Saul Blinkoff thought he’d entered a magic kingdom… until he discovered the enchantment of Torah
S aul Blinkoff lay in a hotel pool floating on an artificial current a cool piña colada in hand. As he gazed up at the warm Florida sun he was convinced life couldn’t get any better.
He’d landed his dream job as an animator for the Walt Disney Studio in Orlando. He had a great apartment a snazzy sports car and just about anything else he could wish for. When he wasn’t working he had access to every one of 15 themed hotels in Disney World. What more could a guy want?
As the water streamed smoothly around him his mind wandered to a vacation he’d taken with his parents a year earlier in Israel. They’d walked around the Old City then sat down at a caf? for bagels and drinks. While there he struck up a conversation with a young American at 23 the same age as Saul. “I’m here learning in a yeshivah ” the young man told him.
“A yeshivah?” Saul said. The stranger seemed like a regular guy — no peyos no funny religious garb. “What would you want to do that for?”
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