== 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.
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
Raul
Walenberg. 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.