Editing Montreal (section)

== The Surviving Students Arrive in Montreal ==
At the community's request, [[The Rebbe Rayatz|the Previous Rebbe]] decided to approach the Canadian government to grant visas to the Tomchei Tmimim students in 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 1941, nine students who received visas were sent: Yosef Rodal, Aryeh Leib Kramer, Yosef Menachem Mendel Tennenbaum, [[Reb Menachem Zev Greenglass|Menachem Zev Greenglass]], Moshe Eliyahu Gerlitzky, Yitzchok Hendel, Yosef Weinberg, Yosef Tzvi Kotlarsky, and Shmuel Stein.

They traveled by ship from Shanghai to San Francisco, California, and from there by bus to Montreal.

The day after their arrival, the yeshiva opened, headed by [[Rabbi Yitzchak HaKohen Hendel|Rabbi Yitzchok HaCohen Hendel]]. The students temporarily stayed in the Chabad Nusach Ha'Ari synagogue. As the yeshiva expanded, a larger, more organized space was needed. At that time, those responsible for the yeshiva began planning to purchase a large, magnificent building to accommodate all students comfortably. Until this plan was implemented, the yeshiva was housed in a local orphanage, where they received several rooms to run the yeshiva.