Boy Dons Tefillin with Fellow Hiker at Bear Mountain, Discovers Uncanny Coincidence

By: Yitzy Fried

Bachurim from the Lubavitch mesivta of Monsey were hiking the trails at Bear Mountain when they did what it is their custom to do; ask passersby if they’re Jewish, and offer them the chance to put on tefilin. 

After many declined, one person said he was Jewish, and he accepted the wisdom of doing this mitzvah which he hadn’t done in years, if ever. 

When he had said the brochos and shema, the boys engaged him in conversation, asking him his name, to which he replied, Bill Lang. The boys explained that the boy who helped him don the tefilin was Moshe Lang, who shares a last name with him. 

Overcome with emotion at the Providential turn of events, Bill exclaimed, “my father’s name was Moshe Lang!”