0170 - R' Shmuel Levitin Crossing the Street

00:01 The Shul of Itan told me that he used to cross sometimes Eastern Parkway in middle of the street, not by the corner where there is a light. I believe it means when he used to stay in his son's house, Rabbi Yomen, across the street in the building across from the seventies. So when he used to cross, so sometimes he used to cross the middle of the street. So he told me that the Friedrich Rabbi told him, "Az ich zis van fenster, nerzeve degeisti ve de gas, faltamer iz de hartz urefra chabes." Which means that when I see you crossing the street, I'm sitting by the window, and I see you crossing the street, the middle of the street, and obviously because cars are coming, and it's dangerous, my heart falls out. It's an expression in Yiddish which means I get nervous, and especially on Shabbes. I think that's the lotion. He said, "Faltamer iz de hartz," something like that, that I get very nervous, and especially on Shabbes. And he said that, "What's the difference, Shabbes?" Because Shabbes, there's another thing there probably because there are... You sometimes make the car stop or slow down, especially sometimes the car could be a ye driving, so certainly you shouldn't do it. But Bechal, he said that when you cross the street in the middle of the street, so the Rebbe, Friedrich Rebbe said, "I get nervous," and he told him not to do it.