Part 1

so i want to say it's philip that and some of the manuals is written arena at this time should come through and that will be good kaelin for that say oh man okay i'd like to begin with a little family background of yourself i understand that you come from i know that when you came to america you lived in borough park if you could talk a little bit about that i'd appreciate it all right yeshua dove hakone was the chief tanoshpitzin in galicia he was a belzer hosset and given joshua the roswell rebel is given uh oh english english uh the people who wanted him very much to be his hosted and they they would spend long friday night schmidt see this that's what they called it and my barbie elaire shawn was also from belzer hasidim and her father the prime joseph was a balshakris and bell's so he made a number of beautiful melodies for youth and they still know him in on in bells and when i came to the ocean line to look up at the big shul first they looked at me i was dressed in business clothes but what are you doing over here and then i started to talk to them in their kind of easter egg and all of a sudden they were very happy to show me around when i started to sing something and then they said oh this this one we use for for a hack office and this and that and so i was in yeah so that's that side of the family the other side of the family was in jolkeville that's the other side meaning you're my mother your mother's side was in jealousy is a town where the second printing of the tanya took place yes and i have a copy of that here of the actual tanya yeah and that has the old iguala sachuva which i have scanned and can give you a a file with that okay so now we continue these were also bills of hasidim and on the myzeda side was the son of ramosa yagit who was a great london and wrote the master shekel and even and dayonim are looking to get copies of that book so he was he was great so that's my family my father didn't want to be that kind of a hot person hossett but he was in ratsford during the uh first world war when the belzova was there it would be yeshua david and so on so many family stories about that he lived in vienna we lived in vienna and i grew up there until 1938 and when we had to make our way but in vienna was where the river would come to perka store and that's how i got hold of a german translation of that letter that i was mentioning to you before where the rebel was writing for people in which way could german jewish intellectuals gain something out of habad and he wrote that amazing letter so then uh that's 1938. yeah i came to belgium and there i met some people that would be a very long and beautiful story who they were there uh mashpiyya was a talmud of seals yeah he was the father right so and they their line was not pure la bavish it was more accomplished yeah and so on but these young people impressed me greatly because i too had questions about kriyasamese just the way people were talking about ghanaian agenda was made me feel that this is nonsense how old were you at the time i was about 15 at that time now you learned to the hater until then you learned to hate them no no before that i went to gymnasium yeah in the morning and and to yeshiva an ingary yeshua in the afternoon so i had both sides the gymnasium was uh labor zionist and i would go shop this afternoon early to breed belu which is sort of chamerza here dance the horror there and for charlottesville so i had this big thing and you were you were a good talent when you in learning you enjoyed learning then when you were in in in the in it always was what it was the what so for instance when someone put the messily's shoulder in my hand and he said yes she is you know how wonderful that is and that there is a pathway to go from being careful to being zealous about things to being pure until he could even reach such a thing as holy spirit kurdish that was an amazing thing but these people are also learning tanya but they didn't let me into the sheer they were drinking tanya yeah they were learning tanya these people in belgium be talking about that because their teacher that was the talmud of rafael so he was a masjid at the yeshiva in haida it was a regular literature yeshiva he was a masjid from this madrid but he also had the sheer siddhas tanya and the people would make fun of him and they would say um the last chanters because uh the galaxy them weren't too happy that people should learn tanya there was always that kind of tension so continue please so this was uh in belgium from there yeah so what year did you come to america not so fast that's so fast uh so they didn't let you into the time yeah when you were 15 or 16 at the time so i hid out in the in the bathroom next door to be able to listen in someone had to go to the bathroom and they gave me a maskante because they wanted me to be really serious first with the missiles you're showing you know you don't let everybody in right and so since the longing that was in me was very great and i would sneak it on you off the shelf and try and learn myself and member of this capital burden talks about the king who takes the poor man oh yeah i fell in love with the rabbi at that point it was a remarkable remarkable words so then uh and the capacity that everybody could be available in my control me this color what i can let in what i cannot let into my mind this was wonderful but the germans bombed and we had to flee and i was in the vishy side paul hashem so that the germans didn't take us we were in two concentration camps for refugees we came out and i was in marshay and that marseille i first met uh schneiderson who came in one shot this afternoon and my yiddish was always yeah and here he sits down with his a couple of you know like that used to wear too and one leg under he was a one of his legs wasn't working well under his and he started to say sing a [ __ ] which i still remember and and i still remember how he said it and i hung on every word a moment a mimer it was a memo of the of the liquid yeah i walked him to his hotel and asked them we are bokram here and we have we don't have anyone to learn with us and he got us um zilberstein uh jaime yes