Oorahthon '23: Kumzitz & Stories 4

so welcome back to the urathon I'd like to introduce now a very special individual who Ura switched him from public school to Yeshiva and he's no other than Benson Cramer [Applause] as you Mike hi Benson so uh the night is running off running out it's almost morning why don't you introduce yourself my name is Benson Cramer um I was um I started in public school not knowing much about Judaism and through Aura I figured out um I figured out how it was to be religious and everything they taught me everything they sent me to Yeshiva and here I am today wow so what age what age did you start your journey kind of with aura so I started when I was about nine years old that was third grade I went to their summer camp for the first time I knew nothing I didn't really know I knew the olive Bass But like I didn't know how to read Hebrew right Hebrew nothing oh wow and um so I guess you went to the zone to the camp yeah right so in the zone you got introduced to how did it start like so in juniors and like the smaller divisions they have a lot of like davening programs and a lot of incentive programs to learn and like just do basic learning and they set you up with a tour mate and you learn whatever level what was your tour mates at the time so at the time I had like many tour mates here and there um but like eventually I shuffled through tour mates and there were some big ones that really like impacted me my tourmate right now is revs right over there no way it reps yeah we love you right yeah uh reps rev's a great guy reps is one of my reviews yes yeah he taught me how to you know [Music] yeah rev's the guy raps is the ribs all right and then and then going forward you you were in Camp and then and then they so as I went up into the program um through Teen Zone and I got in to discover you after I finished high school and over there they helped finance my Israel study program and I went to yesterday Live and I learned a lot of Torah there and I learned how to rikimara and and now I'm here like after after Israel and I can actually like learn gemara by myself with like an artist [Music] so you'll finish your program in in ETC and right now whether you're pursuing where you're heading so I'm pursuing a college degree and then I'm looking to go back but I always have my tour mate here and I'm always affiliated with the Zone I come to and from Lakewood for Shabbos I'm I'm very into uh what the zone does and everything that it does and it's great wow Benson wow amazing thank you so much for sharing are there many individuals like Benson that are looking for meaning looking to grow and Ur is giving them that chance [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] I lay with those [Music] flowers [Music] making them noise [Music] hey boys [Music] at home [Music] me is no I shall know I live push on oh yes [Music] it is foreign [Music] I look at myself [Music] foreign [Music] let's sing together [Music] better videos [Music] in about [Music] children [Music] thank you [Music] we have so many amazing kids in aura Hashem switching to Toyota [Music] foreign [Music] God yeah [Music] happier [Music] with them [Music] [Applause] [Music] either [Music] foreign [Music] ah [Music] Hashem I share I said it is [Music] I said [Music] it is [Music] of ourselves [Music] again [Music] the best [Music] of them died [Music] the best the chance deserve so Toyota is better than guilt right but we need guilt to be able to support Ura so we can be able to learn [Music] foreign