Tribute Rabbi Yosef Rosenfeld, Menahel of Chabad's Yeshiva Ohelei Torah in Crown Heights for 62 year

this is a tribute to harav and jasif rosenfeld by rosenfeld was the menahil of the la babachi shiva called ole taira in koran heights for over 60 years i believe 62 years from 1960 to 19 to 2022. his role in the beginning was working under at mikhail teitelbaum a russian libertarian who started ali there in 1956 after the rebels spoke about learning al-qaeda's learning only yiddish subjects no english subjects spoke about that at least till the age of nine and the implication was even later and this was uh a hidden novelty because which had english studies i myself am a high school graduate so the rebbe didn't didn't say anything negative about that but he definitely encouraged learning only the mudakiddish jewish yiddish topics of tata especially until nine years old so that when a child is young the mind is pure they only have jewish topics either should topics in their mind and uh this is about rabbi rolenfeld not about the this discussion of this idea but basically rabbi rosenfeld sarah mccall title boy title bound started the yeshiva in 1956 and it was a fledgling yeshiva it started i think with two three boys was hired as one of the first malambdam or the first mohammed and i could tell you that when i was growing up we were in la babachi yeshiva and then i when i was a teenager and base mothers booker our yeshiva was like the yeshiva you know all the tight at the time was was not as uh you know large and not as um [Music] you know popular as la babachi shiva but the tables have turned and today has sixteen eighteen hundred two thousand tell me them and all the grades and um most definitely that's where most lubavitcher children and bakarim go to today and i think we could say as much as title bound made the yeshiva and hadn't seen a snafish for it and is credited as the founder it was rabbi rosenfeld who took the lead under him and raised the money and ran a tight ship and really really pushed all the tata and i was amazed that whenever he spoke or at least times that i heard him he would speak you know in yiddish especially if he's speaking to talmidim at gerat yiddish and this was something very important they learned in judicial they spoke yiddish today yiddish is almost uh a forgotten language and yiddish as the rebbe said he wants to speak in his ancestors language yiddish so he's speaking yiddish and i'll give you an example the rabbis allah would speak edition until 1960 or so when uh the students in the class at yeshiva university at the uh said rebbe referring to rabbi salvatrik uh we don't understand what you're saying and that's when he changed from giving shiyuri miss classes in yiddish to english but the rabbis stuck with it and the people you know i remember they had transistor radios to understand the fabrega of metzker and manus friedman and others translated the fabregas so people can understand and then in other languages as well but the rabbit kept at gerard yiddish rabbi rosenfeld kept to that standard and that itself is a school is a great merit and and even to the last day i think earlier yeah the shiva his wife passed away about four months ago or so in a year and they have a video i saw that there so they brought the rabbi lustig their principal brought tell me them students to be menachem they had the shiva and he was speaking to the children in yiddish and it was a machaya to see it was beautiful with the schmuck and i think those of us that don't know yiddish and we are ready grandparents or parents grandparents in particular should invest in yiddish should push yiddish because that's the language of our bayhem now of course i'm not saying that you should make um you know fights in schools and communities that's not the point the point is this is a trap for yiddish and it should be appreciated and by rosenfield gets gets the credit for that for keeping it up also he spoke and it also was recorded about his memories of being with the frida karebe as a young boy and what he said over from what he said over you could see what kind of bittle what kind of humility and subservience he had as a young boy to the fleet of cadaba as a young boy and he didn't come from alabama's background his father was a ghetto husset i believe he's an american you know a yankee doodle i think uh the growners were makarev brought the the rosenfeld's robbie rosenfeld show me is all the brother of avraham roosevelt here in borough park of the uh the sound of rebellio simpson and um they they will make out of him to to come to to the babbage in the ultimate yeshiva so rabbi rosenfeld rosenfeld you know was an american and he gave himself over completely then he was one of the first look him in he i believe he married in 58 then he went out shortly thereafter on schliches to san francisco at that time you had uh severus luchem garcia mendel guerrero went to milano around that time 58 59 and then you had betel shemptov went to detroit and russell roosevelt went to san francisco they have a tape online of him giving a duke a report at a tsak convention in 1959 i think it's a hyatt to hear him speak because he you know he's speaking in yiddish and in san francisco and i live near san francisco and angelico marin county i can tell you how san francisco was always and it's very like by the miragum it says you know a land that consumes its inhabitants orthodoxy there was never was it was not a mainstay and even those from other uh communities like rabbi lypnos or zangazoon you know came on behalf of schneider cutler and the terror messiah and uh there was a terrible das talmudira by troub uh you know but it didn't it didn't make a change in the overall culture which was mainly you know the of the reform mindset and uh very liberal okay and uh nevertheless went out there and he did he did his work i spoke to him once about some of his work there and it was a very big hustler who lived there who was his son he lived he lived there and he had a son and you don't know if he married and he knew him he said he was a he made wine and he actually knew him and this is 1959 1960. and then he was called back here and he got involved with the letter and the rest is history mamish he worked around the clock to to to keep the mice going going and paying people on time and um i worked for the title for a while and you know there was no such thing as a late check at the time i don't know later before but it seems like uh he really had his act together and uh you see the institution today it's it's a shameless affair it's beautiful so i uh i comfort the the family some of the sons who i know and the daughters hakaian if you have only only [Music] and should be reunited with us through the the the the shiak because good news