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Canada: R MM Sand #4- Marriage, Wife's family, business, Making Aliya, Future- Rabbi Chaim Dalfin
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So we're here with Rabband Sand. This is
the fourth part of a tremendous
wonderful special interview on the
program meaningful
interviews. And to hear these uh
memories of yours
Cana brings
back brings back reality. Why do I say
it's reality? Because we're built today.
We stand on you and your generation and
your parents and grandparents, my
grandparents. You know the Gumar
says it's a on a giant.
So you know, you know there's theers. We
could be bigvitzers, but without our
ancestors is we're not done.
So please tell us now how you continued
as a teenager. You got married to your
wonderful
wife. Say a little bit about this and
how you had and the other
children. My father continued with the
store in
Ba. When I became old
enough age 10,
11, I went to the store to work because
we all worked, right?
And I used to take cash.
But you were still you weren't you
weren't in school. But you weren't in
school at 13 14. You weren't in school.
Sure. I was you were in school. But you
mean after school your free time you
worked in the store. You have to tell me
what you were saying something.
When Roshon and Yum Kipper
came, the town always made a minion.
This is an
insta and they never had a minion. So a
couple of people from Chadam from
Newcastle or so used to
come and used to come to
the when we got polio they wouldn't let
my father come to
do and it was
rashes my father took the train and
drove to Huntington, New
Brunswick. There he got a
minion and there he had Derry was able
to shut him.
Yeah, it wasn't it wasn't easy.
Now, by the way, I just want you to
know, yeah, I'm 91 years old.
may
have a good
Thank you. Yes. To to live to 120 but in
a healthy way. Right. Right. So So uh
what age at what age did you marry?
I married my wife when I was 23. 23. in
19 30
1950 1957.
And how did you meet her?
I made up my
mind that I wanted to get
married in the town of
Baurst. There was a
mammed. Yeah. I used to learn a shir
with him was a kabadic. His name was
Rabbi Binymanson.
Oh, Rabbi Binyson. Sure. And Rabbi
Binymanson used to learn to share with
me. Uhhuh.
Since I met him, I met his
wife. When I used to go back to Baths to
run the
store, Mrs. Binmanson met
me and she says, "Boy, do I have a girl
for you. was a neighbor
of the Beyondmans. Ah, you were a
neighbor of the Beyondmans.
And
she told her
husband, "Many
sand is a good catch."
Yeah. You got to
got the sands. The sands are there.
Tell him that to meet her. Uhhuh. So,
so you met she phoned up my mother. Who
did you? Rabbits and rabbits and phoned
up your mother. She phoned up her
mother. Okay. It was her neighbor,
right?
Who was that? And she called her got a
nice boy.
So her mother called my mother and said
there's a nice boy to meet.
What did you want to what did you want
to add? You wanted to say something to
the story. The story is that my my
grandmother lived with us and she was
always talking to uh to
Yes.
And
uh and uh it was my grandmother who who
came and she said because my mother was
helping my father. He was in the jewelry
business. So she used to help him there
and uh so it was my grandmother and and
she liked rabbits and I mean she's a
wonderful person. I also liked her, but
I didn't have time to talk to her like
my grandmother. They were both Russians.
The Bamison were from Jerusalem. They
were from Russia. They were originally.
Oh, so was my grandmother. But you're
talking now
1935. My grand her grandmother came in
1905.
Yes. Wow. She lived in Nova Scotia. In
Nova Scotia. In Nova Scotia. Wow. Wow.
So her
grandmother lived in
Russia. Her husband was so
What was the name? The name the family
name. Levine. Lev. They were Levian.
They were Lev. Lev.
And he came in 19. It was hard to make a
living, right? So he went to England and
became a
malabed for a family in
England. Her
grandpa. He left his wife who was
running a mak.
A grocery store. Yeah. Yeah. In Nova
Scotia. In Nova Scotia. Yeah. Yeah. No.
Yeah. Think about 1905. She was 5 years
old, six years old. Yeah. Anyway, my
mother was then they got tickets and
they came to America.
And they landed in Canada and they
landed in a place
called Woods Harbor.
[Laughter]
That's Jewish family. I love the
expression. Anyway, her
mother used to help her mother run the
store. The
grandfather came from England.
He became a
peddler. But he was a soy person. So you
knew how to pedal. No, he was afraid of
a horse. He had a horse. He had a horse
and you had to brush the horse. But he
used to say
so
her her mother used to go as a kid out
to brush the horse. Wow.
My mother was the oldest and she did
everything. Your mother was the oldest
of the siblings. Of the siblings. Five
children. So, you guys are married 70 68
years. 68 years. 68 years. No. 68 equals
Yeah.
68. Listen.
My mother lived till 104 and almost 105.
Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. She was Amazing
woman.
Wow. She she was the leader of the
family. Your mother? Yes. She took care
of My grandmother lived with us.
And her sister, she was blind all her
life. She lived with them. My
grandmother hated her until her last day
till she died. She died. She was younger
than my grandmother. She died 10 years
before my grandma. My aunt was born with
anyway and your children grandchildren
great grandchildren now it's sh the
great great
grandchildren it's daddy maybe tell them
I'll just a little that you know after
you got married you still lived in
bathrooms and you made the eye three I I
let's do it next time because I I got to
get back by 4 okay you'll order me
you'll order me at Yeah please okay we
will continue mashem
Only the beginning.