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So you just came from Baka.
>> Just came from Baka. Gamatria. Ganeden.
Baka.
>> Is it
>> Grenaded? Yeah.
>> Okay, cool.
>> I live in I live I feel like in the you
know the most garden of Eden place of
Jerusalem. So yeah.
>> You're so lucky. And I noticed this
beautiful yamaka. Let's talk about that.
What's on there?
>> Yeah. Usually I wear a hat, but you saw
the keepa and you said I could wear just
wear the kipa. I said okay. It's a bubba
the Bubbaali here on my Keipa. And the
we were saying that the Babasali lived
in Baka for a period of time. And I had
run a breakfast club Minion Kohl in the
Babasali Shul. And uh so I got very
attached to the Babasali. Some of his
students are still alive in Baka,
100-year-old guys. And I've learned a
lot about the stories of the miracles he
performed. And I got uh very into him. I
mean,
>> how many of his students are still
there?
>> There's not that many, but there's one
synagogue down the block from where the
Bubba's house is. The Bubbasali's house
is still chained off. It's like an
abandoned big house. No one goes in
there. No one's There's like crazy
stories of people who tried to go in
there. It's still like an abandoned
house chained off. And right down the
block there's an old shoo where like
300y old guy looking guys are sharp. One
of them is the balor. He's still laning
from the Torah. And the other one's the
Kazin. And there's three guys in there.
And they were alive hanging out with the
Babasali. So I got to like cross
interrogate them asking stories of like
what' you see is it true he poured from
the bottle on unlimited Iraq would come
out and then he would joke about it and
driving around Israel with a car with no
gas in it for a few weeks you know stuff
like this you hear stories I had to
validate them I spoke to the Basali's
driver and I spoke to the guys he's seen
it and I'm just I didn't believe in any
of this stuff even after I heard about
it all until I heard about the Anuka and
saw that there's a guy alive that you
could still witness someone doing these
level uh miracle we call moftim, you
know, balate in Hebrew.
>> Let's get started everybody.
>> That was intense. Sorry, that's not I'm
an Ashkanazi guy. You know, we're
talking about
>> I can't wait to get into that. And by
the way, PS, I am an uh an ord of the
So, I do have a little bit of kabala in
me.
>> I mean, this is what we call zerayama.
The people who are alive today are only
alive because someone hundreds of years
ago we callot created a scenario where
their seed was guaranteed to be alive to
greet the Messiah in in the end of days.
So hopefully that's us. I am so excited.
We are in the Israel podcast studio and
we are welcoming Reb Harry Rosenberg.
Welcome to the program. Welcome back
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recorded. [laughter] So here's the 1%.
Uh Reb Harry Rosenberg, it's so nice to
have you here. I'm I feel so honored.
I'm here in Eric Stroll in Israel and
the first thing I did is came in here
and met with you. So I appreciate the
time that you're making for us. So thank
I would say the opposite. You're going
to make me blush, but yeah, the honor is
mine. I've been a big fan of watching
your content and getting inspired by all
the stuff you do. So, for myself, it's
the pleasure is mine.
>> Thank you. I appreciate it. It means a
lot to me. So, you just dropped a couple
of bombs on me. Living next door to the
Babasali ghost house that nobody can go
to. Sounds like the Avramino caver that
like, you know, nobody can go into and
I'd love to get into that. uh your
connection to the Yuka and all the
amazing things that you're doing and the
fact that you're an Ashkanazic Jew and
uh you didn't believe in miracles. I was
I was a very big skeptic on the stories
that I heard about people performing
miracles. I always thought could be an
analogy or the hype or broken telephone
or you know I'm a student I'm a
descendant of the vil nagon so forget
even theim and forget even the safhard I
have my own school of thought that I was
born into but obviously they said
miracles about the vagon creating a
golem and all these things that I see
reality through tea and through science
there's a big school of thought in
Judaism that hashem runs the world in
tea uh there's gamatrias about elohim in
the word tea and that this God runs the
world in tea that in the natural order.
That's it. That's how I always thought.
And then and then the Inuka came around
and I and I was still skeptical and I
then I said, "You know what? I'm going
to expose the Inuka. If I ever get a
chance, I'm going to tell everyone, you
know, is well and then I saw one day the
Inuka perform a miracle. It's like a
famous story. I spoke to you about it.
It's on the internet." I saw him perform
a miracle and then my brain realized,
okay, these cabalists are doing
cabalistic manipulation of physical
reality. It's a thing. It happens, you
know, and and then my life changed. So,
I'm all in now.
>> Wow. Okay. So, we got to rewind a little
bit. First of all, for those of you that
don't know, Reb Harry, you are a
spiritual guidance counselor. You are a
medical healer. You are a leader of
people in uh communities across the
world. Actually, I met you in Miami uh
by Rachel's place. Um, and uh, you know,
we could talk about that for hours in
terms of the beauty of what she's been
doing in that community of Miami. And
um, I'm going to start off with this.
First of all, a tremendous thank you to
you. Um, when people call me and ask me
for information,
uh, I like to do a lot of research and I
like to seek the truth when it comes to
finding things. And I had a friend of
mine that called me and unfortunately he
was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease
and he asked me uh can you research the
concept of healing through um I guess
psychedelics or mushrooms is actually
what he asked me for and I said where's
this coming from and he he said to me
and he was a little bit nervous about it
he said actually my doctor recommended
it and I was like wow this is
interesting you know I'm in the healthc
care space and I see a lot that happens
within the space And I've heard about,
you know, psychedelic healing. And I was
curious about it because as far as I'm
concerned, mainstream world,
I don't know if I should say shouldn't
touch it or just doesn't touch it. Um,
but when it comes to someone who needs
healing, it's something very interesting
for me to learn about. And I started
making some phone calls. And I for
everything I do in life in general, I
always ask for three people's advice.
And uh it's just everything when it
comes to raising my kids or making
business decisions. I'll always go to
three people who are experts in that
field and I'll ask them a question and
then listen to them and then you know
with the I'll figure out what the right
move is. So here I was and I made some
phone calls and I'm like I need to
figure out who this person can meet to
go through a journey a medical healing
journey. Uh he was feeling fatigue and
imbalance and he was told by his doctor
that mushrooms might help him. So I, you
know, I met two people and I'm speaking
to them and I wasn't so comfortable. And
then somebody called me, mayor. Thank
you, mayor.
>> And he said, "Come to Rachel's place in
Miami." And I came down there and I met
you. And then I found out who you are
and what you do. And we stayed up all
night. It was one of the best nights
I've ever had. And we didn't do anything
other than talk. [laughter]
We reached levels that most people need,
you know, to ingest more than just
words, but for us it was just the words.
And it was such a great experience
getting to know you and you're like, you
know what, I might be able to help this
person and you did and that person
doesn't stop thanking me so I don't want
to stop thanking you. And the concept of
forget about mainstream which we'll get
into a minute in a minute. I'd love to
hear your take on you know mainstream
you know medical um journeys or
psychedelic uh you know healing. But
here here I was looking for someone
who's unfortunately has a disease and in
order to there's no healing uh the
disease itself potentially but there's
healing throughout it where a person can
actually live life and enjoy life and I
came to you and you graciously offered
your time and you went out to meet him
in New York and when you did he his
experience was phenomenal and when he
was done he called me and he's like
Michael I don't know what to tell I I I
I'm balanced. My fatigue went away and I
feel good about myself. So, thank you so
much for introducing me to Reb Harry.
So, I have to take a step back and ask
you, who are you? You're an Ashkanazic
Jew with this roots of Cabala now and
understanding of miracles. Where did you
come from? Where' you grow up? Let's
start from the beginning. Who who's Tvi?
Let's first get to know before we get to
know Rabari and understand where did you
grow up? Give me the version of who you
are from the beginning. Take me from
like your childhood, who your parents
are, where they're from. If you don't
mind, tell us a little bit about
yourself.
>> Okay. Yeah, I appreciate it. In general,
I try to be a nobody. Like, I'm trying
not to be noticed, but I end up on these
podcasts having these conversations.
>> Why is it that the nobbodyies work so
hard to be a nobody? [laughter]
>> It's so difficult. But, um, listen, we
have we have a mission. We have to
serve. So, uh, so yeah. So, in general,
I'm uh born in Queens, New York. Well, I
was born in Manhattan, but I was raised
in Queens, Jamaica States, New York. I
came from a conservative family,
reformed conservative family. So,
growing up, I was going to public
school, but on the side, my parents
would force me to go to Hebrew school,
learn the olive bed. I remember swearing
to my parents that I would never torture
my kids in a million years by sending
them to Hebrew school, and how much I
hated it and resented it, and I would
just skip it and just play with my
friends, you know. So I have a
upbringing of knowing the olive bed and
knowing about Judaism but not having
anything to do with it. Happens to be I
went to a nursery school in Queens,
Jamaica states, if anyone knows, a very
religious neighborhood, a lot of
Orthodox Jews over there. So I went to a
nursery school there with a lot of
Orthodox Jews. Then when it came time to
go to kindergarten, they went to Holy
Yeshiva. I went to public school.
[sighs] It was must have been around
fourth or so fifth grade. uh had a
conversation with my father cuz we I was
growing up around all these Jews and I
was seeing I started to ask questions
what's these strings hanging out of
their clothing what's happening and my
dad said this is not for us this whole
thing you know and then a few months
later it seemed my father read a book by
Gerald Schroeder Genesis and the big
bang or something and he saw the you
know the conver the the aligning of the
quantum world the quantum sciences and
the Torah and the Cabala and my father
said you know what I think this is for
us and he said to me, I'm going to
switch you to yeshiva. And at that
point, I said, "No chance. I'm not
interested. Please don't." He said, "Uh,
this is it's it's happening." And I I
didn't really have much of an option.
And my father switched me to yeshiva. So
then I was in uh Harura that was the
only Yeshiva in Queens that would
actually take me. We went to a few of
them and they said, "Your kid's in fifth
grade and doesn't know the olive bed. He
can't just come into yeshiva. We don't
have a program for baluva is what we
would call it for people returning,
repenting. he's got to go have a side
program and tutors and this and catch up
to grade level. It could take him a few
years. And Harturro was the only school
they made a special track for me, a
special program just for me. And then
they found two other kids who were
public school who are willing to join.
It was me and three two other kids. Half
the day with a private rabbi on the side
learning Torah. And then half the day I
would join my class in English. And when
I went to the Young Israel of Jamaica
States for the first time in my life, I
was so nervous. I was so scared. I
didn't know anyone. I'm terrified. I
don't know the songs. I don't know
what's going on. And and all my friends
from nursery school were all hanging out
there and they all remembered me from
nursery school. All these guys, they
said, "Harry, is that you?" I said,
"It's me." And they got these guys took
me in like I was their best friend the
whole time. And so that's what made the
whole thing digestible for me is having
a group of guys that from day one were
your best friends. Like they missed me.
It was the I want to start crying now.
you know, uh, how emotional is for me to
have such good friends [snorts]
I am. I'm tearing up, you know, just how
scary it is to come into a Jewish
community like this. And, uh, you know,
I played hockey with these guys and they
were my best friends. And then in
Horrah, eventually for sixth grade, they
allowed me to be in the fourth grade
Hebrew class. So, half the day I was
with fourth graders, and all the fourth
graders thought I was like left behind.
I was a slow kid. So embarrassing. And
they were inviting me to have sleepovers
with them. And I'm like, I'm not hanging
out with fourth graders. I'm I'm normal.
I'm just And eventually by seventh
grade, I was able to be with my grade in
Hebrew. And I had a bar mitzvah that
year. And I read from the Torah and I
laned and I caught up after two and a
half years to my grade level in Hebrew.
And I hated it still. I was like, I'm
not keeping Shabbat. I'm not doing I'm
not doing kosher. I didn't do any of
this stuff. And um but I went with the
motion cuz I had such good friends. I
was having such a good time playing
hockey and hanging out and video games.
And then it came time to high school. My
father was quite religious at the time.
He is uh he's left the young Israel and
he started dvening by the of Jamaica
states which is anyone knows a greatidic
rabbi over there. Rabbi David Weinberger
they call him the Turk Rav. His father
was an admir in Europe real dynasty
ofidis right here in the middle of
Jamaica states. My father was a big of
the Rav right now and I'm I'm surrounded
by all this stuff and it meant nothing
to me. And so my father sent me to uh
DRS, which was an all boy school in the
five towns. And it was great. I was on
the hockey team. I had a few friends,
but I started to get very depressed
because every Saturday night, all my
friends from the Hebrew Academy of the
Five Towns are going out and partying,
having a good time till 3:00, 4 in the
morning, and Sunday they get to sleep
late. I had to wake up for Sunday school
and learn Talmud with these guys. And I
was like, I'm [clears throat] such a
loser. I can't do this. I felt like I
was just being stifled and watching
everyone else have fun. So, I got into a
big depression. My father said, "Okay,
you know, we'll switch you. We'll send
you to MTA. We're not going to send you
to Ha. Ha is not it's not a religious
place. We're going to lose you." I said,
"I'm going to send you to MTA." I went
to MTA. And after 3 4 months, I was in
the hockey team for a fun time. The same
stuff. I said, "I'm I was losing my mind
with the Sunday schools and and the and
the all boys and getting home at 8:00 at
night and then waking up the next
morning. It was very depressing for me.
wasn't a place for me. So, my father
agreed to switch me to Hebrew Academy of
the Five Towns to have to. And I just
remember the first day of school, how
much fun I had. And [laughter]
I can't I'm not going to tell the
stories on the podcast of the type of
bad stuff that we were up to and having
fun partying all day. But, uh, I had the
best time of my life. And it really was
a great experience. So, for two and a
half years, I was in high school there.
I did have a rebby there. There was they
have to at the time was employing Rabbi
Zman Mandel a big rabbi from the five
towns. You could look online sanity
through Seinfeld. He gives Shirim on
YouTube. It's like the one of the
greatest rabbies ever. He's a aid of the
square rebi and and after high school,
you know. So he was he changed my life
for sure giving me over his Toras as a
student. He let us space out in class,
but whatever he said really set into our
minds. And uh yeah, then I graduated
from there, thank God, and I had a great
time. And then I went to Nery Yakov in
Israel which obviously was a place where
you know all the bad guys from the
tri-state in Florida and California
consolidated and went to all the bad
boys and somehow they changed so many
people's lives. all these guys come out
rush yes and rush kals and big tidim
and my time in nyakov spending time in
yeshiva I didn't take advantage of any
of the rabbis or anything I partied for
the year also we went to Amsterdam we
snuck out of the country we were doing
bad things half my friends got arrested
um it was just crazy stuff but um yeah
then
I went back to America when everyone
goes back to Shauna and I went to
college to Queens College and even the
partying was even crazier then. You
know, we were just doing even crazier
partying because everyone now had
apartments, you know, kids who didn't go
to Israel or in NYU. And for some
reason, parents think it's okay to send
your kid to NYU and get him an apartment
in Manhattan. The things I saw from
these the good kids from Haft, the kids
who got the straight A's and the kids
who are the good boys, their parents
send them off to Ivy League college and
let them get apartments. That's when
they lose it all. God help them. And so
there's the partying increases. these
guys are now dating non-Jewish girls and
hair and there's I I can't I don't want
to say what I saw, but that is where I
found God and that's where I found
Hashem. And in the middle of a crazy
party one time, I had my own spiritual
experience, which statistically could
happen to people when you're dibbled in
psychedelics that you think could be
recreational, but it ends up being a
serious situation. I had my own
experience where I saw through the
vanity. I th saw through the shecker. I
thought the falsehood of this lifestyle
of hedonism and pleasure and all this
stuff. I saw it's nothing. And I saw we
have a nishama. We have a soul. My
rabbis were right. And if I don't
nourish my soul, there's no chance I'm
going to ever chill. I'm not going to
enjoy this planet if my soul is not
being nourished. I said, "You know what,
guys? I'm out of here." I left the party
world. I went back to Israel. I went
back to Yakov. Everyone's like, "Where'd
you come from? Like, you were the worst
kid ever. No one, no rabbi, like who got
you? Like, which rabbi got you?" I was
like, "None of these rabbis got me.
Hashem got me." But the rabbis helped
because they poured in all the
information that subconsciously became
activated. Then I then the story starts
there. I spent six, seven years in a few
different yeshivas just studying Torah
morning and night just taking in all the
Torah. And at that point I was like I
can't believe I know olive bet. Like I
can't believe I could read this stuff. I
couldn't believe that I was so fortunate
that I had a head start in this religion
that I'm not starting from scratch at
the age of 1920. And then that's why I
went to Israel. I learned invat by
Shalam byot for a few years in the
summers. I was in Yakov and then I went
back to America to Sharash was a shash
bakar in Long Island for many years and
uh changed my life. It was the safest
thing ever. My Rabbi Rabb Zama Mandel
says, "Sorry I'm talking so long, but
Rabbi Zama Mandel says, "When you go
crazy, you go to an insane asylum. When
you go to a yeshiva, you're going to a
sane asylum for sanity." So I was like,
I'm looking at everyone around me. So
insane. I'm like a 21 20 year old boy in
a dormatory with other boys. And I'm
like, this is the sest thing I could be
doing right now. I'm protected. I'm
safe. I'm in an environment of
everyone's mentally well in their minds.
And we're we have a mission.
And uh so I was doing half day Queens
College, half day Sharash. And then I
started to lose my mind a little bit
because in Queens College, first of all,
your professors were some of them were
total lunatics pitching some crazy
agendas that I knew were insane. I knew
the guy was insane. I'm like, my
professor is not mentally well, and he's
pitching his ideas to us. I said, this
is not a good place for me to be
downloading other people's theologies.
And also, there was a lot of girls in
the class wearing a modest things. And
I'm like, I'm an yeshiva now. I'm
trained uh to guard my eyes and guard my
thoughts and that's a very difficult
battle. It could take a guy years to
just get inches into that battle and all
of a sudden I'm sitting next to girls
and there the fragrances and the looks
everything. It could mess with a guy
who's in yeshiva. I said I can't do
this. And I researched I figured out
there's one state university online that
you can consolidate all your yeshiva
credits. You can put them into a bundle,
transfer it there and you could be at
the finish line. you're one year away
from graduating consolidating yeshiva
credits. I said that's it. Going to
state university. I did Sunni online.
About 13 or 14 guys in the yeshiva saw
what I was doing and they followed. They
dropped out of Queens College. They
dropped out of Brooklyn. They dropped
out of Turo and they said, "You know
what? I have three years left here, two
years left here and then I'm following
the TOL route. I'm going to be one year
away and get a bachelor's degree and
then I can go back to those Brooklyn
Queens places for my masters when I'm
ready to do And so that's how I started
my first uh company about college
accreditation and helping boys out. I I
ended up uh getting a dean and putting
together a company and getting a team
together where I got my own
accreditation. So those f 14 or so boys,
I was selling them the credits they
needed remaining credits to graduate. I
started uh a company, thank God, which
today I'm not involved in anymore. I had
to exit. But seems that's in almost
every yeshiva in Jerusalem helping guys
get credits. Thousands and thousands and
thousands of boys uh are able to avoid
being on a secular campus and staying in
yeshiva and getting their degrees.
>> Wow.
>> Yeah, there's a whole that was a whole
rant.
[laughter]
>> Thank you.
>> I just want to
I just want to say thank you for um
allowing me to be quiet [laughter]
and just and and saying all that. And um
I have I have a couple of questions. I'm
I'm downloading what you're saying and
you're saying so much and there's so
much to learn from what you're saying
and there's so much that I can dissect.
You know, we don't have hours upon hours
upon hours. So, um you know, I I want to
talk about the things that interest me
the most and that's why I'm just going
to target into that if you don't mind.
First of all, the fact that you got
emotional about the boys that were in
your yeshiva that made you feel at home.
I also got a little bit emotional. And
the reason why I got a little emotional
is because I remembered the bullies.
[sighs]
I remembered the ones that threw garbage
outside the bus window and threw stuff
at me while I was walking home. I
remember the ones that were just doing
nasty things, taking glasses off
people's faces and breaking them and
then just like expecting the boy to just
be completely normal.
And that's why I appreciate so much the
fact that you're giving credit and the
emotions and the tears that you're, you
know, exposing is really credit to every
single boy and girl that says something
nice to another boy and girl. And it
doesn't stop there. It's something that
goes on forever. As adults, we also
experience major bullying. And we have
an opportunity and I would say an
obligation, you know, when we say smile
to one another and say thank you and how
are you? How was your day? These are
kind of things that like are so
important. The more we say hello to
somebody, the more we're battling those
that are bullying. So I'm curious, have
you experienced that in your process?
Was that something that you went
through?
Unfortunately, I've been on both sides
of the bully spectrum [clears throat]
because, you know, going to different
camps and programs and experiences,
guys are always trying to compete like a
pack of wolves for who's the alpha male,
who's and and especially when girls are
in the mix, guys even crazier of trying
to be that alpha male. So, at a young
age, I've unfortunately been on both
sides of the spectrum where I've done
not nice things to people bullywise
where I've had to now apologize and
reconcile and realize like what I did.
But I was also the kid who got really
bullied. You know, I remember I was a
Camp Hill kid going to sleep away camp
at Camp Hill. And Camp Hill, I was a
cool guy. I went one summer to Camp Lavi
where all the other cool guys were. And
I thought my coolness transfers over. I
thought it was like it just I was cool
there. I should be cool here. And then I
realized there's a whole another group
of alpha males who are threatened by
another cool guy. They're like, "Oh, you
can't just be a cool guy and come to
this camp. We're going to bust your
chops and make you realize that you're
not cool cuz your coolness threatens our
coolness." So, it's like there's no one
coaching these kids. It's the wild west
of a bunch of young guys trying to be
the alpha male and uh and they don't see
the damage that they do to someone else
when they when they do things that
embarrass them or or just put them down
in public or etc. So, I did one summer
in Camp Levy and I realized there's too
many cool kids trying to compete for the
crown. I'm going back to Camp Hill
Pillow where I was already like I had a
friend a group of friends and but I'm
still traumatized till today of the the
brutality of a kid feels when you feel
like a loser when you feel like you
don't have friends or you don't feel
like you belong and other kids are doing
something you want to be and you weren't
invited. That feeling could I'm 40 years
old. That happened when I was 12 or 13,
15, I don't remember. a kid. That stuff
is brutal. So, I think that uh the
rabbis and and the schools and
everything really have to focus on
programming that makes kids feel
included. Is pairing the cool kids up
with the non-cool kids, quote unquote,
and I became a soccer coach for after
high school. By the way, when I was in
yeshiva, I got married. I was in the co-
I didn't have too much financial support
elsewhere. I had to work. So, I was
doing a few odd jobs. I was the coach of
varsity team of the Ha High School
soccer team for a few years. And I made
it my business that the you didn't make
the team only if you were a good soccer
player. You made the team too if you
needed to be a part of a group of guys.
I told the guys, you may not play in
every game, but you're in you're on the
team. You're on the bus. You're in the
locker room with us. You're getting
huddled. And I must have changed so many
guys' lives who would not have made the
team in any other school cuz they
weren't fit for the team. But I saw that
this guy needs to be on a team. And I
saw how it changed their lives just
being on a team. And for me, that's like
that was my drug. I'm like, I'm getting
high on including this kid in this team.
That was for me a big deal because of
that what helped heal my trauma of not
being included as a kid. So, this is a
huge topic of that the Jewish community
must address. You know, I I'm I'm happy
you're talking about it in that in that
sense. Uh and the concept of having
someone be part of the team. I just want
our listeners to to know what I'm going
through in my head right now. And what
that is is that the bullying and the
complimenting of joining a team meaning
the opposite spectrum never stops. I'm
talking about the workplace. I'm talking
about in shul I'm talking about as part
of organizations or serving on a board
or just anything. And there's so much to
it as an as an individual getting you
know part of a community like you move
into a new community and the first thing
you're thinking is I hope I'll be
accepted. I hope people will be nice to
me. Right? you start a new job and it's
the same concept all over again from
when we were younger. So I guess you
know let's finish this topic with this
is what would be your thought what what
is that final message in terms of
connecting the dots between our younger
self and our older self and what to look
out for and something that we can you
know recognize and work on as human
beings.
>> This really touches on the topic of the
whole healing thing. I mean I'll just
give one example. Um, you know, my job
in the psychedelic world is not to be
the guy to do something, let's say,
illegal, so to say. I'm not necessarily
the guy to buy the plants and give it to
you and stuff, but I help you know what
to do, where, what, you know, I I advise
and consult. So, one time I was what we
call, let's say, space holding for a man
who did his own thing to procure and
took the medicine. He just wanted
someone to help him see the bigger
picture as it was all happening for him.
You know, uh, let's say a tour guide to
taking you to a jungle. you have a guy
who knows the jungle. This guy must have
been an 80-year-old man who was an
Iranian man doing with this stuff with
the older guys is very dangerous. But
but there's protocols and there's safety
things and this guy's doing it and I'm
just making sure he's safe and and
there's places in the world where you're
allowed to do this legally nonetheless,
you know, Portugal and Mexico, Canada,
but and 80-year-old guy never did
anything like this in his life, you
know, got married to a young woman when
he was older and it was a forced
arranged marriage and he rules the house
with an iron fist. He comes from a place
of my way or the highway and everything
and this guy is taking the medicine in
the middle. He starts hysterical crying.
He says, "Oh my god, I can't believe I
treated this person this way. I can't
believe I acted this way."
And and he said, "My ego." And for hours
he was just in regret on how mean of a
person he was his whole life to everyone
else. And I saw a grown 80-year-old man
crying, feeling his heart for the first
time, feeling compassion, seeing the
other person, seeing himself in the
other person. And and so I'm saying, you
know what? Some of these bullies out
there have just a lot of tears waiting
to come out. They want to cry. They need
someone to hug them, someone to love
them. They're feeling self-conscious
about themselves or they were hurt by
someone. So, they regulate themselves by
passing that hurt on to someone else.
So, yeah, the bullies need to heal. You
[laughter] know, bullies need to heal.
That's really what it comes down to. But
if there was a bully, I would slip him
like an anonymous note on his desk one
time. Be like, "By the way, I see you're
really a good guy deep down inside. You
need someone's shoulders to cry on.
here's a go see the shaman and heal a
little. I'll sponsor it. Here's an
anonymous emails to reach me. Something
like that, you know, just reach out to
guys.
>> Wow. Okay. That's that's a great
perspective. You know, let's let's get
into this uh healing world of yours for
a minute if if you will. So, you you you
you said earlier also another thing I
wanted to touch on is that when you were
younger, you tried certain things, but
then you went back to yeshiva. So, your
your time in yeshiva, Sharash, Nyakov,
that all those things, you weren't doing
any of this stuff.
>> Yeah. Personally, these things could be
a oneanddone. You know, I had my I mean,
I started this stuff when I was like 15
years old with my friends. We were going
to Grateful Dead concerts and we're in
the going to forest weekend festivals
for four days at a time where bunch of
yeshiva kids and then like surrounded by
hippies from the 1960s and we're dancing
to music festivals and going to fish
concerts and Pink Floyd and stuff. So,
we were recreationally all throughout
high school, not just me and my friends.
how many hundreds of kids in the Jewish
tri-state area smoking cannabis and
taking mushrooms and doing these things.
It was like normal and was accepted. So,
every single weekend it was whose house
are we going to and what drugs are we
going to do? This was just the way and
it's all fun and games. But when I had
that crazy psychedelic experience in
college that really did change my life,
I'm not shy about it. It's a interesting
story. That was it for me. I didn't need
to go back anytime after that. I was
like, I'm terrified of that world. I'm
like, whoa, my gosh, that's not a fun
thing to do. That was terrifying. Like,
who needs that, you know? So, once I had
that moment of clarity, I'm still
holding on to that. And I haven't shaved
my beard since that day, 20 years. It
unravels down to my kneecaps. And so, it
stuck with me. So, I tell other people,
I'm like, if you want to heal, you don't
have to keep healing. You could do it
once, heal, maybe two times, depending
how much trauma you have, and then
you're free. But when I was in yeshiva,
I was surrounded by so many depressed
boys, guys who were feeling suicidal
thoughts, people who were secretly
suffering. And I'm a compassionate guy.
So I'm not like, let me, you know, let
me get everyone into on tripping so they
could feel a little spirituality in God.
I'm like, everyone's mental health
around me is really bad. And also I
spoke to big rabbis gdole postkin people
who decide law for the Jewish community
and I explained to him about these
psychedelics about what's going on that
even [snorts] initiacia
tree has a psychedelic chemical in it
called DMT dimethylrypamine and I said
rabbi if a guy who's feeling suicidal
tries this stuff it can actually stop
the suicidal thoughts in one session and
for the rest of his life he could be a
different person do I have a header do I
have permission to recommend that this
boy does this and
Yes, a byproduct of these psychedelic
experiences is spirituality. So the
answer is a you cannot tell anyone to
take mushrooms for spiritual experience.
That's not what we're here for. That's
not where spirituality comes from.
Spirituality comes from learning Torah
and serving Hashem. But for mental
health and for piku nefish to save a
guy's life 1,000% he should take these
plant medicines if it can have an effect
on his mental health on his health and
his his wellness. You have 100% the
green light to to tell boys to do this.
So you got to be very clear with guys in
the space because people misunderstand
me all the time and think I promote
psychedelics for spirituality. Let's do
a comesit and eat mushrooms and feel
God. No, that's not what we're doing.
You don't want to wake up tomorrow
morning and you want to leave planet
earth. Yeah, this could be for you. And
how many guys I encountered into
yeshiva, maybe thousands of people I've
helped uh over the last 20 years find
the healer, find the place to go do,
consult, advise for free, not a
business, just giving my general advice,
making sure I was always staying in the
lanes of legality because obviously as a
Jew, you have to respect the laws of the
land and trying my best to respect that.
and uh just trying to be on the right
side of history, knowing that yeah, I
could get in trouble. Something could go
wrong. But this is the right side of
history. You know, the war on drugs that
was financed by the pharmaceutical
industry and alcohol and the tobacco
industries, this was a corruption of of
uh power. And so, let's break it down
for All right. So, I'm glad you're
defining it for me because as you were
saying, you know, oh, you know, we chose
which house to go to uh over the weekend
and what drugs to do. I was thinking
like this is not a normal thing. This is
something that where I would imagine
most of your friends didn't make it.
Like you know I right
>> we buried a lot of guys. I buried a lot
of guys. People die. People die. A lot
of Jewish kids. Well, in the Jewish
world today, how many kids are
overdosing from oxycottton every week?
Jewish kids are dying at a rapid rate
now. It's a it's an epidemic.
We got a situation. I don't know if
epidemic is the right word, but it is
serious situation. I buried so many
friends and still friends today who are
in rehabs, in and out of rehabs. I was
like one of the few survivors of the
whole thing.
>> Right. Right. So that that's good for
clarification purposes in terms of
>> this is not just in Ha. This is in every
high school. Every yeshiva's got these
group of guys doing this stuff now.
>> Yeah. So this is not something that
we're saying that um was normal. This is
something that was unfortunate. But you
you found something within it that
helped you and then from there you use
that as a tool is what I'm what I'm
understanding.
>> Yeah. Because what you what people start
to do is you start we don't you there's
no drug awareness at that age. So when
you're doing this drug or that drug, you
don't notice a difference. You just
think they're both recreational. Turns
out some drugs are recreational and some
drugs could lead you to what's called
ego death where you shatter all
perceptions that you have of reality and
your whole you get reworked. So let's
say for example, I'm not going to say
necessarily what drugs we were doing,
but let's say if a guy is doing cocaine
or heroin or something, god forbid,
these are deadly drugs that you can die
from withdrawal symptoms. So you could
do it once and then you can't stop and
then you could die if you try to stop.
It's that crazy. And then you will think
that mushrooms is in the same category
of recreational party drugs. So then the
kids take the mushrooms and then boom
they have a spiritual experience. So
that is very common amongst people
taking mushrooms as a party tool and
then end up not partying for the rest of
their life.
>> Got it. So to clarify, so your your
mission I guess uh of what you're doing
and your understanding and your
experience and your intelligence is on
the healing process of dealing with
psychedelics. And in terms of people who
are hurting tremendously, who have no
other outlet, right? Like someone like
look I was I started off this discussion
someone who had has Parkinson's who's
like oh my god the doctors are saying
there's nothing you can do comes to
someone like you and then suddenly finds
some sort of healing through that
process which is phenomenal this this
this idea. So uh let's just clarify this
for a couple of minutes if you don't
mind. Tell me about the world of
psychedelics. Explain it to me. What is
the difference between one and the other
and how does it work? And have you done
Iawaska? Is that different? And I I
we've had someone on the podcast earlier
that has done uh has experienced these
types of things, but you know, I'd like
to utilize this time and having someone
that's a industry expert and explaining
to us a little bit about what it is, the
dangers of it, and understanding that it
should and only be used for healing,
which is what I understand. So, uh, if
you don't mind, if you can explain. I um
I don't know if I'm fortunate or not
fortunate, but I've tried every plant
and drug chemical out there almost.
>> I'm fortunate that you did it.
[laughter]
>> I'll be the guinea pig for Claus. I you
know they say about Afrainu when he came
to the Torah is like there wasn't one
for form of idol worship. He didn't try
or do he did it all.
>> Okay. So Abraham could do it Harriet. I
know that's what happened to me. I don't
know what to tell you. So I tried it
all. So I I really can speak in depth
about the science of each experience and
what the dangers and all this stuff.
I've done tremendous amount of studies,
but it really all comes down to
psychedelics in general is
neuroplasticity,
which is the hyperactivation of your
frontal cortex of your brain where
you're mostly storing your traumas. So
I'll give an example. If when you're a
little kid, let's say a dog bites you,
god forbid, and you have this trauma
from this dog and dogs in general. So
now when you're a teenager or a grown
man and you hear a dog bark, your brain
recalls that trauma and says danger. And
this could be the nicest, sweetest dog
in the world, but you're going to view
that same dog as the dangerous dog that
once bit you cuz you've now packaged all
dogs as dangerous. That's how trauma
works. And really trauma is your best
friend. It's here to protect you because
your brain doesn't know what you see or
what's going on. It just knows what to
store as dangerous and not dangerous. So
some people have different traumas where
they associate like let's say god forbid
a bad rabbi did something bad to a kid
when the kid was younger. The kid now
looks at all rabbis as bad this one
rabbi ruined rabbis for him. That's just
trauma work. So there's a place in our
neurological network in the front part
of our brain where those memories are
stored to act as the guard to regulate
all of our emotions. So when you take
psychedelics, what happens is
neuroplasticity,
it hyperactivates that place where it's
stored. And you can now choose, do I
want to keep this guard or can I release
it? Can I release stuff? So people in
psychedelic space realize they have a
lot of baggage that they're holding on
to in this part of their brain they
don't need. It doesn't serve them. And
like Drano, like a clogged sink, it
could just kind of flush it away. So 10
years of therapy to get someone out of
this bad loop that they're in can
actually leave the person in a five or
four hour session of experiencing
neuroplasticity from the plant medicine.
So the whole process is very scientific.
So someone says does it work? Can it
work and cannot work? I said does Drano
work in a clogged sink like sinks are
meant to be deloged. So too trauma is
meant to be processed and eliminated.
>> No. One can say though our brains can't
be compared to a clogged toilet. Right?
The neurological network could to say if
you have pathways in your brain where
your emotions are flying on and then you
have a memory from fourth grade stuck in
there. Yeah. You got to clog
neurological network cuz this bully
ruined your experience on planet Earth.
You got to unclog that.
>> Okay. All right. I I understand it
better because I've seen thousands of
people unclog their pains and traumas. I
see how smooth of a process it could be
to release. I've never seen
>> Quick question. I'm sorry. and
>> by all means.
>> Any negative effects that you've seen
from people that you have gone through
these healing processes with?
>> I think just the protocol in general is
if someone's like schizophrenic or
bipolar or super heavy mental health
conditions, this may not be for them.
This definitely I mean I've seen it work
for those type of guys, but that's like
where you say like I'm I don't know if
this is a good idea and you don't want
to be the guy to green light that. But
outside of that, there's like a 98 99%
success rate of people alleviating their
traumas. Maybe you're not going to
alleviate your traumas, but you're not
going to go worse. People who the 1% who
could go crazy from this type of stuff,
you may have been bipolar, schizophrenic
in the first place, and this wasn't for
you.
>> Got it. All right. So, let's go back to
the uh the world of psychedelics. So,
can I can understand neuroplasty?
>> Neuroplasticity.
>> Neuroplasticity. And that includes what?
Give me the types of things that that
includes. Mushrooms. mushrooms will do
that to you. There's uh DMT,
dimethylryptotamine, which is called the
businessman's trip. If you smoke it, it
lasts 10 or 15 minutes, and it's way
more profound and intense than a 6 or 7
hour mushroom journey. Uh that's why
people, it's like the ego death
experience for a lot of people. Um
people use it as like an epipen. It's in
a vapor pen. You could smoke it like a
ecigarette. And if someone's having
suicidal thoughts or in the process of
trying to kill themselves and they take
that or inhale that that whole process
will be stopped and on pause situation
deescalated instantaneously. The
experience starts immediately on
inhalation ends 10 to 15 minutes later
happens to be this chemical DMT
dimethylrypamine is the main chemical of
the iawaska brew. So in this chemical
from the aiichin from the acacia tree
that we could pull from acacia is the
main chemical in South America that is
used you could pull it from other plants
is used in Iawasa. So you can't consume
or eat DMT but if you mix it with an MAO
inhibitor which blocks the thing that
blocks you from eating the DMT from
working. It allows you to make it into a
tea and consume it and then it turns it
from a 10-hour experience into a seven,
eight hour long journey where you're
gonna from a 10-minute experience.
>> Yeah. From a sorry, from a 10-minute uh
inhalation experience to now you've made
it into a tea. That's going to be a
seven-hour journey where you're going to
go through heaven and hell and you're
going to purge and you're going to see
demons and you're going to see and
you're going to heal from whatever you
got to heal from. And it could be for
someone the most terrifying healing
experience, but for someone who's
healed, it'll be 7 hours of just bliss.
You're like, "Okay, like I've
surrendered and I love this planet. I
feel great." So once you're there, like
you don't need to keep doing this stuff.
There's people who are religiously doing
their once a month. That's not the way
it was meant to be really. It was meant
to be one and done. You have the
experience. You get humbled. Now go
live, suffer on this planet. Enjoy the
suffering on this planet. What a
perspective. All right. So you have DMT,
the use of DMT within Iawasa. You have
mushrooms,
>> right?
>> What else you got
>> now? We got uh like I would say the
crown jewel of all psychedelics, which
is like if you want to do it, it's like
13 to $15,000 and it's like two days of
crazy journey, but you don't do that
unless you really need it. It's called
IBOG or IO. That's what Donald Trump
just announced he's going to legalize
standing next to Joe Rogan a few weeks
ago. This is going to change mental
health in America forever because it's
the only psychedelic that can get you
off of heroin, opiates, oxycottton, or
cocaine instantaneously the same day
without withdrawal symptoms. Meaning, if
I want to get off Oxycottton, that could
be a multi-year process. You got to go
onto these other pills to to wean you
off. And if you hard stop, you could
die. You could be very sick. You could
lose your mind. So, you can't just get
off of alcohol. You can't get off of
cocaine. You can't get off of all these
things. Even if you have a mushroom
trip, you could heal a little bit. You
your body is going to kill you if you
don't keep taking the drugs. The ibogga,
the ibo, one plant that comes from a
tree from a region of the gab the gabone
of Africa that they fight wars over just
to get access to this tree. So expensive
and so rare is the one thing that can
hard stop all these things and you can
come home the next week a new person
like nothing ever happened.
>> A oneweek rehab.
>> Yeah. Less than
>> less than that either. You're saying
Trump I don't know about this Trump
thing that you just mentioned.
>> Donald Trump just had a press conference
with Joe Rogan, saying to Joe Rogan and
RFK and they were talking about IBOGA
and how they're used to doing clinical
trials in Texas on soldiers. Uh big
problem with soldiers especially in the
IDF in America is you get injured in
battle. You go to the hospital and then
they put you on opiates for your pain uh
relief. Now you're better, you've
healed, but you can't get off the
opiates. The soldiers get on drugs. They
end up on the streets. The wives
divorced them. It's happening in the IDF
and the US Army. And so in Texas now,
there's big generals and big big US Army
generals who are using IBOGA to get
their soldiers off of the opiates. And
they got it got to Donald Trump. And
Donald Trump's like, "This is the
greatest thing ever. I'm going to
legalize it. I'm going to streamline the
legalization of it." This just happened
like two weeks ago or something.
>> Very interesting. And I do want to talk
about the uh the IDF and things that are
happening in Israel and the trauma and
curious about your thoughts about that,
but let's continue. So, what else is
there? So now I understand there's the
DMT, there's the mushrooms, there's the
DMT used in the Iawaska. Yeah. And
there's the
>> IOG.
>> The IBOGA. Yeah.
>> IOA. What else is there in this world?
>> You have other things like let's call it
like peyote uh which comes from the
cactuses of uh they have them by Mexico
and there's also in Israel they have
these peyote cactuses growing all over.
Um and that's like a people make a tea
out of it and that's another journey
also. But these are like would call like
fringe psychedelics. they're not as user
friendly and more socially acceptable as
these type of mushrooms, the DMT, etc.
But then you have other things that are
like laboratory made psychedelics which
don't come from the earth like MDMA
which was like the the clean version of
like an ecstasy pill. Um, MDMA
hyperactivates parts of your brain that
increase your serotonin and your joy and
you could feel so happy and so joyous
and so much love that it heals you cuz
now you're in a state of compassion and
you can see the yourself and the other
person and feel someone else's pain and
stuff. So, I don't really promote this
stuff because they MDMA could have side
effects of depression and stuff, but
it's healed so many people, synthetic uh
chemical laboratory drugs. And now
there's also ketamine, which is a legal
drug, which is is not really a a healing
drug or plant, but it does incredible
things to alleviate people's mental
health issues. And it's legal, and you
could do it in Israel legally. You could
do it in America legally. They send
ketamine to your house in America
legally, and you could do it. And it's
like, so if you're the type of person
who doesn't want to do something
illegal, you don't want to do mushrooms,
you're scared of it, this, go speak to
your psychologist about some ketamine
therapy if you don't want to live and
you don't want to be on planet Earth cuz
it's legal and very user friendly and
only lasts 45 or so minutes, but
eventually it's not going to do the full
job. It'll alleviate a lot of symptoms
and it gives you a neuroplasticity.
And then there's got to be 10,000 other
psychedelic chemicals that are made in
laboratories like uh you know different
versions of MDMA, MM 3 MMC, 2 MMC, 1
MMC. There is so many different
receptors in our brain that you can
trigger to have a psychedelic
experience. But a lot of these other
ones are not tested. They have clinical
trials that have not been done. Some of
them provide nausea and they make you
puke. And there's a there's a whole
world that hasn't been
>> I I think we rounded up the main ones
which is interesting. What's your
thoughts on cannabis? Cannabis is uh
what from my understanding first of all
Arya Kaplan I think we don't have a
anymore in any of the young Israel or
any of the shs because in the plant the
verse in the Torah when it speaks about
the anointing oil the shaman hamishka
the anointing oil that they would use in
the temple
it was had uh 250 grams I believe of
canabosum in it of this Hebrew word
canabosum and Arya Kaplan says in aish
this could be the root of where the word
cannabis comes from and he puts a
picture of the hemp plant in his
commentary of the kamish and he said,
"Yeah, it was in the shem and Hamishka
and obviously we found cannabis residue
on an altar from a first temple period
altar in the in Israel, an Israelite
altar. This was the news archaeological
discovery. It was tested. They found
cannabis resin. We do know that all the
rebes, theic rebes had these things
called llas, like a pipe that they would
smoke after Shabbat and and go to the
upper realms and do missions. And I'm
not saying they were smoking cannabis
because that would be could be a
stretch. But I'm saying the concept of
inhalation of plants and the consumption
of plants in our Torah and the writings
of the sages for thousands of years is
the elephant in the room for myself. I
would call it a kipa noa like uh what's
like called a kipa. It's like a
dangerous place. It's a dark place where
you can get stuck in in the physical
mundane world. But the concept kipa noa
means it's a neutral space kipa which it
could make you in stuck in the physical
world but it could be used for spiritual
elevation. It means you can take it both
ways. So when I tell yeshiva guys
because the biggest problem I saw in
yeshiva is guys it's like I'm either
learning Torah or I'm cannabis. And so
if I'm doing cannabis I'm off the derek.
I'm out of yeshiva. I'm with the bad
boys. I'm doing drugs and I can't learn
Tora. If I'm learning Torah, I can't do
cannabis.
I said, that's not necessarily the
battle. The battle is if you're doing
cannabis, you still have to be a sadic.
You still have to learn Torah. You still
have to be br
to guard your covenant. You have to
guard your eyes. If you're smoking
cannabis and you're not guarding your
eyes and your covenant, you're in big
trouble. You're going to get stuck in
the physical world. You're going to turn
into an animal and you're going to get
lost in the sauce and you could lose
your mind. But if you're going to the
mikvah and you're a holy Jew and you're
learning Torah and you're keeping all of
God's laws and you smoke a little
cannabis cuz that's your medicine and
your doctor prescribed it and you have a
pharmacy and it's legal now and
everything, let the guy enjoy planet
Earth. He's not going to get to heaven
and have any problems or any issues. He
was a sadic. He was a good guy. So I
said the cannabis could be used just
like I look at guys who are take coffee.
They're no different than the cannabis
users for me. I said you guys are drug
addicts. You're grinding a plant and
you're consuming it and your mood is
dependent on it and it's in your upper
and and it gets you going. That's just a
legal version of cocaine where someone
legalized because they make a lot of
money. You look at gut. Got is a version
of a plant that's way stronger than
caffeine which is like a cocaine level
high. But the yeshivas in Yemen were
chewing gut for thousands of years. You
look at the guys, the old men with
beards and pas learning tal, they're
chewing gut because that's their plant.
Find your plant. That's okay. That's not
the issue to to sin as an excuse cuz now
you have this plant to chill you out.
Don't put those two together. So I
helped a lot of guys in yeshiva deal
with the mental health issues of like
I'm this or that. It's not black or
white. You could balmtov teaches you
serve God from where you are. If you're
a a smoker and that's your thing, I'm
not here to stop you. I'm here to tell
you you could serve God from that place
and then grow. Get out of the get out of
the smoking when they heal. You don't
need it for your mental health. But for
guys who are suffering mental health,
there's no exc there's no reason not to
have a medicine that could hurt that
help you.
>> I'm very happy that we went through this
because when I met with you and spoke to
people about it, people have this uh
misconception of just oh you know
psychedelic healing is a spiritual
journey or it's just a journey. It's
meant for people who are suffering who
have looked for ideas of how to help
them and this is an alternative to uh
you know a medicine drug that you would
take. So, I mean, come on. If you know
the people whose lives got messed up
from getting prescribed Xanaxes and and
Adderall in the Jewish community, how
many people are on Xanax and Adderall
and real drugs? You're talking about
cannabis. That's a plant medicine. Talk
to the people who are on Wellbutrin and
their SSRI medications and all these
things. These people are fried. And I
don't want to be the mean guy to like
make you feel bad about it, but yeah,
you're numb. You don't feel life
anymore. You're going through earth as a
ghost and and that's better than you
suffering. But guess what? There's
better medicines that are not for-profit
ventures that got you stuck on someone's
drug. Those are the drugs. The
>> Speaking of non forprofits, so tell me
about the most you've been paid for
these types of journeys. I want to hear
like the people that flew you in or the
people that said, "Oh, I need this and
let's bring you in. You know, I have a
challenge and I want to like what kind
of uh what kind of exposure have you had
to that life?"
>> No, I appreciate it. First and foremost,
thank God I never needed to make money
from this space because I was doing my
own thing in the for-profit world of
online college credits and consulting in
the college.
>> Which by the way, thank you on behalf of
every college student, you know, for
that creation. And what's the name of
that bigger company that
>> when I started the company it was called
theological research institute and then
uh I rebranded it theological research
institute online which is an acronym for
TRIO and then once I got involved in
like public psychedelic stuff I realized
I can't be advising kids about college
and also being the guy to talk about
psychedelics. It's a very bad look and
bad for the company. I chose healing was
my path of passion and I sold the
company uh when co was around and online
colleges were big
>> and that's still around. It's called
>> uh it's bigger trio.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Times bigger than when I was
running it.
>> Yeah. So that's a really it's a helpful
thing I think because in my opinion and
in my experience um college is a really
important in other words uh
statistically you want to be successful
in life right you you have a high school
diploma you'll be more successful than
without one. If you have a college
diploma, you'll be more successful
without than with that one. Definitely,
if you want to go for a master's and you
want to just take that shortcut and get
away from all those, you know,
challenges of going to school, this
degree is also a very smart way to do
it. The only thing is I just want to
mention that college does do a couple of
things and that is number one is it
creates a network for you of life. So
people that go to yeshiva university or
ner stroll I'm talking about Toro or
really good schools for people to go to
um you know it gives you a real good
network that is a lifelong thing which
my my always thoughts are for people who
ask me about colleges you know if if you
can get into those schools and you
appreciate that network and it can help
you tremendously. number one and number
two is uh it also gives you that concept
of waking up in the morning taking a
test studying for a test and just being
persistent and being consistent and I
think that college does give you that
groundwork. So if you can have that
ability financially and you know it
helps you with your network and of who
you know and it helps you with the the
idea of growth. I think college is a
really good thing. Uh it's just my
opinion and then you know if you want to
skip it to go to a masters and you don't
need that it's definitely helpful. So
thank you for that and I just want to
mention
>> yeah I I agree with you fully. I mean
listen the why you and tour are great
places but it's a luxury for people. Not
everyone has multiple years and that
amount of money that they could invest.
Some people have to support their
families and get jobs and move on with
life very fast. So there's a certain
group of people where it's good to
bypass a multi-year process to get to
where they want to go. And they do have
the network in yeshiva. So there's no
black or white here. There's a big gray
area of what's best for you and let your
rabbi consultant advise you on the
matter. It
>> doesn't only have to be a rabbi. It
could be a
>> mentor. Yeah. You know what I mean?
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No, 100%. So, so I
appreciate that part of your journey.
So, and that and that you exited to go
to this world. So, you you must have
gone through experiences of people that
said, "Get in here. I'm flying you in."
And
>> right. So, now in this
>> So, tell me a little bit about just give
me one just give me one story. Tell me
one story.
>> I did. Um, you know, and obviously when
you get flown out from Israel, you're
going to go to somewhere where this
stuff is legal and there's no law issues
and stuff because we're dealing with big
community leaders and big rabbis in the
Jewish community who are overseeing
cases of some of their congregants who
are the hardest cases ever. And then
they bring in shamans and it's crazy
stuff behind the scenes. But, uh, I did
do a multi-year program with the SNAidic
community. Uh, obviously I'll never say
any names or which families, but big
dynasty families who are supporting
things behind the scenes for all of
Clusel and they're the ones who get the
cases of which boys have the worst
traumas, the couples are going to get
divorced. I I don't want to embarrass
our people now and talk about what the
big issues are. It's hard for me to do
that. I get to see the dirt behind the
scenes, you know, and it's so painful.
Um but yeah, they fly you out there and
I I gratefully I sponsor and I support
an orphanage basically in in Jerusalem.
How many kids get kicked out of their
houses in the community for going off
the Derek for not being religious and
girls end up on the streets prostituting
themselves on drugs and kids are no
families on this, you know. So there's
so many people that I'm in my network
where I'm like, "All right, I have to be
a conduit to help them." So that's why I
started a nonforprofit. I said, "Listen,
I don't need to make money on this. I'm
not getting involved with issues with
the IRS. You guys want to help support
my work and make it easier. I don't have
to pay for it. That's how I make money
by not spending my money on helping
other people. You guys could help there.
So, there was a period of time where I
was able to channel funds between the
people from the community to the kids
that they ended up kicking out of the
community like reparations like help
these guys get their lives together.
They're healed. They're on a new track.
But you can't kick a kid out of your
house. It doesn't work that way. So,
thank God I've I've been a bridge
between lots of money and lots of people
who need the money. But
>> beautiful. I I I thank you for that. And
um so, so we're not going to get into
too much of the details on that because,
you know, I I understand it's a privacy
issues and it's not it's more than none
of anyone's business. It's just like
it's a private thing. So, and that's
okay. I'll respect that tremendously. I
want to go back to something else that
you said and I and and um I'm really
enjoying this conversation because I'm
learning so much and uh it's it's a
topic that's just talked about a lot and
people have misconceptions of it
tremendously. Another topic that is
something that I hear about a lot
especially in Israel and uh you know and
my background is Cabala
and the topic of mysticism and the topic
of miracles. And you said it in the
beginning of our conversation you you
mentioned yourself. you said, "Oh, I
wasn't a believer. I didn't, you know,
you know, I was trying to like, you
know, basically find the challenges
within it and expose the truth that it's
not true." And then you met the yuka and
you have to explain it to me because I I
have to tell you, I don't know what the
yuka is. I don't know what it means.
Just explain it to me from the
beginning. What is a yanuka? What does
it even mean? Who is the yuka today? Um,
how did you meet this person? And what
does he mean for Claw Israel?
>> Right. From my understanding, the word
yinuka really is a term used back in the
times of the Talmud for like a child
prodigy. I think like the the etmology
could be the word yik, which is like
you're breastfeeding, like you're
nourishing from the source is like when
you have a baby there, the baby's yonik.
So the yuka is referred to as a child
prodigy. There was a yuka in the zohor I
believe also. And the concept really
comes down to it says in the Talmud in
the Gomorrah that there's a Moses or
Mosher Rabenu in every generation uh
Mosha Bhul and
in every generation of since the time of
Moses supposedly Israel is gifted a
Moses who from the age of eight or nine
years old has mastered the Torah and
could perform miracles and wonders and
they're the shepherd of Israel. In some
generations we don't get to know about
that Moses. They're hidden. In some
generations, we find out about them and
we exile them and excommunicate them
like we did to the Ram Khal. The Ram
Khal got excommunicated because at the
age of 17 or 18, he was learning with
angels, giving Shirim, revealing secrets
to the Cabala. And the Jewish people had
suffered tremendous trauma from Sha
Titzvi from a false messiah. We said,
you know, uh to the Ram Khal, you're out
of here. Your books are being burnt and
you can't live in the Jewish community.
We've exiled our Messiah in each in some
generations. Some generations we don't
know about them. The Yuka today has a
tremendous following. The core of his
following was since he was 11 years old.
He was revealing secrets of the Torah at
a very young age. You know, now he's in
his late 30s and he's mastered the
Torah. I was just at the Yanukas had a
bris for his new child last week, two
weeks ago. The deis was filled with
80-year-old, 90-year-old great rabbis,
greatest rabbis alive today. Each one
comes down and kisses the Inuka's hand
and then like bows down. I said, "Has
anyone seen this in hundreds of years
where you have a 37y old guy leading the
the rabbis of the generation as the
greatest sage, the greatest cabalists,
the rabbi that all the former cabalists
dropped off their manuscripts to to say,
"Here you have the writings of the
Arizal. You have the writings of this
rabbi. You hold on to the manuscripts.
All the manuscripts are in the Yuka's
hands right now." So, we have this gift
that was given to us. And like I said, I
was very skeptical of the whole thing.
And
uh I heard about the Inuka. Some guy was
doing some mushroom journey once and the
whole journey keeps talking about the
Inuka. I said, I don't know what the
guy's talking about, but if I go to
Israel and I'm worthy to run into the
Inuka, I'll get a bra and I'll tell you
what I think myself. And then two weeks
later, I'm in Israel for the holiday of
Shivuote, which is one year before I saw
him do a miracle on the holiday of
Shivot. and we can get into and I'm by
the Silwan mikvah with my son where you
can go down the IDF opens up a path to
the Arab village where King David's pool
is. You can dip in the mikvah. I'm going
down there and I see a rabbi with like a
hundred guys walking around him up
towards the hill and I'm coming down. I
say to him, "Who's this rabbi?" He says,
"That's the Yanuka." I go, "Wow, perfect
timing." And as he's coming by me,
everyone's pushing to get to the r and
it's not possible. I just stop and I'm
like looking at the rabbi, nodding my
head, what's going on here? And the
rabbi stops right next to me and stares
at me. And [snorts] it's like an awkward
silence. He's not saying anything. I'm
not saying. He's just looking at me.
He's nodding his head. I'm nodding my
head. And I don't know what to say. So I
yell out at the top of my lungs. There's
a big crowd there. I say, "Let me tell
everyone a story." I say, "Just two
weeks ago, I was in Miami giving some to
some guys, some some some strength to
some guys who were suffering and needed
some spiritual boosting or whatnot.
And the guy couldn't stop talking about
the Inuka the whole time. So I said I
should be worthy to run into the Anuka
to get a braha and and that's it. And
here we are two weeks later. I ran into
you. I said I just spoke about it and
and the Anuka laughed so hard at the
story and he gave me the biggest nicest
warmest braha. Gave my son a braha and
he kept going and he said oh he said
come see me. I want to talk to you. And
he kept going.
All night that night people were coming
over me and my son saying the is not
giving bra tonight. He's not giving
blessings. He's not talking to anyone.
He's like in his own world. He stopped
for you to talk to you and give you
blessing. Who are you? What's your
story? Why'd you get a blessing? I
couldn't even tell you what's going on.
I don't know. I went to go see the Inuka
later that week. He and he's got like a
he's like a whatever. The guy pulls the
strings. He can like coordinate things.
Like as I walk in, one of the big donors
that I know for helping save Jewish kids
that I work with, he walks in the same
time like he flew in from America for
the meeting. Yuka summoned us both. I
don't know how he did it. And we're
talking, we have a great relationship
and I said, "Wow, that's a cool rabbi,
you know." And one year later on in the
Kaga Shabuote, I run into the Anuka, the
same place, the same time. It was just
like strange. I said, "Wow, this this is
like my rebi. We have a thing." And then
later that night as I was leaving the
old city, I took a secret shortcut with
my son and his friends. And this is a
famous story. I'm not going to get into
the whole story, but there was a gate
that the church has every year open that
you could take a secret shortcut to and
it was locked and it was bolted on three
places. And I said to my son and his
friends, we have to turn around. We lost
the way we have to go 15 minutes. Turn
around and again I see the Anuka walking
towards us with 100 guys around. And I
go, Rebe, it's me again. This is we have
a thing now. We run into each other. I
try to smoo and the gobby start punching
and kicking me, his protectors, because
you can't just stop the rabbi when you
want. There's 100 100 people at any
given time trying to stop him for
blessings and he's got an agenda. And
they said the rabbi is late for morning
prayer for nakama for the rising of the
sun. He's got to run. He's got to go. I
say ra I'm sorry rabbi but the gate here
is locked. We got to go around. And the
yuka says
it's going to open for us. I thought to
myself the rabbi is nuts. [laughter] We
go to the gate. His guys are trying to
push it trying to climb over. Nothing
happening. Then all of a sudden Yuka
says quiet. And he does the longest
what's the longest awkward silence of my
life. 5 6 minutes he's like shuckling
shaking back and forth in front of the
gate like in the meditation. And I'm
thinking to myself this is my chance to
expose him. I says he something
something shady is going to happen now
and I'm Hashem put me in a place to be
the key witness to expose him cuz my job
is to protect Cla Israel from
charlatans. This guy
after 5 6 minutes he touches the gate
with his finger and poof it popped open
like with a strong wind like the gate
opened the Anuka kept walking like
nothing happened maybe 10 guys followed
him the whole group of people stood
there in a state of shock everyone's
legs were shaking I saw people their
faces turned ghost white cuz we couldn't
close the gate now from the open side
because the bolts were all still locked
three bolts sticking up on the other
side the gate wouldn't close from the
other side so in front front of our
eyes. Metal melted right through metal
right in front of my eyes. And all of a
sudden, all the stories I heard about
the the Babisali and the Aizel opening
up locked gates in Israel with their
mind. When they came to open up old
shoos and mikvah and stuff, there was
locks. They would open up with their
minds. There stories like this. I didn't
believe one of them. I said, "No, those
stories are true. And this guy's the
real deal." And so at that moment, I
said, "I'm going to follow this rabbi."
I bought his fararm. I translated his
works to English on YouTube. I raised
money to translate his major works to
English. It's going to be in in
bookstores all throughout the Jewish
world soon. And then I have a very
secret special relationship with the
Anuka where he calls me and the sons the
key witnesses to the story. It's online
me telling the story next to him. I've
helped the Inuka do a lot of other
secret things I can't talk about. Secret
journeys into the old city to find
secret. I don't want to get all into it.
It's crazy stuff. Give me one example.
What do you mean? Like something in the
old city? What are you what are you
looking for?
>> First of all, the King David's tomb is
there. Yuka is very connected to where
King David's buried and I'm very
connected to the diaspora of Shiva today
and the archaeological stuff of
identifying where King David's body is
and all these matters. So, that's like a
whole interesting.
>> Didn't they just have a recent
discovery?
>> Uh, I don't know how much is public or
not because there's some things that
can't be spoken about yet, but there was
the discovery of the chamber where King
David's buried with first temple marble
that was found. um and under under the
tomb area which is I can't get into it
too much yet because there's some
there's a lot of eyes on the church is
fighting in the Vatican the diaspora
Shiva bought back the land from the
Vatican recently there's a lot of heavy
stuff but um I mean I'm scared of some
of these stories like I've told some of
these stories before and people like
Harry you shouldn't tell these stories
like you know they tell people tell me
not to tell them I'm a little scared to
be honest
>> I get what you're saying cuz in In a
way, if you expose it to the opposite
side, then they have now recorded things
that they can go after. So, you know
what? Let's talk about it again in a
year from now. Yeah.
>> And let's see like where how far
>> the things involving the pope and the
pope's death and mystical rectifications
and being awake at 3:00 in the morning
to do go to certain places, say certain
things and me seeing what happens in the
world like 10 minutes later after it's
like whoa. So, I've looked into like
what powers these guys have. I mean the
con and the unuke is not the first what
and the powers are not exclusive to him
but the concept of like
to revive the dead or to kill someone
with the name of God these were powers
we see in the Tanakh that people were
able to do Alicia brought a guy back
from the dead in the Tanakh you know
Moses was able to kill someone with the
name of God these things weren't
exclusive to one men guys like the
villagon of the Mahar were making golems
they were creating humans that had life
form not not necessarily souls there
these magical power guys. There wasidic
rebies who would poof themselves into
tvat moi shabbat to do a prayer and then
come back to where they were from. I
didn't believe any of these things. But
after learning enough with the inuka and
seeing the manuscripts and the scrolls
and what was orally passed down and so
this is a real world the cabalist and
and I learned a lot because one time the
there was this program called the the
share fund. I don't know if you heard of
it. It's an amazing program where some
philanthropists got together like all
these great rabbis, you know, the Rabbi
Jacobson's and the Rabbi Mosha
Weinberger from the five towns. And I
couldn't even name all these great
rabbis who were influencing Clas. So he
got them all into a group to film their
content and produce it and to share
their stuff with the world on a
professional level. And he brought like
30 rabbis out to Erit Israel. He flew
them out, bought the tickets and the
hotels and everything to show them and
do a tour. And they spoke at different
cities around Israel. And they had one
night where they wanted the Yanuka to
come give the rabbis a shir.
And there must have been a big
misunderstanding because the way they
spoke to the Inuka's Gabbai and the
Inuka, the Yuka is not going anywhere to
speak to nobody for no price. No matter
what, he's not a payto-play rabbi. You
can't pay him anything in the world to
get him out of his what he's doing right
now. He's in his lane. He doesn't want
your money. He doesn't want anything, no
favors. You don't owe anyone anything.
And which is great cuz some rabbis out
there are pay to play. You want some
time, you cut the check. Okay? you know,
and rightfully so, cuz that rabbi has
got to support a lot of other people in
the orphanage. His time is money. I'm
not judging nobody. So, nonetheless,
I helped uh broker the situation where
the Yanuka will make an exception
because he did owe me and someone else a
favor and it was very uncomfortable. He
came out to these guys and they did make
a small nice donation the Yuka didn't
need nonetheless. And so, now we're in a
scenario of the 30 greatest rabbis in a
room and the Inuka is there and he
brings his keyboard. He's a master of
music. He's on Spotify. Go to Spotify
and check out the Inuka. It's the most
healing music in the world
>> that he created.
>> He makes Yeah, he makes He makes the
best music ever. I asked the Anuka, I
said, "How'd you learn music? Did you
take piano lessons as a young age and
said he said, "No, I was walking one
home from yeshiva when I was 15 years
old and I heard someone playing piano."
And I looked up and I said, "Wow, that's
beautiful. I feel like you can connect
to Hashem with music." And he went that
day and he got an old used keyboard from
somewhere and he said he did his bodus
for about two hours and he mastered
music in two hours of meditation. And he
plays like Beethoven or Mozart. Now he's
And he makes his own instruments and his
own sounds using synthesizers. It's the
coolest stuff in
>> Can I see this
>> on on Spotify?
>> I don't know. I want to see it. I want
>> Yeah. You got to go to his laboratory.
He's got sound stuff.
>> Can you take me?
>> I It's not so simple just to book his
time and get in like
>> Well, we need to try.
>> We could try. We I've gone in there and
I've sat in the room for hours and
>> so he comes in. He has his keyboard.
>> He's He brings the keyboard with him to
the rabbis. So first he gives a speech
for an hour and then he plays music at
the end and everyone sings and he pulls
rahim compassion from the heavens but
for the hour he gave a speech I had a
feeling that it would be like something
most people didn't understand but I'm
not judging anyone but I brought my own
camera and I brought my own mic and I
put the mic next I brought my camera
because and I'm grateful I did it
because what he said that night wasn't
released publicly and no one has access
what he said to the 30 greatest rabbis
and after he's finished I said I don't
think I understand a word of what he
said. This is way over my head. I have
to now pay a translator to listen to
this and transcribe what he said so I
could see the English of what he was
saying. And I speak fluent Hebrew and I
could read Safar. I was in yeshiva for
many years, but he speaks so fast and so
gentle and says such heavy stuff. You
need to study what he says. [snorts] So
then I ended up putting it on YouTube so
anyone could watch that she or now with
the English subtitles. I did the
hishadlist effort to make it a reality.
And one of the things he said in this
year changed my life. It was so
profound. He said to these 30 big rabbis
who talk incredibly deep stuff. He said,
"Listen,
do you think that the Balmtov learned
Cabala from the writings of the Ariza?
The Ariza was before the Bashmtov, the
greatest cabalist of his generation.
Obviously, the Bashmtov was a master of
Kabala. Do you think the balmtov got his
cabala from learning books from the
Arizone? No, that's not where you get
cabala from. You can't get cabala from
learning something from a book. Only one
way you're going to get cabala is if you
get it revealed to you by Elijah the
prophet or an angel or a malik or mid,
one of these terms where a metaphysical
reality downloads this information to
you and you get it. Then you get chosen
to be a cabalist. The other cabalist of
the generation will recognize it's you.
You will then get initiated into the
secret school of Cabala. You get
manuscripts. And he said there's two
types of bait medish. There's two types
of synagogues. There's the synagogue for
the people of Israel. And then there's
secret synagogues only for the
cabalists. When you go in those rooms,
it's filled with candles and mirrors.
And only the cabalists know where they
are and only they go in and out of those
rooms. Lo and behold, the Babisali Shu
and Baka. Anyone can go visit this on
Shimon Shaloshas Street. There's the
Banesset. And behind the banesset is a
secret bay kesset, a separate one for
cabala where the where the babasali
would sit and do and learn with angels.
And I saw with my own eyes, you can go
see the the secret one behind it. And
then the yuka says to these guys, if
you're a rabbi and you're talking about
partsim and zeronin and aba, these zohor
terminologies and you didn't learn with
Elijah the prophet, you may not know
what you're talking about. you're saying
words and you're you understand what the
book says and you could say over what
the book says but you don't have an idea
of what that's really about. So for me I
was like I'm off the hook cuz I never
understood that stuff. When the guy's
talking about ABA and partim and the
Zohar I'm like I get it but I don't get
it and I felt like something was wrong
with me and I'm just like oh [laughter]
I'm normal.
>> You validated
>> I don't get it. I don't need to be the
cabalist doing the hard work and
rectifying spiritual. Those are those
guys. I get to be a regular Jew and
learn and have a ma and suffer and feel
good and ups and downs. For me, that's
how I serve God. So, I felt like a whole
weight was off my shoulder of like I
don't understand what that was talking
about. I could learn and some people do.
Some people say to me, Harry, I'm
learning safer, the book that Abraham
may have wrote. It could be from Adam.
How to create golems and create worlds.
I don't understand what these books are
talking about. And I thought something
was wrong with me. The Inuka said, "No."
So, I recommend everyone go to my
YouTube channel. Um, Rabbi Harry
Rosenberg. I've translated a lot of the
works of the unuk on it. But there's one
video called Secrets of the Cabala, and
it's the video of the Yuka reveals who
were the cabalists in every generation.
He names the names, who was the
students, what miracles people were
performing, how they were performing the
miracles. and and Zo and behold so I
have a great understanding of what we
can't understand of Cabala outside of
that
>> you know what I appreciate that and and
that's a great perspective in general
because growing up I've seen cabalists
and I've seen some work that they've
done and I've seen people who pay to
play so to speak and I've seen people
using their strengths and their
abilities to read people and see things
um you know and and use it for other
reasons so I I appreciate the fact that
understanding that we don't understand
it is as much as I want to understand it
right now.
>> I mean there's practical cabala and then
there's like like theoretical so like
applying the cabala we don't know but
but the ramal teaches us
cababalistically of how hashem works and
we could master that you can master a
theoretical cabala and that's great
stuff
>> and and look you know I I have a deep
appreciation for this in general because
you know my mother is a you from I've
met my grandfather who was friends with
and these are Torah scholar people and
these are people that weren't kabala
type but they were Torah uh uh leaders
and uh just understanding that that's
something I can you know hold on to and
understand and this this part of the
world it's nice to know that it's there
and and it's important to know that it's
there but personally I stay away from it
um but I do keep an eye on it so to
speak so which is really nice u thank
you for that I you know we're going to
have to wrap up soon so I you know and I
appreciate this conversation so much and
I can do this for hours [laughter] with
you um you know I'm going to have uh you
know one more question for you which is
you know what your hopes are for the
future and what's next for you I know
that there's something that you're
working on on a property and what we
like to call upstate Israel. Um I'd like
to hear about that. But first, any
questions for me before we wrap up?
>> No, I mean my question is how do they
make guys like you so good where you I
always say I'm telling my friends about
you said he knows how to ask the right
questions. He knows how to help people.
He just knows. I'm like I haven't met
many people like you so I don't want to
you know I'm not here to lift your
spirits up too high but I don't know how
they make guys like you. We need more
guys like you and Clai Israel who
>> I'm not going to say too many stories.
I've seen you step in and you've helped
me. You've you help people.
>> They don't make them like you. So, God
bless you,
>> Harry. I really appreciate it. So, uh
thank you. So, there's no question on
that.
>> I don't have any confidence. I'm I'm
like in a wonder, not a question. I'm
like, how I appreciate how they get
these guys?
>> Honestly, I just
>> Do you know more of guys like you? Do
you have a friendship circle of you
guys? Like, who is this? You know, I I
think that you and I share that
sentiment that we hang out with people,
good people, positive energy, people
that are looking to help each other and
people who are instead of doom
scrolling, uh, you know, uh, through
life, we are dooming and we're we're
going into the world of just like how
can we spend our time dealing with other
things and and and you know that
internalizes every every time I'm
dealing with something external, it
always internalizes for me. So,
>> you're scrolling. You're scrolling for
>> I'm juice scrolling, baby. Exactly.
That's what it is. That's the that's the
words that I was looking for. Um and and
it's honestly it's it's about listening
and um I've learned to one of the thing
that this podcast has done for me and
tremendous and I have such uh you know
such thanks for our production team and
our people and you know all the guests
that have been on and the fact that
Prime Source is able to sponsor this and
uh really be part of this uh entire
journey is that ability to listen and in
the beginning I always had so much to
say and even while you're talking
there's always so much I want to say but
then I learned to just park it away and
then just listen more and I I think
that's something that um has helped me
tremendously in my life. So, what are
your hopes for the future? Tell me about
what's happening in in this little
moshave that you have that you call
ganeden. And I'd like to know what it is
and why you calling it that. And you
know, what are your hopes?
>> I appreciate it. I mean, when I had this
uh spiritual experience back in college,
we were talking about I had a vision of
like
got to go to Israel and get farmland.
this voice in my head was like telling
me go to Israel, get land. I had a
vision of what the land would look like.
And that's when my friend saw me that
was like, "Guys," right after that
journey, I said, "Guys, I'm out of here.
I'm going to Israel. I'm getting a
farm." Everyone said, "What happened to
Harry? You were the leader of the party
scene. You had everything going for you.
You have a whole empire here of having
fun. Where are you going?" I said, "I'm
gone. I'm going to get a farm." I go to
yeshiva and for a few years in yeshiva,
I'm talking about getting a farm and
everyone thought I was crazy. He's like,
"Harry, what are you talking about?"
That's all I would talk about. Getting a
farmland in Israel. I don't know why.
There's something going to happen. And
then um I was invas learning Torah. I
was learning a safer
written byel all about the end of days
and what's going to happen and the Jews
returning to Israel and we have to get
farmlands and get land. And I said,
"Wow, it was really my book." And then
he gives a piece of advice how to
guarantee to get farmland in Erit
Israel. A guarantee. I said, "Here we
go. this is it because I didn't know
what to do. How you going to get a farm?
I don't know. And he says that God wants
us to move to Israel and get farmlands
more than we want to. I mean the
shashuka, the desire on God for us to
return is greater than our desire to
even return. He says you just have to
know how to tap into that and you'll get
filled up. First problem is people think
that you get blessed yourself
doesn't come on you. It comes on your
handiwork. What are you going to do with
your hands?
Like what your hands create is what gets
the blessings.
So the rabbi said first and foremost you
need to have a cle a vessel that could
receive the blessing. You're not going
to get the braha but a vessel you create
will. First of all make a vessel.
Secondly do it with a group of friends
who have unconditional love for each
other. What we call a rev. You have to
have a group of friends with
unconditional love for each other that
be involved in this creation of this
vessel. and it has to have kavana that
it should be for the sake of settling
the land of Israel. So I said I'm going
right back to America. I'm going to get
my group of friends together. We're
going to create a vessel and we're going
to get a farmland. And that's what
happened. And uh we ended up making a
beer company that we called at the time
Lost Tribes Beverage was a group of
friends. We got these recipes from the
Ethiopians and the Benam Manasha that
from the lost tribes of Israel who came
back to Israel and we started a company
and we're serving it in the five towns,
you know, at little events and parties
making it in our bathtubs. And one time
we were at a Matisyahu concert
sponsoring in the five towns, sponsoring
the kegs of our Ethiopian honey wine and
uh just trying to get the word out
there, make a vessel, make a company,
raise value, buy land, I don't know.
[snorts] and the caterer at the event.
So, it was a kosher pesak Ethiopian
honey wine we had. He said, "This is a
great beer. I run the Waldorf Histori in
Orlando. Why don't I book you guys to
serve your beer there?" I said, "Listen,
I'll bring five or six cases for free.
You give me and my wife a room there for
vacation for free and we'll have a trade
and I'll serve the beer and everything."
Next thing you know, I'm there with my
five, six cases of my honey wine,
serving the beer to everyone. And one
guy kept coming back tasting and saying,
"This is the best beer ever. This is a
good beer." And it turned out to be a
mega major Jewish uh real estate tycoon
guy. And he said, "Don't talk to anyone.
I want to give you money for this. I
want to help you out." And this guy
helped us launch the company with some
money. We were now in 70 accounts in New
York City. We were in uh dive bars and
7-Elevens. We were huge. Yeah. It was a
big
>> How did that lead to the property
though?
>> Uhhuh. Because we were just trying to
create like a perceived value. I mean,
now at the time there were some partners
and friends in this where they were
like, "This is nothing to do with the
farm, Harry. this is a business we're
going to make money. So the company
later did end up splitting where like
there became like a regular business
around.
>> Got it. So that business is continuing
but the farm that you had left.
>> So the value that I was able to create
in this I was able to leverage
eventually my position in the company
that had value for someone to put up
money for me to buy a farm in Israel.
>> Beautiful.
>> Um so it was like a clean exchange. I
walked away leveraged.
>> What's special about this farm in
Israel?
>> Right. So um like first of all the
blessing of rough tactile came true that
the advice he gave guaranteed it worked.
I was like let me see if God's real and
um the [snorts] land is in a valley
where in according to the Talmud in
Aravven Rakkesh says I think
he says there's a where the garden of
Eden's located. If the garden of Eden's
in Iraq or if it's in um Israel if the
garden of Eden's in Babylon it's by the
hanging gardens. If the garden of Eden
is in Israel, its entrance is in the
Bonan Valley. Now, that's where our land
is. We didn't end up on this land uh on
purpose. I I found other lands. We got
kicked off of those lands. I ended up
having like a 10boy lost boy army
living. I flew out all these drug
addicts from America to to be the
soldiers living on the land. I had did a
hockey tournament to raise the money for
them. I had a group of lost boys on
different farmlands trying to work it
out. So, not enough time now. With the
divine intervention, we ended up in the
Bonan Valley where the Garden of Eden
could be located.
This valley historically for the last
2,000 years was the most undesirable
land in Israel. It was swamps and
marshes. You can get malaria walking
through it. It's the hottest, nastiest
part of Israel. When the Jews came here
in the 40s and 50s, they started to
irrigate the lands and treat the water.
And now it's called Hamayanote, the
valley of springs. Over a thousand
natural crystal clearar springs in this
region of the most beautiful water
you've ever seen in your life. I hope to
take you to one of them tomorrow. It's
called the Sakna. Anyone on there,
Google right now, type in the word snna.
S A C H N E H. You'll never see water
like this in your life. I don't care if
you go to Jamaica or or Hawaii. You're
not going to see water this tropical and
beautiful. And over here, I believe, is
the location where the Garden of Eden
was. The most beautiful place in the
world. Our farm is a 10-minute horse
ride from it. And uh the vision that we
have for this farm is to create I mean
there's a few visions obviously but to
create a place of wellness first and
foremost where you can host people for
healing legally. I started a fund called
the Trippy.vc. It's a psychedelic
venture capital fund. We invested in
legal infrastructure in Israel to make
these chemicals in bioreactor
laboratories in the Hebrew University.
So one day the chemicals will be legal.
We'll have soldiers from the IDF.
There's tens of thousands of soldiers on
a waiting list right now. um they're
getting access to psychedelic medicine
abroad outside of Israel which is saving
many soldiers lives. So it's really open
up a wellness space in the garden of
Eden where we're back getting Edenic
consciousness quote unquote as we'll
call it. But also my goal is to build a
village in a where people who don't have
enough money could still live in Erit
Israel and work exchange like a kibbut
hybridizing with capitalism. Like yeah
you could have your startup and have
your company but electricity clean water
goats and chickens that should be pulled
stuff that we share. Like no one should
come here stressed that they can't go to
the supermarket. You know how many guys
can't check out Friday afternoon at the
supermarket. I get text messages. I'm
online, Harry. I need an emergency 50
sent to me. I'm like, salute. Got you.
Like, that's scary. I'll figure out to
get you 50 bucks. That stuff breaks my
heart. So, I want to buy more land. Let
people be sharecroppers again. Live in
tiny homes.
>> Let's go. I'm ready to be a part of
this. So, I'm going to go with you. And
and this circles back to what we said
earlier about the IDF and Israel and all
the challenges and trauma that are
coming. Having places like this is a
wonderful idea and I fully support what
you're doing and I can't wait to be a
part of it and Rob Harry
>> this has been I mean talk about my
journey talk about your this journey
that we're sharing with everybody it
it's it was eyeopening uh and and
learning about um the healing process
and the trauma that goes on in the world
and the fact that this is available for
people that have no alternative and are
looking for something and I think that
is the premise of this conversation and
understanding that um this is an area of
expertise that you have and you've had
such an amazing amazing up and down and
left and right and [laughter] round and
round and here we are and I just want to
tell you this has been amazing and I
really appreciate it. And um finally the
last question I would ask you is who
would you recommend on the podcast? one
of those things that I do. So, if you
had to pick somebody, uh, you know, I
know that, you know, your my cousin was
a next door neighbor of yours, so I want
to give you a hint. Maybe that's
somebody you can pick. But, you know,
who would you pick as a guest that would
be, uh, someone that we can grow with
and get vulnerable with?
>> Oh, man, that's a great question. I
mean, I would pick the guy, but I don't
know if he'll come on because he's um in
his own world of spirituality and he's
studying and he's not interested in
this.
>> Who's that? Who are you thinking of? So,
one of my study partners, Amari
Starttomire, is a basketball player, uh
was a basketball player. He's going to
the NBA Hall of Fame and he is one of my
role models. I look up to him because uh
I've been studying with him since he was
on the Knicks when I was Yeshiva Bakar
Sharash. He was my study partner and I
never took a dime from him, a dollar
from him. Everyone always assumed that I
was getting paid by the wealthiest NBA
player. He got a hund00 million contract
and they assumed that I'm in it just,
you know, this is where I get money
from. He's I'm his rat. There's a lot of
guys who are learning with NBA players
and they get big checks. Like when I
went out to bagels of the Mari and it
was a $10 bill. He puts five in, I put
five in. He didn't pay for my not even
at a steak restaurant. He never paid for
the bill.
>> Okay, maybe he won't come on. But can we
at least go congratulate him on the
next?
>> I think he'll come up. I think he'll
come because he's launching now a new a
new product. He's launching an online
course on the lost tribes of Israel.
>> Okay, so call him up. He's an American
now. I don't want to actually. Yeah, I
don't want to bother him, but I would
I'll make the shik between you guys.
>> See if he'll come on. And for me, he's a
role model because when we were on the
Nicks hanging out, I saw the temptations
that were up he was up against and the
Yates or the evil inclination that he
broke to rise in spirituality to go to
the mikvah and not go out with the guys
to the clubs where there was a hundred
young ladies waiting for him to come and
give him the he was breaking his now he
learns Torah all day. I said, "It's easy
for guys like us to do what we do
because you know what? There's not a 100
girls chasing after us and people aren't
inviting me and stuff."
>> Yeah. Speak for yourself.
>> I know. I I'm a funny looking guy. I'm
like, I don't even have the opportunity
to do bad things if I wanted to. I don't
have this my my just to have a role
model like that to see someone who
>> So, I'll make the I'll make the
suggestion.
>> All right. I'm excited. I'm excited. And
it it'll probably be here in Israel, I'm
imagining. Right.
>> He's in Miami right now. It's
>> Oh, he's in He lives in Miami
>> cuz his kids are out there and he's one
of the best fathers in the world. He
goes to the baseball games every week.
He's the coach.
>> Wow. All right. So, you you go to Miami?
>> I go to Miami once or twice a month out
there doing help with like a startup
congregation. Um,
>> we could talk about that for a second.
>> I we can't talk about it too much
because they're dealing with permits.
>> Okay, Rachel. All right, we'll leave it
at that.
>> Greater. And then this person also who
helps, everyone who knows knows uh she's
very generous. She helps lots of
organizations and there's certain
organizations where like people help
just so they can get their name
announced on stage and everything. And
when she helped, a big help. They they
went at dinner to celebrate our help.
She said, "You're not allowed to say my
name. You don't mention my name. I don't
want any awards. I'm an anonymous."
>> Okay, Rachel, we won't mention your
name. Just want to say thank you for
everything you're doing.
>> This person is so special. I have to
protect their
>> I have to say I look forward to uh doing
these things with you guys and working
on these projects together. And
>> for sure,
>> I'm so excited. And thank you for all of
our listeners, all our subscribers, all
our comments. We welcome it all. Thank
you to the Prime Source production team.
This has been amazing. What a
discussion. It's a wrap.
>> Wow.
>> Let's go [laughter]
Harry.
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