Rav Yitzchok Isaac Halevi Herzog - יט תמוז

Yahrtzeit Yomi #1551!!יט תמוזRav Yitzchok Isaac Halevi HerzogChief Rabbi of Palestineרב יצחק אייזיק ב״ר יואל לייב הלוי הרצוג(1888 - 1959)---------------------------------------------------https://mishpacha.com/the-lost-children-2/Friends, here is the first-hand account of Rabbi Berel Wein regarding Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog’s 1946 visit to Chicago to raise money for the Vaad Hayeshivos and for refugees to Palestine.Rabbi Wein:“Rav Herzog’s visit to Chicago had a lifelong effect on me. I was 12 at the time, and my father took me with him to greet Rav Herzog on the tarmac. All the rabbanim of Chicago were there. He was a commanding figure, with a silver-handled rabbinic cane in one hand and a Tanach in the other.Later he gave a shiur in the yeshivah in the sugya of ein shaliach l’davar aveirah to about 200 people from all over the Midwest. Then he spoke about what brought him to Chicago.“I’ve just come from meeting the pope of Rome,” as he referred to Pope Pius XII. “I presented him with the names of 10,000 Jewish children who had been hidden in monasteries and other Church institutions by their desperate parents. I asked the Pope to return those children to the Jewish People.“But he refused. He told me that once they entered a Catholic institution, they would have been baptized immediately, and were therefore now Catholics.”Then Rav Herzog put down his head and sobbed, as I had never heard any adult sob, before or since. It was if the pain of 2,000 years of galus was pouring out of him.Eventually he stopped. And when he did, he addressed each and every person there.“I can’t do anything more for those children. But what are you going to do to rebuild the Jewish People.” When we went in a line to shake his hand, he asked me, “Did you hear what I said?” followed by, “Remember what I said.”I still hear those words ringing in my ear. And when I think of my contemporaries in the yeshivah and what they have achieved, I’m convinced they too were deeply influenced by Chief Rabbi Herzog’s words that day: [See WhatsApp group for more]---------------------------------------------------Tammuz Yahrtzeits!!1. First Bobover Rebbe, Reb Yonah Minsker2. Mike Tress3. Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rav Shneur Kotler4. Rabbeinu Tam, Baal Haflaah5. Maaseh Merkavah6. Sreifas HaTalmud, Yonatan Netanyahu7. Rav Gedalia Schorr, Lev Simcha8. Imrei Noam9. Klausenberger Rebbe10. Rebbetzin Elyashiv11. Rav Elchonon Wasserman12. The Tur13. Be’er HaGolah14. Rav Ruderman15. Ohr HaChaim16. Kapischnitzer Rebbe17. Rav Yaakov Yosef Herman, Rav Yaakov Weinberg18. Naroler Rebbe, Rav Shmuel Yehuda Levin19. Rav Herzog, Rav Lazer Yudel Finkel20. Rav Avrohom Chaim Na’eh, Rav Avrohom Yitzchok Bloch21. Meitscheter Iluy, The Shtefanester22. Rav Avrohom Grodzenski23. Ramak24. Rav Yaakov Yosef25. Shaagas Aryeh26. Rav Nachman Bulman27. Rav Shmuel Rozovsky28. Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, Rav Elyashiv29. Rashi, Yismach Moshe---------------------------------------------------Share the Yahrtzeit Yomi link with your contacts!!https://chat.whatsapp.com/JimbwNtBaX31vmRDdnO3yk---------------------------------------------------To dedicate or sponsor, please contact 917-841-5059, or email [email protected]. Sponsorships can be paid by Zelle to the same number. First come, first served.Monthly sponsorships are $540.Weekly sponsorships are $180.Daily sponsorships are as follows:Dedications (l’Zecher Nishmas, Zechus shidduch/refuah/yeshuah, etc.) are $50.Sponsorships (fliers, advertising, promotions, additional links, etc.) are $100.The cost to request and sponsor a specific Tzaddik (unlisted on the Yahrtzeit Yomi schedule) is $180.MAY THE ZECHUS OF ALL THE TZADDIKIM PROTECT US FROM ALL TZAROS, AND MAY HASHEM GRANT US, AND ALL OF KLAL YISROEL, YESHUOS, NECHAMOS AND BESUROS TOVOS!!!