Alan "Shlomo" Veingrad - NBC6 Sports Profile

[DX6211]

he came to my school!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lburna1124]

fuck dallas and fuck the cowboys ... fuck this guy too

[jdough789]

and  especially you!

[DaddyAelfric]

Your implies possession. You're is a contraction of You and Are. So who's the idiot here?

[oldjoe5]

R we sure this guy played in the NFL? I never heard of him

[hockeyfanaticify]

Ovechkin could be exchange to San Jose :O Look at this sportsbrawls. net

[sheldonlgreen]

G-d bless you, rabbi, for guarding Bernie Kosar during the NFC Championship game!

[birmington]

Beautiful. He can serve as a role model for many Jewish boys.

You've tried the rest; now try the best.

[radioguyon]

I like this!!

[TheTruthandhonor]

honestly, why do we even pretend-covering our heads out of respect for God when he can see right into our souls does very little. You must understand that going through the motions of any religion with false intents-especially with all the nuisances of orthodox Judaism is quite pointless when God can see our true intentions.....speech, actions, and thoughts are all the same to God, and those who pray in the streets reap their reward from those who admire

[radioguyon]

your an idiot

[ringo62666]

He doesn't cover his head to protect himself for G-d, he covers his head as a constant reminder that G-d is above him. And why would you question his intentions?

[lazerlazer]

Covering our heads is not for G-d but for ourselves. Yarmulke taken apart means Yeera Malka in Hebrew or fear of the king. It is on top of our heads so we should know our limitations and not be haughty. In other words knowing that we, stop at the top of our heads and that their is a higher being above us, namely the creator of the universe.

[notShai]

"i thought he was ugly either way" ? WTF not to pick on one second segment of the video, this is a cool piece, but even a one second comment can swing the good feelings into WTF. but regardless, Yishar Koach! :)

[asdfsam]

and they said us Jewish people couldnt play football.

[fredaMye]

yakovlevi, Being from the Ukraine or FSU makes many things more difficult. I suspect that you post such comments because you hope that someone can effectively refute them. I couldn't even try. But I'm a woman baal Tschuvah of 10 years, am 20 years older than you, and I see my life before being a BT as being purposeful and enjoyable. What I realize now is how Hashem guided me to the place where I could be a BT. Maybe that can happen to you also.

[firstaccount]

KICKASS!!!!

[MannyOdoul]

L'Chayim... areal mensch..

[Broughmo]

Oy!! Footbal is SOOO schvitzy! :-)

[seoul588]

Absolutely fantastic.

[kermsroomy]

Good Jewish Joke-Part 1: A man walks into a synagogue with a Saint Bernard dog. The rabbi immediately comes over and tells him that dogs aren't allowed in shul and asks him to leave. "But this is a special dog...he can daven", replies the man. The rabbi asks him to leave again. The man tells him to "watch" and motions to the dog. The dog opens his keg, pulls out talis, Yamulke, Tefillin, tzitzis and prayer book and proceeds to daven.

[kermsroomy]

Good Jewish Joke-Part 2: The rabbi is absolutely amazed. He tells the man they "can take the dog out on the road and make millions with him". The man replies, "you talk to him...he wants to be a dentist!".

[rivkirox]

This is such a huge kiddush Hashem! Yasher koach!

[ayalaavroya1]

asher koah

[871632]

In Lubavitch they wear the Tefillin further down

look at pictures of the Rebbe ZTZ"L

Its a Kabbala thing

Kol Tuv

[lazerlazer]

No one really knows why the Rebbe wore the Teffilin that way. We are supposed to Daven and wear our Teffilin according to Halacha. Why the Rebbe did what he did, only the Rebbe knew. We are not on that level, thus we have to follow as the Halacha states.

[princessdisney26]

i have one word: amazing

[osubux92]

This is so typical. A guy shows his Jewish pride and someone observant sees fit to point out, now how he treats others, but a detail about his relationship with g-d? If you really care, you would have called him personally and not publicly critisized a specific element of ritual. I wonder what G-d will distaste more when he plays back the videotape when we die. The placement of the tefillin or the public critique of it.

[mopanahi]

lol u wrote "g-d" instead of god

[foster072]

jews write g-d instead of god. not quite sure why we do that but we do lol

[trudimann]

The reason for writing G-d instead of God is at one time when there was no e-mail, if one dropped a piece of paper with the word God written on it it was considered highly disrespectful for it to touch 'dirt' or some such but by writing G-d his name is not desecrated. Very simple but respectful.

[mopanahi]

well I knew you guys do it when writing in Hebrew because it's considered sacred but I didn't know it's also done with the english word "god"

[easylazy]

yea and when he put on his shel yad they were touching

[mbkfox]

Um, his tefillin shel rosh should be moved back...what, im inspired, i am, just move back your tefillin a drop.

[saroesti]

I met him at our Chabad in Manhattan--yes, it's all true--B"H.

[TeachESL]

Nice story!!

[bestjonbon]

Terrific message!

[mlwinnig]

Reporter should have said "the whole Magilla!" not "the whole nine yards."

[Penguinperson22]

did u know that the whole 9 yards is a military term? 9 yards of machine gun bullets.

[Ahavah5]

Actually, that phrase pre-dates machine guns. It comes from the pioneer days when it took 9 yards of material to make a woman's dress. A poor woman could only buy one or two yards of material at a time - but a wealthy woman could buy "the whole 9 yards" without having to piece the garment or save for a long time.

[HandlerGabbay]

It's great to see a video like this. Now with his Tefillin he's really packing!

[Wshuwrhr]

Great story.

[yakovlevi]

Why do all these Baal Tshuvas feel it's necessary to denigrate everything they did in the past as though it's either meaningless, sinful, empty, or at best a bump on their road to "the truth"?

[Alindasong]

He didn't  say that at all.

[yakovlevi]

He did say that...such as the question near the end: Would you have still played football if you were already religious (implying that being religious means that perhaps he wouldn't play football)...and he says "yes" he would play, because it led to his opportunity to become a public preacher...oi gevalt!

[ayalaavroya1]

because once you do tshuva you realize that we were mostly only serving oursleves and no so much God

[ayalaavroya1]

enjoy, it's bueatiful to see you have such a communication with God.. in the end that is what's important right?

That's what's great about this world. Freedom, enjoy your version of it

[ayalaavroya1]

please pass on this ability to communicate so well with the almighty. Does he like gilato?

[haivoon]

God doesn't hate anyone, but surely doesn't respect misguided self-hating Jews, shame on you, and those like you.

[TheUrbanmom]

what the heck are you talking about, self-hating? there is nothing self hating about this. This guy loves himself, loves what he does and all that he's done. no regrets, no hate. Pride and faith. You are surely misguider or didn't pay attention.

[Pimpmastahanhduece]

nooo!!!!!!stop making sense!!! lol. he's a guy who just so happened to play football and was good at it and that he found faith.i am jewish and i find this no different than anyone else from anyother religion who was famous when they were secular and then became religious in retirement.I'm secular,but i have a buddhist approach on other faiths and to what degree someone is pious,all faiths are a path to god and what matters is that we know we are all people and that we should support each other.

[schwabez]

amazing.

[eemamay]

David May is on the U of Maryland football team. He graduated from the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School that has no football team. He is Shomer Shabbat and is active in Hillel and Chabad on campus. He regularly reads Torah and does Hagbah.

[benshimshon]

Yosher Koach!!!

[marm253]

Eight columns is a very good hagbah, but I think he could make it to nine.

[karatebecca]

Hebrew Warrior form the Ancient Times

[meisen2]

Wow, great story!

Goes to show its never too late in life to start anew.

[phildee47]

Awesome and unbelievable!

[chuna01]

hazak u'baruch brutha!

[starjsr]

What an Inspiration for the world, keep it up Alan!!!

[uniqueblend]

This is inspiring. Proves to me what a rich life this guy is leading today versus the empty dull life he lead without religion. GO SHLOMO!

[Hatorah]

With all due respect, religion is empty, but a relation with Hashem is total fulfillment. May Shlomo obtain his trophy of Faith as he finds Messiah!

[spaceoutreach]

Fool! He's a Orthodox Jew!