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HaRav Mordechai Altein & Bronx Rabbanim
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The Rebbe Raayatz called Rabbi Altein a Pnimi - Posek & Chasidishe Yid - Warmth - Rabbi Jacobson's son-in-law
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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