What you were in, was that a cult? I would consider it a cult. Yeah. Within this group, I would say the vast majority, no one had a Jewish background. It was all people from Christianity who were interested in it. it was

a people from Christianity who were interested in it as this outshoot of saying, you know, what was being taught was that

Yoshka was an Orthodox Jew so we should also live that way.

Interesting.

He was not meant to do away with the Torah as normative Christianity teaches,

but that sort of the best way to serve Jushka is to be Jewish and so it's this

weird sort of offshoot that doesn't fit within Judaism and doesn't fit within Christianity either.

For 10 years I had been portraying myself as an Orthodox Jew and presenting myself in that way

and then suddenly I have an out.

I was unconscious of two and a half days.

I woke up on Erechimchstaira and a couple days later I was put back in an ambulance towards a man signing hospital where I then need another six-hour open head surgery.

And after that, Dr. Forman said there's nothing he can do being the oxygen treatments were interrupted.

Around Hanuk of 1997, when I was 26, I went completely blind.

We got engaged and I said to him, your wife is not only your wife, she's your best friend.

It's just, it's just just I can't explain to being

happy mad is just the most beautiful thing that's so nice you know what I'm saying it's it

like I'm just gonna example I have to move to Montana my wife's coming. She has to move to

Kentucky. I'm going with her you know I'm saying it's your best friend for life. I'll explain

more you know you feel complete. You can't see it I'm like tearing up because I

think that's like so sweet.

Lave, a thriving Jewish guy from Queen, studying for law, had his life turned around when he developed a tumor.

As a result, he lost his vision and he's been blind since.

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