Editing Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim Montreal (section)

== Early History ==
The Frierdiker Rebbe appealed to the Canadian government to grant visas to the Tomchei Tmimim students from Shanghai. The Canadian government agreed, and out of eighty visas distributed to all yeshiva students in Shanghai at the time, the yeshiva received nine visas. On the 2nd of Cheshvan 5702, nine Tmimim who received visas were sent: Yosef Rodal, Aryeh Leib Kramer, Yosef Menachem Mendel Tenenbaum, [[Menachem Zev Greenglass]], [[Moshe Eliyahu Gerlitzky|Moshe Eliyahu Garlitzky]], [[Yitzchak HaKohen Hendel|Yitzchak Hendel]], Yosef Weinberg, Yosef Tzvi Kotlarsky, and Shmuel Stein, with the goal of strengthening the community and establishing a Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim in Montreal. (These nine bochurim were students of Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim Otwock before studying in Shanghai).

They traveled by ship from Shanghai to San Francisco, California and from there by train to Montreal, The day after their arrival, the yeshiva opened. Rabbi Aryeh Leib Kramer served as its director from then until his passing. Rabbi Yitzchak HaKohen Hendel stood at the head of the yeshiva.

==== The Frierdiker Rebbe's Instructions to the Students ====
About a week later, on the 9th of Cheshvan, the Frierdiker Rebbe sent a long letter to the Tmimim students detailing his holy instructions for their activities in the city as well as special instructions regarding the new yeshiva students:

* Two students should review [[Toras HaChassidus|Chassidus]] in two Chabad synagogues in the city every Friday night, and do the same between Mincha and Maariv on [[Shabbos]], with different students reviewing each time while the others listen
* All students should eat the two Shabbos meals together, singing Lubavitch nigunim slowly during the meals. One student should review Chassidus and they should tell stories
* Since Sunday is a day off in Canada, they should publicly review a Chassidus maamar (can be one already said on Shabbos), specifically a maamar about divine service
* To bring close the Anash who were swept away by the "many waters" to worldly life, to breathe new life into them
* To bring close young people in every possible way "search thoroughly with great effort and toil" and bring them into the yeshiva
* Try to visit non-Chabad synagogues as well, convey regards from our brethren overseas, tell in detail about the suffering and arouse that we need to help free them through the pidyon shvuyim work under the Rebbe's direction
* Visit the rabbis and discuss Torah with them, "put aside humility and study well some sugyos and debate them among yourselves and discuss them with the rabbis to remove any notion that in Tomchei Tmimim they don't learn nigleh or that the knowledge of nigleh is weak"