Kollel Toronto - Planting Roots

when my family moved on to Frontenac there were virtually no from people in the neighborhood The First Family Show mashaba's family in our block were these obermans and the school I attended wasn't the soda like Glen Rush public school that was located in the same place and it wasn't real by Ox The Shield that we went to on view Mount but uh it was a service that took place three days a year across the street in the basement of the island a lot has changed since then both in terms of myself and the neighborhood and a big reason for that transformation is the cola see when I was a teenager I started getting interested in my Yiddish Kai I was learning a little here and there and then a friend told me he was organizing this new place called the cola I figured I'd try it out so I still remember my first time ascending those rickety steps in the back of Miriam's bookstore the luggage here was uhm Davis he's now in Passaic back then he was a young fellow who was still clean shaven and he made one tonight one condition that the share be twice a week which was revolutionary at the time it was my first experience at serious gamara learning and so began my association with the Corolla it's been over 50 years now I babysat for them I remember in the summer at night we had a very tremendous shock to them I remember sitting in the house I'm almost there they were just for them it's just a racial mommy they don't have any English books in the family only swarm only difficulture and there's been a tremendous relation on me and on my family it wasn't a question of course it was about Yeshiva but we went to maybe a formula ship we went out of town we were going Along Came Terror and we always came back we knew that the West Chicago going to take an interest in us and ask us what we're learning and what we're holding we were both by the cree of my brother and I we got to lay in the kylo which was very rare we got to land every businessman we were very very involved in the health [Music]