“The whole flight I couldn’t rest,” she said, “because I knew I’d seen you before. You’re on the Vhaarev Na video!”
Rabbi Dovid Newman, Torah entrepreneur par excellence and founder of Vhaarev Na, was recently preparing to board a flight to Johannesburg for a Kinyan Masechta siyum when two fellow passengers, a distinguished-looking non-Jewish couple, approached him.
The husband introduced himself as a retired commercial pilot and his wife as a principal at a Catholic school in Toronto.
“I recognize you from somewhere,” said the wife to Rabbi Newman.
Rabbi Newman, dumbfounded, replied, “I’m a teacher in Rockland County.”
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