By COLlive reporter
Rabbi Shloime Greenwald, an entrepreneur and founder of the Kolel L’horaah Ma’asis in Crown Heights, was driving back home with a co-worker following a day of work in Delaware on Wednesday.
As they were crossing New Jersey, a state trooper pulled them over and said they were driving too fast for the right lane and should have been in the left lane instead.
“He asked us for my driver’s license and the car registration which we gave him,” Greenwald tells COLlive. “After looking at the names, he removed his facemask and asked, ‘do you recognize me?'”
Greenwald says he immediately did. “David Kohn? My classmate?!” Greenwald responded in amazement.
The state trooper answered in the affirmative that they indeed had learned together as children in the Hebrew Academy Orange County in Huntington Beach, California.
“We have been out of touch for 22 years,” Greenwald told COLlive.com. “We were very good friends until 8th grade. I used to go to his house for Shabbos and he would come to us. We shared great memories.”
Greenwald marveled at the divine providence of their meeting and immediately dialed his father Rabbi Peretz Greenwald who was their teacher in the Long Beach school.
“It’s good to hear from you,” Kohn was heard telling his teacher. “A freilichen Purim!”
Shloime Greenwald said the encounter, which ended without him getting a ticket, was both exciting and moving and that he exchanged numbers to keep in touch with his long-lost friend.
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Was double parked in Boro Park and a policewoman came ove and told me to please move my car. Looked at her badge “Stein”. looked at her face. Looked at the gold horse charm on her necklace
and then said
“Sherry Stein! are you going to give me a ticket!?”
Sherry loved horses. Evidently still does.:)
Sherry, my classmate, went to Bais Rivkah elementary school on Church Avenue.
She looked at me and said,”Estah?!!” (that’s Brooklynese for Esther 🙂
Obviously no ticket was issued, and we had a brief but warm encounter.
I hope you no longer double park.
First of all, Esther was obviously sitting in her car when Officer Stein came over. So it wasn’t double parking; at most it was double standing or double stopping.
Second, do you have a better alternative? Parking in Boro Park (and in most of NYC in general) is scarce. Should someone going to a store, especially when they may be coming out with a big item or a full shopping cart, have to park blocks away and have to shlep all that stuff all that way?
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Nito kain farfalen
So awesome
Such an awesome reunion of 2 old Schoolfriends, whom I remember with fondness from both teaching at the Hebrew Academy & knowing from living in Long Beach, CA.
This is definitely Jewish Geneology❣️
Hello to both of you from Morah Miriam Kessler 🥰
Bh!
Thats amazing story
What hashgocha protis
Wow, what a perfect story
In the spirit of Purim…
By Yosef HaTzadik, he recognized them but they didn’t recognize him (because of his beard). Here, it was veNahapoch hoo, so he had to check their driver’s licenses.
What a story of Hashgacha pratis !!
Thanks for sharing!!
I wonder if the police officer remembered that Rabbi Greenwald pulled over his parents in the parking lot and gave them the Avrohom Fried album or a cake.
A proud Hebrew Academy parent and Rabbi Greenwald fan.
Wow! What an amazing Hashgacha Protis story! Hashem knows His children very well, BH!
Amazig story! Thank you!
For driving too fast in the right lane??!
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