The Angel from Westchester

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yoel Gold’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

[Music] Ley Welton grew up in Berkeley California when he got married he moved to the east coast where his wife kavi attends University a couple of months ago ley's parents moved from Berkeley to Sacramento and Ley and his wife really wanted to show support and help ease the transition so we figured one shabas that my wife can get off early we could fly out there to visit my parents and see their new home we flew out there we saw their new place I was so happy because their new place I was so happy because it's a beautiful place and they're happy shabas morning leaving his father daved at the localad Leen and after daving there was a kidish for a Bas Mitzvah girl Ley wanted to go home but ley's father insisted that they stay and participate in the during The KES Ley went over to the father of the Bas Mitzvah girl introduced himself and struck up a conversation with him and in the course of the conversation Ley discovered that the father who had introduced himself as Kim Valencia is a convert and he and his entire family had convert and he and his entire family had converted a couple of years earlier so I said that's so interesting how'd you pick your name if you converted you must have had a story behind that Mr Valencia told Ley that when he was on his journey to discovering Judaism he had heard a class from a rabbi who had made the following statement when you see ala Survivor and he never believe anymore in Hashem he is a normal human you have to respect him you know how to criticize just leave it like that but but if you have the opportunity to see a hoca

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1. 0:01[Music] Ley Welton grew up in Berkeley California when he got married he moved to the…
2. 0:31their new place I was so happy because it's a beautiful place and they're happy shabas…
3. 1:02convert and he and his entire family had converted a couple of years earlier so I…
4. 1:35opportunity to see a hoca Survivor to believe in Hashem that people that person is no…
5. 2:08a happiness like a li you can see light in his eyes I turn my face…
6. 3:09framed it and called the president of Lincoln Park Jewish center and asked them to send…
7. 3:40people suffered in Egypt and despite all of their hardships all of their suffering they sacrificed…
8. 4:10come up to the podium and he took out the picture of Kim Valencia and he…
9. 4:40the show everybody was crying because Kim grman never had any children of his own Kim…
10. 5:11future generation all of us have names and all of our names have meaning if you…

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