Rabbi Aharon Moishe Leifer

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[edit] Rabbbi Aharon Moishe (Moses) Leifer, Rebbe of Khust

The third Khuster rebbe, lived through the holocaust, saving many people and helping them spiritually throughout the war. When he came to the United States after the war, he dedicated the rest of his life to raise the hopes and spirituality of the Jews from the ashes.

Among his sayings is about the verse of Genesis where G-d says to Noah: "Make a window to the Ark" - This can be read in Hebrew as "Make a light to the opening of your words". Meaning that everything one says, should bring light, and should allow the light to enter your lives.

[edit] Holocaust history

The Khuster Rebbe came back to Khust from Budapest in 1943 to take his parents out of Khust. While there, the Nazis ordered all Jews to go to the train station. They sat silently through the raid in the living room, and were missed. Immediately following this, they took suitcases and walked, dressed in the traditional Hassidic clothing, to the train station where all the Jews were gathered, but walked directly and decidedly to the Budapest station, to cries of 'Rebbe hide! Run away! No one stopped them. Later in the war, he was caught and marched on the famous death march, which ended in one line receiving certificates by Raoul Wallenberg. Came to the United States after the war, and was greeted as a living miracle.

His two sons are the Khuster Rebbes, one in Bet Shemesh, Israel, (Formerly in Toronto Canada) and one in the Brooklyn, NY (USA) Source: Toldos Aharon Moishe, Khust Hassidic Publishing.