Meaningful Interviews Rabbi Yosef Abrahams #1

welcome everyone to meaningful interviews i'm here today with the bashbear of the year babaji yeshiva in miami rabbi yosef ishaya abrams who is a veteran uh seasoned mashfiyyah you know they have many young mushroom today rabbi abrams has a pedigree going back to the early 1960s involved in education and in particular what i find fascinating is that he had an opportunity to be with the rebecca from the 1950 or 51 he'll tell us soon until 1962 or 64. so he uh had an opportunity to be with very great people very refined people two of the people that um he mentioned to me in the past that i wanted to talk about a little bit for the audience is mashpir and the rabbi mark i meant with the shiva of 770 and i understand from him that he had a you know a nice special relationship with both of them and of course uh that ebba what he saw during the fifties you know we read in terrorism very endearing words and very heartfelt words uh it seems like the the secrets the talks of those years were very different to the circus later on and what i'd like you to communicate and share with our audience is the the avira the environment that was that that existed in 770 in crown heights during those years and uh to begin just give us a brief background of where you came um from parents grandparents just to briefly so that people have an idea who uh who's speaking rabbi abrams the floor is all yours okay my parents come from hungary and they lived in in philadelphia and the friday rabbit made they sent him there to make a baby yeshiva like a day of school and i learned there for four years then my parents moved to chicago and like a month after we moved him my father passed away and the end of the year they might have him finished the learning there they decided to go to the towson yeshiva in cleveland and the shul raidawn was also in the nusa harisho and the rov there was rabbi lieberman not later he was in belgium and antwerp they loved there and he told my mother that he would take care of me and he would bring me to the babaji yeshiva we know they should they knew about lubavitch i learned before and he mentioned her it's closer to philadelphia than in cleveland so i'll be able to visit more often so when i was 12 years old i came to new york and they um i learned in the first kit of the music it was and [Music] i saw the rabbit the first time was on chalamet circus then it was called ramash and he stephan bring every khala maid it was called like a fabregan special for uh shiva bahim a lot of mother yeshivas came to the to the pablo [Music] that's when i saw him the first time and then the second time i saw him simphostera after they came down from upstairs by the fit uh after the sudamustam i guess they were dancing downstairs and the uh downstairs means where the shul is now the the first floor not they're not the uh right then there was no the show wasn't and there was a basement another basement there was a hotzer and a yard there so that was the downstairs from the second floor to the first floor and you were dancing there and then that's the second time i saw him that was before the historics and the friday rebel [Music] uh song wait wait wait wait wait wait what do you mean before these stars before they start because of the fleet of cadaver so you came in 1949 now i understand okay yeah yeah 1949 yeah so um so that one second so did you see the frida kahler too or not i saw the feeding and everyone get this kiss loose like this they couldn't get in there there was the piece stand in the in the steps maybe they opened the door to go in how did you how did how did you spell that was the last fabregan of the three digger ever said that they should open all the doors and let everybody wait afraid said said that they should let the whole island in was the end referendum and the everybody went in and they was around the table i was a young kid there was 12 years old i couldn't see so one of the bachrim picked me up and held me up for like for a minute and i saw them defeating a rebel and [Music] i remember how his face was red and the spot and uh so you see you still remember it until you were in there yeah i remember exactly yeah that was like in my in my mind yeah it was a special thing that you i know you couldn't get in and then you was we were standing there somehow they were sitting different hours maybe maybe to get in and whatever right right this was a special thing yeah right okay continue please continue and then by the histalkis i wasn't there punked that chavez i visited philadelphia i came back the next day after the lavalier it wasn't by the lava also no no you didn't you didn't even know i didn't know no we i found out their name my name i was walking with my mother in the street and we saw in the store it then used to be the years of papers you had the foreign yeah yeah i saw the the the paper that was called the newspaper that was called the talk that a picture of the feed together on the front front page so i said oh let's let's go see what the what what the uh right says i took the paper and then it says the obamacare is nifty but you you didn't make it back because yeah yeah until i get there till i get there yeah okay continue please you go into now and this is so one second at 12 already you were in the sift at 12 years old yeah right okay i think was a different system than than now then there used to be must be younger in the pacific whenever you when you started learning what imitation is that was the muslim stuff and who was your rebbe who was your teacher that friend by garfinkel oh how did you like his fury i liked him very much very much excellent explanation right explanation good and he was very uh with feelings and i mean it was like a cold person right he was a warm person one person yeah and i i i felt very close to him yeah so that was the first the now during that year so then when one second so now during that year tough shinyu youth olive um anything interesting that you remember about that year or okay um [Music] always the the kids between ourselves were speaking that i was going to become the rapper or that or whatever no no no there was no harmina but they did but they were speaking about the that i was going to officially become a rabbit i remember the first fabregan i was by the rabbi after the stalkers was accessible that was the first fabregan and there was like a very small island he had a few alters i think of europa mentally when they lived in different neighborhoods there wasn't many uh in but it wasn't many people there yeah like i was standing like right across the ramp that i was sitting later he sat in the in the head of the table yeah then he was sitting like in the middle in the in the middle of the table and i was standing across him it wasn't but this is interesting to me because i never heard this before you're saying that that you're a 12 30 year old boy and the boys already the boys felt that they knew that the rebel that the rabbit was going to be coming look they yeah they looked who were the boys there there was the boys there were they had their uh yosel salman off i mean they found that their kids were closed still from the uh yeah the uh nash was what they were like clown tours would like they were these were all people that they heard from their parents or whatever from the uh-huh so the electricity but but from but from the you're milandim or you know no they didn't speak about no no i didn't speak about that so you're saying don't forget in the kit there was not only lebanese or kids right right at that time you had a lot of williamsburg there yeah the different place there for all kinds you had all kinds now no i think people this is important for people to hear did you did your kita did they learn hasidis with you or not no no no no no no no no no when did we start i think in the uh the second year or the third year you told me in the past that you were working in the evening but you told me for a half an hour yeah but you told me that you were of yours first class that's later that's later that when i was 16 years old became there and touching your darwin i was 16 years old but you're saying you learned in tanya in the evening i don't remember exactly it was the first year i don't i don't think was the first year the second year i think it was uh like there was one minute if that was my mistake yeah yeah after before my mitzvah they didn't learn next year so after your bar mitzvah so what was there did you know what it meant to be the babbage hosted or not really look i used to read also they say this and then see his friends 1950 to 53 or 54 did how many of those fabregas did you attend every one every one yeah everyone you should i mean you weren't best friend dean in the dormitory right yeah but i used to go at the i mean look the bokeh used to eat and i think there was also they were sleeping there in in bedford yeah they didn't have a they the older both i mean the bar was 70. yeah yeah i know that so so when they knew for instance bay's ear there was vibrancy now it's not a regular thing so they told me know that i was gonna bring tonight is gonna bring it tonight uh-huh i walked at 770 and uh-huh by the way business did they did they call him did they call him after the the cabela's or the sears no no no no no no i think they stopped the bokeh mama stopped calling him the time i think or even before i'm not mistaken they call them i think it was and when you say the book of him what do you mean like groaners like what do you mean the bachelor in which so would you say that the older bokoram had a big impact on you after becoming you know a real above and all that yeah yeah yeah of course yeah yeah yeah which bucket did you like who was it that you you know looked up to and had a good a close relationship with anyone stands out look there was too bohemian that i uh looked up very much up to them and but i didn't have a close relationship done with them there i just saw how they were how they were acting and zelie katzman these two with a special relationship on me and but speak with me whatever it is but it wasn't like i didn't see anything special special i saw with these two well so tell me just a little bit what did you see special about these two tell me uh yale was always like in exidus and this and the whole time involved and the uh and zelic was like always yeah yeah yeah so so so so you say that you respected them but you weren't close to them in other words what you know you didn't speak to them about your if something bothered you no no no no no no i didn't speak look they the the love that brought me rabbi livermore he was a booker then oh so he was and they know that he he brought me to the yeshiva so they were like make out of me they were speaking with me am i doing and everything's all right or whatever but it um but who i looked up the special was these two zelda came a little bit later i don't know exactly when it was i think after you swat of shinyu yeah yeah he came a little later right yeah he came later but uh when i was then younger i looked up to these two and now when did you start having a relationship with robin mentholic look rabbi mentlick was the rosh yeshiva in bedford and dean and the mamasha relationship closed it wasn't but for certain things like getting matzah for pesach he arranged i should get martial you had used to come into british but later i came into his kitten when i was uh 15. oh you you know the menthik actually had a class not not only yeah yeah yeah he said it yeah his was for two years yeah but he no but he didn't have a daily class a daily question he had a day he had a daily class yeah he had the daily class of what what was that highest of the third sister that was you had like this the system was by garfinkel there was rabbi ushbal and then there was you're learning in the murders right and in the bassam medes was two one was rabbi castell that was for the first year and then the second year and third year of the besan madrid was rabbi mentally so uh it used to be that you had like the kita had like bokeh that came in for the first year and broken work were there ready for the second year they went live and then and we would become like the second year the older of the of the uh tell me them so that's when i got more with terabyte now you had you feed this every single year yeah soon it's right after the the season the rabbit that ever you would like to share something from that would be inspirational for young people in particular look i can tell i i can tell like he dis from my uh from the uh stalkers the um i was bar mitzvah in thomas thompson youth yes that was before they had like official yephides in arrow it started since a lot of people started coming so they then it was like i think the beginning was twice a week in the evening but before that before hello there was no official seder and then i since i had bar mitzvah well i didn't know about yemen letters yet they didn't mention the nemo letters they told me knock on the door i remember exactly what time but it was it wasn't one of the secretaries so he opened the door and he saw me standing there he understood it was uh i mean i was coming in for a broker so he went out right let me and i went out then i was sitting in a yarmulke and i came over to the table and i told her about that mitzvah i'm becoming i'm asking for a broker so the rabbi asked me who told you to come here because i told him about her he said witchbar i told him the name after that he put on his hat he was sitting with a yamaki put on his hand he opened like a little bit from the desk in the paper and he asked me my name and mother's name family name and then and then he no no no oh so so then they that wasn't to say that you didn't write the temple before it could be other boxing did i don't know i don't know they told me to knock on the double i was a kid i didn't know i knocked on the door okay it was like officially yeah you continue continue please continue yeah so driver wrote down the names and then the uh it was like looking at the settle and speaking to me and the what i remember is that the uh that yes i put on filming already because it says i've been hogging we should put on two months before right now and then and then um in those times and then then you'll be stamos for instance with the uh letters from the video so you spoke about saying even though it's after the his stalk is should say the capital from the figure right and he asked me and he told me i should say the capital uh i think his name was olive and they mentioned to me then that wherever you're going to be the devil will be with you yes just take a picture and olive and put the resin with the red redesigned there that is what i remembered it could be there was a few more words and everything but that this whether it was dismembered and that then laid down that that came and continued after he oh another thing another thing he mentioned to say it i'll go upon him till rosh hashanah now when i went out they brought him asked me what what the hell i told him maybe he's mixed up if he doesn't remember like he said later i saw in the egress and them we should say that that's that same lotion was in and then i was in here very very interesting okay so let's move on another thing in this nasa historicals yes i had the appendix had an attack on their medics and they took me to the hospital they mentally came because he was the russian shiva and he was ah most of the left already for for yonte was a two days before sukis they came with his his brother-in-law he should pin his cabs they they had to sign they had a guardian because my mother was in in philadelphia so whenever when they took me in the bed there in the hall to go to the operation room here he told him that when they're making the operation we should call him we should be media and that now is the operation so i remember then i felt oh i guess i was okay maybe i'm gonna die from the operation whatever i didn't know what it is he told him but he told him loud that i should hear uh-huh let him know let him know that you're going into the let them know yeah let them know then after i went out that was a week later i went out it was like two days before there was some fast data and they made special armenian for me for our coffers because i couldn't walk the and those times the after an operation was a it was a big ordeal yeah yeah yeah so but the next night somehow stated it's up i went to 770. and the door was locked he couldn't get in because then suddenly the rabbits and hannah mother came she had a key to open up and when she opened the door she turned around around to us and smiled my stomach vaulted well on a roof game i was standing with another buff she said i i'm probably you would like to go up so she when she opened the door she pushed it like strongly which room for us to go after her we should be able to go in and they went upstairs and then it's ten minutes later they they started upstairs and the feeding rabbis rabbits and started screaming and they doesn't need such a nail there and they did and then how did you get in what as i told him what happened he brought me up with the rabbi and he said this is the ordering the next day somehow stayed in the daytime by the february and [Music] there was a bring before our coffees before my live and then in the next day february also and then in the middle of her brain and he started giving out muscular to everybody so one of the bokeh man over to the rabbits the mask for the imams so that they an interview when i was 14 [Music] it was a year later so as soon as i came in the driver looked up and says no the student are you i guess we're supposed to be media if you feel good later with everything they're foolish yeah but but brother abrams you you you you told us earlier that you had your fetus already earlier you beat the rebels didn't have us he hadn't wearing the yamaka that he put on his head you had your feet that was the first time but the second time was that i was sitting in the house was i was there yeah you mean so i'm saying the second time but it was came out a year later this was in tishrei this was in tamils right it's a 10 months later whatever nine months so as soon as i came in at the first thing in the bishop right i got it i understand um uh so just now tell us a few minutes left tell tell us about the the avira in 770 throughout the whole 1950s you spoke about the first what about my youtube channel as you got older he became an older booker okay yeah look i was there also when i uh i learned that that's when i really got into see this i was very before i didn't have a guy i had so much to learn it wasn't there wasn't so clear to me i like more legally about when yales they said this is very close to him and uh later when i was in boca rosa the leveling sm70 was to speak a lot i used to ask him questions and he used to come and i wasn't official then they were a spear than there but used to come he's madness man when he came i used to ask him questions to speak a lot and uh did you have did you eat at his house those at all during that time yeah yeah yeah when i let's say that when i went later when i was older i'd say when i was around 20 21. and and i remember the first time when i after i was the end of the year and i learned about him so we were sitting there and they were safe there are covers and everything you know people they were eating and they were there so he they called me he what you