 He procured a claw hammer, which he called his "staff", carved on it the tetragrammaton, and danced around with it in prayer.He meditated while playing loud music, or prayed so loudly that the neighbors complained.In the beginning of August 1999, three weeks before his death, Busch met a female acquaintance from Israel, Netanya Ullman, on the New York City Subway, and they decided to get married.