A humorous and insightful story about finding a lost iPhone and its deeper meaning.
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this past summer i was so had to make a bar mitzvah for my son in the old city in the rova and we were we were incredibly incredibly on a high i'm crazy about israel any opportunity i get i'm there period i'm there in the rova and we're making a shabbat bar mitzvah for my son we come into the rova friday afternoon we rented a beautiful apartment in the old city we set everything up the table is ready for shabbat wow we the table is ready for shabbat wow we were on a high we're having the whole family over we're going to pray by the coattail friday night with come back to the robot and have a magnificent bar mitzvah meal i was flying my son was flying it's like my bar mitzvah boy we're on a high friday afternoon we're hungry so right there by the rova only a few steps away there was a pizza shop we go into the pizza shop we sit down there was a few arabs walking in and out some of them were waiters some of them were waiters some of them cleaning we sit down we eat up we finish our lunch and we leave as we leave my daughter adina turns to me and says abba my iphone my brand new phone my tagged iphone 6 later that tag my tag the iphone 6 my iphone it's gone that's okay you probably forgotten the pizza shop we ran back to the pizza shop i come into the pizza shop i walk up to the arab the arab i said tim tagidli is a telephone iphone 6 low i said really i pull out 100 shekel did you see an iphone he says i said okay i pulled out 100 did you see a phone the arab
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- 0:30the table is ready for shabbat wow we were on a high we're having the whole…
- 1:30the arab i said tim tagidli is a telephone iphone 6 low i said really i…
- 2:36of the old city and i couldn't believe my eyes i turned to my son-in-law ray…
- 3:09the phone stops i say ray this is our shot let's go he stopped we run…
- 4:10arabic names we're going down side alleyways of the arab shrook only to come all the…
- 5:11now come with me she turns around she follows me out the alleyway and we walk…
- 5:41put his hair i look down at the grid and the phone is still moving i…
- 6:41my wife says where were you i said well honey uh you know we were around…
- 7:46and we were put there to make sure that nothing happens to her [Music] makat the…
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