Here’s a lovely post from Rabbi Andy Bachman posted on his Brooklyn Jews’ blog. The Rabbi will be at today’s interfaith service in honor of Martin Luther King at Old First at 4 p.m.

On my way out today to do a run in the park, I got a call from the
front door that someone needed to see me. As I approached the security
desk at shul, there was a skinny, elderly woman with a big gold cross
on her neck and she had cornered one of our maintenance men with what
seemed to be a pretty animated monologue about miracles.

A live one, I thought.  Just my kind. 

“I’m
the rabbi,” I said, and she pivoted with enthusiasm toward me and began
asking me various theological questions like, “Can miracles happen? Is
God good to the Jews? Do you think I have special powers?” Who was I to
say “no?”

So we stood and spoke for a while. I’d say she was a
bit frayed mentally; together in some ways, unwound in others; in
mediocre health; strong and resourceful; funny and sad. She grew up in
the neighborhood and now lives in a nursing home on the other side of
Park Slope. I promised to go and find her sometime next week for a
longer conversation.

Find out what happened next here.