Robby Hoffman

My brother Shmuley is just tremendous.

He works in Calgary.

So they've gone on to good lives.

Oh, yeah.

They're amazing people.

It's just also my brothers were really hurt by their education in New York because their boys are more pious or more religiously inclined.

So they mostly learned Torah, Bible.

That's really interesting.

Yeah.

So the girls, I was learning-

They believe boys are in the Jewish community as accepted?

Well, they believe it's the responsibility of boys to know the Bible.

It's not the responsibility of girls.

So when you say pious, you mean like it's put on them.

It's like it's enforced.

Yeah, like we're not holy enough.

It's not a commandment for us to know the Torah, to know the Bible.

So they let us do in school nonsense subjects like English and math.

So I was actually...

even though I was going to this, like, Canadian school, yes, I was behind on the French and some things, but other things I was really able to keep up with, with the reading and all that stuff, versus my brothers learned to read at home from their sisters or from my mother.