Former Gangster’s Teshuva: The Moment Everyone Feared

Doing chuva when you're a gangster is different than doing chuva if you were just you grew up secular in America because if you grew up secular in America okay the worst thing that happens is you have to maybe break up a relationship change a job but overall it's that's pretty much it not there that's not such a huge drastic life change but if you grow up if you're a gangster the record comes with you so this guy he starts doing chuva he starts keeping Shabbat starts praying starts doing good things and he comes to he sees frame again he says I don't know what I'm going to do there's a case against me Now if I lose this case I'm going to jail for like 30 years. He says continue. He told him continue learning continue good things will help you. She says I'm already doing for a couple years but nobody wants to marry me because of everybody knows who I am. Says don't worry just keep going keep going. Keep going. Several months later the the guy is sticking to it. He's praying everything. Robert Fry is over there studying and the guy is is about to he he's standing over there and this like nasty old man comes into the sh and he's like part of the community but he's like one of these old men that's like nasty like they're just angry at the world just happens sometimes they're angry at everything and this guy this big guy was in his way like he wanted to get through and he was in his way but this guy's huge and the old man got so angry he started yelling at him and pushed him now something happened even though he's like 15 times his eyes that he lost his balance and he fell. The big huge mobster fell like and everybody was there. Everyone at that moment like it became silent. Everyone realized, okay, there's blood is going to be spilled here. Like this is the end. This is what happens. You you don't do that. Even the old man. So, everyone knew this guy is a serious guy. He's not The old man realized he made a mistake, but he didn't have anything to say. What are you going to say? former gangster sees himself on the floor, gets up, comes up to the old man, says, "I'm sorry. I'm sorry I was in your way. Can you please forgive me?"