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Drug Dealer Turned Rabbi

Meet Yankale Baruchman, a 60 year-old Lubavitcher, married with children. His past: a drug dealer on a most wanted list. Full Story

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you don't know
December 2, 2009 2:59 pm

most of you don’t know what the Baalei Teshuva have been through, and how much they have to offer!!

would be a good story if....
December 2, 2009 9:55 am

i hope he paid back the money

be positive!
December 2, 2009 7:39 am

How many campus Shluchim have students that not only marry Jews yet become frum and even wear Shaitels! Chabad all over is doing great work and i know the Rebbe is proud. We can always to more thats, true.

to # 16
December 2, 2009 6:31 am

your not getting the message:
HE WAS JOKING!!!!

to #4
December 2, 2009 5:12 am

your not getting the message:
he has life now
“Learning Chassidus puts you on a ‘high’ without a ‘down’ and without ruining people’s lives,” he tells them.
you are focusing too much on gashmius 🙁
rely on Hashem for all your needs – that is true freedom

Everyone has diff personalities
December 2, 2009 4:07 am

Some people may be inspired by the Tzfati behavior and become frum but more sophisticated pple will not!!
Every shliach has diff personalities which attract people in their community. I’ve seen this firsthand. Some cold shluchim are not that successful and warmer shluchim are more successful, because MOST people are attracted to the “varemkeit”.

to # 8
December 2, 2009 4:00 am

Each one of us must do his work without judging and evaluating eachother.
The question you and I should be asking ourselves is: “How many chassidim have I made”?

2. Success is not necessarily in quantities as you write. The Rebbe mentions in a Sicha the value of quality Chassidim/Baalei Teshuva. The difference between stam fruits and a vineyard.

3. If you are not a shliach….

Der iker iz m’zol zain freilach, freilach begashmius. Dos iz chassidus 🙂

he stole
December 2, 2009 3:38 am

he as to give that 100,000 back to that lady he stole from…………..
why is this a sign tha he can take it?
and you people wnat to change 788 for this guy?

translation
December 2, 2009 2:07 am

could you please put in English translation to the video.Thank you

to # 8
December 2, 2009 1:14 am

can tell you are a typical farmer. the shluchim today have plenty of beutifull and great bal tesuvas, the part that you dont see is that since they dont stand out with flags and bumper stickers you do not notice them. the so called BT’s from maschistin are only that “maschistin” which in fact is realy a danger, if you look on the web you will find videos of some of these BT’s which become mushrooms and your hair will stand up with some of the things that they do. for the most part most of them arent even knowledgeble… Read more »

3 letters, one word. WOW
December 1, 2009 10:05 pm

its a amazing story, and leaves hope for the ppl i know out there who are off the derech and into drugs.

wow
December 1, 2009 7:47 pm

wow

on a side note:
December 1, 2009 6:19 pm

ever wonder:
how many shluchim out there actually produce lubaitchers? I mean, with all the works, (as they used to do going back 30 years)? very few…
and those crazy tzfatis make them by the dozen (sure, they are all nuts, but tachles… they have results while we are sitting in our own ——)…
L’chayim!
(a little farbrenignen for Yud Daled Kislev.. 🙂 )

Kol Hakavod
December 1, 2009 5:44 pm

yankele baruchman,hatslocho being a good jew and a mishechist!

WE WANT MORE
December 1, 2009 5:39 pm

pls pls bring us more of such authentic people
frankly, we are fed up with those stories about the same ppl running the world from 788

Former Tzfati Hater
December 1, 2009 5:19 pm

Here is just one example where you see the positive in the Tzfatim society, they provide people who have very strong spiritual needs with something to be “High” on.
Although we may disagree and it may be annoying to some of us we can still see the beauty in what they do, instead of being a crack-cocaine user they get high on other things.
If you want to hate you can hate, but if your looking too love you can always find it.

But he lost his parnassa
December 1, 2009 4:53 pm

He probably had more parnassa as a drug dealer.

wow. what a story!
December 1, 2009 4:39 pm

it gave me chills too!
just comes to show how someone can really change his life around and that its never too late

cool!
December 1, 2009 4:30 pm

thats really neat…

to COLlive:
December 1, 2009 4:06 pm

thanks so much for bringing in all these interesting articles and videos!!

You guys are getting better and better by the day!

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