Meet Charlie - 13 Year Old Daf Yomi Magid Shiur

[Applause] we are here today in teaneck new jersey what are we doing here at the one year anniversary of all that we put out a video reel we got a message from a boy charlie breda who said i started learning dr yomi at 12 years old in sixth grade and not only that i use all that and teach that the only to my friends join me as we go in and meet charlie [Music] due to the current situation we are sitting on opposite sides of the table we can't get too close but we figured it's a great opportunity to have a conversation with charlie what made a then 12 year old boy start learning that fiomi i was really inspired by the cma shots and a few of my rabbanam at school were doing it i was like maybe i'll just try for a little bit i found this amazing app old off easy convenient way to do the daf very quickly and i really liked it and now i've been going how did you find all that how did you find out about it actually at the cinema shots i'm pretty sure they said something about aldoff and i was like oh when i get home i'll try it out and then my brother caleb he was like oh did you get off yet and then i decided to get it mom when you were hurt he's learning to feel me what was your reaction it was very impressive to me that he would take on something like this the thing that always um really impacted me the idea of daffy me is the fact that you can be anywhere in the world and everyone is literally on the same page it's such a beautiful custom that you know we have that you can join in on a sheer wherever you are it never matters i was also so impressed that he was willing to take on such a big commitment at such a young age and it's incredible to hear to hear it coming from the basement you know his cave where he goes to uh to learn anytime one of us creeps near the steps or starts to walk downstairs he immediately stops so but we can hear it all through the house and it's it's a really incredible thing dad you got involved at the beginning in the da field learning yourself yep we um we all went to the cm charlie caleb charlie's brother and i and the whole scene was very inspiring and right after the cm we all downloaded aldoff and we were learning brachos each on our own but we would talk about it at night we're all listening to rabbi leibowitz there's some really great topics in bracos that i had some great conversations about and regret it regrettably that's all i got through for daphiomi um but it but it was a great time period to kick it off so you downloaded olaf and you opened up the app and you see many shoe room did you go through some of them to figure out which one talks to you and what you end up with um i went straight for by aria lee bowitz because my dad told me about him and it was 40 minutes quick you listen to double speed it's good 20 minutes um it was quick really understandable and it was the one for me amazing that speed option is crucial right awesome okay now be honest tafiomi is challenging especially when you get to challenging suggest for example in aravind even for 43 year old adults it's challenging how'd you get through that um i missed a couple days because a couple of days i was just like no i can't do this it's super hard but i marked it down and then i came back to it at the end and i was able to finish it i just kept going i learned with my rabbi in camp for a couple of it so that really helped um and i listened to shiarim i learned with my friends just like support it really helped very very important to have that support group did you ever want to give up uh in the middle of arriving i think i wanted to give up maybe once or twice but i decided to just keep pulling there so one of the things you told us was that you actually give a share to your friends now i didn't do any research but i would safely assume you're probably the youngest daffy magazine on planet earth what do you think to that special title it's pretty cool it's pretty amazing and can you just tell us a little bit how that process works that you're a 13 year old boy and you give a shear do your friends ask questions if they ask questions you don't know the answer you able to say i don't know the answer let's just move on uh for the most part yeah every day um around 7 30 i'd say 7 30 7 40. i'd go downstairs i'd go on the zoom talk to my friends for a little bit and be like alright let's get started i'll start the recording and then we'll just learn and if they have a question for the most part it'll be like oh the answer is coming up good question and sometimes it'll just be like too confusing i'll be like i don't know i'll look into that i'll get back to you this guy's a professional already what would you tell anybody whether they're learning that feel me or they've taken on any other torah learning or anything that can help them grow in their spiritual lives what's your message from charlie in teaneck new jersey i tell them to just keep going even sometimes when it seems hard to just pull through if you miss a doff or a parrot or whatever you're doing just mark it down and either go back and learn it the next day or when you're when you're almost done or when you're ready be like oh i think i should go back and learn this so charlie as soon as we heard that i believe is your rabbi you're that feel me rabbi i reached out to him and i said we're going to visit charlie and t-neck can you send us a personalized message special to charlie and come over i want to show it to you should i play it yeah yeah absolutely hi charlie this is arya leibowitz from north whitmire and from aldaf the people at oldaf told me about you're learning the daphyomi and teaching the daffo me ever since january and they told me how old you are and it's just hard to believe that someone your age has had that level of commitment and understanding to the deaf and you should just continue to grow each and every day by learning more and more torah every single day try to understand it as best as you can and be able to uh to to build on your learning and your year of shamayim and your general uh torah knowledge always and bring a lot of nachas to your parents and your entire tea neck community and the whole noam school uh yeshiva and uh i look forward to meeting you one day perez hashem continued and keep inspiring everybody else take care wow that's amazing i believe it's a special person charlie we have one more surprise for you something that should come in very handy for the gaming magazine here it is is it oh that's so cool it's just standard take it out whoa it's a three-way standard yeah and it has a name on it it's gold should we bring a gemara right now for you to start saying a share thank you guys so much it's our pleasure it was great meeting you guys i'm so excited we got to come down and talk to you and meet your parents it's a true inspiration to everybody when we see a family where not just the boy himself is into the daf the family supports him it is beautiful charlie you're talking about rabbi rose as the inspiration that fiomi rabbi who got you going what do you say we go give him a visit at school i said that's a good idea [Music] [Applause] okay we are here at ishibat noam where charlie goes to school we have rabbi rozelinski and rabbi hagler and rabbi pardo who is the director of ou torah initiatives and is from the community so were you aware of charlie deciding to take this step to start learning daphyomi how'd that happen so last year when corona happened and the whole world basically fell apart um charlie actually reached out to me on one of the rebellion shiva noam and he asked me would i be willing to give a daffiom shir to him and a bunch of his friends charlie was in sixth grade at the time um and all of the the boy the the students who were in this in this daf yomishiro were in sixth grade how could i how could i not how could i not do it we started daffy oma here at ishiba nominal middle school about six or seven years ago um that was meeting on a daily basis during lunch where they tell me them just took their lunch with one of their bayham and learned daf yomi um and then once corona came and school closed down with virtual that stopped existing and that's when charlie said no it's got to keep going by definition it's yomi and corona was not going to stand in his way and thereby rosalinski who does everything said he's going to continue this and uh and that's how it got started uh continued even during corona any pieces of advice for charlie is he's now uh let's see one-seventh of the way through the journey my best advice to to to somebody to anybody but certainly somebody youngest doing da fiomi is um i i think we should focus less on the dof and more in the yomi it's about kovaya timlatora um and i believe that's really the idea of daffy ome daf you do an almod it's yomi that you've used this as a vehicle to set aside time to be covered eat with torah um on a daily basis so proud of my brother charlie he went to her every day and it's really good to have a big brother like that thank you guys so much for coming out it's really nice meeting you guys the whole all doc team very amazing group of people yeah and it was really fun to hang out with you guys today you