I walked into Bistritzky’s Kosher Gourmet Food 40 years ago on the seventeenth of Tammuz on an expedition to find the Yiddishkeit I had read about in Isaas Beshevis Singers’s stories and books. I was introduced to Reb Leibel by a man by name of Whiteman I had just met at MTJ a few minutes prior. Upon hearing what I was looking for, Reb Leibel said the following “I have a Rebbe who studied in Berlin and the Sorbonne and he has a school for boy’s like you. He gave me the telephone number to Hadar Hatorah. The rest is a fabulous history…
Thank you Reb Leibel Bistritsky—you now live forever in Lubavitch.
Levi Yitzhaq Garbose
Los Angeles