Toyota Recall - Always an opportunity for outreach

a while back I had seen the uh the project Inspire videos my wife and I watched them and we were very inspired and we thought you know how much we would love to do be involved in kiru if something would ever come our way Toyota gas pedal recall is expanding this morning called on Wednesday Toyota called another 1.1 million vehicle they have accelerators that they get stuck on floor mats I had to take the car to be service to have this recoil problem entered in I was late and I sat down this woman across from me and she was doing the paperwork and I I apologized to her for being late the traffic and she said yeah I know New York traffic and one thing after another somehow we got to she mentioned that she was from upstate New York and I said oh really Upstate New York sure you know I've been up there and she said oh do you know the temple in Upstate New York in Middletown I said temple I said you're Jewish and she said yeah my mother's Jewish my father's not Jewish and and my grandmother you know her dying wish was that someone in the family should practice Judaism and no one ever has done anything the last Jewish experience I had was by Bat Mitzvah the rabbi put the Talis around me and they got in aiyah then I thought this is an opportunity I have to invite someone over for shabas and I was very nervous I was sweating at that point I didn't know what to do this is my first time really inviting somebody off the street a Jewish person to an experience for shabas it's spoke to my wife and we decided we're going to call her up and invite her over for shabas and we called her and she accepted the invitation right away without hesitation and she came and she joined us for shabas and she was blown away and we didn't have to do anything crazy we just the Gila fish and the kogle and the chicken spoke for itself and she had questions and there were answers for her questions and she had an unbelievable experience and I gave her any books I had for beginning of Judaism she took home with her we packed up kala and K and Gil just sent her home with all that stuff and she was blown away and she called again and my wife has been in touch with her and she's coming again for shabas and she's been learning and she's starting to learn Hebrew and it was all from just one experience of one invitation for chabas which I decided to uh to follow through like the video had said and just invite her over for chabas and hope for the best and it was really an unbelievable experience what we've learned from uh this experience and from Project Inspire is that really anybody could do kirov and you could be anywhere we were I was in a a Toyota dealership and I had an opportunity to do tremendous Kos and it doesn't take a professional it could be anybody in the world just extending a shabas invitation and letting yish kite speak for itself and I told her at the end I said you know a million Toyotas were recalled all so that you can come to our house for [Music] shabas