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you both of have
old and what's the import
of to learn from that
up and and
and you
know to appreciate the re more and more
and to appreciate theage
you
know are older and smarter and more
experienced you learn from
that you really learn from that and the
re said I remember when the said
this doesn't want break his
windows get on
remember and I and I memorize once 90 P
of I
remember when I was in when I was not
when I was in Ocean Park
memorize 90 pages
of
not and I had
a I'll never
forget
first if you came with dirt on your hat
or your jacket or your beard look
and I'm looking at
him tell what I do
no
clean
M come
down you Lear
by was a kind of a special so
is
okay L finger point your finger to any
page I go like
this hi he
says read what it says and I start
reading the and he starts reading to me
word for word I promise you what it says
before the few lines before and the few
lines after
EC when I was 17 years
old the told me the was in my house an
uncle to
me
my I saw him the
770 sitting down
and the
great he's sitting there and he's like
mumbling mumbling I see label all time
doing the same thing I sit next to
label what do you
think I know people
are don't Nam
told thank
you he's
right and I for a long time but you know
and this and that all the excuses all
the
excuses you know
was had a chance to have a
job to be a manager over people in elot
in in the he hates
to yeah youle packages and
boxes they came to him how do we know
this because the the that worked with
him came
to and they said who
that the crazy guy who's the crazy
guy he crazy he's one of our stars from
theage they say that they
came what do you
want you offer him a
job he should be a manager over other
that are slepping the the packages and
theot and and the bricks was they were
building the
country and I said a
v he never explained to us he's an older
man back breaking work we want to give
him an easier job we fought he has a a
vice a board you know we know we're not
they're probably you know we know what
type we know a little bit about it we
don't
know and he doesn't want
you're
nuts so you know was but they told
someone they
said when
he packages and
boxes if he'll have to be a manager he
won't be able to do that because he'll
have to supervise other people he
doesn't want
that
no you imagine you have back breaking
work and someone offers you a job to
have easier and you say no I don't want
that I want to continue slepping
and labor hard labor and all that why
this
way so thinking over that you learned is
very important anyway so that what I'm
getting at is the the point is that the
El an older is a very important thing
because it it it gives you it gives you
a picture I
remember
thas so I told you about that camp
quarter way back
inan M was my house he was a very smart
man he was a a p you know StreetWise
besides everything else he was a smart
man calls me up he says
dolphin didn't say Rabbi dolphin doin
doin he knew me from Los Angeles from
the when I was a
buff so he
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says
said told my wife had this was I think
had two babies you know we have four has
four
bedrooms have such a see them in my
house y y you don't say I don't have
food who's going to clean the
beds of
course then you start cleaning the
beds so rendle calls me I say F my our
uncle f
excuse me but like like every year you
come to San Francisco they would come
would come once once a year to San
Francisco for one day in the morning and
the evening they would leave they
wouldn't even stay over because they
want too many people to go ask money
for a few
other who learn t with ra and
the but in a few hours he and get on the
plane back to San Francisco an hour ride
from from from from San Francisco to Los
Angeles less than an hour
anyway
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so every year you come you never ask me
to
stay I was there eight
years
M went La for 4 Years anyway so he he
asked me why why uh I asked I
was I'll satisfy
you you have to know you have to know
why I have a sister he had two sisters
gold
and and there was handal four children
menki the son
ofi
no the son
of had four children and at the fourth
child he died in
child
name same right so he
says brother my wife's grandmother
he
says Australia she lived in
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Australia and and
she I told you how they were very very
friendly
and like
was family very tight very tight I told
before
so's mother was gold and she was a
sister to who was my wife's grandma and
they had two
brothers
and the
artist so so uh he U he says she bothers
me and NES me to come to melbour and
then he tells
me I don't have
old I am I'm old and a tired old
man I'll for my S by going to her
granddaughter which is your wife and
that's why I'm asking to come for you
for a night
good
answer so he he he comes and then they
tell you a lot about that one day
learned so much
just just being around these
people sh yeah why they bring it what
why did they bring it they went together
they went together they went together
they went to Detroit them phly they went
around raising money for the Yesa in for
for and that's by the way I always
thought that he gave
they were raising
money
really told me last 10 15 years his
father know this was this is the Russ he
gave the money to
theab he didn't give it to M he gave it
some
re and he said re he didn't say himself
he
said you know what to do with the money
you want to give it to M give it to m
because they complained later on they
had complaints
to we don't have sidewalks we need
Plumbing we need this give us some of
the money from fundraising so M said a
f you get a fig for meig what the money
is not my money the money
do and out he says my
f that's the way he raised money in Ran
he didn't raised the money and he
decided where the money should go he
gave it over either to
or whoever whoever was in charge over
there and they decided cuz they were the
they were in charge
of and
so didn't the money directly to M even
though he was raising money
for he gave the
money told and the re decides and he
told you have a TI right to the it's his
money not my money it's his money anyway
so
mle was there together
with and um
sh have a every day had we made in my
house
and said to me a which is on the video
many of you probably can see it don't
know which is good knowing
so he says to
me let us
together what's the he
says father
went to the colon colon the colonies to
raise money for the for the to raise
money be a place in a colony you know
you don't have a min
but
it's right is
here looks like he's half asleep right
he wasn't
and and I'm barely here it's three of
us such St such
strength make sure to D with three
people you can't get 10
three anyway so
sit first of
all I saw I saw what I what I heard from
read the I saw my own
eyes put his Tow on his on his back on
his
right and he starts like going back and
forth you know I had that image but I
never really saw it I didn't see see
by you know and see it by this I'm just
saying I didn't see it I saw it like you
know here it is here it is you know the
palace it
SES a walk here a walk there he stops he
thinks it was just
real makes the BR puts on the every word
says the put on the
okay and he sits down and then he starts
saying you
know whatever
there's a late
fil and I walk in with my
camcorder imagine I walk such a such a m
over there didn't have a tripod but this
big thing I put it on the table facing
him I told you it's like he looks at I
get to the point he looks at me he says
don't and he said it was such
a do then the school like
to my
house DOL you take this away right away
and I say
F I didn't say
that Uncle I'm not taking it
away and he looks at me and I thought
he's going to eat me
up he
say this I'm telling you I remember like
now he says why not why not
and he says it with a a base cut you
know with a he's
upset and these were my words I said to
him I want my kids from 20 years from
now to
see he didn't give up he heard my answer
loud and clear he continued he says say
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my answer
was another let me
video that's how you have the video
there is
the and you need both you can't you need
both I don't care I don't care
who you need both from the
biggest the videos are even online they
they stole my video they put it online I
said go do whatever you want go online
you'll see it you're not let to go
online sorry
line should I don't know it's online you
look from you see
it line line very good which line should
you gohe the line the line
anyway 20 years
from one day I wake up and I say to
myself I'm Brooklyn Bart I say you know
I have this video it's time to I just I
one day what why you this laying around
it's a gold mine I take it out I said
let's let's get into production and let
people benefit from it it was 20 years
when I said to them men play the I want
my children to see in
years I'll tell you secret not
secret I have something I hope I have
something in my boxes I let go to my
boxes I'm you want fun just tell what
you found so I can also
have came over to my house and they look
through my my archives my boxes and I I
I I had a video
of if you saw that what I saw I my my
big dingy big camera again I put and I
from the from the stands over there
and I wish I would have known him better
inste a capit tilling before they
started to
see you would melt from one
little you ever hear someone say I kill
him like that a bar not a snug not a
a person that's looking for ego Al every
word I had that on video I caught it on
video I don't know where it
is but the see like that so here you
have you have they're older than you you
need to look up to them you need to ask
them brain tell us and I'm sure they do
but you know more and more and more
all all of whoever it's
it's whoever whoever it
is you know what did you see what did
you
hear that's how you develop that's how
you grow then your appreciation from RE
is so much more sure you can get it from
you see G video video video video all
kinds of videos okay but someone was
and they and they you know it's it's
it's a it's a different it's a different
thing both are needed and both are
good
the you know and and and in
theage this was a a a
way told me I remember
once
everyone CU a me 770 upstairs
starts early
Rin and then we go
in now 2 hours 11
12:00 and who do I see and I see the
so I
say I
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said you know
sh so he answered me probably otherwise
would say you know go somewhere you know
what I mean he would say go fly a kite
you know but he he answered me he
says there's a certain I wish I would
remember I don't
remember
mention after something about and
it's it's like what it doesn't seem like
is being anything he being of something
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forget you
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knows and he
says put
that's we
told don't don't make don't make don't
make you
know this you know just take it and go
don't don't don't build mountains and
buildings
and don't don't do that cuz that's
stupid it's
narrow if you would be P
ory no problem
put and do whatever you
want no
problem I'm not
saying to be
little not saying that but I'm saying
is maybe I'm oldfashioned maybe I'm from
a different day could be could be I'll
admit but but but you know and I'm
telling
you he people don't understand you don't
know who he was you don't know who this
man was you really and even his the
mostl don't know who he was you don't
understand you really don't understand
it he was the biggest
Mist the biggest Mish but in a different
way way it's a different way it's not
way okay no problem it was always
you heard I'm sure you
heard it was
a a very
wild how do I
know told
me
that he was
in and when he took his mouth was don't
you wouldn't be next to
him and
son-in-law speaks and I have a
collection of the Gin
Gin interviews with
six inish it's it's a a treasure if you
haven't heard of those that know yish
you should make it you should make a
business to listen to these these these
tapes very important very very important
lot of lot of important anyway so he
says there the guy asks him the guy who
you know he says those it those
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but he spoke that
way
says you have no idea who this man
was and he start
saying got in the morning
hear
went he went and he when did he eat four
five 5 6:00 when he came home he took
something in his mouth and complaining
about's
mouth so he
says
still he
said you
know anyway so
and and everyone was still old was
older what's going God first of all he's
laying it into US oh but I a good he's
like knocking us off feet boom knock out
knockout it's a KO what do they call
that a knockout
right he's knocked out number two what's
coming out of his mouth we can't sit
you you are to stop
speaking this way from the moment he got
the letter
from he shut his mouth that's a and he's
a that he might even been older than I
don't remember
now yeah by by yeah Strokes I don't know
exactly may push I don't he stopped cold
turkey
C stop the said
quiet you're really thinking it in it's
not the people can't handle it it's not
rlan it's not leage it's not Neville you
know in Neville you can you can talk
this way leab in America it don't go in
Tel AV it don't go post
holoc
Parisa he had the helicopters
to spread out
the
then came he took
backous it's a good to
know who is I
know I haven't seen yet the face I
and older that
ever so it it's it's it's narrow to like
box people in you know it's nrow to box
people in and and and I I don't want to
bring this down to you know I want to
talk about the
so if you're Mas if you're if your
Elder instructs you in a certain
way you have that coule and if you don't
feel it discuss it with
him he can discuss it with
you yes has no problem discussing with
you and you know if this is the closest
the inion from from being honest to
being
honest listen
I want to say certain things you're bu
but one of my daughters was was meeting
someone I'm a certain
Yeshiva you'll probably figure it
out my daughter said you know she would
like to have in the
house uh an
instrument te children some music face I
forget what the was
and the was an upgrade more than her and
and she was willing to rise to the
occasion right to be become more she's
fine
say and he gave her such a hard time I
would never allow such an instrument in
the house it was a musical instrument
so I asked the sh I said could you do me
a
favor find out from him where is he
getting
his his
Source it was Mish it it was a I don't
know if it was a was
a and he said
his told
him this is not
acceptable okay
now should could happen for but the
point is that if you're a tal if you
become a tal of a certain certain a
certain person and you really believe
that and you really work with it come
onus have no ESS mean in that case I
thought it was a little extreme and here
you know you had a a good person who was
willing to but no you you more narrow
and okay no
problem so it's it's it's not you know
like El is black and white you know the
black and white is very I I don't know
may maybe they allas are in black and
white mode I don't come from that world
I don't think megus comes from that
world in our world there was no it
wasn't a black and white World it really
wasn't you know we used to wear color
shirts now I'm not saying you should
wear color shirts today okay but I'm
just saying
like you have more color shirts
and I don't want I don't want to go you
know Sports I don't know what you know
I'm saying
like I went to high
school my principal
par went they didn't have they went had
a whole
day and they didn't go to English said
you shouldn't go to English they didn't
go to English
my father my grandmother was they were
survivors came to America want we should
you know how do they say
Dr
Grand a Dr Rabbi you'll be educated you
get a college degree you'll be a rabbi
Dr so we had in Ocean Parkway the rash
made you know rash made have made the
English and
said whenever it was you know should
learn English but anyway you started I'm
not going to go now but but the had we
had high school we had high school I
didn't want to be there I I wanted to
learn I want to learn whole day I want
to learn what did I do I learned during
English in class don't think the devil
was the only one who had under hiss
his paper his book a I had it also I was
telling
you anyway whatever I wasn't interested
in English and I was messing around
fooling around you know fooling around
in the sense not that I went to play
ball or to you know I I I just I learn
the hi I remember it was like and the
teachers Dophin what do you got under
your your what do you got under your
book over there I said a a a
t a gar
mishas what is that some of these people
know you know
t stop right now or get out of
class I wasn't Cooperative I didn't
listen so he went the teacher and he
went to re T not principal re L Mr ler
was
brother
and really liked me and I liked it he
says was a
play tid
so he
says listen he
says he
saysain in English I didn't tell you to
go to
English the proof is I made a class and
I'm teaching some of
your he
says gaining English your father wants
you to go to English
that's the G you got to go
it's and if you're
going you got to be an a
student Rabbi this little short man was
and tells K dolin as a 15 14 15 year old
if you're going to high
school not only you better do what they
tell you the teachers you better you
better get a not C's and Fs and D's an A
and I changed my whole attitude I
changed my whole attitude from that one
conversation
so why because I love I did love him
but it's because I respect it when you
respect the person you
listen so respect your elders you have
Elders learn from your
elders have them tell
you what the B is what is what is what
Masia is what is what is you know
everything together and then you will
grow and grow and grow and you become
bunch of nonsense
you maybe we should make a
group put them on theic
list let's get a group called Jews
real anyway
signs my daughters told
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me I asked a question where's where's
the fair gate
what what' you
say
the who said
the
why expr what I was just
expressing I'm not sure I'm not saying
like not coming I'm not attacking it's
all right you can attack
say you don't you don't explain to say
what it
is
anyway it's not you're reading I think
you're reading
wrong okay anyway I don't want to go
this way
okay I'm going to be
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now if I tell you everything tonight you
won't bring you back again okay and so
be it
but re I got to get a br tomorrow have a
sheer an interview give me some give me
some slat and you have arches and the
archives over there I'm looking anytime
I trying to
find fman Sharin cmon whatever I could
find a lot of work a lot of
work I'm finding I'm finding things yeah
I'm not even looking I'm finding it and
I have them uh to scan it and send it to
me on the email when I get back to New
York I I'm P I don't have the time I I I
I I want to spend my time Gathering
Gathering Gathering then later I'll look
yeah again not let me let me let
me thousands thousands tens of thousand
100,000 pages
over and some a you know
so I spoke to B standing so told me he
wrote to me today that he said look for
this look for that he says there was a
guy now to do coming to citizenship
Coming to America than I have to take
out the file it's hundreds of boxes I I
didn't take they give you a a
um they give you a like pages of what
they have in the boxes
20 30 pages that means the guy has
hundreds of
boxes oops I start looking forne
notion I look for uh the other
thing but this is what classman said
cl's not here probably his saw it once
you know so it's it's U they don't have
dig they have a digit but not but not
the names in the files
no I found today herit Wier
Herbert Wier you guys should know is was
a reformed Rabbi in South Orange New
Jersey or
Maplewood and he became he became a he
became
a yeah have but that let
him over there in New Jersey and he
wrote to the got correspondence right so
I have that correspondence
have that that's not a a a lot of that
so I took the whole file the whole file
I didn't even check thin paper between
him the re see I took it copy it all you
know I imagine that there's more than
what I had would I've had till now and
also I'll see what he wrote to the re so
if you want to really understand the
Reb's letter you have his letter to the
Reb but but you know so herbit meaner I
recognize the name I think I interviewed
yeah I did interview years ago so her
but saying there are other people you
talking about people from the 19 there
people live in 1910 1920 1930
1940 and uh there's there's an O there's
a big O you
know so so so it's it's a big job
whatever you do what you can you do what
they can and and uh if they wants you to
see something you're going to open it up
I open went up today I told rson I come
across a letter from RAB cook cook from
1933 original S I bet you can sell them
for $5,000 on the market today I could
have easily put it into my pocket I
promise you no would
no there's no there's no metal
detector and I told I told the guy told
the archivist thisen how you protecting
your
things there was an Israeli professor
there doesn't to to much of a you know
far from
it says we're honest we're researching I
said you're right but but the archives
are this program is open for us
researchers but but it's it's really
also she says to me that she wants more
Kik to come so every every person that
wants whoever can come in with an
appointment and who do you know who you
get people and you should know that this
is a big business we're going T of
a of a br but the people do this
regularly in Brooklyn and a mon and a
Lakewood and
there yeah this is
uh
me
mzv I forget
who sword on the oan block his letter
he calls up a person he says it's
me so it's
you give me my
letter P
$1,000 obviously gave away the letter
and I spoke to
some they have not
necessary it's not it's not so simple I
I thought you know
neighbor and a letter to you a letter to
you that the re
wrote and someone selling it for $1,000
and you know who it is and he ain't
giving you the letter what are you going
to do this is it's a big business today
you know the bottom line is keep your
letters those letters put they're worth
a lot of
money I can put a letter you to go place
here and there and you go you must this
way and that way that's sough that's a
letter that's a letter
A
anyway that we will get out of this mess
there's no question about it AB is good
and the is good and it's good it's good
I can be better no they us knows that
too so it's good it'll be better and we
go with positivity and we go with
objectivity
and you say then you can cry your heart
out if you feel you need to you
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know no
no it's all right I think we do you
think we don't and we need toing about
this another
time and
uh
heard told me that miss when he he came
come and lay
down and old once came to walk over stay
by
his and he would come
and age you guy High School
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he's having
issue iess
with says I because he would run around
raising money for for
was knocked
out in the morning the way
he no find you such a Jew today that
really feels that he can't because he
didn't anyway
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you is his brother from Carl
Springs is a brother from Carl Springs
No No's not
here guys
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you go to his house you knock on the
door you wake him up but you don't you
knocking the door let you
in what's the
problem you don't got CS
what open the door you keep on knocking
you'll have to open the door
this
whole
making not going to get Me Maybe from
the guys here me
bra I'm not a re
a I'm not a re
I'm trying to be
a if you didn't get what time is I have
no idea what time is it doesn't matter
11:30 you're lying you're lying some
it's not 11:30 it must be 1 1 in the
morning two in the morning I can't
believe it
so 12:00 I have to get anyway listen
listen if sitting here from what 10 10
two four hours and you can ask a
question what's
the you know the guy said what's greater
to being a tip a
tip a and there a ask question
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you need
a don't list listen don't don't don't
make and the bage
formalities it's the worst thing this is
not brisk this isn't P this
isad it doesn't work that way there's no
formalities here you want to get up on a
table now and dance without your sock
dance you want to make a coola make a
coola you want a Bre Bre you know this
not the formalities to
here now we're going to cry now we're
going to dance now we're going to
beting this is not not my laage maybe
maybe you know you guys are youngsters
and I'm an old man
already my laage is not this laich I
didn't see this by by by there was
wasn't this way the re isn't this
way the he says turn your heart upside
down he goes like this is that normal
I'm asking you is that
normal exactly but that's the bage it
doesn't have to be normal that you have
to turn your hat like this he tells us
you beamus turn your hat like
this you're wearing socks that have to
match
your one of the
two should be the
next told me
that they told told me
that didn't say what
you and the re goes and gives
excuse to to M why his socks are the
same color as his shirt I mean think
about any normal
Russ any of
any you know he would say you're not
getting a dime from me anymore I ain't
coming to see you
anymore and
me so the whole the our whole system is
a different system so please don't don't
squash don't squash don't squash leage
don't don't don't CU again maybe you
guys have a new laage I don't know but
the laage that we grew up with and we
saw and we lived with was an in no
formalities so what's the what you find
the you need me to tell you the
for you it's one for your with the red
hair it's another and for the other it's
another may I ain't I ain't singing to
the song that you want to sing me sing
to you
know another put another quarter exactly
make your dime and you'll get another
song
all night we were supposed to leave at
11:12 We Were Young your age right start
at
8:00 but some of us went upstairs to the
DOR and then came down a half an hour
when the Mas left already and we stayed
on till 3 4 5 in the
morning it was it was
all night they took mashka and he spoke
and he cried and he went to the bathroom
to Pish you know was it was get that off
the
tap
anyway and he and he really I can't put
that they're going to this goes on
YouTube they're G they're going to say
you're
disgusting
anyway what you
say anyway if I bring the all night if I
bring the all night
you think any one of us and I'm not far
from it you know but the concept any was
said what's the hero of
the what
say you got you got to be
kidding it's like
never never would I say to a
Mas to a visiting Rabbi for visiting for
visiting a y comes you know ah uh you
know
your and I'm not and I'm not believe me
I'm not I'm not offended I promise you I
tell everyone I have a hard hat believe
me you can hit me a lot on my head cuz I
ain't budging
much Froman it's not it's like the whole
sheet of the whole if you're bu a and
and and and listen this is just the
beginning of I'm not I'm not continuing
now I'm saying this is
garnished this is garnished of is till
the morning
or it is until you're
moved you're really moved not just I'm
moved you're
moved but of
course and they looking at me like a
spectator it's spectator sports you they
got the the Cincinnati Reds and the
Cincinnati Bengals and New York Yankees
and this guy this and this and you're
looking oh what is he doing how is he
Bing how is he throwing
right get involved
never you know
thank so I need I need to get the stuff
from from the office yeah I still I get
home yeah with the college students over
there there's no one around there
either yes I have there my phone and and
a book and something else
there's the
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he
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get my stuff you want it got to go