HaRav Mordechai Altein & Bronx Rabbanim

Shalom Aleichem I'd like to share with you a few words about the venerable closet that I read that Martha Dave Alton all of a sudden appear Stan I'm gimel kislev the Krait knishmas sorry I'll share some things that he told me himself and that I was privy to seeing with my own eyes and hearing with my own ears Boracay Alton was Ashley of the Ribera yachts and our ever he was a yeet who was a town with Holcomb awesome a major Talmud Hawken for example when he would come from time to time from the Bronx where he lived and established the Shiva effect minim as requested by the Frieda Cadabra in 1945 for he was his father all was review Sol Jacobson the famous Gossett who established the Babbage Chabad Lubavitch in America amongst other custom in the 1920s and 30s and later in the 40s helped rubber the fleet the cadet cetera so that was his father-in-law he married Rahul devasher at the old time married ruffled of Asha Jacobsen the the daughter of rabbi Jacobsen so from time to time he would come to Crown Heights with Shabbos and he stayed with his shroud with his father on with his mother-in-law and he had a bag what was in that bag the torso kanaru the Rambam and push it nicholas for him he learned Suki's and shots soukous in Halawa he was a rubber placing another thing about rabbi ole time he was our cousin teacher he taught us on him and his wife toward Calais and talking about when i married in 1984 i and about 20-30 others were in a classroom the children were held in had are tied up a 24 Austin Parkway and I want to tell you that it was so beautiful learning with him and having him teach us because he was so pleasant and he was so receptive and open to our questions now you have to understand that the questions were asked in a way that it put him on the spot many times and they were sensitive issues I in particular was asked by Mike evade him and who were learning with me at the time we were all soundin to asking very sensitive questions but they were embarrassed to ask and I wasn't because it was tiny he would sneak a little mud and you have to know the answers and he answered the questions any and any and any any listen to the questions and there was no embarrassment and I'm so thankful not only I all it was a thankful that he was willing to deal with the sensitive sensitive questions of intimacy etc in Halawa that he addressed his wife I was told by their sons I was Anka's on that label all time that ever paid for her taxis to come from the Bronx to teach the collars so today there are other teachers but in those days I believe they were like the only teachers for the Babbitt's of bookid envelope a batch of girls and that's hosts of of us having children and families and children and grandchildren those goes to them for for setting us in the right way Robin Walton that multiple time was a vitamin yet I recall about 10 to 15 years ago I don't recall what exact year but he was in true for Shabbos he came to be with with with red label so he was there for Shabbos and I recall I think it was once in was tied up where you know it was hard for him to dance because he was an older person at the time he must have been you know 85 to 90 and he stood up and I walked over to him I said good jump t'v and I stood next to him and I stayed with him and he put his hand on me he put his hand around me and it felt so warm so so much love you know Here I am a you know a 45 year old or so young young man compared to his age and I'm not his son and the the hand around me and touching me you know touching my hand touching my body was was was see the ship vodka see the shaba see this you love the good old with Babbage in love of Lubavitch I felt in him when he when he when I was next to him and I think it's important to know this about him and to know that a real gusset has a var kite with a average Ashima kite he would share things shabbos at the kiddush when he came to Borough Park I've written up notes and I've sent it out and if you want you could let me know and I'll send it to you privately through the email by old-time Randy a Shiva athlete mimicked in in in in the Bronx in the Bronx at the time there was 750,000 given he told me this and there were three you see this one of them was called the salon tell you shiva named after that you slow of silent the Musa found out the Muslim the modern-day Muslim movement and when he when he came to the start the achievers the father I brought him over there said to him what are you doing what we need another yeshiva so he turned to them and he said there are only 1500 students in all three of Shiva's and we have 750 thousand geared and living in the Bronx and you're telling me there isn't room for another yeshiva and what I saw is that when this this gentle sensitive Adel a person when I get off deference I more when he had to open up his mouth which leave us from the RAB a him and the a burst ed he opened his mouth and he let them have it and he told me more Dubois where he had encounters with the Father I've burned them but I burned him I'm various issues lapavitsas different things where he stood his ground the open his mouth he wasn't afraid and because you probably could put to them in his pocket or all of them in his pocket and learning he was such a he you know people don't know but this man was a massive Tom Tucker then you look into eager display this at the freezer could i but i blable tucker pointed this out to me once i think it's kind of zine i don't recall and that ever writes to his shred i believe this read and he any the freakin habit and he writes tremendous tremendous accolades and he grabbed a calls him apne me for the free decatur but the cola huset in America an American boy he was born here in America he grew up in the East Side the caller accosted apne me what a compliment what a specialty and it behooves us to look into that letter to see what the Frieda Kadapa writes about Roberta all-time another thing that stands out it's important to mention rabbi opine took over the shoe from the mala the Brian doe bear Levine aka the mala from the group to my look him had a shul I believe in Washington Avenue was somewhere there and in the Bronx and he passed on a 38 later in the late 40s rabbi Alton became the rub of that shoe and the shoe and then he had a yeshiva to a victim in him and he had Bala bottom when the Bronx became a neighborhood where everyone left of 750,000 basically either passed on or deserted the area because it became difficult to live there because of cultural circumstances so they had a fund there I guess on the building's no a nonprofit organization you can't you're not allowed to give the money to an individual has to go to another nonprofit so what do you do so now by Alton gave over the thongs to rabbi Avram Oh cut our skin above romka Karski who's today in new city right New York right next to Muncie and the building that stands there is on the property that the Bala bottom I believe bought because they had a mind to transfer the yeshiva and the shul or either of them to the property in New City because many people in the Bronx moved to Rockland County now I imagine you have Bella bottom you have funds in the in the fund and you have a property that was bought you could develop a shul a building and you could move and have a peaceful life for personal reasons by all time and his wife they moved there too slow with their son here he said you'd smoke all of a shell and because he needed that situation and he gave away the property and everything to rub of romka Karski who bought of hashem built a shul in a school and it's very muchly up there today how many people would do that very few but he was genuine because it wasn't his he was doing it for the cause for the Abel stood others burn for the God Almighty and he realized that he could not be there so he found a younger person to take over and to make it a mahkum a place of holiness and people don't know this or very few people know it and that's why I'm sharing it with you because this is very important to know about the birth code of all time there's so much more to say but time is of the essence Nick it is because the show must have Analia needs to be a good the better for his family for children and grandchildren great-grandchildren if a class at all and I could tell you sitting with him at various for Brennan's in our shul base Menachem at Borough Park when he spoke about Messiah he spoke with such love and such hope I remember another time sitting with him on a bench of front of 770 it was around truest and he was you know older he probably in the 90s and I was sitting with him and he lamented the fact that all of his friends at Mendel Feldman Hershel foger men and their hats and all the Hebda some of which he went together with them to a tusk he was one of the bulletins that went to at Fort Schuyler to learn by the flee to Kadabra and then when the war broke out they returned and he lamented to me he said I Manica valens a new store if hope mr. fairman said I didn't I don't have who to speak to so you understand you say this to be this young guy like you know and I felt the pain I felt his loneliness but together with his loneliness but of Hashem he left an entire generation of seed emulation maíam and and and this is a result of his and his wife's hard work there's so much more to say about him the labor stirred hell for me I shan't help that the birth of Dave full-time should have a listing on Aden and bring taka Bashir the coil mama in actuality together we'll all go to you know shalay me Turkish with our rubber that I say no and we'll celebrate together