this could have ended very differently...

[Music] Hello friends I hope this message finds you well you probably haven't seen or heard from me a lot especially on YouTube as I've been pretty quiet over the past few months there's a lot been going on and I want to talk to you guys about that a little bit later on in future videos but right now I want to tell you guys about something that happened to me almost exactly a month ago um I have a rabbi a mentor who's also a very good friend his name is Mata Frank he lives in Israel and he was visiting me in Texas he came to spend some time with me with my family with my community and I was driving him around for a couple days while he was giving classes and lectures in different places one night after giving a class him and I were driving towards my house and we got to an intersection I had to make a left turn off of a Main Street into a side street I started to make the turn I noticed there was a car far far away which was coming in our Direction but according to the math that I had done and which I do whenever I'm driving and making a turn I figured that this car is really far away and I'd have no problem completing the turn before the car came to us but um as I was in middle of making the turn and I'm talking about this as if like it took a long time this all happened in a matter of milliseconds but as I was making the turn I noticed that the car was actually out of control and speeding towards us at unbelievable speeds and the the car had bumped off the sidewalk and it just it seemed to me like a very dangerous situation and um I wasn't sure what to do I wasn't sure if I should stay in the intersection and let the car pass or should I back up and try to get back to where I was before I started turning or should I try to get out of the intersection and complete the turn again it I'm like all the amount of time that I'm using to tell the story um in this amount of time the story would have happened 100 times already but ultimately I made the decision the Split Second decision to gun it make the left turn I just hit the pedal to the metal and it shocked my friend rata he was like what's going on and I just got out of the intersection a second later literally 1 second later this out of control car zipped past us and smashed into a electric pole and then into a tree it made like a 180° turn look at this vehicle the car was demolished there were pieces all over the street there was broken glass everywhere and smoke and unfortunately the driver was ejected from the vehicle and he was laying there on the ground screaming in agony um thank God he did survive but he had many broken bones and he definitely is going to have a long recovery process it didn't take us long to figure out that we had experienced something which could have ended very very differently and and honestly we thought about it and we think of it as kind of like a miracle like the fact that I was thank God focused and decided to make the decision that I had made God forbid if we had stayed in the intersection we could have gotten really really badly hurt or Worse the night after this happened just about 24 hours later we made a big party sudas which is basically a a Thanksgiving me to thank God for his incredible kindness for saving us in this situation and I've been thinking a lot about you know life in general since that happened because it could have ended so differently and because our lives were definitely at risk I've been contemplating a lot on my life the things I've been doing the things I want to be doing the things I haven't done yet the things I should have done and um yeah it's just been a very shall I say reflective month uh since this happened and uh the reason I'm sharing this with you is number one because I want to thank God publicly for his kindness for giving us that extra chance at life and for saving us from what could have been a really terrible outcome and number two because I want to remind you guys that um life is short and there's so much that you can do to have a better life enjoy your life more make every moment count I'm sure so many of you are doing amazing things but we can all strive to be a little bit better I'm going to try to do that I hope you guys can do that and uh I hope to see you guys more often I'll be making some more videos very soon stay tuned thank you all for tuning in God bless you see you later