Let me tell you about a phone call I received this week. A fellow calls me up one night, and introduces himself as a Jewish businessman from New York. Let’s call him Andrew.
“I just arrived in Boise for a one-day business trip. As I landed in Boise, my wife informed me that my tefillin are sitting right next to the spot where my travel bag was the night before. I had forgotten my tefillin.”
Being associated with Chabad in New York, Andrew had heard that Chabad has branches around the globe. “Maybe there is a Chabad center in Boise and they can get me a pair of tefillin,” he mused. With a few clicks on the Internet, he had my number and we were connected.
So at 10:30 pm I f… Read More »