Moishe the Beadle went from one Jewish house to the next telling his story of when he was sent to the Galician forest, near Kolomay. Even though he managed to escape, it was by a miracle. Moishe was not the same after he had came back, because of all the horrible things that he saw and everything that he had went through the joys in his eyes were gone.
He no longer spoke of God or Kabbalah, and only spoke of what he saw because what he saw was horrible, it took over all his memories of before and he needed to inform everyone about it so that they will not have to go through what he saw too.
No one believed him and they thought he was crazy. Moishe actually succeeded in coming back, and he returned to Sighet to tell the people of his near death experience so that they can ready themselves while there was still time.
I felt bad for Moshe because he was trying to warn everybody about the horrible even that was going to occur to the Jews, but no one listened to him. They thought he was just being crazy and silly. I wonder if people actually listened to him, they would have avoided going to the concentration camps?
ReplyDeleteYes, and they wouldn't have gone through that terrible misery.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you guys because I remember him saying that the one reason he tried to escape was because he wanted to warn everybody about what was going to happen. What was the difference - or the relationship - between what Moishe experienced and the concentration camps which started several years later?
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