Angels exist, believe it or not they do. I just happened to have a small and brief encounter with one. Well, he wasn't really wearing a white robe or showing his wings, but his acts showed me that people can be so good you could even say that certainly they should be given a ticket to Heaven. So sad to know many of them don't, or can't have one now without Him.

It all happened as I and a friend of mine ran for the bus. We got to it just as it was leaving the bus-stop, I opened by backpack to take out my wallet and as I did it I jumped into the bus. I heard something falling and as I looked down around me I found nothing. It all was fast. I jumped out of the bus and looked underneath it. My diskman was there, under the bus, something like a meter away from me and I couldn't reach it. So I asked the confused bus driver - "Could you please reverse a few centimeters, my diskman is there". He just said no and in no-time I calculated the angle the wheels will do, and certainly my dear Sony will be history soon. So I asked - "Are you just going to run it over?" and the pictures in my head were of me buying an iPod 'cuz diskmans are not an option anymore. He didn't understand that I couldn't reach it therefore I asked him to go backwards a few centimeters to save him time and me a very uncomfortable situation. But as I finished saying this I felt someone pushing me away, I just saw how he jumped and landed on his belly, reaching with his hand the diskman. I was puzzled and amazed at the same time, I just said "Thank you very much, brother", he just gave it to me quickly and then added something that I wouldn't ever dream to hear from someone that has just done something for me - "Nothing to thank me for TSADIK (Hebrew word for 'JUST'), may you enjoy a prosperous and long life".
This guy wasn't just someone from the street, as it may have sounded even more acceptable. This guy was not a religius from the Zionistic kind, it was an orthodox guy. A black-suited, black-Kipped (a new verb for Kippa), penguin as he may look to some.

Many times I twitch my nose as I speak about orthodox Jews. They are not something I see as good. They give nothing back to the State that pays their living, they don't go to defend the land on the army and they just make noise. They see people like me, called mostly 'seculars', as bad and not connected to Judaism. They see me as the traitor who selled his identity for utopic ideas as Zionism or worst than that - humanism. But as this guy told me this words I was puzzled, first because I wasn't wearing a kippa showing no connection to Judaism apparently, and second because even if I was wearing one, I wasn't orthodox and therefore certainly not a 'just' like they see it.

I did not see his face, don't know his name. Puzzled as I was I saw him rush for his bus just as mine closed the doors. And it was dark. The bus driver was shocked, now he showed some simpathy - "How did he get under there so fast? I haven't seen something like that in my life" he said. And I just said something that for some reason wasn't heard "An angel".
As I was discussing the weird 5 seconds that were this situation's part in history with my friend I noticed how this guy without saying a word put his own life at risk for a stupid diskman. The bus driver had no patience and wanted to close the doors, he could have just driven away while this guy was by the wheel. It was something I missed when it happened. So this guy without even knowing me did something crazy to save something that wasn't worth his own risk.

And as I sat in the bus, going on to another Deepend performance I just said - "God, there are good people among them. Bless this one. Amen". It all happened fast, but the impression it left in me, my friend and the driver is something freakingly great. No one from the other passengers said nothing, they apparently didn't see anything. It was just me taking the bus, nothing more.

So here goes this story of how you may see urban heroes doing nothing than their basic job - helping human beings, the living images of God's wisdom. This guy did something from his heart, and not in order to receive any prize, just to help. He sanctified the God he believes in through his act, and indeed changed my view on his fellows forever. I just wonder if he will get to be a 'perfect-Jew' just like me, who lives the law of Moses and has the bonus of knowing God's Son, Yeshua. May it happen, Amen.