Shabbos Hagadol Chizuk - Includes remarkable story about a Stolen Van

Shabbos Hagadol Chizuk - Includes remarkable story about a Stolen Van

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
We have really unbelievable story here. We have a different angle.
We're gonna look at it from a different angle. No
script this time, whenever, there's no script. That makes it
so much more exciting, so much better. I hope people
can come in. Currently it's April sixth, year's twenty twenty five.
I want to remind people that last year this Sunday,

(00:30):
there actually was a tremendous nase that happened within Clauia SrAl.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
It was the Sunday of Shaba.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Sagato, right before Shaba Sagattal when in Eretzi Stral it
was saved. It was mamishen naise when I ran sent
over hundreds of missiles.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
And the Iron Dome.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
I mean the iron Dome did what it did, but
really the Iron Dome functioned on a much higher level
than what statistically was expected or even possible. So how
good a spar was very much involved Shaba Sagato. One
of the reasons is called Shaba Sagado is because of
the great nas that happened on that day. And just

(01:10):
to tell you one thing, you know, the real nas
that happened vacum its Ryan, It actually happened on the
tenth of Nissan. When you look at all of the
holidays that we have during the year, almost all of
them are celebrated on the anniversary of the day Paysach
is on the fifteenth of Nissa, and that's when we
were freed from its Ryan. You know, the same thing

(01:32):
with Russia. Shaana young Kippersokas Khanikov. We won the war
on the twenty fifth day of Kissle. But all of
a sudden comes Shaba Sagado and this is a nas
which we don't celebrate on the tenth of Nissan. Rather
we make sure to celebrate it on a shabas it
has to fall out on a shop is why is
that so? If you look at the origa Shukam he

(01:56):
brings them, you know, he brings down from early or.

Speaker 2 (02:02):
Krasal that one of the shot.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Him in the Nates. One of them is that this
nace happened because of Shabis. Shabis was a major instigator
in the NAIs.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
And let me explain why.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
You see, what happened was is that the Yidden went
ahead and they took the Egyptian god, They took the lamb.
How could a sparkle told the Yidden to take the
lamb and to tie it to their bed and to
bring it as a carbon pastock, to bring it as
a sacrifice. When the Egyptians saw the Yidden tying on Chabis,

(02:40):
they knew this didn't make sense because on Shabist you're
not allowed to tie. If they would have tied the
lamb on a Thursday, on a Wednesday, the Egyptians never
would have asked any questions. But on Shabis they knew
that the Yiinn don't tie on Shabis. So they asked
the Gidden, what are you doing? Why are you tying

(03:00):
on Chavis? And then they told the Egyptians, we're tying.
We're tying the lamb because Haschem told us to sacrifice
the lamb. And the miracle was that the Egyptians were quiet.
They were silent. How could a person be silent when
they hear that their god is being sacrificed. This is
who they worshiped, and yet they were silent. That's the miracle.

(03:24):
But you see, the conversation started because of Shabist. Therefore,
this is a NAIs. This is something which we celebrate
on Shabis, only on Chabis.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
That's one of the shots of given. That's why we
have shabas.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
So it's always nice when you know and and nce
happens a different nissan have different messages, and you know,
the nay Suppurim has a very powerful message for us
in gullets because in a certain way it's the most
powerful because we don't see open miracles nowadays.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
We live in the world of Tevo. We live in
the world.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Where there's the laws of nature, there's clause and effect.
And in the story of pur you get to see
how our gooder spark was involved in the cause and
effect in Teva, and that's very inspiring for us, very
inspiring for us because if a Cooder's bark splits the sea,
what does that do for us? That just tells us that, yeah,

(04:23):
Shem does miracles, that Shem could override nature.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
Does a Shemp for sure override Nichuere. But with Purham, we.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
Know that a Coators sparkle is watching over us every
moment of the day, and a Courtors sparkle could change things.
Even Lamfreo stories are never Sometimes there's a never ending story.
The story is never over until it's over, and that's
what we see by Purham.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
So I wanted.

Speaker 1 (04:48):
To share a story that there were no open miracles
in the story, but it was statistically speaking, a story
that's very unlikely to happen.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
And I think for the.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
Story, what a person sees is something that a reba
mine once said when I was learning in a yeshiva
in Monsey. That be said that those people who believe
that when we do things, it's not actually us that's
bringing about the hatslaka, but it's actually Hashem and we're

(05:22):
just doing aurhishtadlas. Those people who believe that actually have
a higher chance of being oh sick in things, involving
themselves in things, certain things which might even seem impossible,
they have a higher chance.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
And therefore they're more likely to do it.

Speaker 1 (05:42):
And sometimes there's actual hatslaka, and many examples are given.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
You know, if a person believes that.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Everything is up to tevo, or even if you believe
that a gooder sparkles watching over, but but you know,
you believe strongly in tevo. So if the boss was
supposed to come at a certain time and you see
you're clearly not gonna make it at that time, a
lot of people wouldn't even go for it. Or if
you see that the bus took off. You can't run

(06:13):
faster than the bus, so how are you gonna get
the bus? But this Rebbi said, But to him, nothing's him.
He always says his running.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
Is just his.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
He sholdless, it's a kurders spark who doing it, and
a courders sparkle could do anything.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
So he said, there were times he made the bus
even though it was absolutely impossible.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
So there are things that we do when we look
at the world like that, that we wouldn't have involved
ourselves in if we looked at the world differently.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
So I want to share such a story.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
Because there were two times I could think of right now,
many many more times, but two times where there was
a mission and in reality the mission was basically impossible.
But what I said to myself and we said to
my family too. Really one time it was to the
whole family. Another time was just to me, is it
just do it for ten minutes? Nothing could possibly happen

(07:06):
in ten minutes, But that's not the point. If you
just do it for ten minutes, you did a stidless
Let ha Kursparko.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
Do the rest.

Speaker 1 (07:15):
And one time was about a certain project that needed
to get done, and really there was no possible way
to do it, but it really did need to get done.
So I figured the whole family would just do the
project for ten minutes every day for forty days. The
project's not going to get done from our work. It

(07:36):
was a special braha that we were given that the
project was too much for us. So we knew for
sure that it wasn't our work that was going to
do it. At the end of the day, by the
end of the year, the project was done, and it
was there was clear divine interference getting that project done
without a doubt.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
All over the place divine interference.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
But in the beginning of the year, for ten minutes
every day, our family turned on the music and we
were wrong a town in a project that failed while
we did it. It was a failure while we were
doing it, but we did it anyways. And this is
something which that approach is only recommended when there actually
is no If you actually have a solution that makes sense,

(08:16):
so you should do the solution that makes sense. But
in situations where something needs to get done and there's
absolutely no way to do it that you know of
in a way that makes sense, so that is the
recommended approach. And that's something that you will hear on
the Ammunabtakhl line every night. Those people that have the
phone number, and there's people who are scared to call

(08:39):
the number because the stories they think are teaching their
children the wrong message. And they have a good point,
and that's why it's necessary to throw in this nakuda
that all of those stories over there are speaking about
situations where there literally was no other option. There was

(09:00):
no other option except for that. All of those stories
are stories where it appears like the person was relying
upon a miracle. So but what has to be explained
is that they were not relying upon a miracle. They
were put into a situation where their only option was
to sing hakol yako.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
They did everything they can.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
There wasn't anything leut this is the only thing they
could do, So that's what they did.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
But if a.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
Person has a form of estad list, that makes perfect sense,
so then they should do that form of establiss. The
downside to that is that they have the nasayon. At
the end of the day, they have a nasayon. Wasn't
me who did it? Or was it a shmu did it?

Speaker 2 (09:40):
So we had a similar situation that happened to us
over the weekend.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
So Thursday night, around one am, just say that my
wife brought in Doobi said this should be mentioned. So
with my wife brought in the from our van, and
then we wake up the following morning and can't find
the van.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
So where could the van be?

Speaker 1 (10:09):
So there's a number of possibilities. There's only two possibilities
that I was able to think of, maybe three. The
first possibility is that maybe it was stolen, but that's
very unlikely because why should the van be stolen. It
never was stolen before. No one else's van was stolen, Okay.
The other possibility is that there are some tickets maybe

(10:34):
and maybe because the tickets weren't paid, maybe the van
was towed. Okay, So that's that's a possibility. It also
doesn't it wouldn't really fit, but it's a possibility. Another
possibility is that we recently. This actually makes the most

(10:54):
sense that you know, this has never happened before. What's
different now than before, Well, there's a major difference now
because now we have a sixteen year old daughter who
has a license and she drives a van. So as
unlikely as it sounds, that anybody would go out in
the middle of the night after one am to get anything.

(11:16):
It's very unlikely, but of the three scenarios, that to
me seemed like the most likely, most likely. I know,
I've gone out in the middle of the night just
to get a pacifier two in the morning. You never
know what a person might need, if there's some medical ailment,
or who knows, maybe their friend.

Speaker 2 (11:36):
There's things that happen in.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
The middle of the night, sometimes very very unlikely, but
to me it seemed like that was the highest possibility.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
But there is a possibility, of course, that.

Speaker 1 (11:47):
The van could have been stolen in any case, so
either way, So we eventually get a hold of my daughter,
you know, she's in school. We call this school and
she said she didn't use it in the middle of
the night. Okay, So now either the van was towd

(12:08):
or it was stolen. Either way, the next step is
to go to the police station. So my wife goes
to the police station. This was Friday morning, probably ten
o'clock or so. She goes to the police station to
report that the van is gone. Okay, the possibility of

(12:33):
it being towd did come up. The police did not
rule out that possibility, but they said.

Speaker 2 (12:40):
It's very unlikely. It's very unlikely because it's.

Speaker 1 (12:44):
Not usually the way they do things, and at some
point apparently they did rule it out, but not in
the beginning. So in any case, while she was at
the police station, she received a phone call, one of

(13:06):
the strangest calls that you can get, really, but she
received a phone call from a lady and the lady asked,
I just wanted to ask you, is it possible if
that you had a van that was stolen last night?
So my wife said, yeah, in fact, our van was stolen.

(13:28):
So the lady says, well, your stolen van is parked
here in my parking lots.

Speaker 2 (13:37):
I'm at a.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
Business and right outside my window there's a van that's
not usually parked here, and this van is parked here.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
And you could tell that the van was hot wired.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
You could tell by just looking at the steering wheel
the thing was taken apart and was hot wired.

Speaker 2 (13:55):
So it seems very likely that the van was stolen.

Speaker 1 (13:59):
And the l apparently people ask how did she get
my wife's phone number? So apparently there was a food
order which my wife left on the passenger seat, which
had her name and number on it. So the lady
figured she would take the chance that that's probably the
person who drove it, or at least that person would

(14:21):
know who drives the car. So she called the number.
That number was my wife, and so she said, the
van is here in the parking lot.

Speaker 2 (14:34):
She said where the parking.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
Lot was, and amazingly, it was only four minutes away
from the police station. And she said that she checked
the security camera and that this van arrived in their
parking lot at one forty five in the morning, which means,
by the way, if we go back to the beginning here,

(14:55):
my wife was bringing in the groceries at one am
in the morning. You could just imagine that this person
must have been out there already, just waiting to take
the van. Now, regarding the question of why this van,
so it turns out that this company van, there's a
there's like a fluke in the in this particular van,

(15:18):
and that that other vans don't have. This van is
made by Kia Kia, and in this particular model, through
just a us B, there's something with the USB that
makes it super easy to take the van. Now we're
gonna be getting all that fixed. But so it won't
be easy to take the van, and probably anyone who

(15:40):
has that van should also get it updated so that
your van doesn't get taken. But that's really the the
Teva Dica reason of why this van and not other
vans was because of that.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
Okay, So.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
Now this seems like an amazing turnaround of events, totally.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
Amazing, and what are the chances.

Speaker 1 (16:07):
It's tremendous ashkaklaw that she should have left her name
and cell phone number right there, right by the passenger seat.
It's also amazing all that the person who took it
didn't look to clean out.

Speaker 2 (16:24):
The van in any way.

Speaker 1 (16:26):
And another thing is that the license plate was still
left on the van. The license plate was left on
the van, and they were able to verify the van
through the license plate that indeed she was the owner
of Well it's really under my name, but yeah, the
van was ours, and this lady was a caring lady apparently,

(16:50):
and it was very very nice of her to do that,
very nice of her, and now it seems like an
amazing It seems like totally amazing. The police said that
every year in Chicago there's thirty five thousand vehicles that
get stolen very few of them get recovered.

Speaker 2 (17:09):
Okay, so now.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
What's the new plan is that my wife's gonna drive
there to get the van she has, and the police
are gonna go with her, and she's gonna get the van.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
It's just a four minute drive from the police station.

Speaker 1 (17:28):
But lo and behold her phone rings again. It's the
same lady.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
The lady says, I'm really sorry to tell you this,
but the van was just stolen. Again.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
Unbelievable. The van's the van's gone. The guy came back
and he took the van. Just totally unbelievable. So, you know,
unbelievable as it is, and as much of an emotional

(18:05):
drop you feel, but at the same time you kind of.

Speaker 2 (18:09):
Feel like, well there's hope.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
Well you feel like that until the detective reiterates that
I know there's a very small chance you're getting this
van back, and you'll just hear all the stories that
most people don't get their vehicles back. And even with this,
even with the video, even with this, they didn't even
want to see it, and they had no interest really

(18:35):
in seeing the picture of the person or the detective
had no he said he doesn't have the man power
his work there's other video cameras. Actually on the block
of where the van was taken, there's other video cameras.
The detectives said, he doesn't have the man power to
look at those videos, and they basically don't expect to

(18:59):
get a very very strange It's very strange because when
my electric bike was stolen over the summer, the detective asked.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
Are there any videos?

Speaker 1 (19:10):
Do any houses have videos that they could see the
bike being stolen, and the detective would be interested at
looking at that. So but in this case he had
no interest at all. And not only that, he said
he doesn't have the manpower to do it. I don't
know what in the world that means. Maybe it was
just this particular detective, maybe not, I don't know. So

(19:33):
that pretty much that was the day. A lot of
people got a good laugh over it. I got a
good laugh over it. People called me to apologize and
they got a good laugh over it. But what are
the chances of your van getting stolen twice? So especially
getting stolen twice within those four minutes, you have to realize,

(19:56):
if you think about it, statistically speaking, there's a much
high your chance of us getting the van back at
that point than not, because this lady had several hours
that morning to call. This is even if the workday
starts at nine. Many work days started eight. But even
if it started at nine, there was plenty of time
to call beforehand, to notice the van and to call.

(20:18):
But hash Gooka guided it that she should call just
a few minutes before the guy comes and takes the
van again. So it was like, clearly, in case anybody
thought that things are just coincidence, maybe just some guy
came and took the van and a courtis barko, maybe
wasn't watching over across her Shoan.

Speaker 2 (20:38):
But that's you know, human nature to think like that.

Speaker 1 (20:41):
The fact that it happened again when I heard that story,
when I was speaking to my the fact that happened again,
it reminded me first of how easy it is for
Ushem to give the van back. And in this case,
it was clear that the van was not meant to
be given back to us, at least not on Friday.
Perhaps Hashem wants us to dovin first, perhaps who knows uh,

(21:06):
But it wasn't meant to be given back.

Speaker 2 (21:09):
So uh, that's that, and we go into Shavis.

Speaker 1 (21:16):
My wife said, she said, at fela that we should
get the van back. The FeelA was there should be
the best possible outcome from this scenario, which I would
say is that a coachach Barkle's name should be sanctified
in the very best way possible, meaning if maybe the

(21:36):
best thing is not to get the van back, whatever
whatever that is. I mean, one of the thoughts that
commonly goes through people's minds, at least in our culture,
when these things happen is that you know, obviously there
was a heavenly decree against for whatever reason, there was
a bad gauzeira in Shamayam and Barkashem let that gazeira

(22:00):
mis sky in let it be fulfilled from suffering a
financial loss, from suffering a loss of property rather than
human life Chsposon. And that's something that we learn in
gaullis that we always say barkasm we had a base
of nikdosh, that a Kurdish Barko was able to take
his anger out on the base of nykdosh, and that

(22:20):
klauisel is able.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
To continue to exist.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
So it's it's almost like it's good to have property,
buy more property. That way a kadis barko has more
property to take away. I don't know if it works
like that, but uh, but that's one thing. So on
one hand, you have that Hakarsatov. On the other hand,
a person doesn't want to be totally complacent about it

(22:47):
because we're also told that when if there is a gazeia,
if there is something that a person's doing wrong, a
Kurdish barko first brings suffering to the person's property before
it goes further. So a person should also do a
husgman on ephis. They should do We don't know why
things happen. It could be the person doing nothing wrong,

(23:08):
but they should do a Hugman and fich and if
they could find anything, especially a media connected media, especially
that because we could always find something we're doing wrong,
but if we're doing something wrong with our nose, so
that might not have any shyness to the punishment. So
one would have to find something that's that they're doing wrong,

(23:31):
which is the same thing that's impacting the impact that
not having a van would have, which I don't even
know the full impact of not having a van. It
could be it would cause me to have to take
a bicycle, or could be with whatever that impact is.
It could be that's the thing that has to be fixed.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
But whatever. Okay, fine, So Friday goes by.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
I was told many times Overshovists, of course, don't.

Speaker 2 (23:57):
Expect to ever see the van back. Okay.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
So we go to Moteshavis and there was that ten
minute thing that I mentioned before. That's a thought that
came into my mind, and I said, listen, there's really no.

Speaker 2 (24:18):
It's so far fetched to believe.

Speaker 1 (24:22):
That the van would even be recognizable to even the
guy probably took.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
The license plate off.

Speaker 1 (24:29):
Who knows where the guy is, well, you know, he
could be in a different state.

Speaker 2 (24:34):
The van could have been in an accident by now.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
And if we're going to get the van back, so
Fashem wants us to get the van back, we'll get
the van back. There's a detective on the case, there's police,
will get the van back.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
Why should I go out? What's the point of me
going out?

Speaker 1 (24:51):
Does Ashem really want me to do my st I
don't know the answer to that. Really, does a chem
want me to do a shot that's over here? That's
really the question. And I concluded that I wasn't sure.
I don't really know. Does Asham want me to do
age childless or not. So therefore I figured, if I'm

(25:13):
the type that's the wrong and time of learning every
single second of the day. So I have a suffik
over here, does Asham want me to do age childless?
Since my sufik is going to cause bittel toro? Therefore,
don't do it. Just stay and learn and let someone
else do the work. And that's actually a Goumaran Brocosgamar
Brocos says, if you're doing the rats nasham, especially learning

(25:38):
aku barko, see to it that someone else does the
work for you. So but at the end of the day,
I'm not learning every second of my day. Also, a
person could the type of learning that's not a person
could learn even while they're driving. But so I had
a suffik and I figured I might as well go

(25:58):
out and try to find the car. So where am
I gonna go? So the only the only place. There's
two possibilities. Either the guy, see our insurance guy told
us on Friday that often the criminals returns the van.
We're gonna see though that it actually doesn't happen as

(26:20):
often as he thinks, But that's what he said.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
So one possibility is that the van was returned. Okay.

Speaker 1 (26:29):
The other possibility, the only thing I could think of,
is that maybe the van is somewhere near that parking
lot of where the lady took the video. Maybe it's
not in the parking lot, but maybe the guy lives
around there. Maybe the van's over there. You know, the
chances on me finding it, I thought, are very very slim.
Actually I didn't. I don't really think I thought I

(26:51):
would find it. I'm not sure, and I definitely did
give up at some point.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
I really did give up at some point.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
But in any case, what I did is I drove
the van down to that area, to where that parking
lot was where the video was taken. I drove around,
looking at the different streets. I looked at the different alleys.
I didn't see the van, and I figured, if I
had one of my children here with me, this would

(27:24):
I would be I would see a lot more at
Slaka if I had a child with her. And there's
a few reasons for that, but one of that is
because of a Gamaron Broncos that I learned. The Gamar
Broncos says that a child has a roca coaders In fact,
the Gamara takes this so seriously that there are times
if you want to know what the Rutsnhachem is, you

(27:45):
go to a child and ask the child, what pussic
did you learn later today? And the Gamara has stories
with the child would give an answer, and then as
the amoro, the atsa was taken from what the child learned.
Not only that, unbelievably, Haman Hurasha did the same thing.
Hammon went ahead and asked a child, what did you

(28:07):
learn today with Morkai? And the child said something in
which Hamman got the message a fear that he was
going down that It's like unbelievable. Hamon even asked this question.
So we find it by asking, you know, the child
about apostles. But in general, I thought, if I had

(28:28):
a child in the car, so there's a higher chance
of me being guided to the van because I don't
know where in the world of the van is.

Speaker 2 (28:37):
Maybe the child will start crying at a.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
Certain like we have a child in the room right now,
he's about to start crying, and maybe he'll start crying
at a certain intersection, and then I'll have to pull over.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
Maybe somehow just.

Speaker 1 (28:50):
Will be guided to the van. Because without a child,
there's really no a mister, can you bleed stop crying?
Can someone please get you a from solong?

Speaker 2 (29:00):
Okay? All right, Okay.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
The other thing is that just having an extra mind
in the car could keep tracks of what streets we've
gone on and which streets we have in Okay. The
only problem with my thinking is that my wife thought
that this mission was way too dangerous for any of
my kids to come. And you know, because in case

(29:27):
we do find the van, so there is a thief
and there's a danger here because you know, there's another
person here, a thief that might uh that poses a danger.
So she did not want any of the kids to come.
She didn't want any of the kids to come, and

(29:50):
I was so what she's also saying is that whether
a kid comes or not, she didn't think is going
to make a difference.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
Okay. So so to me, there was.

Speaker 1 (30:01):
No point in going at this point. There was no
point in going if there's a child's not going to come,
because I already went. I went, I didn't see a van.
The van could be anywhere, so we have a detective
already working on it, apparently, so there's really no point
the child comes, I'm willing to go back. Okay, all

(30:22):
my drive home so I'm coming home. But on my
drive home, I'm coming home hopefully going to get a
kid to come, but maybe not so on my drive home,
I just thought of something that my sniker Rebbi said
of crime towards scheme many years ago. He gave an
asa of how he explained how Hasidisi repas are able

(30:45):
to give advice, and he said it's not maybe sometimes
it is rokakoda, but he said what happens is that
they believe. And when a person believes that every single
thing they see in here, his mom is from Hasha.
So that actually is what happens. So if a Cassido cerebel,

(31:05):
let's say, should all.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
Of a sudden hear.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
A strange city like Barol, Alaska. Why should they hear
Barol Alaska? There they're learning. Let's say they're learning all
day they were hung a town and learning. They hear
Lakewood or the CoSIDA towns in New Square, but Barrow, Alaska,
why should.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
They hear that?

Speaker 1 (31:28):
And then a lady comes up and Issha comes to
the Casida cerebel saying that her husband ran away from her.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
She's in Theguno.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
She needs to get where's my husband.

Speaker 2 (31:41):
So what he'll say is she's not gonna say he
knows for sure.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
He'll say, I recommend just try barrel check to see
if he's in Baro, Alaska. And in a lot of
these stories, maybe even all of them, at least a lot,
it actually works. Go to Barol, Alaska and her husband
will actually be there. So again we're dealing with a

(32:07):
case where there's no there's no normal way to find
where the van is. So it's not I'm not a casida.
But at the same time, there's no other approach I
have other than to do something similar. So I thought about,
did I hear a city? Did I hear any place
any just random place that day? And if I did,

(32:28):
I'll go to that place and look for my car.
So I thought about Shavis and the Rabbi, and Shul
made an announcement regarding past car payestock cleaning, which.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
By the way, this is very kid. I to know
that there's a.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
Muslim owned car cleaning place. That's totally amazing. They do
an amazing job for only fifteen dollars. They clean everything
and they're located just past Warren Park. That's the only
place I heard of over Saba. So I figured, you
know what, Warren Park. It's a nice big parking lot.

(33:08):
Maybe my van is at Warren Park. So I drove
to Warren Park and I did not see my van
at Warren Park. So I also drove a little bit
past Warren Park just I don't know exactly where the
car cleaning place is, but I didn't see the van there,

(33:29):
So I just came back. When I as I got
closer to home, I started to think about, well, maybe he.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
Did return the van, and the thought occurred to me.

Speaker 1 (33:43):
The thought occurred to me that if you returned the van,
he probably did not return it to my block. He
probably returned it just somewhere in the neighborhood. So I
drove around just the neighborhood looking for the van, and
you know, I went down Morris Pratt Washington, I went
down to the a little bit further down on Farewell.

(34:06):
I went up Morse a little bit Francisco.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
I didn't see the van. So I came home.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
Hopefully my kids would come, but they were not gonna come.
So that takes care of that, and we'll call it
a night. Because like there's no what's the real point
And there's again, if a chem wants us to get
the van back, we'll get the van back, right, there'll
be a okay.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
But the idea occurred to me.

Speaker 1 (34:39):
That on WhatsApp, if you go to the artificial intelligence
section of WhatsApp, which usually I have no access to
it because usually the phone is filtered in such a
way that this doesn't work. But and that's probably gonna

(34:59):
be the case soon, but for this short period of time,
I do.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
Have access to it.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
So one of the artificial intelligence WhatsApp characters is a policeman.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
Yes, I went to the police. This sounds ridiculous, but.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
You know, again, there's nothing really to work with other
than to come up with something different than what I
did the first time.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
So we have I go there.

Speaker 1 (35:31):
I first of all, I ask what are the chances
that the thief returned it? So it told me that
they almost never return it. Statistically, in four percent of
cases the thief returns it. So then I asked, if
he does return it, would he return it to my block?

Speaker 2 (35:52):
Okay, and said no, he.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
Would return it to a He doesn't return it to
the block where he stole it from. He read, turn
it to a block nearby, maybe an abandoned alleyway something
like that.

Speaker 2 (36:06):
Okay, so that confirmed really what I already did.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
Then I told the details of the case and about
how there was a video where the van was parked
by a parking lot of a certain intersection on Friday,
and I said, where do you think I could find
my van? So it gave me four possibilities. The first

(36:34):
one was something about well, I don't know which one
was what, but one of them was about a certain
location on the south side of Chicago. It said that
there's a certain area there which is known for having
an enormous amount of abandoned stolen vehicles, and it gave
me a very specific spot, and it recommended going to

(36:56):
that spot. That spot was forty five minutes away. The
second recommendation was also.

Speaker 2 (37:03):
Forty five minutes away.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
And one thing it's said is to go to a
certain any large parking lot by a train. A lot
of times they'll leave it said, they'll leave the car
by a train so that they can quickly get on
the train or run away. It made a lot of sense.
So that's something to look out for. If I passed
the train station to look in the parking lots around there.

(37:26):
But one of the things it said is to look
at a nearby road of the roads of Lakewood and Loyola,
which is where that parking lot was. To look at
nearby roads or alleys. That's where it is. That's where
there's a good chance it's over there. Okay, fine, Now

(37:47):
the only problem with that is that I already did that,
but that was the closest area, a few miles from
the house, maybe even several miles from the house. So
then another idea, uh came into my head, and that
is we have the remote key.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
See the guy we mentioned already, the.

Speaker 1 (38:06):
Guy who stole it, he hot wired it so maybe
even through a USB, so he doesn't have the key.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
We have the key and our key barkashem. The remote works.

Speaker 1 (38:19):
You know, a lot of times I never liked those keys,
because yeah, it has a nice remote, but it destroys
the quality of the key and the keys break.

Speaker 2 (38:29):
I like the old time keys.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
But in this case, it's wonderful that we have a
key and the remote worked, because that means if I
press the panic button and the van is nearby, the horn.

Speaker 2 (38:41):
Will continuously blow.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
There's another way to get the horn to blow, and
that's if you repeatedly press lock, then the horn will
just keep making short little blows. So I was thinking
that maybe if I take this remote and I drive there,
I drive down to that intersection, and if I just

(39:05):
keep pressing that button, maybe I'll hear my van. Now
the question over here, though, is should I be pressing
the panic button or the lock The problem with the
panic button is that it was never really clear to
me at what point the horn starts blowing, Whereas with
the lock it happens right away you just keep pressing

(39:26):
it it keeps blowing. With the panic button, it seemed
like if you keep your finger on the button for
a number of seconds, it will start blowing, and then
you put it on it will go off.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
So it wasn't really clear.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
So I asked the again, this artificial intelligence police character
on WhatsApp, if this was a good idea, if this
would be a help in finding the van, and he said, oh,
it's an excellent idea, and it said what you should
do is put your hand on the panic button, but
every thirty seconds press the lock button, and that way

(40:00):
you would have the highest chance of finding the van.
It kind of explained why I didn't really get it
one hundred percent, but I might as well do it.
Maybe it's wrong, maybe it's not, but either way it
should work. So that's what I did. So I drove
into that neighborhood with the remote, and I started to

(40:21):
hear a horn continuously beep. Now there's a lot of
horns that continuously beep. The chances of it being my
car are very slim, of course, very slim.

Speaker 2 (40:34):
But I drove to that area in Lo and behold,
it was my van. This was the stolen van.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
License plates still on it, even the bumper stickers are
still on it, the Hebrew bumpers, still all this, whatever
it says from the sum everything's still on it. Everything's
still there. Which interestingly, we bought this van from a
Lebovich owned company, and when we bought the van, he

(41:01):
gave us this certain type of clumage from the lababator
Rebby something, and he said, as long as you keep
this clumba engineer, nothing bad will ever happen to the van.

Speaker 2 (41:15):
That's what he told me.

Speaker 1 (41:16):
So you know, it's not a bad idea to have
a clumage in the van. Anyways, Let just keep it
in the van. We just kept it in the van.
The lumage is right there. I looked at it. It's
right there in the passenger seat. It's right there. And
it wasn't even in the glove department. It was right
there in the passenger seat. No one took it. It
was right there, and nothing bad happened to the van.

(41:37):
It's just someone took it, but nothing but it was
just the license plate is It's just a big pella
of why nothing was done to cover up the identity
of the van.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
Okay, the story really is not over yet, but we're
getting close.

Speaker 1 (41:55):
But so here we are. The van was found. It's
in between Glenwood and Lakewood.

Speaker 2 (42:05):
On North Shore. That's where the street was.

Speaker 1 (42:08):
And the problem, there's a problem here, you guys. I
can't go out and just drive the van for a
couple of reasons. First of all, the key probably doesn't
work anymore because he messed around.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
With the steering wheel.

Speaker 1 (42:23):
But secondly, our car insurance requires it to not just
be checked out first in order for them to continue
to cover the van, it also has to be checked
out by specific places. Last night, I was told that
in the state of Illinois, they're not allowed to make
such a rule.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (42:44):
But another problem here is that the van really was
not in an abandoned area at all. It was in
front of an apartment complex, and it's highly likely that
the criminal lives in that apartment complex. So there's a
very big danger here, a very big danger that if
I go out to the van, who knows what could happen.

(43:08):
So I called I was gonna call nine one one.
I called my wife first. She said, called nine one one. Okay,
called nine one one. Nobody came except a tow truck
arrived right away. It's like unbelievable, like instantly, this guy
named Jerry, he showed up and he was there. It

(43:28):
turned out for hours, just there and he said I
After a while, I said to him, where's the police?
He said, Oh, you're gonna have to call them again.
They're never gonna come. I said, how could that be?
I called nine one one. He said, yeah, they don't come.
I'm like, but the police got you to come, right

(43:51):
He said no. I says, how did you know to come?
He said, he uses us a radio where he could
hear the police radio, and he heard about a guy
that needs his Van Toad, so he showed up. So
at this point, the truth is, I wasn't really one
hundred percent sure whether maybe this guy's also a criminal.

Speaker 2 (44:15):
In fact, the first thing.

Speaker 1 (44:17):
That came to my mind was in the movie Home Alone,
there was a criminal dressed up as a policeman.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
In the very beginning of the movie. Everyone just assumed
he was.

Speaker 1 (44:27):
A policeman, but really that guy was the burglar. So
I had no idea. But when you're all alone there
and it's freezing out, when you don't have a code,
we're standing out there, it got very cold, there's nobody there.
He's the only one there. He came across as very professional,
So you just become, my guess, more trusting when you're

(44:51):
in such a vulnerable situation. And he seemed to know
what he was talking about. So whatever he said, called
nine one again. I called nine one one again. We
waited and waited. Nobody came. There was a package guy
that came. He also was a car mechanic. He was
dropping off cleaning supplies to someone's house and he was

(45:13):
there for quite a while, and uh, it was the
two of them got into a nice conversation and he
was telling me about different things to do in the
future to make sure that the van doesn't get stolen.
They were both telling me about this issue with the
key of van, so I hope if you answered, it

(45:35):
can go someplace else. So he said, for ten dollars,
you can get a steering wheel lock. He also told
me about some switches to use that it's a little
bit more complex. I called nine to one one a
third time and the police came and we did a

(45:58):
recovery report, and only after the recovery report would he
be able to toe it. Because if you don't do
a recovery report, and there was already a police report
done on this van, so then whoever's driving the van
is going to be accused of stealing it. So the
police said that within thirty minutes after the recovery report

(46:18):
is done, everything's fine, but he could tow it right away.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
The police came.

Speaker 1 (46:23):
They didn't really have much of an interest in seeing
pictures of the criminal's strange or the video. I asked
him a question like, how could why is the lady
taking a video and the man's taking pictures of the
license plate at the same time the guy's stealing it,
shouldn't they be calling nine one one. This is going

(46:44):
all the way back on the lady that called my
wife Friday morning, and he said, you're right, they should
have called nine one one. But nowadays it's a big
thing to just video. People are just video taping fights.
They're not even they don't call nine one one, they're
just video. It's just a thing nowadays, and you see
it all the time, just something that people should really

(47:06):
be calling nine to one one. But I could see
it also with newscasts doing the news, well, look what's
going on, just call nine one one. In any case,
they didn't really seem to be interested in arresting the guy,
and the tow truck guy told me that the worst
thing you could do is arrest this guy and get
him thrown in jail, because he'll get freed from jail

(47:29):
within a month and he'll come after us. He'll know
who did it, and he'll come after us. So don't
get him put in jail.

Speaker 2 (47:36):
Okay.

Speaker 1 (47:38):
I didn't really want him to get put in jail anyways,
but I wanted him to get help, really. But in
any case, and then the police left, but they left
it the wrong time because right after they left, the
criminal actually came out and threatened to attack the plow. True,

(48:01):
I was already in the rental van, in the rental
suv on the side. I didn't actually see this part happen,
but there was actually two of them. It wasn't just
one criminal, two of them. And they said, why are
you stealing our van? The toe tark guy was towing
the van. They said, well, you're stealing our van. And

(48:21):
he said to them, now you stole this man that
police are around the corner.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
If you continue, you're gonna be put in jail.

Speaker 1 (48:29):
So he said it in a more tough way as well,
with some NIVELPA, plenty of NIVELPA, and it scared them off. Okay,
so I followed the guy. I followed him to the
place where he was towing it to. And the insurance
is hopefully gonna fix things up. And there's some more

(48:49):
scratches on the van which they'll fix up. We don't
know what the van's gonna look like when all of
a sudden done, but one thing that does come out
over years, really, it was planning on cleaning out this
van for Pasach the Sunday. This Sunday, I was planning

(49:09):
on doing it and you know, maybe, uh, that's the
one to think about it more. But it appears to
be an inconvenience. But you know, you could say that
maybe there was a time in the past when I
should have done it and didn't do it. So maybe
there was like a gazea that this time, I'm going

(49:31):
to make it hard for you, like you'll have to
do it at the last minute, or maybe we'll see
that we'll end up being able to get that car place,
the car cleaning place by Warren Park.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
Maybe they'll be able to do it, and they'll be
able to do a phenomenal job.

Speaker 1 (49:50):
There's one part of the story, which in a certain
way is the most important part that I skipped.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
That.

Speaker 1 (50:00):
This is definitely the most important part. So we mentioned
prayer once. We mentioned that my wife was just saying
a prayer that there should be the best possible outcome,
not domnining for any particular outcome, uh, just the best
possible outcome. When she was lighting the shop at Scandals,

(50:23):
I also I wrote a prayer on Friday.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
I wrote a prayer, and we call it feel usually.

Speaker 1 (50:31):
But here's another thing though. You know, when I went
out the first time around the mot Chavis.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
I went out to look for it. I couldn't find it.

Speaker 1 (50:41):
I came back, I went out a second time. The
second time I did find it. What's the difference between
the first time and the second time. So I told
you all of these crash bonos, the oh I had
the remote I had?

Speaker 2 (50:59):
Why did I do that the first time? Why didn't
I bring the remote the first time?

Speaker 1 (51:02):
Why did Why was the second time a success and
the first time wasn't.

Speaker 2 (51:09):
Why was it a success at all? So here's something
that I only learned later. My son is eight years old.
He goes to crater. He told me that he started
saying to Hill.

Speaker 1 (51:22):
The second time I was out, he started dobbining to
ashm that his abba should find the van.

Speaker 2 (51:32):
And he told me.

Speaker 1 (51:33):
Exactly which kipitul he said? He said, he said, cook,
let me ask Dobe.

Speaker 2 (51:42):
Her.

Speaker 1 (51:42):
Well, he told me there were four, three of them,
he said, because that's what in creader, that's what he
learned to say, because of the saurus in ertisral, that's
what his creator says.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
He said, those three, and there was.

Speaker 1 (52:00):
Another one that he looked at the words and it
spoke about someone having t tarists, someone going through hardships
and the words he said, the words seemed to match
the situation.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
So he decided to say that one.

Speaker 1 (52:16):
And I have to tell you that I remember when
I was in school. I remember back in third grade.
When I was in third grade.

Speaker 2 (52:24):
There was the Gulf War.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
It started around Khanika, I think even on and it
ended on poor Mamash And I remember we were brought
into the gymnasium. US third graders were brought into the
gymnasium and the principles spoke about Fila, and he spoke
about the power of the hilim, but he spoke about
the ones that have the most power are children. Tinoko Robin,

(52:51):
So Tila is powerful to hill him is the most
powerful and Tinogos Robin is the most of the most
Why the because children are free of great children have
no hatim as we know when a child does what
we would call a sin, when they do something wrong

(53:12):
for better or for worse, that sin really close to
the parents. So the child has no time he's not
held responsible for anything bad that they do. There's also
other reasons. There's an enormous innocence by a child. By
there they're dobbning with a certain sma stick Uh. Their
FeelA is often very very temis stick. He told me

(53:35):
that he divined with Covana, he dibbened with Covanna, and
when he was done, when he was done, he said
that he was told Abba found the van.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
So the first time around.

Speaker 1 (53:52):
When I said the story, I spoke about the only
fela that I knew of. I was calling English prayer
because it was my own. It was that's all I knew.
So that's what I mentioned. But now that I know this,
we know that the FeelA by Adlocus Narros is very powerful.
So we know that the outcome which, by the way,

(54:14):
you could just say that having a story, see to
ask for the best possible outcome, is actually asking for this.

Speaker 2 (54:22):
It's asking for being.

Speaker 1 (54:25):
Now there's a story, Now it's being recorded, now, it's
it will be inspiring to people that I could really
say that hurt FeelA was answered not in the finding
of the van, but in all that has transpired and
will transpire. Because of the way the story played out,
it truly seemed it truly is headed to be the

(54:46):
best possible outcome, which is the best possible outcome is
for this to bring about the greatest sanctification of Ashama's
name possible. I would say the best possible outcome is
for the criminal to do truva at the end of
the day through this event. If you really want the
best possible outcome is that through this not that the
criminal gets thrown in jail, or if he does, he

(55:07):
gets matched up with someone in clergy or someone somehow he.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
Changes his ways.

Speaker 1 (55:13):
It's very sad that a person feels so little meaning
in their life that stealing to them they're numb to it.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
Maybe he's not numb. Maybe it's sad if they need
to steal to get the resources as well.

Speaker 1 (55:30):
Either way, it's very sad the chance the person feels
so empty that they could just steal a van like that,
or maybe they need to feel the thrill to feel
whatever it is, it's something very sad. And in a
certain way, he's he's really the victim. In a certain way,
he's the one that I mean, it's true that he

(55:53):
is victimizing others. But and if you really think about it,
you really have to feel bad for him. And and
in a certain way, really the one who stole it
needs the most FeelA of all, they need the most
Fela of all and for the FeelA by the luck
of Snares, for that to be answered the best way

(56:13):
for there to be the best possible outcome. I would
say that we may never know what the end of
the story is regarding them, but uh, but that would
be the best possible.

Speaker 2 (56:25):
Outcome of somehow.

Speaker 1 (56:28):
Maybe I don't know, maybe they did open up the Lebovits,
maybe they saw something inspiring. I don't know exactly what's
in the van, but there is uh, probably plenty of
inspirational material in the van. And then that Dove's part,
the fact that the van wasn't found so you need it.

(56:50):
If the van would have been found the first time around,
by by me adding all those extra details, it really
ruined it kind of ruins the story.

Speaker 2 (56:59):
For it makes this story better.

Speaker 1 (57:01):
But those extra details are all Katsonius because who gave
me the idea to use artificial WhatsApp?

Speaker 2 (57:11):
To use the remote? Really just the remote?

Speaker 1 (57:15):
What is the real difference between the two times I
went there? The first time couldn't find the van, went
out a second time, did find the van. The real difference,
how courts Barkle's the cause of all causes, the real
em it's the difference in the spiritual world is that
the second time around you had a child saying to

(57:36):
Hillam with cavana, and the first time around you didn't.
That's the real difference between the two. And the reason
this is the stories playing out to create the greatest
sanctification of a Codersparkle's name.

Speaker 2 (57:51):
Is because there were two times.

Speaker 1 (57:55):
If I only went out once and he said to
Hilim and I found it, so yeah, that shows also
the power of tillium.

Speaker 2 (58:02):
But the fact that.

Speaker 1 (58:03):
I went out twice. I went out the first time
and I couldn't find it. Nobody was doviinating. The second
time I did find it, and that second time is
when you had a child saying tilium is extremely consistent
with the Torah values that I was taught all my life.
And therefore I think it's a tremendous kidder Shashan. And

(58:24):
you should know that the policeman told me, Wow, are
you lucky?

Speaker 2 (58:28):
That's what the policeman said, So whow are you lucky?

Speaker 1 (58:31):
Because this usually doesn't happen, and that's when you have
a detective working on it.

Speaker 2 (58:36):
We didn't.

Speaker 1 (58:37):
Obviously, I'm not even a detective. I knew nothing, so
it's a tremendous Uh. There's a tremendous story here. We
still don't have the van back, but.

Speaker 2 (58:48):
I think it's.

Speaker 1 (58:49):
Uh, it's at the mechanic and UH it's Jerry's tow
truck took it there. And I'm sure there'll be more
to say, more to think about later on. I'll think
about something else, but for right now, that's what we have.

Speaker 2 (59:07):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (59:09):
And Paysach is a mere week away we're holding in
the month of Nissan. You know, one of the words
in Nissan, Nissan's actually the name of a car, the
name of a van.

Speaker 2 (59:24):
I remember when I was a kid in.

Speaker 1 (59:26):
Carpool, I would always get picked up with a Nissan Van.
So in the month itself gets a person to think
about a van. That Nissan van also had.

Speaker 2 (59:36):
Very serious problems.

Speaker 1 (59:37):
I remember the there were car seats in the back
and I scoot. We used to sit on step stools
and they were always flipping over every time there was
a stop. Very But also in the Nissan you also
have the word naise. You have no sich a Nase.
We spoke about last year. Right around this time, there
was a tremendous nase Clauislo experienced the nase with all

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the missiles coming into Eric Tistral, and in a certain way,
this also.

Speaker 2 (01:00:03):
Was a nace.

Speaker 1 (01:00:04):
It wasn't a like Chris Chianso, but really there was
a nace, and there also was humor.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
There really was humor.

Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
Lots of turnal events and you see how things could
are always changing. It's in a certain way this stray
may not be ended, but I hope people get as
much physic as possible from the story, and thank you
for listening. I wish everyone to go out a good
week and have a hard cust service, a good shotvice
and

Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
A wonderful Yantis