David Miller* [*not his real name], a pious
observant Jew was at Logan Airport getting ready to board United Flight 175. He was going to LA on an important business trip and had to make this flight.He boarded the plane and watched the doors close.
Suddenly he remembered that he left his tefillin
(ritual boxes with straps worn by Jewish men in prayer) in the terminal boarding area. He politely asked the stewardess if he could go back and retrieve his tefillin, which were sitting just a few feet from the gate.
She told him that once the doors of the plane
closed, no one was allowed off the plane. Not about to take this sitting down, he asked
if he could speak to the pilot to obtain special
permission. Surely the pilot would understand.
The pilot did not comply. He simply restated the policy.
David was not about to lose this precious mitzvah, or let the holy tefillin get lost like that, so, not knowing what else to do, he started screaming at the top of his lungs, "I am
2006-06-27
07:55:00
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