snjn – “How do you know this stuff? You were ever there?”
I had a stop over for 12 hours and was shtyging in Amsterdam with tremendous shkida and hasmodah (I almost missed my flight because I was so engrossed in the sugya).
When I learned there, I felt connected to the history of all the doros of yidden who learned in the same place. True it wasn’t the same as learning in Ir Hakodesh, there is only one Lakewood in the Universe, but it was uplifting nevertheless and made the stop over worthwhile and awesome.