One Jew's miraculous story.
by Sara Yoheved Rigler

Saved by a Prayer

A Holocaust survivor once told me, “Every Jew who survived the Holocaust survived by a miracle.” Alexander Ungar survived by four miracles.

Alexander was born to an affluent, religious Jewish family in the village of Hidosholos in southwestern Hungary in 1906. He was married with three children by 1940, when he was drafted into the Hungarian army.

His father-in-law, fearing for his safety, insisted on taking Alexander to the Shimoni Rebbe, a Hassidic rebbe known for the efficacy of his blessings. The Rebbe blessed Alexander and told him that whenever his life was in danger he should recite a certain Biblical verse and add the words, “with the intention of the Maharal of Prague.”
Alexander protested. The 16^th-century Maharal of Prague had been a great scholar and Kabbalist. According to legend, he had made the Golem, who had saved the Jews of Prague from a blood libel. How could Alexander presume to say anything with the lofty intention of the Maharal? Read the rest on AISH.COM

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