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hi everyone my name is mort kessler
i was born and raised in brooklyn i had
a very secular upraising aside from
being in true for my own bar mitzvah
until
recent years i never went to a show of
my own accord for purposes of praying
i thought well
i'm going to meet this religious
ultra-orthodox
straight-laced
judgmental man who was going to look
down my nose upon me because i was not
the least bit religious
and that he'd probably have little
patience with me and my secularism
and when the first time we met we talked
torah for about an hour or two
and
then we stayed and chatted for another
another couple of hours after that and
we very soon became very fast friends
uh i've got to tell you
i'm still very shook up about what
happened to him it's it's just
unbelievable
he would make me think
noah and i together have gone through
practically all the postures
he would elicit from me
the kinds of things that i never thought
about in my life
things that had considerable emotional
impact on me
the most important thing that i saw for
my father is you think you're always
giving to others you're the one that oh
i have to go make this phone call i'm
gonna have to prepare and i have to give
and i'm gonna always being on the
teaching side bottom line is it's a
two-way street you both gain you both
grow you both come better
all i can say was he
he was a good man and
i i miss him very dearly
you