Why Didn’t I Wake Up My Brother - R. Yitzchak Fanger - TorahAnytime.com

There is a Holocaust survivor that coming to me every year he said and every year in the same date and he's crying and crying and crying and the Rebi asked him why are you coming the same date every year. So he told him that he lost all all his family in the holocaust except of one brother his brother and him he was in the same camp in the holocaust and uh the Nazis in Mashimov they they did like order in 6:00 in the morning everybody was supposed to stand and they checked if somebody's you know can can work or not and you have to be in this this line because if you won't be in this line they will kill you and we worked all night we had only like an hour to go to sleep my brother was very tired So he said to me, I'm I'm going to sleep and I was afraid I won't get up in the morning early. So I I stayed awake and my brother asked me, "Please wake me up. Wake me up before the line." So I said, "No, no problem. I will I will I will wake you up." And you know, I was wandering in around the camp and a Nazi officer saw me and called me, "Come here and start work." And from the pressure, I forgot the the line, the order. I I forgot the my brother. I forgot everybody. And I in 6:00 I saw everybody standing there and I'm looking for my brother. I didn't see him. I ran into the camp went to the bed of my brother and I saw him lying on the bed with a bullet in his head. And he said to Rabbi, "Rabbi, I cannot FORGIVE MYSELF. WHY DIDN'T I WAKE MY BROTHER? WHY DIDN'T I WAKE MY BROTHER?" SO ABSILAN said to me, "Fa maybe after 120 years in the world to come, the the souls of your brothers, your sisters that walking now on the street, your sister now in in the street, your brother in the street, maybe he will ask you, why didn't you wake ME UP? YOU WOKE UP. OH, nice not to see that. But it's your brother. It's your sister. Why didn't you wake your brother?" So you have to do something. So one can be a speaker, one can to to dedicate maybe in this project inspire to to to bring a family into his home, a friend here to the Shiva come and learn somebody's in the co you can speak with him you can you know be nice to person ask him you want to learn with him you want to sit with you want to what Shabba says just invite him you cannot you never know who's walking the street so wake up your brother so I think first of all we have to wake ourselves and then we'll try to wake our our brothers and I think Hashem will appreciate hat cuz it's