Lev wanted to know all about Dan’s history as a Jewish man in New York and what led him to fall away. Had he gone to a yeshiva as a child? Yes. In fact, he had been on Long Island that very afternoon visiting a friend. He had taken a wrong train and wound up in the middle of nowhere. When he realized his error he hopped off but had no ready cash to pay for a return ticket. He took to the streets and asked a rabbi parked in front of a yeshiva the way to the nearest ATM. The rabbi instead gave him money to buy a ticket, no questions asked. Dan had refused at first but the rabbi insisted, telling him he could repay the favor by promising to do one mitzvah, or good deed, for some other stranger on the way home.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-faith/wp/2013/07/23/a-jewish-hindu-connection/I was impressed by the dedication of the rabbi in getting Dan to perform a mitzvah, as well as Lev, who deliberately missed his stop, so that he could assist dan in performing the mitzvah of tefillin.
V-ahavta et Hashem elokecha, bechol levavcha, uv'chol nafshecha uv'chol m'
