Tribute for Yerachmiel Stillman, Avraham Levitansky, Shlomo Schwartz: Golden Years of CA Shlichus

california who passed away this past week and while i'm speaking about him i'm also going to share some ideas some stories about two other california who were friends of his rabbi avraham levitanskiel of asholim and absalem schwarzel overshalom and these three this trio were what i call the golden days of california schliches and i'll explain what i mean right chick was sent by the frida karebe by the previous rebbe in 1949 to los angeles was sent in 1966 by the rabbi as the american as the merkel for the americas and robert cunanan started working with college students and he needed help and he brought out three shlokan these were the first three shilokuma california rabbi avraham levitansky rabbi iraqi stillman and republic schwartz i believe that rabbi lewtansky still came in this 19 and the 1960s rabbi stillman came either in 69 or 70 and schwarber schwartz came in in in 1970 or so 771. so they came at the end of the 60s to help robert cunanan and they were the three soldiers on the ground rabbi raichik was rabbi raichik is that sadiq the bane in the halogen you know he's from europe he's from mathwatsk he survived the holocaust robert cunanan is the director he's the fundraiser although he made balichuva in the very early years you know families that today are full-fledged lubavitches haters and bubbas are his products but nevertheless he was occupied as the developer and boy did he develop what you see today in california are all because of his hard work in those years but who were the foot soldiers that he hired to help him with the students at ucla they were rabbi levitansky and rabbi stillman and rabbi schwartz schwarze as we called him stillman was called stool and levitansky was levitansky or avremo ultimately was moved was sent over to simha monica but in the beginning he started there at westwood westwood is where the chabad house at ucla is and we know that the rabbit told rabbit when he gave him the key to the first cabaret house that it will grow like a chain of supermarkets so let me tell you about why i say that this is the golden era he talked about the end of the 60s in the beginning of the seven and the 70s going into the 70s and why these three people and personally i came to california as a bachelor in 1981 but i was a counselor by rebel in the rebel levitowski's camp in 1970 not as 1980 i believe and i observed him and i spoke to him and it was a tremendous talmud with such bitter subservience such humility you know i could see i could go into his house at 11 12 at night and he's laying on the couch with one phone here another phone here answering shy lists of people around the world i saw that and then i saw him say look i am a and i saw his var my hearts his warm heart and his levaya which i wasn't at but i was told there was like a thousand people and all kinds of people from froome to not from religious not religious from hasidim to lit fox abraham levitansky touched all kinds of people rabbis bill stillman grew up in boston he was born in boston and grew up in boston in the 1940s into the fifties there was the lubavitches shiva in boston first rabbit castell ran the yeshiva and then rabbi cement abhaim cement and he was a student in this yeshiva in his class he had robert casleel castell so zangazoon and rabbi davidson's laws they were good friends of his and these three boys were together from the very first grade second grade third grade to high school through high school most of high school and rabbi stillman's parents who i believe were from russia weren't you know observant and they wanted their son to have a jewish education regardless and boy did he have a jewish education and he gravitated towards the learning and he became a serious serious bachelor student in the laboratory yeshiva of boston and in talking with rabbi costello rabbi davidson they told me how he was very fruit and when they told me that i remember when i came to california and i met stole rabbi stillman who married rabbit higher mayor bukit's daughter who was our rosh hashiva at la babaji yeshiva i saw a a govaldigger from kite that i didn't see by many others and i didn't know is it real or not real you know and here i am coming from red meltiball rebjokan and i meet this rabbi stillman and i saw the way he dived and i saw the way he pronounced the words he would say the words clearly and sometimes if it didn't come out right he said it again and he didn't say it because he was it was a show or he didn't say it because he had a stutter he said it because he wanted the word to come out clear from his mouth i was told that he studied in montreal in the yeshiva and then in newark as well the babchi was in the work and he was there also as a husband as an older boy and he was responsible for the younger bakr and while he was there and he was no fool and he could have a good time i mean do you mean a good time i don't mean a good time partying when you you know not supposed to with the heaven he was a chevron and he had a sharp tongue when he needed to you know and bluff bluffed by him i recall this like clearly was the worst thing and it's interesting both by by by him by levitansky and by schwartz this bluff issue by them was jaqva the first thing that we were taught in labavich as a bellahine carl bach said to us when he fought with us i mentioned in a previous clip was to remove the nar from yourself don't be a bluffer don't be a faker anyway rabbi stillman would say a pill in enigma he was more of a bowel niggler and robert castell told me that the safer that he liked was it was robert costello or abnormansky told me the me he acts the commentary commentator known as the miri but he said pilpulum in nigler because the river had you know made seven khan seven stars in hasidis and seven stars in in england gemara and talmud and he was one in the talmud but nevertheless he died in baris he governed every day for many hours with great kavanagh so he was a naivete he went on what was his job at westwood at ucla he after levitansky levitansky originally was like taken by cuny as the rabbi although cunha was the rabbi but you know the one who dealt with childhood things and students he moved over quickly as i said he moved over to sim harmonica so schtulman took over that and for years he was like the official rabbi on the arabic union for the students and it's interesting to see a person who was like on one hand you know an avid and a bowel niggler and more serious is dealing with the students it's in ghansen's in the brahms he dedicated himself completely to the work of the rabbit to the shlikas and then we talk about shleimer schwartz he needs no introduction schwarze but slammer schwartz came from atlantic city and baltimore his father was a cantor they weren't hasidim you know and schlemmer was introduced to the babbage through the springer and he became a soldat a soldier and he learned tacitus and he died in paris and then he went to learn with a few others rabbi bruce wankin and the lipschitz and a few others i believe in 1967 60 yeah 67 68 those years because there's a letter from the rabbit telling him and a few others not to leave long a few others not to leave because of the fear of the six day war and all that the schwartz learned by the fleming and schwarze knew thousands and thousands of people throughout los angeles he once told me that i don't do funerals i only do i only celebrate weddings for a wedding calm yeah i'll officiate a funeral go to someone else he was a fun guy but that was his hitsanias his premise and these three avraham and schwarze are still they were the foundation that built chabad of california during the late 60s and 70s going into the 80s if i told you that when there was a purim party at khabar house in westwood with schwarze and stool i was there it was unbelievable and i'm not talking about the you know the amount of alcohol being drunk i'm talking about the the the togetherness the love the the genuine siddhis kite that these people had to each other and to the students another thing that comes to mind there was a weekly sheer in le coutis in either frank revere's house he lived at the time i think in westwood or harry kreidenberg these are laboratories in california and stool usually gave the sichu and they would say a good luchayun and i remember once or twice they asked me to they couldn't make it they asked me when i was on schlitz there for two and a half years in the yeshiva in in if i can give the shear it was a scene it was like you know once a week you you said good luchaya good luck you learned to like and you forbrang together and stool was the one that usually was in charge of that that that that event there's a lot more to say but i just want to conclude with one one thought and i want to before that i want to make myself clear i'm not saying that post 1980s there's no california it only got bigger and bigger and today it's it's massive and everyone called him colombia the opening of the opening who opened their mouths in the beginning where these three foot soldiers abraham levitansky and it needs to be known so when this nashoma returns back to the abrasive he's the third of the three right levitansky passed away i think he was 66 or so schwartz was 71 or 72 and now stillman at 76. it needs to be known what they did for schlitz for the world what did they do what they do for california they put the foundation that's what i want to get across the to the listeners that the california schliches is because these were real sedan with the bottom of hearts and i conclude with the story i asked schwarze once tell me how did you guys get get around when you barely had a car and if you had a car it was uh you know a broken jalopy so he said let me tell you something we had one car in the garage of the chabad house at ucla the keys of the car stayed in the car in the ignition when levitansky needed it he turned the ignition when when when when stool needed it he turned the con ignition when when ruby cuna needed it he turned the ignition and when i needed it i turned the ignition it wasn't our private car it was the abuser's car it was the rabbit's car that's what i mean by a citizen foundation and why these were the three individuals who were the golden age of the california schliches because now on me