A Story from “Back in the Day” - R. Duvi Bensoussan - TorahAnytime.com

now when i was there that year in italy on that last year me and my haruta we decided we already went through all the rebbes and that last year we were learning with the rabbani we already on the fourth chair was like the foot out the year that generally people start dating going into colell so i remember that we did something that later on proved to be probably one of the best things we've ever done we spent that last six months of winter's mom happened to have been baba mitsiya we went out every single week and we heard the share clully of different roshei vote all of israel that gave me an opportunity to pick up and to see the real mccoy of the old generation before we lost him ah i went through gusman i heard his clearly i sat in his house once i spoke to him one night learning while he was playing chess with one guy dictating a letter to another guy and talking to me and learning third guy simultaneously at the same time it was wild wild i got the history of chloe from the son of rebel hanover the son-in-law of rabaran qatla i got to hear sir khloe from ribbons and david [Music] i went around to hear the greats i wanted to hear the greatest of the greats of the generation living at that time and soak up as much as i can to pick up the different styles the different god loot of torah i wanted it i wanted to taste it i wanted to taste the delicacies of the different giant chefs of ghidole torah of claudius i want to taste their food i went all over and one time i'll never forget we ran downstairs to the pay phone we put it in asimon i don't even know if you know what i'm talking about there was these little coins that all right anyways we put in the simone we call panovich because on the side of the paper in yeshiva the directory that they have on the wall are the phone numbers of all other yoshi vote in israel every yeshiva did that if you wanted to call a friend and another yeshiva you know how to catch them we called padovich from benebrach and we asked was that there was thursday we asked what is rab shah giving on today what sheikh lali what's the suggestion he's giving on so some israeli guy from part of it transfers the phone on the other side of an abrac and he says we're holding now and the suggest slime dinner dalaran will bed and here the marmot come up and the guy was very nice he ran he brought the barbie come out and he read it off over the phone and we sat there in jerusalem on the other end with a notebook and we wrote down all the comments this is the share that rabshak is giving today that morning for saturn we ran upstairs we learned together all the common we prepared the we prepared to share and then at eleven o'clock we went to rahul strauss we jumped into a cherut seven men sherrod going out to banay brock every every 15 minutes every 15 minutes oh those were the days those were the days those were the days those were the days i wouldn't trade those days those years for nothing ah at the time we didn't appreciate it it's like everything in life at the time that you have it you don't appreciate it until you no longer have it that's just life uh when do we get that wake-up call so jump into the taxi we went out to benibrak we made it to panovich we came walking in the batman the place was mobbed the place was packed i'm talking about packed over a thousand guys it makes his way up the steps in front of the famous golden aron called you remember the famous picture with his hands in the air that's a sure clawley that's the way rib shock used it was a war he came out with the boxing gloves he came out fighting gets up and starts doing giving over the sulya i'll never forget he closes his eyes and he starts saying go with the suggest and he starts going into rishonim and then of course the rambam shah's forte and he started on one mahalo and another mahalik and in the front row right in front the first two rows right in front of the podium in the front of the bet midrash apparently that's where the heavy hitters of ponovich sat because all the questions and all the guys that were trying to upload the share was sitting in those front two rows and they started bombing questions and rap shock was up there like a lion tamer and he was answering them knocking him out one after the other unbelievable there was something to see this was something to see and then your truck continues on and it goes to one o'clock then it goes to 1 30 and it goes to 2 o'clock nobody's moving and i'm sitting there and i i i remember that chick clawley starts at 12 20 whatever it was and it goes for an hour 1 20 10 minutes musser 20 minutes mustard milk is 145 lunch is 2 o'clock it's already 2 o'clock it's already 2 o'clock two fifteen two thirty three o'clock shaq is going strong he's not saying his eyes are closed he'd open up his eyes he was run and nobody moved over a thousand guys it's already almost three hours into the share nobody moved until suddenly out of the blue shack catches himself he opens his eyes and he looks up and he sees the time it's after three he was supposed to be done a little over two hours ago he starts to apologize to the sibo and he says i'm sorry i'm standing in front of the bottle i can't hold myself what he was saying was that he's standing in front of such a cyborg that he couldn't hold himself he didn't realize the time he didn't realize the time i'm like a drunk when it comes to tyra says i'm like a drunk i'm drunk on it i'm standing in front of the bottle i can't help myself i didn't realize the time that that's the way torah was meant to be it was meant to be onig torah like only shabbat everybody understands shabbat you take a look friday afternoon in the stores you'll see their mahada and onyx about like nobody's business you walk in walk into any good store you'll see wow what's going on in these people's shopping carts owning shabbat that was meant to be onitora the essence of torah was a mitzvah and the torah was a birkat nehemiah says that's why it is too bitter for yesterday's and the second blessing is for the coming days torah that's unbelievable you