Abe Gutman was still a kid when he realized how much time his father spent commuting from their Baltimore home to his livestock farm in Pennsylvania. “Why don’t we move out to the farm already?” he asked. He’d never forget Ernst Gutman’s response. “You’ve got to live in a makom Torah ” the German immigrant told his son. The Gutman family continues to do that. Just as Abe’s father and grandfather managed the long commute when they started catering to America’s dairymen in 1942 Abe and his sons hit the road every morning for their daily trip fromBaltimore’s Torah-observant hub to the pastoral farmland of Pennsylvania. Identical twins Binyomin and Doniel started helping out their father at age ten and are now seasoned cattle dealers. All three make a daily commute of about an hour to the family’s four farms in York County Pennsylvania totaling 450 acres. Then there’s their Lancaster County farm just “down the road a piece” — a 50-minute drive. The Gutmans sell about 25 000–30 000 heads of cattle per year and milk between 200–500 cows every day the number fluctuating with the day’s sales and the amount of calves that are born. The turnover is constant with hundreds of cows constantly being traded and transported. ButErnstGutman’s dictum remains as powerful today as it was when it was first spoken. “As much as we feel at home on the farm we would never be here for Shabbos ” says Doniel. “You just don’t mix those two. You go a hundred miles an hour every day every week and then when Shabbos comes it’s like a switch where nothing else matters. And then you make Havdalah and it matters a lot again. You’re back on your phone back on the job.”