Your active participation in synagogue life at the Freilassing camp brings you great satisfaction. Making a minyan is a real mitzvah. You are able to pray openly for the first time since the war started.
One Shabbat afternoon, between Minchah and Ma'ariv services,
representatives from the Agudat Yisrael approach you. Listen!
they
whisper to you. All this talk about reestablishing a Jewish state is sin and
error. Only ‘Mashiach,’ only the Messiah, has the right to rebuild Zion. If
human beings take over tasks which properly belong to God, terrible
consequences will follow. Look what has happened to the Jewish people
because they did not stay faithful to God's will.
They show you verses in the holy books which they have interpreted as the basis for their ideas. They convince you and you abandon any plans you may have had to move to Palestine.
You decide to go to America instead. When you settle in New York, the Agudat Yisrael arranges for you to attend Yeshiva University and then enter the medical school at Mount Sinai Hospital. After completing your studies, you marry and raise a family in a new home on Long Island.
You will never forget the advantages that Agudat Yisrael leadership made possible for you. Every day, you drive to a Home for the Aged in Brooklyn and provide free medical care for these elderly Jews. It's the least you can do to help repay your debt of gratitude.
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