Hundreds of volunteers from the 'Ale' organization gathered for an evening of appreciation to mark the half-anniversary of the founding of the volunteer organization, which brings light and joy into the lives of special children who have not been fortunate in life.
The highlight of the evening's varied program was a song by the renowned artist of emotion, Rabbi Moshe Zvi Weintraub, whose ballad is made up of moving rhymes that moved the volunteers.
The special song focused on the story of an orphaned child who was left without a father and mother after the Holocaust, and grew up in the orphanage of the Rabbi of Ponebez.
For some reason, the child flatly refused to bathe, despite the pleas of those responsible for him. He also refused to share his hidden secret with anyone.
This is how the story unfolded for several days, until the 'Chazon Ish' entered the picture, and then the boy announced that only to the 'Chazon Ish' would he agree to tell the reason for his refusal.
It turns out that during the war the Germans took them to bathe with the promise that after bathing they would get their clothes back, but of course the clothes were never returned to them. Therefore, he is afraid to bathe lest they take his clothes away.
The boy announced that he agreed to shower only on the condition that his father and mother would stand by him while he was bathing. Maran Chazo'a promised the boy that he would take care of his clothes while he was bathing, and told the rabbi of Ponivez: 'I will be the father and you will be the mother, we will both stand on either side and take care of the clothes.'.
And so, while the unfortunate child was being bathed, two worldly geniuses, the Chazo"a and Rabbi Kahaneman, zt"l, stood by him, and tears flowed from both of their eyes for a pure Jewish child who did not deserve to have both of his parents stand by him while bathing. They truly said that the clothes became cleaner and cleaner from the purity of the boiling tears that continuously fell during that impressive occasion.
Warm tears welled up in the eyes of the participants as Rabbi Weintraub, with extraordinary talent, depicted the volunteers bathing the children with endless devotion and sometimes even with tears of kindness and mercy, for those great men of the world who saw this as a great and important mitzvah, and spared no effort for the well-being of the special children.
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