From Surfer to Judaism A Californian Kid's Turning Point!

When was the turning point for you as a Californian kid? >> Mhm. >> Discovering Judaism, how does that work? >> So, I was 23 years old and I got a free trip to Israel on one of those, you know, come and learn scholarship programs. >> Okay. >> What happened was my my brother was in Asia tour 7 years before that. Sam found out that there's a God and he found out that Torah is true. But he kept it as a break glass in case of emergency. Emergency was he saw that his brother Yom Tov was not going to wind up being, you know, a real uh uh contribution to cloudy Israel. And so, he decided like I was about to graduate university. I had been surfing around the world. I I don't know if people know what surfing is, but maybe >> Surfing is the people that go on the ocean on the waves. >> can show them a clip. I just been with the previous year with the pro professional tour of surfing at in France, Spain, and Portugal. So, I was going to do France, Spain, Portugal again. And then and then Morocco. And then I was going to move to the US, renounce my citizenship to the US out of protest of the Gulf War in 1991.