Meaningful Interviews: Rabbi Meir Plotkin #3

welcome to meaningful interviews part number three with rebar plotkin he's been fascinating us by sharing his experiences at yeshiva teruvadas and how he came to the babbage please continue okay what now i i came so i came to this out i came to the zou and it was a cannot dictionary much much much better than december 70. it was a different album i don't know what to say in summer sunday the only thing that had a seven sentence it was uh but it was a really connected shiva and i came into shiva full force but where did you go to bedford and dean no no no no in montreal i came to myself oh oh you you left her the bass and you went to montreal yeah gashmoto pushed me and i went to start the look with him and i saw that tournament that dissolved bedford didn't have a zom i'd have to learn 770. that wasn't the place for me i know okay okay so you came to montreal it was great continued you want to know what what happened how i came to i kept i came to learn the barbecue i was dreaming with a green tomato i didn't know cities uh i'll just mention adam for two minutes won't take more which i didn't really understand then and i heard a word from the writer that he kept on saying something i'm nice about a word which i didn't even know what it is then when i found what it was so it bothered me tanya i don't understand so what am i supposed to do when the talk of hitachi so a 15 year old guy sat down and wrote a letter to the rabbit the russian kurdish and the member answered me a long letter and this letter is printed in the back of a could you see because i don't know which way like a long letter and and uh he explained to me explain me why i should say he doesn't even if you don't understand it you should also still say it and then at the end he wrote over there that main thing is don't ask don't always have to ask questions if something which you don't understand now it doesn't have to stop you from doing it eventually you will understand basically like that a long letter a young kid if 15 years old couldn't i was a greek tomato and a whole lady wrote it to me and i started saying she does every day i don't i don't i don't want to take too much time over there i can tell you a few more about it but it's not now it's not that time i came to montreal i came to montreal i was the youngest one who learned from 7 30 in the morning till 9 30 at night nobody learned it they were young the guys looked at my age maybe a year younger but they didn't live for 7 30 tomorrow until 9 30 at night not only we learned tonight here at night before she we learned a lot a lot and it was nice there were nights that i didn't go home to sleep i was up in yeshiva the whole night broken today don't know what it means to sleep at night on a bench i stepped on on a bench many times not five ten or twenty thirty many times i slept on a bench over there and my mother got used to it that mayor kid didn't come home the first time she called that behind her with a terrible news now behind don't make it and she came in and hey make it didn't come home she said where was he what do you mean where he was wasn't he shipping so what was he doing there what can you do when you ship it that's you know we had central air there was holes in all the walls so we had central air central here anyway she said what's happening milan tighter i said around the time the kid was floating the whole night and you shiver very tired you're coming to explain it to complain to me she said ah not behind the buttock thinking he can't do business with you that's the last time she was used to it that's all over there shabbos we dive in i was there 7 30. okay maybe it was a year or two later when i was into it over there those years 7 30 i never came home 7 30 bucks no i think it was eight o'clock i don't remember 7 30 8 o'clock every shop i never came home not a word to vote in between them not a word it is not 770 there was nothing what to do there learn cities i know if i had a piece of misogyny so i had a piece of design or something home eventually over there i never came home before three o'clock yeah there was always a whole bunch of books who came with me who came together with me to read my parents house and i had very good years we learned a lot we forbranged a lot the ultrabook and with the younger broken especially tac opinion more than anybody else pinacore court became an old like an older brother to me and um i got a belt i got from montreal you know and uh and just it i i went one of the things and now there's a lot of things about me which i don't know and i can't explain i i use i i i can't really explain and i don't know and i'll never know because i wasn't supposed to know and they made everything to know that i won't know so i don't know we had a spear misspear's name was greenberg i have to go into detail even though that my dolphin doesn't know this doesn't i like it because i owe him more than anybody else and i understand zero all i know for 100 but no proof whatsoever that designed this because it doesn't make sense a green tomato comes in to learn a new shiver he knew my parents you know where the house i came from i'm not about you and review all that stuff over there we've gone through it over there okay uh he spent more time with me than with anybody else i can't go into detail and tell too much he didn't want bochum coming into his house he wanted his house off limits if a buck wants to speak a premium something i've said she eaten privately that's a different story i have to say to come to my house he didn't like brockton drains him in this house that's that's he didn't like it he made two exceptions so yeah it was the two of us he was him also we remain close friends till today i became part of this house i became part of his family he told me things that he didn't tell anybody else and i'm not going to do it the truth of the matter is i will say this and i'll give you i'll give you an example and i'll mention this whatever why can't i mention names okay and after all there were ten years ago i don't know long ago i'm sitting schmidt maple street show i still remember where it was and then a close hobby you only only go to montreal a year or two that's all but we remained close from over there but really i know that close happy it says that motlberkovich used to be the house in the 770 mother says to me may i want you to know account of you i want to leave you shiva i just want to pick myself and leave i looked in the guy's nuts we would shiver with the best of friends i said what are you shaking so no i didn't my kitty shut even i said what are you talking about it says i learned when you came to ship was my second year in yeshiva and greenless never called me over for a minute to speak to me and i learned in pittsburgh with label turk with some because with the whole guy in pittsburgh for a year or two before that i went to two weeks they ain't even learned believe me when i come to madrid and not a minute he spent respect with me and here a green tomato comes to lavage who didn't spend everything he would call me over crusader and just talk and talk and talk and talk i thought you know you know mutton you're 100 right i don't know why and nobody really knows the charges that i had with him nobody knows i'm the only one who knows he told me think that he didn't tell anybody else and i'm not gonna repeat it okay some things he gave me for sure to repeat even showed me two things that in the south that i had to shake his hands that i'll never say a word what you're gonna see now nobody in the world has seen this till today and nobody's gonna see or just give me hunger i'm just i'm gonna make it short and i owe him a lot i got fit in my belt i spent time with him more than anybody else okay and this had a big big sharkness with me so yeah i got something so funny so far you haven't said it i learned a year ago i don't know no one knows what you're talking about what you're not giving us any details you're just telling us you had a childhood for epic green glass and you didn't tell and you didn't tell us give me a look this is an interview with me and i don't have to give really details everything you said you know you know what you want to detail so i'll tell you what detail i'll tell you i didn't need to what means what means rabbi greengrass and when you hear the story then you'll understand who robert grimlock was besides that twice in the big five brainians and one of these times when the rebbe said it so he was standing he didn't sit we were standing with the book he was standing behind me this i'm saying for like a joke and when i was bent over so you know you have like a fleagle he's hanging out he went ahead with his fists he gave me a bang in my over there i thought stars give us his alum for days later i couldn't move my back i had such pain so he comes over to me and he shivers me was casey van gaal to you he says you'll never guess we said yeah tell me why what happened something you i said there was a i said at the ranged person they're never told to sell high because he's the macomber from montreal she gave me a whack in my back over there my they tell me i went to the maker they told me it's black and blue over there and i can't move my black he says to me you know i think we should go to psychiatry you need you need help over there okay yeah i told you i should go to psychiatrists i can't move my back i should go to the psychiatrist that's one thing but i'll tell you what what means is conscious to the level and you'll understand what means i'm a cushion to the rabbit and i want to see to mention one other person in the globe who could do what i saw with my own eyes and i'll tell you when it happened okay go ahead which 200 years from the southwest and was the shabbos after that like we stood we stood we went to new york and we stood over sharpies it was shabbos the finish it was after midfield yeah you know when the dishwas you know the web is good okay and i was standing in in 70 over there all of a sudden the weapons door opens and you also weinberg i didn't know you're surrounded the rubber window didn't go home yet some people are waiting outside whatever goes home then they're going to walk sing i don't sing a need i don't know what but i was thinking someone said the door opens we also wind with the famous strawberry warbling opens the door and he looks through and he sees me he calls me over if you have his doors don't say well i got men over lose wolf i don't know that ever wants him now and he closes the door i don't know where he is after fred bengan give us a should be going like now 770 was built first year of 770. so i go inside on the sidewalk he's not there i go upstairs in the south he's also not there i go and i says in the show he's sitting in it and laughing making jokes in the hair now listen what happened yeah i go over to him and i give my tapping tissue i told him and i i spoke to him in english i'll say it in english i said yo sir weinberg now he's one of the the nine that came to montreal together with him in 1941 they wouldn't ship it together they came together montreal they were like brothers that's something he didn't know him i said you're so weird you're you're you're so wine because now that you hear this and he told me the number wants you now when you hit us now he's waiting for you so what is it supposed to do rabbi dolphin supposed to walk up the stairs as fast as he could and go into the rabbit's room wouldn't you do that anybody would do it yeah he cracked up on the spot on the spot he cracked up mentally and i see in his eyes that he cracked up and oh my god he has to go down into the neighbor's room so i told him the bobby duff gangsta the river barter and he's looking to me he's spaced out so i took him like you take a small kid listen good rabbit dolphin this you've never heard your whole life you want to know about the big big things we saw i'll tell you who rabbi greenville was and i had to we i wasn't going to go another go with an elevator there's a lot of stairs you know a lot of stairs so i i was leading him over there and he was spaced over like they could take a little kid he was holding up to my hand and i'm looking up the stairs and i take him to the rabbit's room yeah and when samuel went there and i told it to vote get the clap out from here knock on the door ass was saying so my plea order nobody in that room she looks at me he's spaced out trying to knock on the door quietly he also might go up his own door just why we knew me personally he knocked me the door and i made the also that he is based out and he went into that room rabbi dolphin showed me a hustle on the globe it's going to crack up the way he cracked up that was his discussion [Music] i can't describe it i don't know if i describe it it's going to be two three hours this whole life the gospels in rukhnius was one thing and when it came gimmel thomas a whole bunch of things i saw three o'clock yeah and i and i have to drive with my family to a funeral the next day and next day that night i mean i had to leave i said okay i'm leaving i have a mushroom i have to be in i have to drive to new york it's seven hours to get to new york over there somebody came over and said what's going to be with green glass oh i forgot about him oh first thing i went throughout the handle it's true he's my father-in-law i knocked on the door and uh he opened the door ich bass i know okay no take care of it you're a big man you can take care of yourself that's it i told me gonna take a doctor you should give him a needle because he's going to need it and that's what happened and he cracked up after gilman thomas he didn't walk out of his house he didn't come to davening he didn't come to the ship he didn't talk to anybody he didn't learn he didn't need properly he cracked felt complete okay that's enough with robert greenless he's enough rabbi dolphin i had to take him out of the house eventually i took him out of the house oh did he find me another and later i just i'm gonna make the kids it's not the gay of the whole ladies i i was fighting it till the end finding it to the end and the rabbit didn't want i should go and shoot he didn't want he wanted or she go into business and that's all and when it came at the end it was in new york and i'll do it neighbor goldman groener told me nobody ever got such an answer and i did it i had all the guts in the world i i couldn't take it that i'm not going to go on schles and i wrote i wrote to there to the rabbit that i feel that the rabbit really wants i should go to schnitzel and he wrote the answer and with this we're going to finish everything that's all he wrote i saw that settler because i was in new york mayan zoi how do you get that and he made a question mark one and he made a stack of question mark two he made a third question mark three hello and he underlined that i wrote bishonisi and i wrote you twice vishilashti and he underlined three times don't write me anymore about this because i'm not going to answer you do what i told you to do does that answer your question i went into business yes okay but my question is trying to keep it busy he started keeping me busy there was no schlockum so he started keeping me busy which is that okay okay but one second now one second what year did you get married good girl given next week in excellence okay how how um the kitzer how did you how did you meet your wife what i'm saying okay it's bothering dr dr uh rabbi dolphin how did robert handle pick mayor plotkin four years older savior to make it very very short i'm very very sure because rabbi dolph and other ones think that since robert you have to realize that robert handel wasn't voted in to be a love a be handled in a year or two before the phoenix edible was nostalgic was told to come in with another two people from the barbecue community who in here is not important to come together they're going to have your hedis with their feeding grab and nobody had a clue understand what does the number one sorry all these three people picked themselves up and they went to new york and then affirmative makes a statement that the babaji community is going to grow in the near future there's going to be others coming in over there in montreal you became when rapper handle heard these words he started to cry and getting emotional and he said to the rabbit brother i'm ready to go mr starfish for you but i'm not alone it's not me see rabbi dolphin knows him that he was a big big role for everything but he doesn't know that the rosh hashema in yeshiva in poland after being five six seven years in the shiva told him that he should start you don't have to come to neglect so for a year or two your secando was the biggest i've been he was there 7 30 by the cities and he never stopped dominating till three in the afternoon for two years he did that he was the biggest of them and he was a choice by the phoenix so besides being in this big robbie was a big hostage and his discussion rabbit was bleeding he became dog you know what he wanted yeah when it came to the second that that i asked him tell me what are you looking for you're looking for a big thomas hawking you didn't get it to me you're looking for a big orbit you didn't get it to me i wasn't not my audience i had a good head and i i'm not gonna i'm not gonna make myself without nothing over there so you know by me number one that i'm looking for should be screwed on right by me that's the most important thing and he loved me i was in montreal i was really unofficially part of the family and that's what that that's what he wanted that's what he wanted very nice and you have to show me and show you i have to know that i did something else but he wants to dolphin that he wasn't the only one robbie and panda wasn't on the only one that i had a whole list among the lists were the richest people in lubavitch on the globe and everything and i went as much as that was my akitas i wasn't planning to read about the there shmuelu forced me i should write in and speak to david first of their asking i spoke to dobby dobby thomas you're asking i told him i wanted to send to everything that donald told me i should went into the ribbon and robert told me if he is i should look into a shoulder and i gave the rabbit the list and he didn't do anything i saw that i bet you pick up the name not me you know what happened rabbi dolphin he picked out the name does that answer your question you have more questions now i want to i want to just to conclude with uh the following that you once told me and i want to just uh i want people to hear it you knew well you told me yes i'd like you to tell us about if shmuel's almanov because the laboratory alum has virtually no idea who he was um and it's a real shame because my understanding and my research shows that he was a casual and a a very close and basarav and i'd like to hear from someone who knew him well uh to share a little bit about him would you do that for us please all right just mentioned that it was close to based on so his son he had one son of one dog anyway suddenly to montreal nephew with this corona a little later in edge soul he passed away i was very close with him in yeshiva and uh his name was jose yes his montreal became very close and even after he got married he came once with his family i was still above her to study and you stood at my parents house for i don't know a few months they had already a baby i was very very close to him then he asked me a favor a personal favor it's going to be good for you too now he lived very far he lived instead of living on a crown of montgomery in a normal street he lived in schwarzland about a 50-minute walk towards ben for was also there and i didn't feel like we're going over there was the winter also but maybe if you just kissed him go in december schleps had 50 20 minutes to the schwarzenegger i don't need it i could be dormitory i don't need it for his mayor my father is full of straighter he's overflowing and his mouth is closed tight so uh i said oh that's the difference anyway so before i go into it i want to explain to you you should at least know who he was like that over there there was twice a year this i didn't even know about it twice a year that the fear that could have been didn't want anybody upstairs where he lived on the second floor of december 70 anyone in there besides his immediate family that means his two daughters his two son-in-laws and his grandson before besides that nobody when the bench chronicles the door was cl the door was closed but was not locked nobody had permission to go in second time was uh before call the edinburgh when he when he benched your family before young dipper then the door was locked when he finished the now you're going to ask me a shia land don't everybody there's a picture of the rabbit sitting over there yeah that's an illegal picture which the rabbit did he wasn't the rabbit then he was the ramash and it was the last year top shin yod and it was the last night of hanukkah and if you look at zoice hanukkil so you fought you'll see that is that that it's already tavis so it's a little bit more than a month before the stalkers and then he called in i don't say the name so nobody's busy then he called and you go in they say you stand by the door with a camera no flash and when i can tell you you go in you do it fast you take a picture and you get all this as fast i know he could ask you and ask the question nobody was there behind me through there eddie though keeping the door was locked it was only the family and then we finished with his family everybody went out of his room and you were told to open the door it was locked and he opened it up and there was one person standing by the door not the victim of and he went in closed the door and then we benched him yes but but didn't you tell me i got a lot of stories from him yes not everything i'm gonna wait wait wait a minute i i hear you but wait a minute let me just ask something did you tell me that absmus ahmad was the one that that ever asked right but what gave the picture to damash yeah maybe medicare but i don't look i'm not learning yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah but what's the difference between hanukkah and out of your tipper i'm not following the difference you know that's how it was your last affiliate could happen that's how it was you have difficulties i have a lot of no no no no no no no i'm asking technically what was the difference that kanika the door was open unlocked the door would be locked it's locked the door was open that's all you can ask another question i'll ask the question on your question why did you do a tough where nobody can go so you were invited to his house it was in the winter and you went to the pool yes there is a story that i that i i went ahead and i publicized it it was pre and and it was printed they wrote a shape over there uh what's it called i've got what it's called over there the whole biography of adopted a bit and uh anyway there's a story i just i could not have not made you want to publish i should be published because you know a lot of times i give over stories and they screw it up anyway he was the waiter when they never got married he was the weight of the head table where they was he was sitting the phoenix rabbit with the horse and the our rapper and the father an important person comes in to the to hearing make sure you bring your miniatures in them down you should give them it is the way you have to take care of the bank and the sebastian thousand jews five minutes it will stop in five minutes finish please okay i'll tell you over there because it was printed and they screwed it up anyway remember shapiro came in the one who made the daffodil made the favorites and the rabbit told the phoenix ever told them that so so the reason i told the story is because the babies are very good at screwing up things there was once a shabbos ticket for brengan i don't remember the years and i was there and rather spoke alongside then he stopped talking and he said by my hostness gervais the blinder of the mayor shapiro and he gave in his safer ornament he speaks the same indian and he gave me his safer for a president or dorsey so in his safety he he speaks the same indian so the hebrew went ahead give him credit they went through the rebels library just notifying the law allowance long time ago i found the cipher so they went in and they printed his writing that he's writing he's giving this for the uh a present and he writes titles on on on the question that it's unbelievable and he printed this in in there yeah so i went ahead i made a telephone call to the editor i told i went i told him i i left the message to the editor of rahabad that i'm giving you 30 minutes to call me back and tell me you know the base machine wasn't there was clock anyway so i asked him i asked the stupid question how does mae shapiro come to give these big things to somebody he was invited to already in order to get into your shipment you have to know there's adapter on me four hundred dolphin words for word balpair and the boyfriend the one who tested was my debbie in montreal pinterest so how does he go ahead he wasn't responsible learning how does it go righteous things unbelievable things are nice about him she's like tucker don't know so let me tell you a story and that's what i heard from schmo that fear to get transitioned to mayor shapiro he told the blind started talking and talking and talking and talking and me and then says i couldn't put my nose in because i was a booker you know i i can't put my nose in but i was i went a little closer and i hear the textures he was going there and he was sitting there t concentrating over there and he uh turns to the river and he says to the philippines that's what it says is printed and crocodiles i want you also to know so the next day he came to the hotel with a host and then whether the bride and groom the host and the calder was staying salmonella had to be ashamed so he had a table against the table on the corridor so he came along with a safe and he says he wants to go into the house to speak with him alerting so he came says hold it hold it she went in and the other said you can come in she came in he was there for me for an hour and an hour and a half that's when he gave him to save her and that's when he wrote these things over there when he came out of my labor i never saw such a person in my life such a deepness just a claw kite such a bikinis and he's in the 20s that i've never seen in my life yesterday mayor this was very very uh important for the sake of jewish history khabar history family and i take this time to wish you that from here on you should only have simchrist and the greatest it will be that we'll see moshiach no without questions without doubts it will be clear to everyone and um and we hope that uh very soon we will have another opportunity to interview you again thank you very much