2G: Ralph Rubinek: A Mother's Day Tribute
A Mothers Day Message
by Ralph J. Rubinek
On Mothers Day, we honor our Mothers for all the good, love and wisdom that they have given us in life.
On this day, I honor my Mother by sharing with my fellow citizens some of her wisdom, gained through hard experience.
My Mother, just like most other Mothers, taught me how to live right. But she did much more. She was a Holocaust survivor who learned from her hard experiences. Se was victimized by the Nazis, a tyranny led by a madman. Adolf Hitler. Gun-toting Nazis dragged her family to their deaths. Unarmed she was unable to resist.
Sent to Auschwitz, the largest concentration camp, she was chosen by “Doctor” Mengele for “experiments” which were simply medical torture. Of the women in this program, most who were lucky were systematically executed.
Mother was a source of strength and inspiration to other prisoners. She told them of a land where individuals are judged on their own merits, not condemned as a group. She spoke of land, America, where the people control the government, as opposed to Europe, where governments for centuries enslaved people.
Finally – when liberated by Allied forces – she emigrated to America, the land of her dreams.
I am her only son. She raised me with the only family legacies she had – her memories. She taught me that there are few things more destructive than a government gone bad.
She instilled in me an abiding love of the United States Constitution, which she studied closely in order to become a citizen. Swearing loyalty to the Unites States was one of her proudest moments. Mother died in August, 1974 after many beautiful years in America, but never free from her painful memories. She left this message, one well worth sharing with every son and daughter in the land:
“You must fight for your freedom every day of your life… even if as a last resort, you must take up arms to defend your freedom do so! Freedom is your G-d* given right — along with all other rights under the constitution. Protect it.”
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Very appropriate and well written.
Something for all of us to think about.
I wish to explain the necessity of writing the above Mother’s Day message. I am the only living member of a once proud and thriving family in Europe before the Second World War. My parents family was murdered in Europe by the Nazis, they were survivors. I’m a strong and vocal voice in support of the right of any law abiding human being to own and possess firearms for the purpose of defending life and property. I support an armed and trained populace as a matter of common trust and national security between a government and it’s people. Criminals by their very nature do not obey any law and so obtain weapons no matter what law is in place. Gun control which controls the law abiding guarantees tyranny and oppression. Legislation cannot contain human behavior.Mother raised me with these virtues and I have used her wisdom within my 24 year careeer as a law enforcement professional.
NOTE: Let me remind you the essence of the creation of the United States as well as that of Israel was an armed citizens revolt against tyranny and other forces of evil. Do not forget recently United Nations attempt to equate Jewish Zionism with racism. How can one equate the worlds minority, a struggling people who lost so many innocent lives for centuries just because they were Jewish as racist?
There is no greater call for the protection of this world’s largest minority of about 14 million worldwide, the Jewish people and that of the land of Israel. There is no greater call then the defense of all innocent life where the police/military cannot at most be there to protect you and your family from direct and immediate predatory attack.
The sin of good government turned evil is on each and every one of us when good people choose to remain silent.
I ask of all humanity to be cognizant of this most human virture to survive. I ask every caring human being, Jewish, Christian, Muslim … All faiths to stop killing each other. If punishment is at hand, let it be the will of G-d, not man.
We are the essence of creation, each life is a gift, I beg of us all to embrace this life with all our hearts. Cherish this gift.
A beautiful letter full of respect, admiration and love. I can only aspire to be like her.
Mr. Rubinek’s tribute to his mother reminds the travails, persecutions, and even the holocaust Jewish mothers have gone through and survived to give Jewish children life. It needs to serve as a reminder and repeatedly so for Jews to keep Jews in the fold in order that the legacy of the Yiddishe Mamma in spite of everything to protect and keep safe her child not be lost in easier times through galloping intermarriage that plagues us now, and further the distancing from the values that enabled not only the survival of the Jewish child, each one as precious as the next, through five millennia, but the future of the Jewish nation.
~Sonia