The Irish Policeman Who Was Blessed By The Rebbe

why did they have a same we pray and here's a very different kind of story this story this story is it's widely known like my children heard the story before but I wanted to share it again especially this week there was a Labov each woman somewhere in the tri-state area in New York was pulled over by a police officer New York's finest they're called NYPD I don't know some kind of traffic violation standing outside her open car window watching her search through her wallet for her license and then the registration papers the police officer caught sight of a picture of the Deborah it's very common people keep pictures of the family in the wild Oh Kyle see them keep a picture of that ever in the world the police officer says she's you man you know that rabbi so she said yeah are you one of those followers of the rabbi's she said yeah yeah we are and the police officer said well in that case am I giving you a ticket and he closed his ticket book and he says you know what I'm not giving you a ticket and he pointed to the picture of that ever he says because because that Rabbi did a big miracle for me and the woman said well since you're not giving me a ticket I suppose I have time would you care to share the story what you mean and the policeman an Irish Catholic smiled broadly and he said yeah it's my favorite story but I haven't told it to many Jewish people in fact I don't know many Jewish people I think you're the first ones gonna hear it who's Jewish the cars are whizzing by outside and the police officer raised his voice lightly and he began to convey the following he said I used to be in the police escort that about once a week would escort the river to the cemetery martha fury cemetery that's of course with it oh hell is whatever used to go and was that ever was so busy and didn't have any time that every would have a police escort to get in there as quickly as possible that ever would spend time sometimes until the wee hours late late late at late at night sometimes even from early in the morning praying and then they would the whisk fit up a back end it was always a police escort the police escort would stay there and gar so the police officer says I got to know some of the buckram some of the young people who accompany the river and I learned a lot of interesting things he says you know they're very friendly people and you know you could imagine we talked a lot we talked about the revenue was inside the mausoleum praying and one day everybody was really excited they were like they were like going crazy about something and I said what somebody so excited about this is all was them you know the Rebbe is a miracle worker he he does miracles today there are unbelievable Americans I don't know what the miracle was I don't know what they were talking about but everybody was really really excited and I said to them hmm he says to the Rebbe he can do miracles he says does he help non-jewish people also they said yeah sure the Rebbe asks anybody why do you why anybody who asks why do you ask so he said well I said I tell this young fellow me and my wife we've been married for nine years we have no children a few weeks ago the doctors told us to give up there's no chance we had spent money maybe for six or seven years running around from one professor to the other doctor to the next one treatment center to the other and they said finally forget it it's never gonna happen just give it up he says you can't imagine how broken we were my wife was crying all the time he said I started crying myself young man says to me you know what the next time you escort the Rebbe he says just stand near the car and before he goes in the car ask him tell him ask him if he can help you so the police officer says I did that I was I said that Rep is getting in this car said excuse me Rebbe do you bless only Jewish people well non-jewish people too and the police officer says the Reber looked at me like he was a good friend it was like amazing and he said to me I try to help everybody so I said to the Reber I told him about this story with my wife and I and having children and whoever said to me I should write down on a piece of paper my name and my father's name and my wife and her father's name which is I'm just gonna note parenthetically when you pray for a Jew use the mother's name you pay for non-jews the father's name never said write it down and he would pray for us so I did it he the police officer said my hands were shaking I could barely write but I wrote it out and I gave the note to the river and he says you're never gonna believe this it's unbelievable he says nine months later my wife did gave birth to a baby boy the doctors all went crazy nobody could figure it out I told him it was a rabbi and Brooklyns blessing they were scratching their heads they said what are you f doing a rabbi in Brooklyn the guy said I felt like a champion over the whole world and here comes the best part says the Irish police officer do you know what we named him he says we named our baby Mendel my wife wasn't so happy about it you know it's not an American name I said nope we're gonna call him Mendel and every time we're gonna call our son we're gonna remember the rabbi who blessed us and without without whom this boy wouldn't be here he says when our parents heard the name they went nuts they said you got to be kidding when a name like Mendel he's gonna be a beauty in school the kids will be cruel to him they'll think he's Jewish what do you need that for what'd he make any kids suffer for and we said nope I don't care let him if he has to suffer I'll suffer but he'll know he'll know that the Jewish people are good people and he'll know that he exists because of a Jewish rabbi who gave us a blessing he said if if those kids were bad he'll learn from them how not to behave and if they hate Jews for no reason then he'll learn that he should love Jews and he should help Jews whenever he could and he says and you just you'll just know he says that you're and have the name of a rabbi that's why your name is Mendel because without him you wouldn't be here and he says how maybe the other kids will start thinking differently two very different stories and what I was thinking about and they offer