Rabbi Belsky shares an inspiring story during a camp event.
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Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] I just like to tell you I was once a counselor in Camp Buddha. I don't want to frighten you by telling you how many years telling you how many years ago, but I was there the first time as a counselor 60 years ago. Okay. And afterwards I came back for a couple of years again as a counselor. In those days at the end of the sermon after the camp was over. sermon after the camp was over. So the counselors including myself would go around for the car visiting children that had been in camp and working very hard to continue what they call today kiru. In those days, nobody used the word at all. But we visited the homes, brought them into achievements. Every year there them into achievements. Every year there was a tremendous crowds. Came from all strange places all over. And they came to camp. They were there for three weeks. That was one trip to those days. Somebody stayed for six weeks. Two trips. Almost no one stayed for nine weeks which would be three trips. But he visited, worked with the boys, kept up with contact and got them boys, kept up with contact and got them registered in yeshiva. And some of them became the finest in the yeshivas. Some of them even became later famous people. And that was the work of Keagura in those days. The camp was far away from where it is right now. Maybe it's a little bit closer to where Bura is now. It was in a place called High Mount, New
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- 0:30telling you how many years ago, but I was there the first time as a counselor…
- 1:00sermon after the camp was over. So the counselors including myself would go around for the…
- 2:02boys, kept up with contact and got them registered in yeshiva. And some of them became…
- 2:32called High Mount, New York. And that was the main work of him. We enjoyed it…
- 3:35Kagur, a tremendous amount of success for Hashem and bringing the children of children of families…
- 4:06of captain. I see right now take a look at the brim here and I see…
- 4:38ke and bashem I see the tremendous tremendous wonderful success the happiness and the excitement on…
- 5:39Where's the boy before who told me the good news that he got today? Where are…
- 6:09Jewish school. [Applause] And one second. Why are you so excited that you're going to injure…
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