Kollel Toronto Dinner: Tribute to Reb Shimon Stern

[Music] if I want to learn some things to do with muster or on haga I should learn with somebody who's actually has it who's a living example of it so I asked rip Sherman Stern to learn with me and we had to stay there I learned with shimen in quite a few places because it was important for him to continue the Sailor so sometimes we learned on the phone from the office there were times we learned in a summer vacation for the cottage and there were times that he called me from the hospital room locked up the machines because he wanted to keep his data going but one of the places in a constant place we had Learned was in the coil on Cold Stream and he liked it there he liked it there because it was a place he liked it because people would come by and he would greet them he liked it because the atmosphere of Tehran and Tila there and he appreciated the repeated Russia cable and the cooling light and I remember how we would greet a young man I remember that somebody had moved to town and he was just it was overwhelmed he was a a new person to town but he was felt so it was so gracious and greeting the person so nice that they have a younger man moved to town and a new family and with how good it is for the community when we bring in young families he would come with a certain he would come in he says I have a check for the color I want no one to know about it and he would come with a hand beautiful hand written note ask me please give this note to the Russia Kyle with the check and if I would look at the note I was always so impressed this man will touch your beautiful note thanking the Russia for spreading Torah and Toronto and that he and his family benefit from the Russian I never saw that but anyone my father on Friday night he was nifter suddenly by the uh and the ambulance came to our house uh Friday night and the Stearns they saw that there was some action going on in the street Mr Stone came out and brought me and my sister into his house you know for the rest of the Friday night too though while my mother and father went to the hospital and unfortunately we heard the basura that my father was lived there Mr Stern like became you can almost say like like a second father Mr stern was a person who was constantly native he was such a bakshiftera and he would be I'm sure it would be his biggest delay in heigen to know that he has his name is connected with the makum tire like the coil of Toronto