A group traveling through Nashville, Tennessee on their bain hazmanim trip weren’t expecting to become agents of kiruv, but suddenly found themselves thrust in that position upon encountering an unobservant Jewish man. The bochurim’s actions that followed made a tremendous kiddush hashem.
The bochurim say they met a man who told them that he had not put on tefillin in more than three decades. The bochurim immediately offered to wrap him in tefillin, and he happily obliged.
The man proceeded to put the tefillin on himself, wrapping the retzuos with procedural memory as he had been taught decades earlier.
A trip meant for relaxation and unwinding turned into an incredible kiddush hashem and an opportunity to bring another Jew closer to Hashem.
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This is news because…These bochurim were not Chabad!
Beautiful! However, if your going to help someone, at least make sure its done correctly! In the video his shel yad is not in the correct place! I hope they helped him move it to the proper area.
they were bochurim and they were Jewish…that is all that counts…..
what style is it?
forget the tefillin, did they get to go the the grand old opry? I am sure they will sing the coat of many colors at the next kumtzit
תזכה למצות guys for this tremendous מצוה you have done. Yidden by nature are selfless being able to give to another for no reward. Chazak ve’ematz, continued success.
תזכה למצות guys for this tremendous מצוה you have done. Yidden by nature are selfless being able to give to another for no reward. continued success.
As nice as this is, please note that this is NOT “Kiddush HaShem”. This term (as well as its revers, “Chilul HaShem”), get bandied about and just roll off the tongue of everyone who thinks they know when it applies.
Making a “Kiddush HaShem” means that a Jew does an act that sanctifies HaShem’s name, and causes others to react accordingly (e.g. “wow! look at the wonderful behavior of that Jew/Chussid/Yeshivish guy/Rabbi!”). One Jew, helping another Jew to fulfill a Mitzvah isn’t “Kiddush HaShem” – it’s just being a good and caring Jew.
The pervious Rebbe of Munkatch, R’ Burich Rabinovich, stated during the Holocaust that the Jews being killed by the Nazis Ym”Sh were actually NOT dying “Al Kiddush HaShem”, as they were given no choice in the matter. Dying “Al Kiddush HaShem” requires that a Jew be given the choice of dying as a Jew or transgressing one of the Mitzvos. The victims of the Holocaust are considered “Kedoshim” for having been killed simply because they were Jews.
Rabbi Hoffman, in an earlier article today, goes through what is and isn’t Chilul/Kiddush HaShem. It may be worthwhile for the headline writers (or anyone else who thinks I’m nuts) to check it out and learn some stuff you may not have known. (https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/2132122/chillul-hashem-and-the-real-solution.html)
Why is this even news? The other week someone Saw me saying Asher yatzar, and he was impressed with my reason. A real kiddush hashem, Can we talk about that?