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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021 | The Jewish Home SEPTEMBER 17, 2021 | The Jewish Home
The Wandering
Jew
Yomim Noraim in Warsaw 2017 Part II By Hershel Lieber
Mechel at the kever our great-great-grandmother Malka Pitzeles
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ur train arrived in Krakow at 2 p.m.on Wednesday, September 27. Rosh Hashana at the Nozyk Shul in Warsaw was, baruch Hashem, very nice. I davened well, and the kehilla enthusiastically participated in the “rena and tefilla.” The seudos that we ate alone in our apartment and those that we ate together with the community were
In front of the Kupa Shul
The plaque for those who perished in our family at the bais olam in Bochnia
enjoyable. Our visits to many of our friends in Warsaw made our experience all the more pleasurable. But the best was still to come. Our son, Mechel, had expressed a burning desire to spend Yom Kippur with us and to hear me davening on this awesome day, something that he had not experienced in ages. I think he was also motivated by the fact that
my grandson, Eli Klein, was planning to join me in Warsaw for Yom Kippur. Pesi and I were thrilled about the prospect of Mechel and Eli being able to appreciate our annual experience of davening with the Polish Jewish kehillah. Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich was likewise encouraging and was excited that both Mechel and Eli would contribute to the davening
In front of the Bais Yaakov
Leaving the ohel of the Rebbe Reb Meilech
and to the entire atmosphere at the shul. Mechel made arrangements to fly into Krakow and meet us that afternoon. He would join us traveling through Galicia, with stops in Bochnia, Lancut and Lezajsk, as we make our way back to Warsaw for Yom Kippur. On Friday morning, erev Yom Kippur, Eli would arrive, and we
