Yeshivas Bircas HaTorah 30th Anniversary

this is the start of my third year in America Satara I connected the most with the Russia about when he came to speak at my high school I've been in you show this because Satara for just about four years now what I experienced is that there are bond him and the boys are very close we've been in biggest Atari for four years people that are learning in the issue are not only not only learning and but they're really growing in a very meaningful serious way everything issue there is a total for five years I knew that my father had come to yeshiva because the Torah 20 years ago prior another green was here peg de bricassart era seven years ago and to be honest in high school I felt everything was a result orientated and I came to great casa para a home of Torah and I saw it's all about the process laughs learning coming close that Kurdish powerful he's so - Mack what is Hashem is just incredible when one learns in a place for 10 years many things change primarily the people coming and going one thing that I can tell you is that the enthusiasm and excitement of the learning in the of Shiva is palpable and has always been that way Emma and I have been at Garissa tour for 14 and a half years it was Shavua snipe it was the most exciting thing I'd ever seen and I didn't know what was going on and yet Here I am 14 and a half years later at the Shiva Spirit about sixteen years ago after I got married I was looking for a mediator and the first Shearer that I had was rabbi tiger I arrived in New Zealand 2003 so that's about 17 years now being a high school kid in an environment where people were dedicating their lives to learning and a voter's a Shem in a serious and meaningful way was something that I had never experienced up until that point there's got to be r kazuto around 20 years ago and i can't overemphasize what a wonderful place what a warm place it is to grow [Music] the environment in the yeshiva is so special it's really a place where all everyone Neve alder BAM all the buckram can come together and they they really form one unit one of the things that I'm told often by people will come to be a Shiva to visit or just to check out the place is that when they come in there's an overwhelming feeling of warmth where not one not two but how people come up good Michelle believe him and see if they need any help but who they're there to see I think if you walk in you can hear people shouting at the top of their lungs and just screaming with the passion of Torah you know fire in the flames the base of the base is always very loud and very full and you're thriving there's a very attractive warmth that goes on not only in the yeshiva but also in in actual dorms where everyone lives very close together one of the unique things is that the buckram interact with the operation and this gives the bathroom sometimes a different view sometimes that break him of the buckram and say our being there danmath let me hope can walk through through the scenario I find the comfortable nature of the dorms and you know the food and that during the to limb that everyone's interacting with everyone else the fact that people really believe that what they're doing is of value and it's something that they personally feel connected to it and is meaningful to them naturally it makes them want to pass that on and show other people the tremendous value in what we're doing this is the freshness that the if Shiva brings the shivers a world that you can have a clothes cash or throw Bain and friends you know open and grateful terrific way darica Lehman of the Shiva is Ben Lerner showing him and I throwing him however we do it in an interactive way together and we dissect the soldier completely until every verb in raschi is popping off the page we break down the Gemara in a very specific systematic way where we understand each move each specific point of the Gemara the deep analysis and how we focus on as far as end and javelinas and mask honors and all the different steps of the Gemara is that's an incredible training tool they encourage all of the buckram to investigate and to spend time asking questions and delving into the answers it's stressed on the shot with simple understanding the way that the shiromar modeled in the Shiva is not that it's a lecture type shear where you just sit back and hear someone else's masterpiece you are taught how to hold your own masterpieces you feel like you're contributing and your your your a whole part of where you're going to be building it up together teach the Tom Needham on how to learn like all the Godot learn and what that means is not just reading their Torah and being able to understand it and insane over again but how did they come up with the mask owners that they data how did they know how to ask that question how did they know to give that kind of Terrace to Train Tommy Demi to teach Tommy diamond would be the depth of the shot on the page that's the olive base really that that gets you on your way to being able to or yourself produce tremendous Torah and I find when we learn this way the Gemara becomes something more much more of an interactive lively experience and this way of learning really changed my life and made the Gomorrah so enjoyable so the shmatte well you really see what they were showing him and after eight am i doing in a real way you live the limit of the return of a friend I think when discussing the relationships between their a beam and the bathroom you first really have to talk about their bein themselves and where they're coming from and what I was seeing personally time and time again is the priority that that everyone puts on the welfare of the guys I find that I have a very close relationship to a lot of their bein in this yeshiva not just I was learning going but on a very individual level there's always an acceptance from the rahbaniya and and they're always happy to help them work with the boys the job is not just teaching and helping them develop the skills for learning there's also very strong personal element where we are involved in educating them also as people and see how they've connected to what they're learning and how they've applied to their lives and even experience shall blossom at their homes as a rabbi in bierko's Uttara I'm always impressed with how their Rocher Sheva leads by example and showing us how to treat each and every student as if it's your own child I felt that I was the only one that he was listening to he really understood what I was going through and you want to give his advice in his attention and a lot of this focus is what really creates his close relationship that we can feel comfortable and assumption bless us with many years that we should always be able to have this connection and treat them with such respect and such dignity [Music] when someone says the Shiva is growing or successful intuitively people immediately think about the number of students in the issue of a growing the number of applicants or the quality of the students is getting stronger my Rebbe he should live and be well often asked a different question he would say what is the sri Husa of urea shiva why do we need the shiva in Kleiser at all here in your shall I'm where there's so many Shiva's and so many : what is its Ragusa of beer cassette Ora now the measure of whether it's successful or growing is how much of that Sri Xhosa is actually happening the essential truths of burka Satara is the powerful desire and strength to do the ruts in Hashem regardless of what people are gonna think and regardless of what you're afraid of that simple pure desire to do the right thing is that sequence awareness at all one of the many things I've learned from Raja Shiva besides her learning is how to approach life decisions and life choices everything will go through a thought process and it won't it nothing will be impacted by you know far enough into what other people think what do what do they think you should do the same way that we so particular about how we learn and that you can that we make so - we have to have that feeling towards our daily life - and allows our behaviors and our meters and becoming a genuine Binet Torah video drama and people with a strong connection both to the tour itself and to Sherman to each other and that's something that I think is gonna is gonna travel with me throughout life to look at every single situation as an opportunity for growth the learning that you do in this year LaRussa doesn't stop when you when you walk out of the base majors it's something that that has an off kameena in your life between you and your wife and your kids between you and your roots are your roommates whoever you are wherever you are the way that we're learning is something that translates really to everything everywhere in all times over the last nine years we have slowly assembled a small army of young men who came in as post high school students and have stayed got married they haven't chilled some early potion mishpat Cola in Diana's somewhere in the yard Deus mica program sama Maggie Nisha or him and one of them is the magic of the Shiva all these men these young men are not afraid of leaving home leaving their families being here alone without financial stability how we gonna make it what will people think they're just purely focused on doing the Ruksana Shen that is the true kusa of burkha cetera this building project effectively started six and a half years ago during garish and slow shim before that I did no fundraising he took care of everything he was the administrator he handled the finances he did the recruiting he looked after everything what's where what isn't what books what should happen and so when you look at the building now what we are doing to this day is a continuation of how Gershon Rania shiva spiritus of Torah this is taking a building that was just rubble and building it into something big he turned himself into somebody that was capable of learning giving a shear raising the family what everybody knows best about Gershon was that smile if we look at where Shiva's beer cosa Torah is now there's no question Gershon started the process he's smiling right now he's looking at where the yeshiva is and with the new building where the yeshiva can go and I'll bet you that smile is getting bigger and bigger all the time my first fundraising phone call I need you to dedicate the building forget on I want his children some of whom never knew their father to see his name on the building and to know who he was and what he represented one phone call and we secured the funding for the gastrin Berg building after that phone call Hashem made it clear that it would this was not going to be an easy building project six years we suffered through threats lawsuits extortion from Armenian neighbors our Jewish neighbors the City Council the rova corporation all of that was nothing compared to the Antiquities Authority they dug for over a year and as they were digging the lead archaeologist professor slowly she was describing the different stages in Jewish history awesome instructor were medieval 11th centuries the biblical period on the husband Ian which is late Iron Age or first temple period we are to find very very very at first all of this was so exciting but then they ordered that all of the bags from the dig had to be sent to a laboratory for special sifting and I realized that this may never end and we were paying for all of this [Music] this past summer Mike Mende and my daughters put together a surprise 70th birthday party for me and along with the party they produced the video toward the end of Newsom Tiger came out and make perfect sense that he would be there I remember when he came to chitara he became a serosa to my son mehndi but when it finally dawned on me what he was saying to connect our families for eternity together by dedicating this space mattress in your honor [Music] my first thought was you know a big chocolate birthday cake would have been fantastic when Mindy called me at first feeling was tremendous affirmation from a crisp Oracle debeikis stash and felt his warm embrace knowing that he has been with us from the beginning of our journey so right now hashem should bless mandiant Aviva with all good things in your pantry gosh helping them to raise their children and helping them to help clog Israel raise their children for many many years to come the Harare and Levy Learning Center something very very precious to me from when we bought the building because of the incredible and unique location where millions of people are walking into the Jewish Corps the first thing they see is our building we decided to my sir take 10% of the building to create a space for Cairo to be able to come in and experience Torah wisdom and true authentic Torah learning and I think that this is an incredible opportunity an obligation for us to spread sweetness of Torah to Kali stronger [Music] I remember about 20 years ago when we had the canoe casabas for this space mattress but I'm sitting in right now my Rebbe Rabbi Green you should live and be well stood right here and said the only response that he could think of for such an incredible Braja was to learn learn learn harder and now as the issue was expanding almost doubling in size I'm gonna have more classrooms and more I'll need they may - em the responses all the more so all the more so we have to learn hard with all our might and teach that is the three Kusa the machine is bit hesitate this is a very exciting time moving into the new building and I feel that it brings a lot of feelings of feels and he sketches into the base mattress for so many years be our casket are has given so many people torah meaning and grow and I'm looking forward to being part of this for many years to come and I'm so happy that that other people are going to be able to experience the incredible experience that I've have in this issue that the amount of gratitude I ought to do Shiva to obey Him and to the receive especially of how much I've seen this you she wasn't a positive impact on my life I truly hope thorough Shiva the rebellion and the buckram were so sincere of the Abuela's ashamed continue and carry on going Makai Ohio it feels very much to me like we are Anna processor is going to be a tremendous amount of growth because borrow has given us an opportunity now to bring to fruition the vision that we've had in the issue for quite a while now so if you ask me if burka Satara is growing answers absolutely yes [Music] I'd pray with all my hearts that the buckram be a breakin their wives their bottom in their wives the donors and their wives and the children all of them continue to grow and fearlessly live the sweet kusa of beer casa Torah for good in long years