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From Flat Tire to Shas! An amazing Oorah Journey

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Rabbi Eliezer Abrahamson and Mr. Tuvia Poe share their inspiring journey at Oorahthon 2014.

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by Abramson who is here this evening with us and Mr Po welcome and thank you for joining Theon as Raab abon Arab abon is a Torah mate and his wife is a Torah mate so it's a family affair um so first of all welcome Rabbi Abramson to the uranak and thank you for coming um and um Mr Po it happens to be because of Mr Po's name I remember interviewing him Po's name I remember interviewing him six years ago on the radio Thon and I even remember asking him a joke if he was related to edar alen Poe but he assured me that he's not that's right yeah yeah well quote The Raven Nevermore um but but we will see in the next exciting interview that I really have to address Mr Poe now as Rabbi Po and uh that is going to be an Ura one wonderful Ura story let's start from the beginning Rabbi AB Crimson when did you get Rabbi AB Crimson when did you get involved first with Mr Poe so I met Mr actually met M Mr Poe's wife first um in 2002 and then shortly afterwards I met uh tuvia and um I was that was back when I was uh giving classes in West Chester Pennsylvania for uh tow links and uh they very quickly were progressing um in their learning and in their uh observance and they uh they moved

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  1. 0:00by Abramson who is here this evening with us and Mr Po welcome and thank you
  2. 0:30Po's name I remember interviewing him six years ago on the radio Thon and I even
  3. 1:31moved actually over over the years they moved twice but initially but they uh to in
  4. 2:33lifetime involvement I mean the two of you now are learning together for how long well
  5. 3:34oriented we wanted to um so so we recently switched to umem wow and at the
  6. 5:06um uh well I got involved with the smika program after I learned Shish mishas oh
  7. 6:08learn sh um the reason I wanted to learn sh I was listening to a tape
  8. 7:12reiton that feel a need for uh balich Chua and kir people because they a lot
  9. 8:15first one was in Asbury Park and we met friend we made friends there with people
  10. 9:19can you tell our gigantic worldwide audience how uh don't be nervous uh how how how

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