' אברהם אשי זצ"ל
נפטר יום ב' דר"ה
מיד אחרי התקיעות*

R. Yitzchok Donath זצ"ל (my uncle) was מוסר נפש risking his life together with
the Veitzener Dayan zt"l so that שופר would be blown on ראש השנה for 1,400 children
who were destined to the crematoria the following. day.. He enabled them with their
last מצוה in this world "תקיעת שופר". My uncle too was נפטר with his last מצוה
of תקיעת שופר
יהא זכרו ברוך

כתיבה וחתימה טובה

https://mishpacha.com/sounding-the-shofar-in-auschwitz/

By Erev Rosh Hashanah 1944, there were more than 6,000 boys in the camp. The Nazis considered them superfluous to the German war machine, and they decided to send 1,400 boys to the ovens. The boys were randomly selected and locked in a barrack while waiting for extermination. I was lucky. A kapo warned me and two friends to stay away while the boys were being caught for the ovens.

Rav Tzvi Hirsch Meisels, the Veitzener Dayan, was brought to our camp a few weeks before this happened, along with his 15-year-old son. Somehow, Rav Meisels had a shofar. How can I describe the emotions as we gathered to say our Rosh Hashanah tefillos and hear the tekios? Rav Meisels began with words of chizuk, encouragement. Although I can’t recount the entire derashah, I remember him saying “Bakeseh l’yom chageinu — everything is covered and hidden. What will happen, only the Eibeshter knows.”

The condemned boys heard about Rav Meisels’s tekios and begged him to blow shofar in their barracks too. It was terrible to watch the Dayan’s son beg his father not to go. He feared his father would be caught and killed. “Please, Father, you are all I have,” he pleaded. “The Ribbono shel Olam doesn’t ask this of you.”

Rav Meisels said it wasn’t required to risk one’s life, but he knew that in a place like Auschwitz his life would probably soon come to an end anyway, and this mitzvah was paramount to any other consideration. After being smuggled into the barracks by a kind kapo, Rav Meisels blew all 100 tekios for the boys. One of the boys shouted that Rav Meisels should be blessed with long years, to which all the boys answered, amid many tears, “Amen.”

All the condemned boys perished the next day. B’chasdei Hashem, both the Dayan and his son survived the war.

(Originally Featured in Mishpacha Issue 678)

The story is printed in the הקדמה of שו"ת מקדשי השם from the
Veitzener Dayan הרה"ג צבי הירש מייזליש זצ"ל,

He wrote that he asked his son Harav Zalman Leib to
stand guard during the תקיעות to watch for any SS Nazis
approaching the barrack.

During the Shivah for my uncle, Harav Zalman Leib told
the אבלים that he was too scared to stand guard and it was
my uncle who volunteered and fearlessly stood guard until the תקיעות were done.

My uncle gave of himself with true מסירת נפש, together with the Veitzener Dayan, so that the children could fulfill their final מצוה in this world. And my uncle himself was נפטר immediately after fulfilling his own final מצוה of תקיעת שופר

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THE HORSES ARE HAPPY

The Brisker Rav

The Brisker Rav זצ״ל once gave a משל of a wagon traveling toward a border. Inside the wagon sat a driver & his young helper transporting goods for a merchant across the border illegally.

Every character in the scene reacted differently as the journey progressed.

From the moment the wagon was loaded, the merchant was trembling. He knew the risk of a tremendous monetary loss if caught.

The smuggler, more seasoned and calculating, did not show fear immediately. But as they approached the border, he leaned forward and quietly signaled the driver. His tension rose; the moment of danger was drawing near.

The wagon driver, seeing the border guards in the distance, began to sweat. His hands shook on the reins. He understood that one wrong move could cost him dearly.

The young helper, oblivious until now, only panicked when the border guards lifted their rifles and pointed them directly at the wagon.

And then there were the horses.

When the wagon was finally stopped at the border, the horses shook their heads, snorted contentedly, and relaxed. They were thrilled. They felt only the physical relief of no longer pulling a heavy load.

They were happy.

Is it 5787 ה'תשפ״ז or it is 5952 ה'תתקנ״ב?

According to our calendar, we will be ushering in on Rosh Hashana the year 5787.

Approximately 165 years are missing from our calendar. The correct year might be 5952. (Only 48 more years to the year 6,000)

This issue was addressed by many gedolim, from R Azariya min Ha'adumim to Rav Shimon Schwab זצ״ל.

In a 1962 essay, Rabbi Shimon Schwab suggested that the 168 years were consciously removed from the Jewish calendar to obscure the date for the coming of Mashiach. However, in 1991, Rav Schwab felt that he had to pull back from his previous position and retract his suggestion.