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A Blatt Of Gemara For Supper
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my father was an incredibly
joyous person
he was someone who was very fun-loving
anybody who knew him from early years
from when he was a bachelor
and until you know the end of his life
he was of someone who loved
to to laugh to joke to to to meet people
to be around it was a lot of fun he had
a sim casa heim he had a joy of life
which defies
a childhood of early orphan you know
being orphaned at such a young age you
know going through the holocaust and the
lifetime afterwards of which wasn't easy
my father's professional life and so on
and so forth was filled with was filled
with uh with challenges and and so on
and you could never tell you could never
tell the second is that during his time
in mughalif
believe it or not he learned tara every
day
he had a rebbe
of joseph stern
who was from the family of the sam sofir
in fact he was the one who published
many of the swarm the drastic silver and
others
my father had the privilege to learn
entire with him every day every day
and
you know people sometimes struggle faith
around the holocaust very understandable
and significant struggle it was
completely
unapparent in my father's life
because he went through the holocaust
with the torah he went through the
holocaust with god
there's a story i've told a hundred
times and never tire of telling it is
that
they were studying torah and
it came
seven o'clock whatever one evening
and his rebbi his teacher said to him
okay my father was known
to many that you me he says yumi
he says it's already whatever 6 30 7
o'clock it's time for supper
so he closed the the gomorrah he closed
the volume of the talmud he said it's
time for supper
fine so he says one second you me he
says is there is there food at home for
supper
and i thought that not really
so he said okay so he opened the gemara
he says let's have another black gamora
for supper
and that's you know
saying brocher
there's such a thing as people being
sustained
by the spirit
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