Tatoos - R. Yoel Gold - TorahAnytime.com

Today we have the yard of Rabbi Wallerstein tonight. He told over a mis it's his yard set tonight so we'll just mention it. He said that once he was in LA and uh he was uh speaking somewhere and in the back you had a guy with a Harley-Davidson a motorcycle parked outside tattoos all over his body sitting and listening to a speech and he's wondering like what's he doing here? And so after the speech, you know, he goes over to him and uh the guy says, "Rebby, you don't remember me?" Wian says, "Uh, I don't I don't remember you." And immediately, like it clicked, like after a second, like it's like, "Oh my goodness." Like 20 years ago, he's in my eighth grade class. And now it's like 20 years later, he's fully grown, got tattoos all over his body. And uh he gave him a big hug. Says, "Revy, I just uh I I came here to make you proud." He I want to show you something. And uh is covered in tattoos. And he pulls up his sleeve, his left hand pulls up the sleeve over there. And he shows him that up until his biceps up until here he's got tattoos, but over here is clean. Not not a single tattoo. The only place in his body with no tattoos. >> That was the number two tattoo. >> He said not the Ves. That wasn't him. >> No, that was number two. The one that was blank. >> That was the blank one. There you go. That was the blank photo. He said cuz when I was in your eighth grade 20 years ago, he said I was in your eighth grade. My parents were struggling. I was having bar mitzvah. They couldn't afford a pirate fillin for me. And you raised the money and you got me a pir fillin. And that was a gift from you, Rebi. And when you gave it to me, you told me, he said, "I'm giving this as a gift. Make sure to put it on every day." He says, "I can't tell you that I put it on every day, but I could tell you when I was getting the tattoos all over, I told the guy, don't touch over here because my Rebi gave me a gift and from time to time I still put on your that was his love, his dedication to Israel, his love to every Jew should have an aliyah. That's the uh uh one of the stories you mentioned about tattooing.