Rabbi Moshe Yosef Engel, shliach 54 yrs, Long Beach, CA - Montreal Chabad Yeshiva- RC Dalfin #2

okay so now tell tell me so second seg I'm interviewing [Music] here in Long Beach California since 1970 that's 54 years so tell tell me now a little bit about now you became a in the monre talk a little about your please basically our family M yes and I miss I went to and I had a very good experience right likeed it tonight you know and uh little by little I grew into it I would say maybe by by age 14 15 for sure I was a solid kid or maybe 1670 I remember speaking with someone and we met two bu talking and and he said to me you know when I die I'm going to be buried in I said I feel the same way I mean I just remember that don't ask me why or what I just had that feeling that so who made the biggest impact you in those years in everyone well teachers I mentioned before those were elementary school right the teachers that I'm now was in this so there was gari had a big impact on me there was hadig me was our see he wasia but he was also I remember learning Lor right and was was a yeah was and he he carried the she we we all respected it very much don't remember why or what it was all I remember one time the B to fank remember what the occasion was but she said okay over to my house came over to this house the whole night we we didn't say a word just it was it was very touching to [Music] me that was it that was the picture I also remember this is not a good situation I remember he passed away he passed away there when I was in yeah he was in your don't remember he one Higher One lower we were right the same I remember Friday night oh he was the announcer in show what do you mean the anouncer be you know yeah like a g like a The Bu of the buff yeah came Friday night so they told him he forgot to announce yeah so he said don't worry we'll be saying till them anyway that night I went I ate by B I'm coming back from the eating and I see a bunch of guys running this way out of the dorm towards Isa later I realized they were kind he had passed away that night he that was the first night he decided he was going to make a dorm meal rather than we having to go to it was a small was like six seven guys and I I don't remember what happened but I believe that he at something and then he said not feeling well he laid down and so they were saying to them anyway so they he said they'll be saying to them anyway I do remember an incident I don't know this in here but used today night was onic to break into the kitchen like can good so I don't remember who it was but a few guys spoke the kitchen and mean this time they did a a job there was nothing left the cook came in the next one she was so upset and so food for to make anyway in lunchtime oh so so the two or three guys that were C yeah they their punishment was they're not getting lunch right so I remember this sceneay walking by we're all eating lunch and he's not eating lunch I think two him I remember and he got up and he said ra if they don't give me food I'm going to die and if I die you'll have to come with me accompany me to the funeral 3 weeks before he died just remember that happening to me you know was a joke and he and him it was a joke he passed away no you just said he passed away Friday night cuz you said I mean the L left to New York oh oh ohas when I think was and he he wased in New York right actually something to comfort his father yes I heard that he was I heard a good I heard no was a I didn't see is not he definitely think was one of the leaders of the who was your kusus kusus one was benstein yeah in Detroit for many many years we learn together we learn together and we learn heas together with a br for for and then used to go right so we us both of us went to a very far Shore so we went far we probably 25 minutes together and then he went that way and I went that way because a sure right I will tell you something that to me was very interesting I know for be interesting your a crow but I once went to the he was he was the B and I was theany yeah right did such a terrible job I I didn't remember what they overwhelm with I I said if that's the case I can to and that's what made me I see every shabas I would home and I read two paragraphs and over then I would have my mother listen to me and I did next two paragraphs and that's how I became um I won't tell you name that's all right um what about in N who wasin was I just remember we said a very important T here said here who later became became and actually we were not we but we were a little responsible for him mov away from oh because you guys him you cheed him they Che this is label num brother yeah oh Lael there were three brothers label and what californ yeah and he's alive still last time I knew came to California for his brother was making so he became a became yeah so why do you bring that CU he said oh he he he was there so he said here and and Reuben was there so Reuben was the The Genius yeah he was a regular guy he Harvard he harv would come in like we finished all eating we hung around we talked he would come in and then over and over that that was his thing then Vin Stein said opposite me and I said for that was our remember okay did you have any relationship connection with her par much a little bit only because he was officially the M of monreal yeah I had very little connection with him because I was that was upstairs the second floor and I ever saw what I do remember is that it was I'm going to guess it was 1967 but I'm not sure of that we decided to put on a big per a big for event bunch of B so we made I think we rented Hall got we got a hall in the public school and I remember we put on a plan for the and I I just remember I worked very hard on that probably the other guys did too I just remember afterwards we wanted to go to the refence for br so we had we got a we had plane tickets but after our show we went to reparis vash's house that's where we bringing an to this to this P you remember that his wife was blind or almost blind and they said she became blind from crying over her two children that never got out of Russia which later got out of yes yes y right and and then we got on plane to New York I remember getting into the fingan that's the last thing I remember I think I since you mentioned the fa and the Reba when was the first time you met the re do you recall I yes I went to the re my my teacher was your teacher was he was my Bist teacher oh not your rebi Yesa at the time right my my my mother signed me up with somebody else to go to teach and then start he started or maybe he was my at that time but he started talking to me he said what what are you going to do permiss for I said started with she says how could your mother pay for it she said money she doesn't have money he says come I will teach you so he became my m at a certain point when he saw how beautiful my voice was he said to me sing other couldn't sing right right bigger also had no Tom no good no tomb couldn't hold the tomb but uh um so he brought he he he he suggested you go to the rebel that's how that's I was asking you about I I guess around then maybe I I don't remember I remember him speaking to me saying before you go into the go to mitah I remember him telling me that U I should WR oh should WR he helped me write the this was for right my I was we were going to New York for the so as it turned out I used to go into the river once or twice a year twice twice why because once we went as a group our class our our the from Montreal and then once I went because it wasat and it was right before my so that's when used to go so I went into the F okay now now I so that means you had your it seem like from 1960 to 19670 pretty much 10 years in a row could you share something from those a a little bit yes I could sh first of all stop