I wonder how many people reading this know who Mickey Marcus or Moshe Segal are, or have even ever heard their names mentioned. If you went to Sdei Chemed or had my father, Rabbi Eli Teitelbaum A"H, as a
Rebbi, you probably do. That is because my father told over many stories of great men who fought for
Eretz Yisrael. I can't say for sure, but I assume he chose these two individuals, because they were Americans who traveled to Israel just to fight for other Jews and
Eretz Yisrael. Maybe he picked the stories of
Moshe Segal because he risked his life just to sound the
shofar every
Yom Kippur at the Western Wall, while the British had made it a criminal act. I hope one day I'll upload my father’s stories so people can enjoy them, but for now, I wish to just write about the wonderful, positive impact these stories had on my upbringing, and how unfortunately things have now changed.
