BMG-Lakewood yeshiva and culture 1943 HaRav Aaron Kotler zatzal - World Torah Center

welcome right behind me is the famous world yeshiva base meadows devoyah lakewood bmg bash gacha pratis i'm a lakewood this morning and i thought i would take a few minutes to take a little clip of where this great yeshiva started back in 1943-44 with aaron ravarin cutlass who brought together students i believe 12 to 13 students first they were in white plains new york he came to new york was saved through japan san francisco in 1941 basic time he came to new york and then he opened the yeshiva here in 4344. probably one can say hundreds of thousands of talbidim came out of this fine institution which goes from there the corner entire block so over there their new building being over there you see it over there the new building based magic before the israel harry barron hall but the amazing thing of this yeshiva is how it brings together the greatness of jewish scholarship of europe together with modern america in a way that created literally in this city over a hundred thousand orthodox from jews torah jews benedito jews recently in the last probably ten fifteen twenty years or so there's been an influx of hasidim belgium kleisenberg in the outlying neighborhoods jackson toms river lakewood and i think it's important to give credit where credit is due myself truth be said as a student i wouldn't go anywhere near lakewood the issues that i wrote about and it's been spoken about the differences between the previous yitzhak of lubavitch and byron cutler led to an uncomfortable feeling by both students of both yeshivas and both movements but now 70 plus years later it's all over it's finished and one needs to realize the opportunity that god gave to the world of tita to be able to put up an institution which was just a fledgling institution in 1943-44 44 when baron started this institution and now has become a bastion of jewish scholarship and leadership worldwide is it a is is a feat that needs to be recognized and is tremendous anyone who denies that is a fool or a liar one more point the purpose of any yeshiva and any movement torah movement is to plant tata for the future and amongst the teachers of bmg were some that were very mushy oriented and it's interesting you know you you would think that the focus here was taylor taylor tater you know meshiach okay will come when he comes but nevertheless in the basement while the couplers robbie cutler and set up schneider the next receiver she was the couplers and the staff was an individual leftover not to help them for legal forget his name now who emphasized mashiach so let's not forget that when mashiach comes and is coming right away this entire beautiful building a structure an institution takes up a block and is a symbol of world learning of theta will go to irish lion we need to yearn for this we need to dive in for this we need to do mice and to even behold him and we need to reach out to another year to learn another word of taylor to do another mitzvah that helped another year to abbasis so i just wanted to share a summer day the 13th of others today 2022. no one's around yeshiva isn't paying us money as they call vacation time if there is such a thing as vacation it reminds me of a story of nissan mangal the baba shirov and talmud author of swarm was sent by the rebbe here hala might took his 1957 or 58 to go in and and talk to to the bahamas or whatever and basically the basement was empty i think was a shot at abanki told me this and there were only two people in the basement there shabarin and they were learning with each other a sight to be seen like all night you know so the point is that it's important to recognize and give credit where credit's due and for every year to know that we need to help another yeat in learning and diverting and everything may i help you be serious