The March of the Six Million

Many years ago while Rav Shlomo Carlebach zt"l was still alive, I heard his masterpiece, The Krakow Niggun for the first time.  It started off as a funeral dirge for the 6 million who died in the Shoah, and then it became a March.  As he himself explains in the preface for the song, the last song on Cassette tapes only version of his "Shabbos with Shlomo" Album, that while the Niggun starts out as a funeral dirge, the Gilgulim of the 6 million Jews who were snuffed out in the Shoah will be in Yerushalayim to welcome Mashiach and the Messianic Era.  He received this tradition from the Klausenburger Rebbe, Rav Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam zt"l, who survived Auschwitz and lost all of his children (11?) and his wife in the flames of the Holocaust made Aliyah in 1960 after establishing Qiryat Sanz in Netanya in the 1950s.  He decreed based on the Chid"a that the number of Jews who will witness the final Redemption after the last Churban will be equal in population that left Egypt.  There are sources from years ago that 3.2 million Klal Yisrael including children left Egypt plus 2.8 million from the Erev Rav.  The Klausenburger Rebbe realized that even during the 6 Day War in 1967, there would not be enough Jews in that war in the Land of Israel to trigger the immediate final redemption because at the time there were only 2.6 to 2.7 million Jews in Israel and that 6 million Gilgulim from the Shoah would be necessary to bring the Redemption B"itah.  He realized that Achishena anything could happen and that Mashiach could come supernaturally, but odds on we historically have always been tripped up by the Erev Rav, and that after the Shoah, we would need to reach all the b"itah conditions that did not exist during his lifetime including the necessity for at least a minimum of 6 million Jews to live in Eretz Yisrael, this being the same population that left Egypt including the Erev Rav and not so coincidentally, the same population to perish in the Shoah.  As we will see from later in this post the Shoah was the last Churban, the 7th Churban, after 6 x 300 year cycles with a major Churban associated with the beginning and end of each cycle.  And because of the Tochachah in both VaYikra and at the end of D'varim, there would ONLY be 7 Churbanot.  

So years ago Rav Shlomo was in Krakow composing his funeral dirge for those who died in the Shoah, and suddenly he said that he saw them, the 6 million, and they asked him, "Is this the way to Yerushalayim??  Let's Dance!"  I believe that this is word for word Shlomo's introduction to the Cassette version of the Krakow Niggun.  You will not find this intro on any of the CDs that you may have purchased after Cassette tape technology went out of style.  But for those of us old-fashioned types, I still have a bunch of his cassettes and a way to play cassettes.  

We are having electrical problems and outages because of the War.  This post is a work in progress, but I need to post it now because Hezbollah is trying to hit the nationwide electrical substation in Hadera tonight.  And I do not want to take any chances.  I am continuing to work on this post and will update as much as I can before any unexpected blackouts.