If twenty years ago, the rabbi would have spoken to me about all of this, I would have laughed at him. What does he know? That’s all bubbe-meises, fairy tales. I grew out of that a long time ago. Even ten years ago or five years ago I would still have been skeptical. I had to get sober and work the Steps all these years to be ready to go back to the God I knew in my childhood. Now I pray like my grandfather did. I’m doing the mitzvahs that he used to do. And I feel him watching over me and being proud. Isn’t it crazy? I had to become a drunk and an addict so I could get into recovery and find
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