A Lubavicth Hasid who was flying to a friend’s daughter’s engagement party got up in mid-flight, and started looking for Jews on the flight he might persuade to put on tefillin — which is something Lubavitchers do. At some point, the flight attendants asked him to stop helping passengers to put on tefillin (maybe someone complained), and he refused, politely, we believe. They threatened to call the pilot if he didn’t stop, but he persisted. Politely.
Eventually, when the flight attendants realized the Lubavitcher was not about to stop soliciting passengers with his tefillin, they called the head steward over. The latter began to talk with the Lubavitcher, who, naturally, asked him if he was Jewish. Turns out his mother is Jewish, so, yes.
So the Lubavitcher explained to him all about Judaism and tefillin, and discovered the head steward had never had his bar mitzvah. And so they celebrated it right then and there, on the plane, complete with putting on tefillin, Shema Israel, a little singing, the works.
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