Reb Yisroel Friedman: Rosh Yeshiva, Gaon, Chasidic Jew, Great grandson of Boyaner Rebbe & more!

was the rash of one of theas in cron Heights was a talid a student ofman and he was in his own right a Goin a genius both in nigla in talmud and inis I had the opportunity many times to talk with him to learn from him and to observe him my earliest memories of him is shabas mim in the 1970s when I would go to the then it was known as the square mikah on Kingston Avenue between Montgomery and Crown Street today it's known as Mikvah mayor the beautiful redone building a Mikvah with RAB upstairs so in that building there was a St I believe it was the Square St and the Gabi the the Sham gab was a by the name of I think himself was a and he took care of the Mikvah you had to pay him to to go to the Mikvah half of the times he he didn't collect the money half of the times people probably snuck in from the basement from here from there it was Ledic as we say it was Lively it was it was uh a scene to be seen shabas morning of course it was open and the wasn't there and when I would come in early morning like 6:30 7 in the morning but hardly anyone else was on the street and I came to the mikah who did I see there saying custom to say the entire two people Rabbi Marlo who became later the of of heights the and the other one other one was Redman and I remember looking at him how he was saying till him it was very it could see like his mouth is is saying every word there's a an emphasis in every word it was very interesting for me as a young uh student to observe a Jew who you know articulated quickly every word and just kept on saying it I'm convinced he knew the whole tillum by heart anyway years later when my my parents returned to to Brooklyn to live in Brooklyn and my father settled in cron Heights he started to attend der's classes he gave classes I believe once or twice a week in the evening in gor and he wouldn't teach the da he would he would take a track dat tra traed of the talmud of the gamorra and he would teach it with gamar Rashi and I think TUS and he would he would go into it in Great depth be it was it was amazing to hear him give a she on a piece of gamarra it was so clear every word came out of the page into your brain it was it was amazing he allowed the students to dialogue with him but at the same time he was sharp and witty and you know if you asked questions that were kind of not to the point uh he let you know it he didn't mince words and it was it it created the am the environment the Ambiance of of real study real student teacher study dialogue back and forth it was it was wonderful to hear and see R was born in in Russia I believe Ukraine and he came from the B Reb family the name is fredman was the name of the B and re came from that family but I believe his his mother somehow ended up meeting and he started to go to the laich institutions either still in Russia or in France I know that in France he told me he would observe ABN of the famous Masia we've made a clip about him already davening and he he remembers when uh the children were playing outside and they kicked the ball and it went through the window upstairs or somewhere in a room where AB was daving and he was oblivious to the ball coming in and the noise and the commotion he was so attached to his daving I think his mother's mother was one of the cooks or the cook at in the Yesa of Bruna at that time in in the' 40s late 40s they came to they settled in inad and his his mother was I believe known as G she had the store which might still exist and he had several Brothers I believe and but he continued being a learning and being a student of of of and that introduced him to the whole idea of daving with great length and kav and he and he when he was older he was sent to learn with some other Bim to start in and there was a [Music] was his name from the family additionally he saw he knew he heard Bringin fromin Brook Paris he really was exposed to the Giants of laich at the time students of theab then he came to America and America he learned in 770 I believe in 1959 or 1960 maybe 1960 he was appointed by the Reb to to Bea to give a Shear in nework New Jersey which today is Mars town he told he told me that he Hadas and theb and he said to the Reb what you know how can I take the responsibility of teaching them how do I know if it's correct and all of that and the re said I rely on you there's also a that the said I believe in 1958 one shabas morning no one else was around wasn't around for whatever reason and was the one who memorized the mimer he had an excellent phenomenal memory as well and he memorized the mimer and he and that's how we have the mimer today but one another interesting important point of was a massaer he he enjoyed sharing but again all with a with a with a sharite you know with a witticism with a shrewdness and and and I was able to you know talk to him and hear from him certain he communicated from what he heard from the previous generation people from the previous generation to to me to us to the new generation and um he was open he didn't you know mince words he didn't hide fact he just said it the way it is and it was wonderful to have Aid who you could talk to who spoke the truth you take it you leave it you like it you don't like it he used to every shabas at between usually leave three out of four weeks at at in the corner of Kingston Montgomery and once a month they asked him to come because heaz so well so clear and elaborate and Loud he would a mimer once a month at um the Empire steel and my father would walk from wherever he was to hear the mimer and it was amazing I heard the mimer from him many times and he wouldn't look at the watch and Rabbi gari didn't look at the clock and he would sometimes 45 minutes of from long my later he started the the Reb is my but whatever he did was the full mimer almost word for word I'm telling you it was amazing it was like you were learning with him the weekly para while he was kazing the MIM reviewing saying by heart the mimer he also had a fund a fund for students in he was the rash in the B Med he had the higher she I believe and it wasn't just that he had the higher Shear he was like the the the life force of the Bas medish in the sense that he he he was fire he was he was he was animated you know he he he was Lively and he involved himself in in teaching in teaching his students his was also wonderful he would take some mas and would really really you know his heart and he would dance his fabrin he faed here several times in Bor Park to the here people here all night talking about all night he stayed once for shabas here to be to be with us for shabas in our B and he stayed in a house by the person the person who D with us one of our members told me that he didn't go to sleep at all Friday night and then I found out he was up every Friday night he didn't go to sleep he would learn all night so you're talking about a person who who not only did he preach but he lived what he preached he lived Tyra he lived he lived so when we talk about who've already passed on and who followed following our leaders which is the theme of this series fredman is definitely one of the people who contributed big time to this wonderful experience bar he has a daughter she he has a daughter who married andem will carry on his his name his wife Luba sh's name she was a gerov so the tradition will continue of tremendous diligence and tah living the the rebas and the Rim's directives and teaching and raising an entire generation of students thank you