Rav Rosenfeld's Yahrzeit

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Yud Aleph Kislev, that's this coming Thursday, is the yahrzeit of my father-in-law, Rabbi Rosenfeld - my Rebbi, and my father-in-law. He was really a special person, which I didn't have the intellect enough to know how great he was while he was alive. But as I go on in life, I discover more and more what a very unique person he really was, very unique. He was two years old when he arrived in America. He was born in Poland, arrived in America, he was two years old. And he grew up in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. He went to Chaim Berlin, which was then located in Brownsville, and then he went to Torah Vodaas for high school, and he learned! He learned, and he learned. He went afterwards to Rav Yaffen - Rav Avraham Yaffen, Beis Yosef Novardok Yeshiva. He became very, very close to Rav Yaffen, Z”L. He studied chavrusa with his son, Reb Yaakov, A"H, and he excelled. He was my Rebbi when I was in the seventh grade. I was twelve and a half years old. And he taught in Etz Chaim, which was a modern Orthodox yeshiva in Brooklyn, in Borough Park. And he amazed us. Told us stories from the Gemara. He applied it. That was the chiddush. He was able to apply all these stories to actual living conditions. This is in the late fifties, 1950s. And Baruch HaShem, he spoke Breslov. And I've been there since then. But it wasn't

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1. 0:00Yud Aleph Kislev, that's this coming Thursday, is the yahrzeit of my father-in-law, Rabbi Rosenfeld -…
2. 0:38when he arrived in America. He was born in Poland, arrived in America, he was two…
3. 1:17Yeshiva. He became very, very close to Rav Yaffen, Z”L. He studied chavrusa with his son,…
4. 1:52Park. And he amazed us. Told us stories from the Gemara. He applied it. That was…
5. 2:24only me - first of all, five guys from our class remained Breslover chasidim. But more…
6. 3:34He had parents from non-religious children who he made religious. They threatened his life. They ran…
7. 4:12in America. He was the first and foremost person that worked to draw people to Breslov.…
8. 4:42the building. Reb Levi Yitzchak Bender told me this openly. The first floor, there were several…
9. 5:18Talmud. He could tell you which page and how many lines down on the page is…
10. 6:00there's tens of thousands of people that serve HaShem because he taught them when it was…

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