[thereisone] “It Worked!”

From: Gutman Locks <locks.gutman@xxxxxxxxx>
To: thereisone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2021 07:17:39 +0300

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“It Worked!”

       A friend I rarely see, came up to me at the tefillin stand and said,

      “A few years ago, I asked you what can I say to get someone who
refuses to put on tefillin to put them on? You told me something … I tried
it… and it worked!

     I was on a plane going to New York… I went up to three Israelis and
asked them to put on tefillin. One of them said that he had already put
them on, one had me help him, and the third guy completely ignored me.

      Again, I asked him to put them on, but he was really tough. It was as
if I wasn’t even there.

      His friend said to me, ‘I’ll give you a hundred dollars right here
and now if you get him to put on tefillin.’ He was so sure his friend
wouldn’t put them on.

      I told him that I can’t do a *mitzvah* for money, but I’ll try.

      I said to his friend, ‘It seems like you are forgetting something.
Since all the Jewish People are really one, when you do a *mitzvah*, when
you put on tefillin, you protect the lives of our soldiers on the front
line wherever they are. You protect our soldiers in Hebron…, you protect
our soldiers on the Golan…, you protect our soldiers by Gaza…, wherever
they are.’

       He looked at me for the first time…, then he said, ‘Okay.’ He held
out his arm and let me help him put on tefillin.

      Thanks for the advice, it worked!”

     Israelis are really tough on the outside, totally thick, but if you
can figure out how to get inside, they are soft and loving.

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