Celebrating 25 Years - Yeshivat Reishit Yerushalayim

my name is Josh Wald and I and the Talmud of each evaluation Lucia line my name is Ben Blumenthal and I'm a Tom Madhavi about ray you were shoreline my name is Josh smiler I've been Hoffa I'm Daniel Hill and I am a Talmud of your she write raised in Jewish so how would it be she about racey Jerusalem and I'm a talmud IV she got ready for show I remember one day and she reveille was talking about her a started sitting there in the base mesh and in library and just seeing everybody around you look up at this building and all the people in it and you really appreciate what it is for family to have a vision and to make it happen and become a reality it's crazy to think back to 25 years ago first year racial I am spending a year in the old city was one of the most impactful years of my life although it only was one year it was an experience that will last me a lifetime it completely changed the trajectory of my life in Torah in a photo session and vomiting how I view the world and like goals my priorities as rebellion says it really does affect who you marry how your children turned out where you decide to settle and it's something that I'm very grateful for everything that I have done in my life with my family and my wife I really owe to the Marcus's and you shave it radiates you shall I mean the very beginning raishin for me has been a family and immediately I felt like I was part of something I think something that makes raishin unique was how relatable drove am work and how they always made an effort to relate to us wherever we were holding in life no questions too silly no thought was too crazy when I'm developing the kind of educator that I wanted to become and the type of rebbe that I wanted to be the modeling that the Rambam had with our rebellion with Donnie all of them what they gave me in terms of what it means to be a ready how to care about autonomy and how to be an educator it shaped me more than any graduate school and any course that I could have possibly taken along the way that fire in that passion that I was given 25 years ago I try to share that every single day my tell me them I now work as an attorney and I've learned that when you go into the business world it's not like you leave your religious life at home you're not one person at work and one person when you come home to your family in your community I really learned that back in race that you take every part of you and take the been a yeshiva and you take the bottle bus and you put them together to bring this one person who's going to be the most productive person both at work and at home proposed RFA who that do all of what you're doing wherever you may find yourself and really seeing or whatever occupation you may find yourself whatever place as a way of being an evident that's really what's important and it's not necessarily learning all day every day which is what we do in yeshiva but really giving us a path path of integrity to live with through the rest of our lives I think that more than any of the tour that I learned that reshape that lesson has really helped keep spirituality in my daily life there's never a dull moment whether it's having sperm here in my office my roots that I have with reveille on Friday mornings speaking to have land out over the phone that's something that day ingrained in us that no matter what is going on in our lives never just to sit and be idle always just to try and learn 20 years later after my son Alice we're going strong may have been 25 years ago but it certainly set the trajectory for my life and to think about thousands of tell me did that have walked through those doors and have been impacted by those walls of that yeshiva is a staggering thought when I think of 25 years I think of the countless young men who have had their own lives transformed I'm just one and I know that my wife my children the home I've built would not be the home it is without the influence that ratio was in my life