New York – Former Major League Baseball center fielder Lenny Dykstra ran car washes, wrote a book, went to drug rehab and spent time in prison. Now he is studying Torah.
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Dykstra, 55, a three-time All-Star who played for the New York Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies and retired from the game in 1996, attends Torah study every Wednesday afternoon in the basement of Ambassador Wines shop on New York’s East Side, with Rabbi Shmuel Metzger, who runs the Chabad at Beekman-Sutton, the New York Post reported.
Dykstra was raised Christian and has no plans to convert, according to the Post.
“I’m on a spiritual journey,” he told The Post. “I’m trying to find if God exists. I want to deal with people who are smarter than me.”
Metzger told the newspaper that he grew up a Mets fan and reached out to Dykstra after seeing a video on Twitter in which Dykstra was explaining the story of Adam and Eve and realized that the former Major Leaguer “gets it.”
Dykstra sometimes uses salty language and non-traditional examples to explain the biblical passages he is learning.
“We enjoy his company and he’s a great guy. A lot of fun. We can handle his [unsavory] language,” said Metzger of Dykstra. A classmate says Dykstra “comes at it from a very raw angle.”
Dykstra was arrested in June for alleged cocaine and meth possession and for menacing an Uber driver. He says he is the victim.
According to his Twitter feed he is serving this week as campaign ambassador for the Chabad at Beekman-Sutton year-end campaign.
Nice story, but you may want to lock up the pushka, Rabbi Metzger.
Just sayin’
Why is a Goy being taught Torah? This is a mitzvah?
Its astounding that VIN has this idiotic article about a crooked ballplayer on the day that the US SENATE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE (GOP) found 100% collusion between Russia Pootin and the trumpf campaign in 2016 until today. And disgraced Mike Flynn took $600,000 from Turkey to deport a Turk legally living in the US and after taking the gelt he was appointed head of the US National Security Agency! Trumpf’s right hand goniff! He only hired ‘the best people’ foreign agents, for his administration. INDICTED!
Good for him. I wish I had the time to devote to serious religious study.
I thought it was a Mitzvah to get the rest of the world in tune with our beliefs. We were all created by the same G’d and at the end of days we will be one with Him
The only part I agree with hashomer is that this is an idiotic article, who cares what some washed up drug addicted ballplayer passes his time, sadder is how far Chabad would go for publicity