Ariel Berkowitz: Finding Hashem After getting Hit By a Train & Losing My Legs
Inspiration for the Nation with Yaakov Langer
Living Lchaim
4.9 • 992 Ratings
🗓️ 21 September 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Raised in a religious household but soon ended back in McDonalds. Ariel Berkowitz drifted away from Judaism in high school and faced many challenges. A life-changing accident at 19, where he was run over by a train and lost his legs, led him to reconnect with his faith and see the bigger purpose in his life. He now values his connection to G-d more than anything and embraces the second chance he was given.
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| 0:00.0 | I come across the train tracks and I'm kind of just stumbling at this point and really I'm thinking |
| 0:07.6 | that I'm gonna make it across the tracks and just continue my journey and that's that I didn't think anything about it just oh whatever it's train tracks |
| 0:13.2 | just keep walking keep going but what happened next would change my life forever I |
| 0:20.0 | just remember walking and stumbling I remember concrete very vividly |
| 0:26.0 | and the next thing I remember |
| 0:28.0 | I'm all of a sudden drifting above my body in a dimly lit |
| 0:32.0 | hospital room and I was just existing outside my body. |
| 0:37.0 | Arreel was wasting his life away until the fateful night when he got hit by a train. |
| 0:42.0 | In this episode you will hear about his accident |
| 0:45.0 | and the wild moments that he had with Ashem, |
| 0:48.0 | the creator of the world, during the time that he died. |
| 0:52.8 | You'll also hear to me personally one of the most inspiring relationships |
| 0:56.9 | we've ever explored on this podcast. |
| 0:59.2 | This is a very special episode. |
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| 1:16.5 | shul space, the smartest way to run your shul. This episode is in memory of Shimindavit, |
| 1:21.5 | Benyak of Schlima and Mirim Sara |
| 1:23.6 | bus Yaku of Mosha. |
| 1:24.8 | Be sure to stick around for my thoughts on a reel |
| 1:27.2 | and I have a lot to say, here we go. |
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