The fist time I met God at 22 years old.

so i say to my mother one day i said there's a buddhist temple in montreal and i want to go she says before you go to the buddhist temple maybe you should go to shul and and i listened to her and it was a conservative shul and i put on my nicer suit and i started singing on the way any jewish song that i could sing i remember on the way i was literally singing i was the only jewish song i knew and i remember the khaz in there was a breast level hassan he was also a balchuva clean-shaven he had happiness pouring out of his face i don't know if it was happiness mixed with holiness i had never seen holiness before and i just remember saying to myself whatever this guy knows i have to know like that whatever's on that guy's face i need to know that