2. Scars, Wounds, and the Prayer That Remains

On the 75th yahrzeit of the Aish Kodesh — Rav Kalonymus Kalman Shapira of Piaseczna, may Hashem avenge his blood (הי״ד) — Rav Shlomo Katz gathers in Yerushalayim to learn, sing, and weep through the Rebbe’s Torah of tefillah and heartbreak.

From Chovas HaTalmidim to Aish Kodesh, we follow the Rebbe’s journey from teaching the joy and innocence of youth to confronting the unimaginable: praying within destruction. Rav Shlomo explores what it means to desecrate prayer (chilul hatefillah), to rediscover its essence, and to stand before Hashem not only with wounds that still bleed, but with scars that never fully heal.

A reminder that our deepest prayers are not always the ones we speak, but the ones that rise from silence.