Mint Media Presents: The Life and Legacy of Rav Dov Kreiswirth ZT"L - Rosh HaYeshiva - Toras Chaim

was born in eretz israel in 1944 to refraim and rabbits and sarah chrisworth the daughter of the menaal rookhni of the slobodki yeshiva the teresa of ram rebevram gurdzinski in 1947 refraim kraisworth was appointed the rosh shiva of base madrid latiro and moved with his family to chicago in 1953 rivdev's family moved to antwerp where afghan became the rav and of based in of antwerp belgium at the tender age of 11 this young american boy was sent by his father to learn at the fairest sean under michel yehuda lefkovitz in benebrach which at the time was farm lands a far stretch from the american life he was used to during this time rivdev lived at the home of refrain zadzal cementing a warm relationship with refraim and the stifler a relationship that made a lifelong impact on revduf after of dave's bar mitzvah in antwerp he went to learn in the gateshead yeshiva at age 15 rivdev returned to eretz israel learning first pair of maisha shmuel shapiro moving on to learn by rishmulizovsky and panovich and reberyl salve chicken brisk after his time in eretz israel rivdev moved to the united states first learning by refutner and rivpaller eventually marrying leia lifer the daughter of the pittsburgh area and settling in lakewood for the last 50 years of his life rivdivin has rabbits and built a home on tehran the rabbitson standing behind all of her husband's endeavors backing his growth in limura terran emulating the great approach of his father with the establishment of yeshiva tereshkaim the rabbits and filled the role of aimha yeshiva caring for each and every one of the bachrim with love and care creating an environment where every bakr feels a sense of home and belonging rivdov left an indelible impression on all who knew him and his impact on the yeshiva his rebellion his bakram and family and lakewood community is everlasting [Music] even though when you sat with him you felt that you're speaking to uh he's a nevis his shiftless was in such a gross madrigal he's a multifaceted personality based on his rich yikes of where he came from what he had seen in his lifetime and that richness is what he was able to give over anyone that would meet him the passion he had for mitzvahs for toyota for long day it was a special experience to watch him and that's the years and the chavis amitsu that he had he had in the same breath the farm kite and the warmth from the polisher sidish aside from the family from ubc and from the pittsburgh schwere and in the same breath as here's a mitzvous that he had was something that licked in his bones he was a world of europe a world of tyra a world of facebook anybody that he was around was always mishabbed him tremendously because of his godless entire and hesed and where he came from and who he was he's very honest and he was very early everything had to be done with allah he was a very straight person he learned to suggest with such an endless guy that there was no stone left unturned everything had to be understood at the end of the day a hundred percent his davening was palpable you could see the branch line in front of him it left such an everlasting rush on me the amuno and the hizikin fila and not getting overwhelmed with the billable of everything going on and keeping focus on who's running the world and who's in charge seeing that by him on a day-to-day basis was always something very special [Music] it's amazing that you had a rashiva who learned by guideline but his life was his father his life was his father anything you asked and was always my father would say like this and my father would take that his father was a huge personality and a giant and learning and big bulkhesed and his father he had a presence and it had tremendous influence on him being the son of his father he understood that was partial that go hand in hand and he together with a few other in the light built what they call the karen akased [Music] he opened up he started coil arrows he had cool shishi's at kershaw boston whatever programmable project he had ultimately was another way to make it better and easier for people to live it wasn't specifically learned retire but it definitely was interested in seeing to it that the lamellae tiger can continue as long as possible his mind was always not on himself he was always thinking about what kind of templates awaited that you saw it when you dealt with him 50 years of giving and giving and giving this was his whole life his life was tauren has said it wasn't a project for him it was his matias and together with his shotif his rabbitson the home was just a home of complete selflessness to do for others mashferen shriga raised a home of children who are lying they torah who are yereshmaem who have families of their own there was so much that we learned from them [Applause] besides everything else that he was doing here in lakewood dave has yeshiva that he started in erity israel and he installed his nephew as the reshishiva but he was officially reshiva so he would go there a few times a year he said she room for them he said shmooze them for them he would try to be there whenever he can ram and young rashid was involved in every detail in setting up the yeshiva in choosing the staff for the yeshiva and in the first few years i knew every single bokeh yeshiva what was happening with the baja where he was holding in rohnias kashmir's when he came you could see that he just it was he was in his natural habitat being in yeshiva being united to sterile being where he always wanted to be out to greet him they would sing they would dance it was a yanta shiva when he was there [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the experiences that he was able to have with the tamidam traveling with them to measure or spending shabbasan with them there was a highlight for the tamidim and that was the highlight of the rush of shiva that's what given him the greatest the greatest nagas he was building us up as human beings as people as mentioned to be good husbands with good fathers to raise our own good children this tiger from the tamid yeshiva was his mama's life the joy he had seeing the hat slacher and the the way he died in first tamidim the way he cared for his tummy them the way he had inquired one about the other you knew that he was someone that young balila that to meet them were on his mind that were in his heart his greatest love was his bakram and his bachram were his oxygen and that really was what carried him through every single day i never saw him for a minute being with that's when i still made them and the hardest times to know when he went through was schweitzer so when he came back or when he's recuperating in the hospital he's so nervous if you just mention the word about islamic he forgot where he is if you got all you see him that's what the receiver lived for him this is what kept him going his care and concern for a talmud went way beyond the years of the talmud spent in yeshiva it was about once the talmud was atom in his yeshiva he became a talmud wherever he went on to never gave a special and you research in it don't lose it is started with a great vision by the brush yeshiva and it had blossomed and turned into a yeshiva of of true godless altar world is having such an ah wherever they go that's in his house in the corridors that he put in hashem for the help of absalom a dear friend of the yeshiva yeshiva to acquire a piece of property in salaam america we ask you the tereshkain family to help fulfill the dream of the shiva's itself and build on his legacy [Music] you