A story of a rabbi who was mentored by an inmate in prison.
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The opening of this shiur, in Living Lchaim’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.
it's a county jail and it's not comfortable in any way. When I pull into that county jail, I smelled, I didn't shower, I didn't eat. I looked I don't know what I looked like but I looked horrible. And then they tell you when you get to county jail, first thing is you find the biggest guy there and have your your wife like send money to them and to like because you know like they can take your you know there's no way mattresses you're sleeping on a on a an exercise mat. You know, it's a different reality. But you just you don't want people you know constantly you know if I was the guy to be picked on with the big yarmulke and I looked disheveled and yarmulke and I looked disheveled and there there was no like etiquette in like you have 100 inmates just standing around you staring at you. Like you just came from Mars like and you look at them and usually when you look at someone staring at you they turn away. They don't. They just stare. And like I was scared and then Bo Williams, I haven't been in contact with him since. You know, big guy comes out of the crowd. He's like this guy's with me. Anyone have a problem, you go through me. He pulls me into his little thing there. Told the guard there was a empty you know bunk bed there. He's like he's here. I'm like what?
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- 0:00it's a county jail and it's not comfortable in any way. When I pull into that…
- 0:30yarmulke and I looked disheveled and there there was no like etiquette in like you have…
- 1:00he's here. I'm like what? And he's like dude man, you smell. He gave me some…
- 1:30>> And they know they make that Friday night meal in the corner. They used to…
- 2:01And he said I had that promise. That's you know, he's he's a good guy.…
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