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Jul 13, 2012
Picture of the Day
Yehoshua Engelson helps a movie producer put on Tefillin in the parking lot of a Whole Foods in Los Angeles on Friday. Find out the story behind the photo. Yehoshua Engelson, a bochur who would explain the parsha on Shabbos at Chevra Ahavas Yisroel shul in Crown Heights, is active today with "religious rebels" in Los Angeles.
Here is what he told COLlive about the encounter on Friday:
I was sitting in the car, while my parents went into Whole Foods to shop for Shabbos. As I was waiting around, I said to myself, "I am a Lubavitcher chossid!" I usually bring along a pair of Tefillin because you never know who you are going to meet.
The person who I met said he was a small movie producer in the midst of making a film about the Holocaust. He said his father is not Jewish, but his mother is. Her maiden name is Chaimovich. He had a little boy with him.
He agreed to put on Tefillin then and there in the parking lot.
After saying Shemah, the man said he found it "artistically appropriate" as he was on his way back to Poland to continue producing the film.
As it so happens, a family friend was driving by and caught this picture with her iPhone while holding up the traffic for a few extra moments.
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There are BH over 100 Shluchim, Kein Yirbu, just in L.A.!!!!
Go to chabad.org and enter your friends zip code. You will find at least five Shluchim nearby, ready to reach out to your "someone".
Just kidding Josh! missin u. good to see ur spreading the light. not that i doubted it...
yochi and pia