| The Final Solution Is Life A Chassidic Dynasty's Story of Survival and Rebuilding
By Laura Dekelman / Rebbetzin Chana Rubin
Description:
This is a biography like few others. It is the story of a
distinguished rabbinic and chassidic family of Hungary, a family
that exemplified scholarship, piety, generosity and aristocracy of
merit.
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The Final Solution Is Life |
The
author, the renowned Muzsayer Rebbetzin, was a niece of the
revered Satmar Rav zt”l and her husband was the scion of a great
rabbinic family in his own right. As we read about their spiritual
strength, we come to understand how they could live through the
horrors of the Holocaust with their faith and optimism intact, and
how they could find the reserves of spirit to rebuild when the
fires and chimneys ceased their grisly work.
For the lasting message of this remarkable and inspiring memoir is
that there is always hope, that the Jewish spirit is never
extinguished and Jews don’t surrender. To the Nazis, “The Final
Solution” was their plan to annihilate the Jewish Nation. But for
the Jewish people there is always hope, because the Creator
pledged, “I will not have rejected them to obliterate them, to
annul My covenant with them, for I am HASHEM.” This is the true
secret of the astounding growth of Torah life, and the heroes and
heroines of this extraordinary book exemplify those who planted
the seeds and nurtured them to maturity.
A highlight of this panoramic book is a chapter on the miracles
that brought the Satmar Rav to safety.
Rebbetzin Rubin begins with the idyllic world of pre-War Eastern
Europe, taking us warmly and movingly into the world of chassidic
courts and rabbinic responsibility. When the extermination began,
she was a young newlywed. Her father, a Polish national, had been
one of the first to be dragged away, and she and her husband were
plunged into a life of terror, separation, and slavery -- but
never hopelessness! Always they knew that there was a Merciful
Father and that there would be a future -- if not for them, then
for others.
Providence decreed that Grand Rabbi and Rebbetzin Rubin be part of
that future, as they survived to create a thriving community in
the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. In telling her story, the author
tells the story of Jewish eternity. It has seldom been told as
well. |
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