I attended a regular, litvish-style yeshivah. I liked learning but I felt I was missing something, and I had no one I could talk to about it
L ike most Torahdig parents my parents had great aspirations for their sons.
They wanted us to learn to become talmidei chachamim to devote our lives to Torah. To follow in their path basically.
My father is a litvish rosh kollel and my mother’s life revolves around helping him learn. But out of their three sons I was the only one who showed promise of living up to their aspirations. My older brother Shragi was a weak student who struggled in school from the time he was young. After he graduated elementary school my parents sent him to a non-mainstream chassidish-style yeshivah Kesser Beis Dovid where the focus was primarily on avodas Hashem and the learning was far more relaxed. My younger brother Yeshaya was a brilliant kid but his brilliance was matched by his hyperactivity. He couldn’t sit still and was constantly getting himself into trouble at home and at school.
Unlike my brothers I had a good head I knew how to learn and I did well in school all the years. That’s why when I informed my parents at age 16 that I wanted to switch to Kesser Beis Dovid they were stunned.
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