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How I Fell 104ft at 82mph and Was Caught in a Pair of Tzitzit

5.8K views · Jan 12, 2022

Rabbi Duvi Bensoussan

A personal story of faith and divine protection through tzitzit.

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gentlemen the only question you're going to have at the end of tonight is small medium or large i was going easy on you got your back it was the night before rosh hashanah i was parked right in front of the central avenue ocean parkway the night before roshana i came out right after our beat i already gave that night two classes in two different shows i got into the car i'm on my way about to leave going back to lakewood and rico comes running out you guys know rico he's the guy from the cds from the community cds why rabbi what planet do you come from cds what do you went to we went through went to high school abraham lincoln see these yeah yeah see there was these funny circly things you know and it had like it's like a doughnut and he came out that night he was holding about 300 cds and he knocked down my window right before i was about to leave and he says to me uh rabbi you're going back to lakewood take these 300 cds these are your classes over the last few years and now i said it people like listening to classes take it to lakewood and put it out in different schools i said oh that's very nice to you thank you so he puts the cds on the passenger side to the front of the car and i drive out and i'm on my way the belt verrazano

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  1. 0:00gentlemen the only question you're going to have at the end of tonight is small medium…
  2. 1:32stanton all expressway finally making my way to the garden state parkway and i'll tell you…
  3. 3:03at 82 miles an hour and the car flipped over the retention wall and fell 104…
  4. 4:34the front of the car came all the way back to the windshield the back of…
  5. 6:06your spiritual bullet-proof vest where's it you threw me off the garden state parkway that night…
  6. 7:39fall to the moment of the smesh i was wrapped in the arms of torah and…
  7. 9:10and she landed on the floor and shattered her leg i said what what'd you say…
  8. 10:47you know you want to hear something cute ha rav i didn't even see you come…
  9. 12:17phone you see we're still going with the dinosaurs okay yeah so that you know this…
  10. 13:49beautiful now 336 is that a real number okay beautiful good for you so i got…

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