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Make The Call

156K views · Sep 20, 2017

Rabbi Yoel Gold

A powerful story of courage, humility, and forgiveness for Yom Kippur.

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I Love New York it's a great city I grew up there but when it comes to parking forget it if you live there you know that it can take forever to find the spot so when Harry Ashkenazi pulled up to the Chinese auction on Kings Highway he knew no matter the cost valet is worth every dollar he pulled up to the car in front of him and waited patiently but after a few minutes of waiting and not moving Harry stuck his head out the window and Harry stuck his head out the window and noticed that the couple in the car in front of him who he recognized as Nancy and Jack bata was schmoozing with an old friend standing next to their car while we were waiting but one of our friends was crossing the street so we stopped to say hello to him a couple and we were talking for them for a little while Harry hung softly tried to get their attention but Nancy and Jack kept on schmoozing and I continued to gently honk no no response Czar's thing you want to know is a lot of retail stores here maybe they're not going to the here maybe they're not going to the Chinese auctions so I pull around give my car to valet and my wife and I go up to the Chinese auction ten minutes later Harry was having a good time with his friends in the hall they turn around and they see a couple be lining towards me not happy at all when they approached him Nancy let him have it I told him Harry that really wasn't a very nice thing to do she told him how inconsiderate and rude he was for cutting them off especially because he took the last spot in valet and they

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  1. 0:00I Love New York it's a great city I grew up there but when it comes…
  2. 0:31Harry stuck his head out the window and noticed that the couple in the car in…
  3. 1:02here maybe they're not going to the Chinese auctions so I pull around give my car…
  4. 1:35he took the last spot in valet and they were forced to park three blocks away…
  5. 2:06because I is a person in the community that we we could have interactions with and…
  6. 2:37you let it be forgotten he says fine no problem we hung up and it was…
  7. 3:09and Harry were officially family I was talking to my wife and I said Jamie imagine…
  8. 3:40call I know the couple personally they live in Los Angeles their names Yoel and Rachel…
  9. 4:10family but having the yellow-gold family you know it takes a lot of courage and humility…
  10. 4:40you you will feel better about yourself but more importantly you will generate all the blessings…

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