Boxing Champion Visits Chabad Charity Kitchen
Former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson has visited Chabad’s Our Big Kitchen in Sydney, Australia.
The champ spoke to a special group of young people of whom only a few were Jewish who are considered to be at high risk of falling out with the law and to some who already had.
Special arrangements had been made to allow young people serving time in prison to be released and allowed to travel to Bondi in Sydney for the specific purpose of hearing the lessons Tyson has to teach.
He told the group: “I had a great deal of fame and fortune but I did not have the discipline to handle it.”
Tyson spent his early years in Brooklyn not far for the area in which Our Big Kitchen’s executive director Rabbi Dovid Slavin grew up.
Rabbis Slavin told J-Wire: ”He became emotional when eh spoke of the good work the Kitchen does in the general community telling the group that he had come from ‘a difficult family background’”.
He admitted openly that by the time he had turned 13 he had been arrested ‘tens of times’.
Tyson pleaded with the offenders and those who could become entangled with the law to get on the straight and narrow and not to make the same mistakes he had.
He explained that there was a point when they reached “a fork in your life” and that they should be sure to take route which would produce a crime-free life.
Rabbi Slavin told J-Wire: “When I talk to youngsters in trouble they see a rabbi and there is little connection. When he spoke not as a rabbi but as a superstar…they listened.”
Potential Mike Tyson fan!?
If I knew more about the guy I might become a Mike Tyson fan but…
Not to be critical or anything but I’ve always thought people who get tattoos, especially people who get them on the face have major psychological problems.
GG
One thing you don’t want to hear when Mike Tyson is speaking:
“Lend me your ears!”
:)
Corny
He heard that they were serving ears (of corn)!
chaim g
This guy is a convicted rapist and a convert to Islam.. Hardly the best candidate to put on a lubavitch website.
Thinkster
They made a special batch of punch just for the occasion.
Andrea Schonberger
What is that low class critter doing there? Are his values the kind that the Rebbe OBM would want Yidden to aspire to? What was Rabbi Slavin thinking of? Tyson should have been shown the door.
Mitnagid
#4,the rape conviction is based ONLY on that girlìs word,without any proof whatsoevere!He was set up and spent time in prison as an innocent man;past that,his conversion to Islam does not mean he hates Jews:his Jewish lawyer once said that Tyson used to tell him:“Ani ohev otakh” and the lawyer kindly corrected his grammar (because he was a man and not a woman)but did not behave as harshly as you!
David
why are some of you so full of hate the men’s a good man leave him alone the fact that he’s taking time coming to a charity kitchen give him some credit at least he’s doing something good what are some of you doing perhaps surfing the web watching inappropriate things guess what you people that are criticizing him he is better than you
chaim g
To #7 & #8… You missed April fools day by a long shot.. Your jokes are just not funny. This man is a danger to the public.
Mitnagid
Well said,#8!!!
Shame
Tyson is a behaima gassa!!!! He is a sick man. How could you let our children be exposed to him? Let alone listen to this man? Is this who we aspire to? Shame on you!!
Rabbi Slavin, the ultimate operator!
Rabossai, he was not there to farbreng for Rosh chodesh, or as a Mayshiv in Yeshivah but to inspire those that could use inspiration from a man like him.
No need to dwell on this….but to number 11 what was the last thing you did for those kids???? or the first? and please post your last tax deduction for your donation to our local amazing Mosad like aliyah…and if you cant…then maybe you should take chazal’s aitza syag Lchochmah…….
Zeit Gezunt my brother and kol tuv
An admirer of people who actually get things done!