Rabbi Moshe Yosef Engel, shliach 54 yrs, Long Beach, CA - Yechidus for 10yrs - RC Dalfin #3

okay I'm here interviewing the third part with in Long Beach California for 54 years since 1970 and he's telling us now about his with the Reb from 1960 to 1970 had 10 years of almost all the were the same basically went in as and said you surely keep him and hug him with the letters once saying to me and to give s before before and I remember asking said before and before or don't ask me why and never said to me like this this is on shabas and shabas you can't give this how you answer but you could give s by having by having AR over and how that went into and answered before Shak I don't remember how the connection was but I do remember for years when I was married at the beginning we never went without a guess re said that shabas right you can still do s by having guests that's very interesting that's and that's something that lasted for many many years always careful to um anything else you remember did you asked you know you were probably asked about and I believe two things that one is that that I should take different parts of Ding and concentrate on it like the this part and that should be the concentration of this day and the next part that should be the concentration I remember exact me how that fit in with the question I'm not sure but I do remember the tell that I also remember let's go into a whole different period I was born as a 2-year-old boy was discovered as a 2-year-old Bo I was born with a little hole in my heart when you were two they they they found that you had a little it was a murmur yeah it was called an a sepal defect so the doctors told my mother have to operate on this but not now when he'll be in his teens that's what we operate I was 2 years old now I'm 16 years old and I'm going into the re and I remember I don't remember if was 16 or 17 you remember bringing the Reel a whole bunch of pictures ex interest that I got from the doctor to ask advice ask I don't remember exact probably for ADV they want they know they wanted to do an operation yeah ready to do it right on ready to do it when I was 17 okay I'm not sure when this was 16 or I understand and I remember going into the and asking for and saying to the that I'm going to go in to the hospital I forgot the day I think it was high but it was so yeah so the said to me PES so close to PES so I said never look waited so many years to make to left face picked up his hand said ah up why should you push off other is but in the beginning he seemed to imply like it's close too close it's too close to PES it's close to PES imply oh oh oh one second and then when I said to I could push it off after the only reason I forgot that the only reason why we were doing it then was that's where our insurance kicked in on March 1st or whatever the day was that's when our insurance so that so close to PES right so the re said close to P so so who said so and then he said it's up his no I I said I can have an after P yeah so re said ah why push it off to to S whatever and you had and you had the operation and was successful and I came out on from the hospital uhuh I went in on and uh a three three three weeks something like that right and and and uh it was successful it was successful and actually I believe I was one of the first 100 patients in Canada or in Montreal to have this operation now it's of them are done done right then it was what is it called that what aortic no what I had was a seum septic no se I remember you said before a I always knew that second SE okay okay it had a very clear name wasn't SE atrial sepal atrial defect sepal atrial defect okay so that was another that you had with the re okay right that one well I was 17 years old then right and the other K I don't remember too much in other words they were like a regular K went into the Reb give Reb paper read it never responded and but the first time you almost for your yeah now you didn't go to a faban before right but since then I went twice a year I went and I went s well you said you went once with your your y the group the group went on uhhuh but we had a bus we had two buses you went already the group went in for and you you were part yeah and when did you have had groups and then they had uh for individuals yeah let's let's say I don't remember let's say on right they had individual right right okay and and and uh that's when I went in for my right and what about what was simp stud no then afterwards I started going twice a year oh yeah but not for not that you had you mean the so only went twice a twice a year I went I think the shabas when the war 67 War started and I was oh we had we had a girl yeah I was the B that wanted to go that that shabas I remember coming back from and from foran it was marh that there wouldn't be a war to me that's this m i remember coming back on a train and I met mayor flin and he said war just broke out this was Sunday night or early mon Monday morning all right I'm just saying this okay now when you Yesa u i loved my ears you you you became a big mmid I'm saying you were Around the Clock you enjoyed it I I loved my years Ina and I went to camp this very this very important Montreal Montreal yeah my I think it was R green Hood not sure green Hood was a laer green Hood I don't know who he is green h he had he never had children I think he was def okay and ask me what I'm doing this yeah I was Ed to go to a non from Camp that was for special people that couldn't afford camps there was two camps Camp Wood neighbors and camp neighor both work by the Federation and both work for the same purpose right and I was registered C with as a camper or counsel a camp a camp okay I was probably 11 years old yeah asked what I'm doing this summer I knew that I just knew that I said I don't know yet I start crying to my mother for hours I'm not going through I don't care what you say I'm not then coule came into my life came and said to me you know there's a campership at but your mother wouldn't have to pay I said she go tell my mother that so he went told she said sure and she didn't have to pay years later collected money to send me to Camp how would you say a few years later I found that out a few years later and I well I was in the camp there I was two years of camper 5 years a counselor of the sixy olds one year a counselor of the 4y olds the pioneers and one year I was assistant much and then the next year I moved to California and they called me they said wanted me to come back as a head counselor I told you know now and because of that I opened my own Camp the next year day but a day camp and it's still running so you're the one that opened up the day camp a very successful at this point 50 something years later my son runs it my son and daughter I want to go back for a second what were you more interested in Yesa with in learning [Music] nigus what was your like what did you feel in Affinity to should I tell you the truth yes I was not a big learner I was not a big learner I just I love the Yesa atmosphere and I I learned you know like every B I wasn't a very big learner and but I Lova and and I remember at 18 years old deciding that I have to learn 12 my heart learned it and then I remember coming in there standing around and said just finish the 12 TR well to do that you need to be you have to have you patience right right I mean I loved the Yesa I loved the Yesa life and I L part to say I was a bigw to say I I heard once and tell me if it's true I heard that you your attendance was excellent that you kept what they call that you came on time to all classes is that true true so then obviously you were a good St give me to say you weren't from the the Big M year that I remember in Montreal let me tell you who wasel this was that was a year that must be my B when I became 18 there was a year that you always used to talk every night in kiss for every night who would P who they for either way was for I just remember coming because I slept at home I oh you never slept in dormatory I slept in dormatory when we moved to New York right what moved to York when I was 17 Oh I thought I thought your mother moved to farak 20 years ago no I'm have a show uh oh when you were 17 she moved to so that time you were in the dormatory in the dormatory uhhuh and who is in charge of the dormatory who's my wife is d oh okay she was married to right right so so do you remember let's say the the the the Satan brothers did you have any connection with them yes of course and it was for Vance and I just remember we used to go to their house and next empty out the kitchen that I remember and fing took you know I'll tell you the thing I remember most about the you came out of Russia I canet cut across for who you mean oh he came no he came to visit M oh oh from Brooklyn and and the reab told him when you're going to be there you should you should foring then they should they should get the lesson right bashet bki that's so in two and a half days he for five times one that I remember was marit's basement and he was foring then about 2 in the morning somebody came in so hepped very L very L he was still under the the Communist c yeah know we told him don't worry he's all right one of us okay but then this how he finished the forra said when we were in Russia and we were forbrain no matter till what time the forbing lasted the next day we knew we had to be my Sor in time this about 3:00 in the morning tomorrow morning s starts I don't remember it was 7 or 7:30 I think it was 7:30 I'll be there and I expect you be there and who was there only you no no everyone was there the place just pack but I know what I did we all went on Satan's truck a bunch of guys and he took us to yiva and I was afraid of over sleeping I didn't know about the other guys so I went to sleep in the b in the show where they got ah knew they would come and get angry and make up I was with a few guys we we lay down on those benches and W us up and and we were in time uhuh um and and he was there I mean that's something I'll never find what about R Maro you remember him yeah R Mar I remember him just as he me looking I think he he always came with a bunch of little girls to sure and they he always they were always eating bananas another is healthy stuff right later I had married his niece right and he was very sick in last I very sick me no communication for good few years I remember how many years whatever but the girls those little girls grew up and I knew that was there um over the years I heard there was like a some kind of Unwritten Schism between theal and the Russ did you detect any of that truth told no I did not detect any of that although I used to hear once in a while talk about R and and po right that wasn't part of your wasn't part of my life right right right okay also remember goad go I also remember he had one of the teachers in Shiva was silver yeah he he was a a and he was the I mean really respect his savior I remember like giving him my phone to check was probably 16 17 and he says you should have fil zilberman oh zilberman right zilin someone else right Z his brother is the one that WR the silver oh I didn't know that and his brother or his Rel anyway and I heard that he he didn't use it because where it says by that there six six children born at once his relative FR moving that his an exaggeration really this this what I heard he didn't it was a brother sister just a relative you don't know one okay second