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Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim Montreal in Canada was founded by the Frierdiker Rebbe on the 3rd of Cheshvan 5702 (1941). | Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim Montreal in Canada was founded by the Frierdiker Rebbe on the 3rd of Cheshvan 5702 (1941). | ||
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 Radal, Aryeh Leib Kramer, Yosef Menachem Mendel Tenenbaum, Menachem Zev Gringlas, Moshe Eliyahu Garlitzky, 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). | 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 Radal, Aryeh Leib Kramer, Yosef Menachem Mendel Tenenbaum, Menachem Zev Gringlas, Moshe Eliyahu Garlitzky, 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). | ||
:3 1.jpg|thumb|R' Hendel giving a shiur in the early years of the yeshiva | |||
They traveled by ship from Shanghai to San Francisco, California and from there by train to Montreal. | They traveled by ship from Shanghai to San Francisco, California and from there by train to Montreal. | ||