המצגת לדינר השנתי בניו יורק ארה"ב תשע"ג

is so there we were we're living with the israelis we're in a new environment camry alvin is not stamina in the middle of you shall i am in the middle of nowhere we have the cows on the farm in the kibbutz right nearby uh we're there in a world in olympia osmo my name is don well and i was a member of the first group of americans of binechul that came to israel in 1956. we got there by boat and we arrived there of rosh hashanah a little bit later than we expected too we fell asleep during my road it was a very active and dynamic year it was the year of muhammad kadesh sinai campaign all the time need him of course then former in the first two years and present during the time that we were there served in the army so that when the sinai situation broke open the ship emptied out everybody went and took up their positions there they were preparing for war the russia shiva did everything he could to encourage everybody to keep up the the level of learning during the war period there were three shirom in the ishiba then i think russia shiva rav sinai hadler who was also the post-sake of the yeshiva rav grosberg was mashiach he didn't teach a shir dove rappel taught yeshivat and i may have missed one we had she wore him once a week from mordecai project rav once a week we came to the issue though it was all together different from what you see today there were rooms on the side there was a meshits in front that separated the dining hall from the basement the base meadows was open to the birds literally there was no italian orange there were no other buildings around we we lived in barracks outside and during that time they began to plant trees the talmudim themselves planted the trees on june the 5th 1967 israeli forces launched an all-out attack on arab forces in the sinai desert and so began the six day warning the physical facilities taught us that torah doesn't need physical enhancement to make it work i remember the chaverus within the yeshiva my roommates among whom was rap greenberg the current rosh shiva and the learning and above and beyond the rosh hashima and his presence in the yeshiva he and the rabbanite used to come and stay here and we shared a lot of experiences together i took the russia shiva to lakewood the first time that he ever visited the community he was such a uh energetic and independent thinker and he he always took in consideration his wife's views it was customary that one of the benefits would be honored with an aliyah in order to be mostly everybody with the birkhauser gomel they chose me i just arrived i had never benched gomel i really didn't know how to bench gomel the gaba gave me a little miniature sitter and he said just read this and i proceeded to make the birkhauser gomo and everybody answered misha gamoko and i didn't know when to end so i screamed out borschia patrani my own shishos and the russia shiva absolutely collapsed on the bema and they had to practically pick him up it was probably one of the most humorous things that ever took place in cambiavda and to the russian shiva's credit over a period of maybe 30 40 years since he never mentioned that event wants to be to embarrass me so it was a it was uh but it's something that i'll remember forever and now i'm sharing it with the audience i remember commenting about karen biabner rooming with israelis going to an israeli shield with marsha dimittman who was a very vibrant ram many times to make a point he would lift his tender and smash it down to make an even more powerful point he would with great love punch us on the shoulders my particular experience was unique in so far as i was privileged to be in arizona in tufts of zion during the six day war we were digging trenches to try to enable the rebbies to find shelter in case there was a bomb coming from a plane we experienced in the second day of the war a an air raid in the middle of chakras we all went to the maclat and we were fearful for our lives a week after the yomir shalom we were with the entire yeshiva went to the coast of ravi in the morning of chavuz it was open for the first time to the general public these experiences are absolutely unforgettable to the tremendous credit of the benefits and caribbean everyone stayed we felt we wanted to be together with the people of of of amieus and we felt tremendous joy when we were with them who could forget this algae about this amazing topic and once again he tried to maintain that balance between the importance of you shalom and arizona and torah and he said as important as it is don't forget the lessons which have been with me my entire life we had uh four four students in a room two americans and two israelis it was a little um ironic americans would come in with all their clothes and israeli would have one or two shirts but we also saw that how diligent they were not only in their studies but after hours late at night they would be doing all kinds of exercises to get into shape so when they would enter the military at zava they would be uh physically uh capable to do everything that one is supposed to do we also were often invited to their homes for shabbat the first hanukkah that we were there that we would dance uh after we after we lit the the menorah in our rooms and in the basement we would dance to the uh through shiva's house and to the uh south and the other rabbeam and that was really very very beautiful experienced is was a wonderful time in my life i was 18 it was my first experience with learning torah a whole day and it was wonderful i think one of the key elements of karen biavan is that it enshrines in its talmidam and its graduates that no matter what we do for the rest of our life torah plays a paramount role mitzvos plays a paramount role and everything else we do can fit into that kind of lifestyle it was really the greatest experience in my life to be able to learn torah the quality of learning of course from a major class russia shiva of goldwyck satsang and i developed the cashier with rabbi goldfield over the two years i was there not just through the shire and claudium that took me a long time until i could understand them but i appreciated them very much once i did but also the khaburos in his house which stuck in my mind and i remember some of those harpers they ingrained in my heart very very deeply and the notes that i have from those years from though and the sperm that i have from the rosh shiva are things that i turn to constantly in my learning today not just in limu before yom kippur and the lights went out the vase meadows turned black you couldn't see your hand in front of your eyes reshishiva continued without interruption is my name is mr gorbachev tear down this wall the experience of karen miyavna taught me a sense of what your shamayam is a real sense of awe of reverence also taught me a sense of seriousness you had young men who were waiting you know before they were going to go back to the army every evening every day you know every lunch break they took it seriously they they used their minutes well they used their the opportunity god was giving them to delve into the the substance of what judaism is in karen biafra you're going to be with students who are dedicating five or more years of their life to splitting their time between army service and learning uh torah in in a hazard yeshiva i think exposure to that and interacting with those types of young men will have a great impact upon you and your future understanding of the jewish people the role of torah and eretz israel i'll be taurasi israel and that's a great impact that should not be overlooked and has just great benefits for you with your growth and your development i remember a tremendous ambulatory which infused the base measures a tremendous sense of idealism a sense of a connection to claw you throw i remember when i first came to cambiavna uh coming out of high school i was overwhelmed by a base mattress filled with people learning and the the davening was uplifting based upon personal experience here in karen biafner is one which leaves an indelible impression one that is going to mold and shape a person for a lifetime my years in calgary avenue are what inspired me to make serious talmud torah a permanent part of my lifetime sometimes take walks with the former rashashiva the founding resheaver of goldberg he would tell me stories sometimes about his growing up with the golem in the old days and what it meant to really learn and to really have a dedication towards talmutora i know that i gained a tremendous amount from kai miyako golovk just hearing him watching him seeing his seriousness about learning the way he built the yeshiva where he cared about each talmud the way he invited us oftentimes into his office aside from the penetrating way the reflection taught us how to read he taught us how to analyze he taught us not to take things that face value to always question to always ask to always look things up he gave knockout shiur man hummish he would analyze the chambers not just the gemara he would give us shirmen marshava and ashkaf black needs to always say i i want to find maikele you don't have to necessarily always accept everything that was you have to ask after question you have to find out and accomplish your your own accomplishments in learning the way your life changes by being a student in caribbean and being a talmud the changes are everlasting certainly the the learning and the hashkafa and the values that are instilled by the yeshiva you take with you forever what kerabi avenue teaches you is that anything worth doing you have to go all in and that goes quite frankly with respect to learning and your vote as hashem but also in many ways in terms of your career and your professional life if you want to be successful you have to show complete commitment the limur torah the government the intensity of the tefila are extraordinary kby taught us and i think the rush shiva hall of bashallam taught us that you have ahrius to your peers you have acharas to your yeshiva and you have a highest your institution that you're learning with and that that has had an influence on your life after a long day at work perhaps the last thing you want to do is go to a board meeting of some yeshiva or another yeshiva but it's um what culture taught us and what quite frankly the other rabbi have taught us of commitment to um to institutions i got to come to in the first night we got there we arrived late at night and rabbi rivled was there uh without his tie without the jackets and he was there to greet us with a tray of hot cake and i said this is like the zadie of the yeshiva they only tell me later he's the mashiach it's a yeshiva that taught us what torah is what torah is all about i got to remember black mashir and he was on fire and it was it was labor deck and we got into the learning and there's a colo torah that says and nobody wants to leave libya's marriage you're in the basement rush you're sitting you're stagging it's alive there's a brand there's a fire there's a passion mission tonight thursday night it's going on until the second five six o'clock in the morning and there's a cover that's still going stock that's still learning with the diligence and that's modern yeah people learning being a strong because it was a fire there was an excitement but rosh hashanah it was about taiwan it was about haswell it was about sitting and staging it was i want to become like the shashiba shlita who learned by it was mashami gadoli israel like the housing is like the brisker of we had boys coming from really all over the world but i think there was a common denominator amongst my classmates we all came there because we realized this is a one or two for the israelis three years where we could be in the middle of futsaki aveney and dedicate ourselves to grow in torah learning makshava and spirituality and really karen bayavnay gave us those unique tools that we used in our day-to-day lives i came to canberra avenue not knowing anyone and left kearn bay avenue with a group of amazing friends and karen diagnosed a lot of tremendous qualities the rebain the russia yeshiva over the years and when i was there was greenberg and the quality of the talmudim is just really second to none before i came to karen diagonal my was my plan to learn for a year or two after high school and to move on to college and to get a job and move on with life professionally and i did that i learned for two years after high school and i went to college but i decided afterwards to kiss me and a lot of that was motivated by my experience in caribbean yeshiva is a place that really demands excellence and i was really pushed to do my best um in terms of learning and in terms of my binaural as well while i was there and i think that's really enriched every stage in life that i've gone to since the friendships that i've developed and the relationship that i've built during yeshiva and continuing until now and i cover has been obviously a very helpful aspect in my in my growth it's not just learning gemara it's that you're exposed to a bunch of different ways and and there's something for everyone the rebay and foster environment of becoming independently healthy and you're a shaman and you're learning have environment that lets you be yourself and still grow learning in your own way the alva satellite for galveston tairoa to become a town hall calm that's what so many of us have picked up that's what we want to give over to the next generation will be able to take that example outside the download costas disseminate the promo game worldwide and of course to the wonderful rebellion because this is a yeshiva that has changed lives it certainly has changed my life forever and i will forever be indebted an incredible and indescribable sense of accuracy we're not just yeshiva like ravon told us we were bene yeshiva as we celebrate 60 years of accomplishment we look forward to the next 60 years and all those times who choose caribbean going forward will be be able to relive similar experiences and the yeshiva should continue to go under its new leadership mayhem ohio to be a beacon of light to all those who love torah who love eric israel and army israel until the mashiach comes from here of your name you