Who was Reb Avrohom Drizin-Mayore?

so we're continuing the series here of following our leaders so I want to talk today about the he was a personal MH of mine and I learned many things from him I want to give a few just a few stories anecdotes insights into this giant K he was born in 1900 he pass way I believe in 1990 he had nine children and he learned in laich I believe he came to the Yesa laich in 1913 or 1914 and he learned there till 1922 something like that so was what is what I call a smart you see among among there are all sorts all types there are some that are more rigid someid that are more happy some that DAV more with kav with a focus and concentration and there's some who learn more deep and they're known as masin inis about was a ye that in the in a sense he had all of that he was smart he was fun he was sharp he was witty and most importantly he was a BAL neish RAB would say RAB would say anyone any that's not ready to give his life for is not really any special he would use the Expression A great gain of their if he's not ready to allow himself to be slaughtered to be slaughtered meaning to be shot de dead for spreading Gish kite for disseminating Gish kite for teaching T he's no big H it's all talk and lived this way so many times was he close to death was he close to being caught by a KGB he was a wanted man and with his smarts and of course Hashem guiding him through the bras of the Reb the rim the previous Reb particular he outsmarted stalinist and and K and the KGB and he survived that that itself is a story for itself the many of his stories that he told us these like uh Hero Stories War Stories you wouldn't believe just one story that comes to mind one thing I remember he told us once how he wore this long uh green coat it was cam camouflaged no one he wasn't so noticed and he had long Pockets he had Deep Pockets and he was able to hold things in the pockets and hide things it was just amazing these stories that he shared with us in The Frigid nights of the cold winter of Brooklyn in 1983 when he shared these stories with my friends and myself but anyway R was a who learning in laich he saw the he learned by theab the fifth laich he learned with with the great M and and the M the alter I believe um and a and a few others not sure m al m al passed away 1912 no he didn't learn with him anyway the thing is that he had the best of the best but he also met the he metot and he knew the going and bris he told me he met them all and he spoke to them in learning and he and and he had discussions with them but he said this all pales in comparison to the he would speak would speak with such power and fire you could sum Up's character as a charismatic character if you look you want to see the difference between this and let's say the last few clips of and yes they were in yes one in Brun one in L and was a Masia in lud in the early days and he came to America he wasn't officially masing Yesa by the Way's father-in-law was the famous of Thea the famous one who chirs and will'll make him with theem a video on that itself but getting back to the bottom line would say and he said that the laich they use the term Adam to refer to someone who was a Muslim who was wholesome in every area both in learning and in daving and in cab and everything else someone who was just a person who you know he he knew knew he knew and he learned and he DED but he wasn't he didn't excel in every aspect ofm wasn't an you know a man aqu the pronunciation the Russians the L they didn't say the the they would say the acain people would say oh he such a big he's such a big he's such a big say why is he a men because he's not a Muslim and he wasn't he didn't really sacrifice himself by going on the front and fighting the Communists and Stalin and and and and was willing every day to die for it if need be quite immense big deal big deal when he shared these things with this young man here at the age of 21 and 22 and 23 made an impression made a big impression and the impression is that whatever I do is Small Change it's Gish as we say in Yiddish NADA in Spanish nothing in English and in Hebrew effes it's nothing our ding our learning compared to a like trust me it was nothing but nevertheless for Our Generation when you D and you learn and you give you do Mitzvah and you help people and you put put a self yourself and your selfless not selfish you know okay it's good it's good you know what I'm saying but when we want to learn from in the ways of our and the ways of our who were real to the to the these are some of the things that we need to focus on and was such a ye and I could say that um I remember before I got married and I went over to him I said I'm getting married could you give me some secrets of the trade what are secrets of the trade so he told me quietly one thing which I won't share right now because of its privacy but it was something so that conducted himself in marriage in in a most special sacred holy way and then I said is there more he said the rest I'll tell you after you're married and I think of it you know the idea of taking learning from such apprenticeship you know shim we call it just like uh to to be a ruling R pic you need to have shush not just know the books you need to take training being a Apprentice by a pis by a rabbi who receives shilas daily and weekly and makes rulings and you sit with him and you see how he does it and you can ask him questions why and how and that's how you get become you take training just like a a doctor has the the training program an inter um you know the before they become a practicing the doctor they're they they're a resident they're learning on the job same the same is with a with a needs to have a or another even it's not a but someone who's a genuine to learn from and take training from from from him so in this vein I encourage everyone to identify a that talks to you and for women again I emphasize a woman woman older student to learn from and to identify with and gravitate towards andem shall help us we should have