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it's very well known in the tells of
yeshiva that the story goes i believe
this story was
in 1946 i believe that was the story
the last time the cleveland indians won
a world series and the story goes is
that during their pennant race as they
were getting
higher and higher in the rankings than
they were getting through the playoffs
the story goes is that they had one game
that was on one mate shabbat and it was
already during the end of the season and
you can imagine everyone was very
excited that cleveland was going to
possibly win a world series and the
story goes that the american bachram
from tells you they decided you know now
is the time we have to visit the
cleveland stadium municipal stadium and
see the greatness in front of our eyes
witness to all these wonderful players
and uh the story goes is that they came
out shabbat very late seems like most if
not the entire yushiva was gone and
story goes when they came back to
yeshiva the russian shiva or matalkatsu
or billiam
was standing there waiting for them down
by the stairs at the stairwell he didn't
say anything to them so they thought ah
he obviously is fine with us going there
why else he would have told us if we did
something wrong he would have said we
did something wrong didn't say anything
the next day after shacharit the buffalo
are eating breakfast and suddenly
everyone gets a message the both of us
shiva would like to speak to everyone in
the downstairs in the men's show room
whatever it was fine so everyone came
there it packed into the room and there
was a piece of paper between the two of
our shiva
and each one of each other should you
speak no you want to speak do you want
to speak nursing it's finally one says
no i'll speak
boys
we came here to america to implant
lithuania
the style of lithuanian yeshivat here on
american shores
and in order for us to implant that we
have to give over the ruach the spirit
of what it is to be a benta rabban
aliyah and one of the things that we
thought was such a davao pashu it would
be so simple that we wouldn't even have
to tell you is going to a baseball game
in the middle of this man really that's
what you got from us you really thought
that that's appropriate
that's not something we ascribe to why
would you think that's okay
it must be we're not doing our job
properly and it must be
that we're not teaching you and we're
not being mechanical like we thought if
that's the case then we hereby resign
our positions the yeshiva is closed and
everyone if they need help getting a
ride back needs some ride for the bus
fare we'll help anyone that needs to
ride back the shiva is officially closed
you could have heard a pin drop suddenly
everyone says wait no no please give us
another chance we want to say we're so
sorry
oh so now you want to open a new yeshiva
you want to open new yeshiva right now
we have a paper right here
write down your names and be mahlit and
decide right now you're going to commit
yourself to allah and commit yourself to
the messiah tells you're going to commit
yourself to being a ben aliyah and
you're going to commit yourself to
changing yourself and become a ban
yeshiva and everyone signed their name
and they said the yeshiva took a
transformative
explosion after that there was a totally
different issue after that and remotely
used to say
that from here he learned a powerful
lesson that if a russian shiva does not
have the courage to close the place they
should never open it to begin with
because you have to know why are you
opening and if it's not working you have
to have the courage to close because
anyone can open an institution it takes
great courage to say you know maybe this
is not working we have to start all over
again and this is something that we have
to redo
