Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Levine of Tel Aviv #3- Ezras Torah, R Henkin, Litvish Rabbis - RC Dalfin

He says to me that since there'll be a that will be coming here t so there's a lot of versus your advantages in in in coming with a coming along with them therefore you should stay now then came the war then came you know the war and everybody all the parents my mother said wanted to send me a ticket right they well they freaked out as we say freaked out exactly Yeah. Freak became hysterical. Yeah. Yeah. And all the that were there with me and they wrote either they or their fathers wrote to the Reb that they should come back because then then the Reb g made the and he sent us a telegram. I remember he sent us there's nothing to be scared of and to scare others. God doesn't slumber or sleep. Yeah. Yeah. And and we we should remain there. Now I didn't have a havamina. I was very I was very calm. I didn't have a havina. You didn't have a thought coming back. Coming back because the minute that I got a letter from the re I should come in then I know that nothing's going to happen to me. Right. If I'm coming, nothing's going to happen to me. So I was very calm. Okay. But how'd you deal with your mother? Yeah. Well, that the the well the advantage was in those days there was no communication every minute that you could send me in WhatsApp and also a telephone in those days was also very expensive. Right. Expensive. So it was mainly through letters. Mhm. And uh okay so you come back you see you finish what you come back what's next? Oh so I wasn't feeling well and feeling well mean physically. Yeah wasn't feeling well. Everybody went to I came back during the summer. No, I have to. Yeah, the summer and I wasn't feeling well and my father had a knew a a friend in Ezus. Ezra is Margolan Margolan. Yeah. And so he asked him, could you for maybe for just a summer find you something? Give me a job. Until until the sad start. Yeah. Give me a job. job. So uh I I went there and I was living there and you have to understand when I came to it was right coming out that nothing else existed except for the Rebides and Gabbor right nothing else existed right yeah as far as I didn't know of just the reb so to me it was just the There was the Gar and it was and that's it. I came here I came to to Ezra and I wasn't aware which was headed by Afhenin. Yeah. Henin was Elio Henin the great go. You'll tell me soon about it. Yeah. And then people would come in to give pushkus. Yeah. As a they would come in to give the pushkus that right they collected money. Yeah. And then they saw me and it was they saw there was one they said wow the babish of they expand all over even here even here. So that was like a jab you know right because hen was a literature the organization. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. It was founded by Gustab. Yeah. So, uh I stayed there and uh I I didn't know what to do. I was ready to go to go back to Seda and I wrote to the Reb that you know I can't take it here anymore because I got jabs and my n but to be to begin with you were only going to be there for the summer. Right. Right. Right. So what do you have to write to the repa? You come in or you didn't even want to stay during the summer. The last month was really was really bad. Was really terrible. The the second of the two months. Yeah. So I go to the be and uh that I you can't take it anymore. You want to leave. I can't take it anymore. Right. You told me this once and he told you that you should stay. And he told me that we were telling us that we have to be say you have to go far away from any type of dis arguments. He should you should continue and be quiet don't answer back. That made me calm because until now if I I thought to myself if I would wouldn't answer back it's like right like it's like you're agreeing to what they're saying. So you felt that you should answer. Yeah. But but then if I answer I'll get into the argument. Right. Right. So you were confused. So the moment the Reb told me you take so I had a ready. Yeah. That's as much kept quiet. Okay. And then again I had written about something about something else. I was going back to yeshiva and the said stay there. Wow. And you were only 19 years old. Yeah. 20 years old. 20 years old. 20 years old. Yeah. And the Reb told you not to go back to yeshiva but to stay there. Wow. At first I didn't understand it but later on everything became clear. So I remained there and I started I saw what the literature was all about. I'm not going to go into that now. Right. And uh hanken was the place of kadur before right he was considered the the of America right because he was here earlier also right and all the rabbis and all said or whatever would ask him questions would write to him right and and at first he had a a seder cous learning with his grandson He came later we came here. Yeah. He passed. He was killed. Yeah. And then he was offered and he UD got married. They made aliyah. He became a I think at first and they needed somebody to be with her. Apparently he was a sagur. He was blind at that time and he needs somebody to be with him. So they asked me to live with him right for two two three hours a day a day from 10 to 12 to 12 month. You would say the Gammorra. I would say the Gomorrah and and he would even correct me at times. So he was by heart. He was on and like I said he was there before respected him very much. W would come to him in his house. David.