When our Shul was on Park Heights Avenue, I remember one Shabbos afternoon Pop made me walk to shul with him for mincha. I was not happy and was complaining almost the whole way there (shoulders up arms out).

Pop then calmed me by saying

"Think about every step you take to shul, is another brick placed on the Bais Hamikdash".

These words have a big impact on me in so many ways in my avodas hashem. I can’t wait for the final brick to be placed so I can reunite with our father. 

FAMOUS Phone call

FAMOUS  PHONE CALL    


POP :  " HEY MISS JOHNSON  IS YOUR SON HOME"   ?

MISS JOHNSON  :          " NO ~  MY SON DEAD"  !!! 

 POP:  "WELL THIS IS LAWYER GOODMAN - I GOT SOME MONEY FOR HIM " !!

MISS JOHNSON        :   " O WAIT ONE MINUTE  ILL GET HIM  "   !!!!   

My brother David set my father and myself up with an eye exams at target optical.

I remember that I was called in first to get my eyes checked.

When I finished my exam they called my father in.

thet called out “Mr. Goodman?” please follow me to the exam room- to which my father replied “great where to I hang my clothes?”

Towson circuit court

pop walking into towson circuit court   for the 100.000.'s time

Pics from my Bar Mitzvah

ISH TOV TRIVIA

ISH-TOV TRIVIA

Q: Why do NY’rs look the way they look?

Q: Who was the best last “shoot em up” actor?

Q: Does Rochel need to go giving herself labels?

Q: Why was Lebis not ready to get married?

Q: What killed Uncle Herman?

Q: Does anyone understand Rabbi Lisbon’s Chasiddus shiur?

Q: What’s the problem with Brian Billick?

Q: Who is Wolman’s new neighbor?

Q: When Adi’s passport expired in Israel, at the airport, did he wait for Adi, or did he hop the flight?

Q: What was the problem with the deli @ Miracle Market?

Q: What would Pop make Tamir do at someone’s Shabbos table?

Q: What would Pop make Ariel do at someone’s Shabbos table?

Q: What did Pop not like about Chen’s job at PT Liquidators?

Q: What did Pop catch Reuven doing in NYC? And What were the chances?

Q: Why was Pop upset when Reuven and his friends went on the boat?

Q: What would pop do when he found goyish CD’s in the car?

Q: What was Pop’s issue with O’fishel’s?

Q: What will happen if Peamenta sings “Yosis Aliach” again?

Q What will happen if Dolli Chemo comes up the stairs un-announced again?

Q Why is Shimon Rosenberg confident?

Q What is Linda’s younger sons name?

Q What surprised Pop about Tuvia’s IDF knowledge?

Q: What does pop have to say about MikeDub’s basketball skills?

Q: If you advertise your law practice on TV, what does that say about you?

True or False: If pops Tfillin are not perfectly straight, he would want you to walk up and fix them??

True or False: Pop loved being called to the Torah for an Alliah?

True or False: Anyone who sleeps in a bed is crazy?

True or False: Pop loved hearing Peter Angalos radio ads?

True or False: If you can't catch David Goodman, is it OK to smack Yossi Davids?

Bag Phone Story

Arik @ Shloishim

Tamir at the Shloishim

The reason i stopped at 9 kids

 The reason i stopped at 9 kids was.........   b/c i heard that " one out of every 10  kids born  in America was an Indian!!

Advil

Pop, my back is killing…

- Take some Advil

How many should I take?

- You got to take at least 4,5 if you want it to work

The box said just take 2?

-That’s for amateurs

Rabbi Kaplan @ Shloshim

Reuven @ the Shloishim

Me

David Goodman's Speech @ Shloishim

Aaron Finkelstein's Speech @ The Sloishim

Rabbi Lisbon's Speech @ The Shloishim -

Some Old School Pics from Aunt Susan

severance package

Once when Dem Abeshter blessed me with losing my job at OrthoView I was sent away with 0 Tadah le’Derech. I called some of my former Co-Workers to find out if they got any severance packages. Turns out that based on seniority they did??

I tell Pop that I found out that other former employees did get something, and I got Bubkis!!

Pop writes OrthoView’s attorneys a letter that went something like this…

To whom it may concern:

Based on our findings, it has come to my attention that several of your former sales reps received severance packages upon termination of employment.

In the spirit of the upcoming Passover holiday, I would like to know why my client is different from all others”…

Sof Kol Sof…5K check!

Passover 2000

Passover 2000, Hayat Dorado Beach Club, Dorado Puerto Rico. I was a Mashgiach for Presidential Kosher Holidays. Apparently the previous Mashgichim were too "Litvish American" and causing a lot of trouble. PKH decided to go with Lubavitch Mashgichim that year, not sure we were the answer they were looking for but we had a blast!!

David Mintz, the owner to Tofutti was a guest; he had so many awesome stories with the Rebbe. We found ourselves farbranging more that working! This was not a Chabad event, but Mr Mitntz wanted to share his Rebbe stories with us and all the guests during the seader.  Just as he sits down, a guest from the table over gets up and shares his story with the Rebbe. Then the next table and so on...Turns out EVERY family that year had a great personal sotry with the Rebbe. Our boss was so MAD!! After all our hard work they sent us home without paying us.

A full week goes by, no check in the mail!! I tell Pop that Presidential Kosher is stiffing me!!

“WHAT”!!!!!!

Pop gets on the phone:

KG : “ I want the name and phone number of EVERY guest”

PK: “Why”

KG: “I want to let them know Presidential Kosher don’t pay their Mashgichim”

Next day air envelope magically arrived the next day !!

Pop Joke

:  A mother screams down the stairs " Moshe get up  its shabbos & your late for shul"
: Moshe responds       " no Mom leave me alone "
; mother responds  " Moshe I'll give you two reasons why you need to get up  
                                           #   1.   you are 50 yrs old !  

                                            # 2 .   you are the   RABBI    !!!!   '

Another Pop Classic

Another Pop Classic

They interviewed three professors form the top universities, the question was “What was the best invention of all time and why “??

Professor 1: The Telephone ….

Professor 2: Airplane …

Professor 3: The thermos!!  “Because it keeps yo drink cold in the summer, and hot in the winter”…

“HOW DO IT KNOW”

Lunch Meat

Who remembers this one….Pop was making a yom tov for everyone;  Ema was in Israel at the time. For weeks in advance Pop was going on about how he loves turkey!!  We need more turkey!! We are going to make a beautiful yomtov with turkey!

Now that we are going to order this huge turkey, we need to invite a ton of guests.

WEEKS in advance, Pop orders a huge 20 lbs. turkey from Seven Mile Market.  Erev yomtov finally arrives, I go pick up the order…

We get home, open the package and it’s 20 lbs. of sliced turkey breast….deli meat!!

HENNA…..HENNA….

Pop get on the phone with 7MM

YOU GAVE ME LUNCH MEAT!!

WHAT THE HELL AM I GOING TO DO WITH 20 LBS OF LUNCH MEAT!!

I GOT GUESTS COMING!!! NOW I GOT TO FEED THEM LUNCH MEAT!!

WHY WOULD I ORDER LUNCH MEAT TWO WEEKS IN ADVANCE!!

WHY!! …   WHY!! ….

GOOD TIMES!!

On Loshon Harah

“If it wasn’t for Loshon Harah, you would never know who the Cofetz Chaim was”  

Classic Pop Joke!

• Ring Ring......
• Hello!
• iz Moshe Doooo?
• Nayn Moshe iz nisht duh Moshe Arbit....
• Iz di Mamah doooo?
• Nayn Di mama iz nisht duh...
• un vos is mit di kinderlach, iz chaim doooooo?
• nayn chaim learnt yetzt in cheder....
• un voz is mit channaleh, iz channaleh doooo?
• nayn chanaleh oich lerent yetzt in cheder
• ok, un ver iz dos?
• "dos iz di shvartza"

ay yay yay ya yayayaya hey.

It's not Shabbat with out...

            

Leib Davids

            "Why does he take my Jewish Times!!"

Advice

When I was in Kfar Chabad back in ‘97, I had trouble adjusting to the meager accommodations of a real Israeli yeshiva.  I gave it some time to kick in, after about 5 months, I could not handle it anymore, I called pop to get his blessing to just come home. In one short line, pop gave me advice that helps me on a daily basis.

I said “Pop, I can’t stand this yeshaiva, I got 5 bouchrim in my room,  only shower is in the mikvah, the toilet paper is blue and killing me , salad for breakfast and diner with half a halva bar every other Tuesday and the small foam mattress!!”

His response was “STOP BEING A LITTLE (let’s just use this for the bolg) BABY”!!   And slammed down the phone!!

It’s this story that helps me now more than ever! Any time I find myself in in what I call a "Pop moment” I can never stay sad for too long, I can hear him saying STOP BEING A LITTLE….

Pops car phone HELLO!!!

In my last conversation with Pop, he told me that he was excited to be spending Rosh Hashnah with me in my new Chabad House in West Davie, FL.

It was on Erev Rosh Hahsnah when we named the Chabad Center in his memory. So in essence he did spend Rosh hashanah With me at my new Chabad House in West Davie, FL.

Shidduch Advice From Pop

The Sukkos after I got Smicha Pop and Ima gave me a gift and took me to Eretz Yisroel for Sukkos. It was an amazing and unforgettable trip. I would love to write about how pop helped Shaya Rubinstien with his written test for the army that was all about Israeli history and pop didn’t even need the book.

But instead I want to write about some amazing advice that pop gave me.

We were sitting in the pool at the Dan panorama hotel in Tel Aviv. Pop asked me “so Adi now that you have Smicha are you ready to get married”? I said “yes, but don’t worry I know exactly

what I want. I explained that I have a top 10 list and if a girl gets 6 out of 10 that she is the one.”

Tot started to laugh and with his very straight forward attitude he said “what the hell do you know about women?” you grew up in a house with mostly boys and lived in all boy dormitories your whole life.

He explained your job is to Daven to Hashem and have faith that he will send you the best possible women even better that your list. He said when I got to court I don’t need tolook at the history of the whiteness all I do is look at him and make him look like a fool. Just have the bitochen and it will be better than you could have imagined.

So now that I am about to celebrate my 7^th wedding anniversary I can clearly say
“why didn’t I just stick to my list?”
jj he was absolutely right Hashem sent me better than I could have imagined

TA Graduation – Reuven, me and Reb Hillel Noach!

The first Yud in Yechi must have broke off his Yechi belt buckle!!

Gettysburg, PA

Pop has been talking about a trip to Gettysburg for weeks. He loves all history. This one Sunday he yells out “alright, get in the car…were going to Gettysburg”. We pile in the Cadillac, on the way up were getting a long shiur on the Civil War and how we have to learn to respect history….

We pull in to Gettysburg, up there with all the gift shops we see an old time picture studio. Pop loved getting these old time pics done. We wait around til the pic is ready for about 20 min. From there pop said “we already got a good parking spot, let’s walk to the main cemetery” . We start walking, about 3 minutes in pop asks a local “how far til the cemetery?” He tells us we got about 20 min walk. Pop says “man, I thought I knew my way round here better, let’s get back in the car”

We finally pull up to the heart of Gettysburg, can’t find a parking spot?? After bout 5 seconds pop says “Ahh, the hell with it, let’s go home. U seen one cemetery, you’ve seen ‘em all”. So basically, we drove out to Gettysburg, took a pic, and came home. Good times!

Dor le'Dor

Great story we heard at Shiva,from a long time client.
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“30 years ago I beat up 5 police officers. I had just gotten out of the US army; don’t know what I was thinking.  I must have been only 145 Lbs., but I was really strong. I don’t know how your father did it, but he got the judge to drop the charges!!

He asked the judge “Although my client was completely wrong, how were 5 of Baltimore City’s finest not able to restrain one 145 lbs. man? These charges are an embarrassment to the city”

Years later my son got into some trouble with the law. Your father sat him down in his office, looked him straight in the eye’s and said “Son, I will make sure you don’t see one minute of jail time if you promise to straighten out your way”. His day in court came and just like your father said, he did not see one minute. Of course it did help that your father was friends with the judge that day!! Unfortunately, that son could not stay out of trouble, wound up in jail.

Now here we are in 2011 and my grandson Jamal is a current client of your fathers. When your father passed I called up all my boys and told them “Mr. Goodman is not here no more, we are all going to have to straighten up. No one that can save us anymore” What are we going to do?”

Pics from my wedding!

From Tamir: Genuine Love

Pop had genuine love for all Yidden. We know how much he loved Chabad and Chasidus but he also supported everyone that ever came to him. Last Sukkos he gave a Dvar Torah in the Sukkah about respecting Zionists and never speaking bad about Israel.

Last March he scheduled a trip to visit us in Cleveland for Shabbos. At lunchtime I heard that there was a big snow storm heading our way. I called pop in the office and told him about the storm. Even though his office was packed with clients he rescheduled his flight and landed on the last flight to Cleveland before the storm. He was reading a Litvishe book called Faith In The Night about the Mesiras Nefesh during to Shoah. After he read the book he said to me "know one should ever make fun of litvishe yidden or kollels etc.. What they went through.. One of the many lessons we learn from him is to love all Jews and appreciate them regardless of their affiliation. Never look for Kavod or think you're was is the only and best way. He had the most amazing Neshama and he was able to aprreciate and see the beauty in everyone's neshama.

PoP LOVES THE OCEAN

Master and Commander

I went to see Master and Commander with Pop, Reuven and Ariel. He loved this movie!! Old school Navy!! He knew all the navy lines…The one I remember him finishing off was when Russell Crowe was drinking with the guys, he made a Le’Chaim. He said “To our wives and our girlfriends… “ and pop jumped in and answered “May they never meet”  

"Peanut"

My father had this one client who was facing murder charges. His name was “Peanut”.  They had a very strong case against him, including, the murder weapon, 3 witnesses and camera caught him in the act. After the judge finished reading off the chargers and rap sheet, Peanut turns to pop and says” Hey, Mr. Goodman, how we lookin?

“I ain’t going to lie to you Peanut, not good...not good”

From Tamir: “you are a chosid that is what you are supposed to do”.

Several weeks before my father’s passing I planned a trip to the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s resting place in honor of his 16th Yurtzeit. I worked that entire day, and then drove to the cemetery in Queens NY and I had to wait in line for several hours before reaching The Rebbe’s resting place. By the time I drove back home it was already 5:00 am and I had to get up at 6:30 for morning prayer and work. At some point that morning I called my father A”H to tell him about how hard it was to work after such little rest. He said “you are a chosid that is what you are supposed to do”.

Rabbi Kaplans Speech @ the dinner

From Tamir: "The Last Joke"

My father A”H loved to make people smile. He was well known for his hilarious one liners and jokes. Just hours before he passed away I called him to tell him about Shabbat at Camp Nesher. As always before I hung up he asked to speak with my kids. The last time I heard his voice was when he told my oldest Oriyah a new “Knock Knock Joke”… she loved the joke. May Hashem send Moshiach right now so we can celebrate in the ultimate Simcha with my father..

My father’s speech @ the Chabad dinner

My father was all about his family. Listen to his acceptance speech. All he talks about is his family!! In his eyes, his greatest lifetime accomplishment is his kids.

From: Chaim Katz # 2

At the height of Tamir-mania, we played a game at Archbishop Curley, pretty good team that beat us at the State Tournament the year before. People lined up out the door, but I made sure we were always given some seats which we saved for Parents.

 I had always gotten extra for Pop just in case he needed them and on shabbos he tells me he needed a few. "Why" I asked him, he said " Judge Hammerman needs them." I say "no problem" then he told me the story.

 He was defending a client (who’s case details were not Halik enough to make it to this Halik Blog) was let’s just say, caught red handed!! Pop is thinking, this is an open and shut case, I'm just gonna try and keep her out of serving a lot of jail time. State makes it's case, calls the cops to testify and they're killing his client. Pop tells me he has no idea what he's gonna do. State rests and Pop stands up then Hammerman says, "Counselor, can you approach the bench?" Pop steps up to the Judge who looks down and says " You got any tickets for Sunday's game at Curley?

 Pop says "I think I can get you some."

 Hammerman says "great" and Pop walks back to his table. Before Pop can say anything, Hammerman pounds the gavel "Probation before judgment!"