Lakewood, Somerset Walk: My Shabbos, Organized, quiet, shul w Rav Levine. Chaim Berlin- RC Dalfin

Lakewood 2025 December of Khaneka. I was there this past Shabas. I must tell you there's a lot to learn from the comm community communities there. I'm talking about the literature literature community. It's called Somerset Walk. That's why I was there Shabas for a family bar mitzvah. And I'm telling you, I came into the sh first of all it's large and bright and beautiful, but the quietness, everyone standing by the place and davening, it was very, very special. Not a dening. It wasn't shuckling and it wasn't, you know, lots of singing. Although they had a kazen the quas kazen who used the carl bach tune some of you know Friday night it was a very nice diving but the the togetherness and the organization was very very uh clear now I'm aid I'm as you know but nevertheless learn from everyone take the good from everyone one. So, I just wanted to thank the Lakewood community for creating these type of opportunities for people. Yeah, it's an Ashkanul. They they had a vote, I understand, to do Ashkanazar. They they chose Ashkanaz. I spoke to Rabbi Lev in Berlin. We had a great conversation at Shalashuda time because they don't have Shalashudas in Shul and he was he doesn't go back home because it's a long walk. So he was in his office. So a 14-year-old boy who by the way told me he learned chef schmita which is deep intricate stuff stuff on the Gamora and he learns privately two or three times a week with this Rev Levine 14-year-old boy. Such an idler boy, such a refined boy. Anyway, so he said was in his office. I went in, I spoke to the for 10, 15 minutes. Had a very good conversation about the rebuttes donated to. So I just wanted to say thank you and to that the Berlin world should know that although I wrote a book Reba and and and Raf Hutner and Rabbi Hutner and we do discuss issues that are you know over the years were disagreements but we also speak about commonality and we go into the history and I encourage everyone who didn't read the book to read it and I told the Rabbi Lavine and I'm saying it now again it's in the book Rabbi Hutner two weeks before he passed away he told his tal Kaplan his main c who they say after 120 years and David's passing will probably be the next of the which is yeshiva in so he told me I got him on the phone 6:00 in the morning and I asked him what to say the few weeks about before his passing about the Reb and he said he said that he was a a good he was a good friend of mine and that's enough for me you know some say he said he was a sad he he didn't say that and maybe he said it another time maybe someone else heard it I'm not but what I heard from this close of was that he said and he's my good friend. So I leave that with all Kai and Berliners and all theers that although there was disagreements and there were disagreements and sharp disagreements yet nevertheless the commonality the thread that tied them together which was and is greater than the disagreements and we should follow in those ways that although we have differences you know whether we whether we shuckle or we don't shuckle or shake or don't shake etc., etc. Nevertheless, we're all brothers and sisters and we all have to hold together and we have to learn and learn from each other. Only to everyone. Shalom.