Rabbi Akiva Wagner - Rosh Yeshiva Chabad Toronto - Cared for every student - Rabbi Chaim Dalfin

this is a tribute to the nashama of the Aqib Wagner I knew Robert Wagner I could say superficially I didn't know him intimately very very well I am older than him but but not smarter than him not not having more tighter knowledge than him by sight I saw the um the levia the funeral seemed to be there were a few thousand people there was packed not just men I saw women and yes he comes from a large family the shakhat family his wife is a daughter of the the lapakovsky family and there's a lot of family members but nevertheless many students came out students from way back probably had the Yeshiva 30 years and many students came out and yesterday someone came over to me said I want to tell you a story I have a brother who's modern today he's a modern what they call a modern laborator and he he enjoys learning and he says the reason why he enjoys learning because is because Wagner gave me a schmuck in learning gave me enjoyment and pleasure and Delight to learn a piece of gamara with Rashi entices and that carries him with his modernity regardless Rabbi Wagner is as we say again there's the Zelda Smith he has the same approach like this greater family and his roshishiva was made of Shiva as well and him I could say I know better the the Abba sauteeda and the the hasidish kite by these individuals and in this case Wagner was palpable another someone else told me that I mean Wagner it wasn't just a Russia Shiva to teach you and inspire you he took the and he worked with you and he worked with you with your nephews not just an officially kiss your animal drive not just your Godly Drive the tivist indulgences the Raging Bull that's inside every one of us was able to take the buffer the students and and talk with him about it and hear him out and really love him excuse me I really love him there's so much more you can say about this individual but I think this sums up this individual he came he was invited to borrow Park a few times to fabrang in our basement and I saw again the the kite you know the uninterest engagements and material matter really you could see just the way he carried himself and the way he spoke this person was about one thing serving David and I'm not I'm not I'm not from those that make people into Saints and Sadiq him and you know we we will have Yates and all of that but this is someone who worked on himself and he transmitted to tell me them to students Harvey he fulfilled the dictum that says in Perkins of making many students such students like The Devil explains that will teach and make other students he established data Davis Generations foreign ers family and friends and to Claus to all of khabab that came out to give their final respects to this individual and now what's important is to support this ishiva okay it's all nice and well all these words but the bottom line is the Yeshiva needs funds and money to continue and to grow to have double the amount of students well Davis immediately who he loved so much and spoke about so much as a reality that it will bring the Trias amazing the resurrection of the Dead foreign