Rabbi Groinem Lezewnik - Pure Novardik - Teacher in Lub Yes for 50 yrs ,- Yechidus w R 1970

i want to talk about one of my teachers in the laboratory yeshiva in the 1970s 76 77 78 during those years was rabbi graham lesernick 107 i think he was probably actually older i met him in his home on the corner of i think east 9th or so in avenue 0 or east 10th and avenue o in brooklyn the flat section i met him there again about five years ago now by side this was a yid from the vardik he was trained in the vardik by the original founders the altar of the verdict and his tell me them both in pinsk and then later in bertichov and i had an opportunity to have him as a hebrew teacher for the in the high school department of united shiva and ocean parkway he told me that in nine that arshad rabzmayo garadi hired him he gave him a job he gave him a panasonic livelihood and he was a hebrew teacher in the babaji yeshiva from 1949 those of us who were in the high school will remember him he was a short man and you know all puns aside we called him louis hopefully with he's michelas it was just a nickname and he was a very different type of person because he was [ __ ] a really truck from from from the verdict and for us especially those days we didn't know what this novartic is musser and i had that recollection that memory and it was a great teacher he taught us hebrew nifal and paella hebrew grammar which was part of the curriculum for the high school studies and only years later did i ask myself wait a minute is he still alive and i when i was in patchamish teaching opening the hour kyle there in 2017 i met someone who was very close to him he said of course he's alive and here are some of his urim teachings and he gave me some of the history and i actually published it in one of my books one of the volumes has an entire section from a published article in one of the magazines about his life but then later uh i also met him as i said he didn't remember me he remembered the name dolphin because it's not your common average jewish name he remembered something but this was when he was probably 100 100 on one but i want to i want to tell you a story i want to i want this the story depicts who he was and how it's relevant to us so i tell them rave i say i would like to bring you to 770. just standing in 770 with you i am sure hundreds of people will come around you not because you're not an arrogant you know uh you're uh over 100 years old which that's a novelty in itself an octogenarian i think that's the word anyway but because you are a balmooser from the verdict and we all of us heaven in 770 in the crown heights we thought you're gone and you're standing gear 770 we have to all come and like embrace you and hug you he heard me this he heard and he understood and he said to me name the skyver no i won't do that because it's ego it's hardiness this is guyver my friends when i heard these words i melted i fell through the floor a man who's a hundred 101 and he hears that i want to bring him to 770 to make a big deal out of him he says no because muslim he didn't say those words but i'm paraphrasing muslim teachers that's real making of a person's such significance no but you're a hundred years old peter says your eyebrow bottle mirror you're not different plane a plateau no guy what comes along with it the story is priceless this was rabbi elizabeth so my friends especially by all the talmud and the students of the babachi shiva who had revelative nick as a teacher heaven this is what he told me five years ago when i met him in his very old age he told me that he had yahida's with the rebel in 1970 or 71 i believe and the story is that he was he was studying at i think nyu for a phd in a field that that uh i think something scholarly that really was in line with with what he was what he was learning and doing and teaching or and he needed a certain book a certain manuscript or maybe it was a field of manuscripts i forget now and he heard that the only person who can maybe get him this book is the rebel he had a yeshidas he went into yahidis and he told me this is what he told me five years ago he told me he went into yakidas and he said to the red but the rabbit knew about him because he was teaching for the yeshiva for the rabbi's brother-in-law and he said he asked that herbert can he somehow get him this manuscript that ever told him that it exists he believes at jts at the jewish theological seminary the the the conservative movements seminary and that he has a connection there and he told him to con contact this person and say that allah asked that you loan him that he should loan him the manuscript he told me that he went out he did that and he got the person from the seminary because he heard that the baby should have requested it for him and to loan him to see this manuscript that helped him in his phd thesis so he said to me that besides the the godless and the sitkos of the rabbi that he had a source of working in his institution and having achieved this with him he possibly did him a simple favor a simple a favor that no one else could accomplish only and this is what he told me so i'm sharing that with you the boy site he was a nevada kid told me something else he says that the people between chakras and music are shabbos in his show that he was a rabbi for probably 50 60 70 years he said that he he um was really old and tired it was hard to to talk and to be awake the whole time you know in his very 80s and 90s hundreds he said when it comes to the 10 15 20 minutes of musser that he gives every shabbos muslim hardcore muslim shabbos greatness he becomes revived he becomes excited [Music] meshiach's arrival mamish amen the army now