This essay was prepared as a meditation to accompany the prayerbook, Machzor Wolfsberg, published by Yad Vashem. The Machzor contains High Holiday prayers transcribed from memory by the Satmar Hazan Naphtali Stern, z"l, in 1944, in preparation for the Rosh Hashanah service he was about to lead in the Wolfsberg Labor Camp. (Hazan Stern recounts that he wrote the prayers "in pen, on paper torn from cement bags that I purchased [at great risk to his own life] in exchange for bread." ...