The Hasidic Superstar who Refused to Give Up | The Story of Lipa Schmeltzer

any times that you felt different than other children maybe not looking back I think maybe I always felt different they accepted you right away what was the com's reaction and how did they accept [Music] you where do you get that energy from you mamish on the floor you're jumping up and down I share my story so if I went through a lot of healing I talk about healing and if part of my work is through music and through ART so it comes out in this way and could be I years would come out the lectures but now it comes out through music and art and the day will come I promise it will come that a big sha will stand up say just want to say I went through a lot of healing I worked on myself and then everybody will be H it's okay okay we're just human sh [Music] perm coming up happy perm everyone perm is a time where we reflect on Joy reflect on happiness jewi and joyful so I have a special episode for you today with Lea schmelzer hi everybody it's Arya finger welcome back to another episode of Jewish and joyful this week I have an incredible incredible episode for you personally I think this is one of most authentic interviews I've ever done Lea schelter is known as one of the world's most famous Jewish singers he has an incredible story an incredible journey from back when he started out he had a lot received a lot of backlash and he went a little we could say off and he now Buck came back and he's amazing G amazing person you'll hear about his incredible story about his music about his journey and we had a lot of fun in this episode first time that I ever had this we actually composed a song on the spot Lea and I were talking about something and then Lea said this a great song to compose and I gave I gave him words and he's thinking and thinking and we actually compos a song and maybe it'll be one of his albums you never know I have a question for you where do you live we asked this before we got some crazy answers I want to know where you live do you live in barbach do you live in five town do you live in Flatbush you live in Lakewood do you live in Africa do you live in Australia do you live in the UK do you live in China I don't know let me know comment below whatever you're watching please comment below where you live please make sure to follow subscribe but we have some great news by the way we now have a hotline so no internet no problem you don't need internet right now if you only have a foot phone that's great and you can now call official hotline be sure to stick around to hear our number you can also check the show notes later in this episode you're going to hear about our friends of K kabad and the incredible work they're doing and about the new app as well as par knowledge and I love M BR we have some more incredible interviews coming out be sure to follow subscribe and enjoy this week's [Music] episode welcome B but it's our great honor and privilege to have you we're very excited to hear from you about your story and about your music so can you take us back to your upbringing tell us how your childhood was like my childhood is pretty um I grew up in state and square and uh my father went through uh my father wasn't beging B with in the ghetto and he went out with KAS train through Switzerland and he found this re there and he went to willburg and then he found out about AAL he went to square and he had 12 kids I'm the 11th and that's the pretty short version uh so growing up in new Square were there any times that you felt different than other children um maybe now looking back I think maybe I always felt different but uh now it all seems you know just when you change your glasses and you change the number you see things differently now I see things from a different Viewpoint than what I saw it two three four five 10 years ago so I see things in a different light so how did you see it back then how do you see it as a child what what what was your journey what was your journey like because everyone has a everyone has a journey and your Journey gave so many people so can we hear more about your journey as a child and how it evolved maybe I wasn't a typical child and also I had a also an like not such an easy Journey it was big uh was a big class and I went through certain things as a child but now I feel like I'm pass it it's not like I'm dwelling and going over the details and um it wasn't easy upbringing and it wasn't probably easy for my my father also and my mother and it wasn't also easy for them because I probably didn't speak up my feelings and things that bother me I rather probably pushed it all down and these things go with you for the rest of your life so until not for the rest of your life should say maybe it shapes your rest of your life but there's a way to channel it and if you go inside there's a way to to work all all all the stuff all the old stuff to work it through and to realize From a Different Light how everything is meant to enhance and to make you grow and I feel that my story and I think everybody's story but I'm already at the point where I see that everything was here to build me up and and uh yeah it's it's been time maybe maybe I could say you know you miss that side of the boat because maybe four years ago i' would be talking more about details and and going in and now I'm more like u a few feel that I'm I'm more grounded and uh whatever what was it shaped me I give Art snippers through the art through the songs and um I let everything go but uh it's amazing for people to to know if they can catch it earlier and to understand that there is a way to take everything and embrace the entire package and uh instead of looking at everything I've been through because we can be stuck we can be stuck in the past and we can be stuck worrying about the future and really all we have is the present moment and um I know kazal say this and a psychology and meditation but to really work it it's not easy because the mind wants to go back and the mind wants to L to wonder about the past and about the future and to really remember that all we have is this moment we have now and everything is beautiful and I wish that I have my father that with with his flesh and bone next to me that I can tell him I can also tell him maybe what happened and also tell him how I am now and and how beautiful everything is but he's not here in flesh and blood but his n is here and I truly believe that it's a continuation we're here for a tiny little something you know like experience like this and we go and I think that we're all connected it's one big picture beautiful I once I read recently in the I think it was called the par on fire it said that light's wife turned into salt when she looked back at sadine right the question is why' she turn into salt what's so bad what's so wrong with what looking back she want to see your old town she want to see your hometown why did she turn into Soul so he writes that ra ra Victor Miller says that if you want to grow you can't look back and since she looked back at her old ways she was punished I like the story because it's so true it's so true when we look back and um that makes us dwell on the past it doesn't do us any benefit for today I think people could relate to your story because especially the B these days and The Young and the adults and everyone so could we could we just hear a little more about your struggle and how you dealt with it how do you dealt with the stress topic is Jewish and joyful that's the what the podcast is called so we try to also tackle mental health aspects of journeys of people so the thing with this is that it's it's it's a twofold question because if I say really how I dealt with that I know now how I dealt with I'm not necessarily sure that's the right way to deal with it in other words and if I'm just sugar coating it and coming in like a mashia and what I think then I don't know if I'm authentic so I think I can go between the lines by saying that I didn't know all this until maybe the last two years after being doing a lot of healing and growth since 2007 and that's a pretty long time and to real to realize that it took me only till two years ago to realize everything that happened and to put all the APLE together and I'm not sure I dealt right with it I guess the real answer for the people who listen to your podcast if they can learn something from it is to hear a humble answer that I'm not sure I dealt right with it and let's say it even more with certain certainties I am sure that I didn't deal I didn't deal right with it meaning I didn't know better I didn't also understand many things how I operate where it comes from I didn't understand certain behaviors where they stem from so we all have coping mechanisms how we deal with things and we can start with the basics if people go to a kiddish every week and they just eat whatever comes to there and they smoo and they just kgle that's a coping mechanism and even if you see most of the community are doing it most of the community has a coping mechanism and I'm not even going to get into drinking it's a coping mechanism what what really is it what does alcohol really do it's numbing you for two hours and then make you feel um the worst so really at best you can say people just want to get numb people want to get numb and people want to get numb because there are certain things that they are unaware of in their psyche inside which creates certain pain and uh they call it today in the in in in the world of psychology and science the non-conscious brain so there's the conscious and the unconscious and there's the nonconscious where with all the pain like almost when you go to the boiling room in the basement and all the dusty stuff and if you take something out you really have to wipe it off there is a subconscious that's yeah but but there's even deeper there's a place where there's only the negativity like there there a [ __ ] like this there there's a book from son Dr sonus that was in myu and then he went out and and that we have some some people that get to midlife and they get back pain and they go to the doctors and they can be diagnosed they get a needle they say this that and really it's hidden hidden hidden pain and when we think about it too much there's a mechanism in our brain that takes away oxygen from a certain place let's say from from your from your hand from your back so you should have back pain why so you don't think about the other things that bothered you so much so we have and then in a world of anxiety in a world where we also have legitimate disease people are afraid and then people get more anxious but so people don't really get to the core of the issue all what I started I said about the kides and about the drinking and about the doctor and about everything comes together in one answer is that the idea is we have to look inside ourselves to deal with a core issue the underlying issue there's there are issues every day that we think we have oh I don't know this bothers me because I I said like this she said like this and my rabby told me this and this is and really that's just a trigger that pulls something out from inside so let's say somebody gets triggered by a certain thing really it's something to do with childhood everything goes back to Childhood and to prove it on the most basic level so we shouldn't sound too too too psychological is why do you speak English and I speak yish and why does somebody in Israel speak Hebrew and why does somebody in China speak Chinese no one taught you how to speak English no one taught me how to speak yish but just by being surrounded with people who spoke the language we picked up the language so what makes you think that we didn't pick up on many many many other things so when someone was 3 years old people tell me what how How Could You Forget certain things you've been through and now just comes up I asked them do you remember what you were eating Su when you were three years old do you remember your that was a big thing many people don't do you remember what you were wearing on do you remember when you went to first day to there's so many things people say wow I don't remember but it's hidden in your psyche that means the deep inside there could be so many things hidden and a lot of triggers that it trigger something in the mind and then people have certain behaviors that they cope against it and the mind is designed so you can function every day so it doesn't tell you all these things right so coming back to your question to round sum it up what I tell the people who listen I can't really tell you that how I dealt with it it's a good advice and it doesn't matter even the details whatever my coping mechanisms were it's just I didn't until a few years ago really go inside me very deep to be with myself like I couldn't I couldn't sit with myself at home doing nothing being more like an introvert you know just being by myself and today I can I can close my phone for 10 minutes doing nothing I'm not doing it too often because I'm Tak busy and now you can challenge Me Maybe the business also comes from coping and I'll tell you you're right it may be and it it the automatic behaviors could be stronger than it baby steps like someone says I don't want to eat cake and the next day oh I ate again because the automatic behaviors but I could I I do breath work I meditate I journal and sometimes now before I'm coming out with the new CD I'm getting more busy it's not so easy to do my regular routine schedule but then I go back to schedule and to do certain things for your health I tell my kids I tell my son all the time when you come and there's already a problem like a karate teacher will tell you you can't learn how to fight on the battlefield it takes a long time to learn so the all these things is like learning every day how to deal with the the problem when it arises and then slowly you go inside and you realize okay you don't have to remember the stories what happened just recognize that inside you there is a little child and the little child is kicking and waiting to be recognized by the adult and that's a fact wow it's beautiful how did your yish Kai evolve from since you were a child to when you were a young adult and to now so it was fluctuating because because I I I met you know in the in the they say there something you know we learned about we learned in to about the me Mas you know you see they went from here they went there they went there that every person really has a lot of Inus in life right some people it's easier some people see it more so I did have a lot of U Nas in my life and um yours is more public also you're saying exactly I just I just told a friend of mine that I'm giving out this album and he said to me it's probably healing for you and I said yes it is because this album is like a closure for me it's a lot because everything is public leap is doing this he said this he didn't say this and the judgment is especially is where we come from unbeetable right and um it's not that we're bad people it's just designed that we are expecting from us much more and that everybody thinks they know it right and even from a Judaism perspective everybody thinks that they have a down path so if somebody does a little bit different automatically the other people will will judge because no that's not the right way so we're kind of intertwined in judging we're like we have it integrated in in our upbringing it's almost like we have to judge even if it says don't judge it's almost like don't judge but they're not like us so so that's something hopefully with time people are getting healthier becoming more fixed that when I moved from one place to the other it was very public and it was also me trying to fit in and to find the identity um where I belong okay if I'm not in the St so where do I go okay I'm becoming like this or like that and it took me time to realize that I'm just a beautiful human being just the way I am for today for this moment so how do you deal with your stress and what was some of the feedback you got from your community back in new Square so back in the days it's h it's important to note that it wasn't just like okay me and the state and new it's about the the society as a whole changed a lot since then until now at that time was different I mean when I made my music video guilt I was the first Jewish music video really yeah yeah I mean maybe there was some for some camp in sha I don't know and and a local one but I'm saying to to go on a big Stadium by has and have a music video before YouTube was not a usual thing was not the usual thing so it was different so they were they were kind of you know probably frightened you know I was I was becoming this so-called celebrity and um and I came out at the same time as technology came out and it was all big mishmash and the people from the old generation did not know how to eat like this new idea of technology and and how to accept it and I think I was of the same technology boom I came out at the same time and music changed and everything changed so it was kind of difficult and with the mindset I have today I would probably deal with it probably would have dealt with it way differently either I would have moved moved away um but AEM had a different plan and it had to be exactly the way it was everything every every little detail that brought me to the step I am today beautiful I I I read a quote earlier that don't just go through it once you're going through it you should grow through it exactly and that's the beginning of the conversation we had about that I see now I wouldn't change a tiny bit of the story and you ended up going to Colombia and how did what happened after that so in Columbia I was going to do a therapy degree to become a therapist and then I changed it in the middle to Arts Visual Arts we you always into art or you decided once in Columbia to pursue yeah just did I used to Doodle that's it and um and I I see my old I see Doodles but I was never doing paintings and stuff and and uh now I'm in uh I love I love art very much I'm so I'm so integrated in it like every day it's my if I don't pain into something I feel something is missing and again maybe that's part of my okay we're always going to be human but it depends what it is like if I can recognize okay so part of my coping mechanisms in this world I like art okay is that bad but if I would say I like uh smoking okay think okay maybe it does not good for my lungs so it all depends but as long we recognize what our humanistic character traits that we have and we're not trying to fool ourselves and we're not trying for example the old way of saying would be no I'll explain why and my tone will be become loud and explain you why art is important because really I'm giving messages blah blah BL blah blah blah blah or that just to go inside and be honest with myself and with others I like to do art and maybe one day I'll sell it's okay to want to sell it's okay to want to show my art it's okay to be just as human as everybody else as long we know so um after after school I became very popular again in the in the community with singing they accepted it right away they weren't what what was the community's reaction and how did they accept you back no so it was basically a few people who who invited me like invited me and they helped me probably behind the scenes also and um so so yeah I got very busy again and I had to give up that like I gave up a lot of other stuff I was going to go to school further to further my degree it's funny because I keep on talking about the coping and running away I had a professor asking me I was going to go to a higher degree and he asked me you want to you want to run away for two more years he asked me then he said you want to run away for two more years so it's really it so so there's a limit as somebody told me once he took a balloon and he put water inside and he said look this is a balloon the degree is the water there is something to have a nice degree but it's the water and it's a whole balloon you got this and you pay for it I'm still paying students lo you know I'm okay with it but it's all about balance it's all about balance everything the same thing with everything I think the same thing even with Judaism same thing with food same thing with working on your same thing with healing if only healing healing healing all day then it's just another Obsession but if it's a little bit a little bit this a little bit that it's so beautiful you know before we get to some of my favorite parts of this's episode I want to talk to you about kabad kabad is helping the needy people in Israel to and they already helping over 47,000 families imagine 47,000 families who otherwise want have food k is there for them they're supporting them they're helping them you can now help them by just downloading their pushka app where you could 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fit in someone who's struggling right now tell them that uh leapa said that most of the people he knows also don't fit in many of them don't yet know it other people realize yeah yeah so before we get to music I have some good questions I thought about I'm really curious to know I just want to know um look looking back at your journey is there anything that you'll do differently it's interesting because from a story perspective I could say yes maybe certain things but from a from a higher perspective I would say everything had to happen the way it happened without those things that happened you wouldn't be the manual wouldn't be here now okay I have a question okay I've seen videos of you m i was a or something where you get the energy from your m is on the flooor you're jumping up and down you're like like uh only most people only kids have that energy where do you get that energy from how does it come where does it come from it takes a long it takes like I said earlier about the karate teacher it's like U running running exercise the these things are Health it's it's very important what we eat like lately I come to I don't eat after so you know like people eat the main course B you're not going to see me eat by a main course it could happen but normally I eat spoon when I stop why because if I eat with the main course food makes the immune system work harder then I go on stage and I'm all like oh I just ate the main course if I don't eat I want to give all my to the to the client to the so I eat something with a I have time is easy meaning that the singing is still there but it's not like I have to jump right until till I get the jump It's 3 hours two and a half hours later and then I don't eat so it all we all want the results so that's that's it's not my but I'm going to repeat it the mind the job of the brain is to make us feel good all the time so we go through life we feel good that's why we have the dope you mean oh okay and everything even in judism oh they made to see him it's all about feeling good so I have this Marshal that if you ask most people if they want to if it's a friend of yours but I'm saying for most people you can try if they want to start exercising with you maybe there's going to be a program two weeks from now and we can sign up I think many many people would answer yeah like if it fits my schedule yes I want to I want to do it but when it comes the day off o I don't know if I can do it was they want to feel good two weeks before it feels very good sure I'm going to excise I'm going to lose weight it's going to be amazing the day off the mind says Ah are you going to work now I feel clumsy it's going to hurt you yeah and it plays with us the second we can we shop that trick and we realize that it just wants to make us feel good but really I'm going to feel way better after the exercise because no one yet regretted after exercise the Mind comes in strong oh you are right of course I feel good yeah so so the over the dancing it all takes work it takes work it takes dedication takes food habit it takes exercise it takes work uh so we all have days some days could be very unfortunately we could feel sad it could feel down about something and sometimes you can feel very happy very excited so if you're feeling down let's not talk about a musical perspective let's not talk about a concert we talk about that after but on a personal level what's one way to boost yourself if your mom is like really really feeling upset about something or if you're just down let's say woke up on the wrong side of the bed and you have to go out there you have to go to work you have to go to school you have to go to yiva just go out in the street and you just feel so sad you don't want to talk to people you don't want to see yourself so what do you suggest how do you get out of that state so first of all it happens many many times and and I have a toolbox you know I call it like a a toolbox that people don't have to see but in your mind you have a toolbox and you practice what you need to do in certain times sometimes the weather can do it sometimes something you ate sometimes not sleeping enough some it could be a million reasons and the toolbox is very important I can give you a few of my toolbox it's not my K but I use it please someone use less than others like journaling if someone takes a paper and just when they when they when they feel really bad and they just make a timer for 15 20 minutes and they just going to write if they don't know what to write they say I don't know what to write I don't know what to write I'm feeling so I'm so upset because of this and I don't care but that and it doesn't have to be nice and not to even erase a sentence it's just letting it come out of the heart just pouring out and then even you can throw away the paper then there's like you can take you can you can put on a song and say for the length of the song I'm going to take very deep breaths so I I sometimes breathe just to a song I Can't the the Beats like let's say four I hold it for four and I and I let it out for eight this puts you at ease people will fall asleep there's all types of different breath techniques but was that box breathing so there's box breathing so box breathing I think is counting the same four four four four when you count box yeah when you count longer on the way out it regulates it brings the neor system down there's other there's a lot of techniques there's techniques about changing nostrils like going very slow and then and then out from the other one and in there's a whole but not to make it too complicated for listeners even simple breathing make a count for 10 10 minutes if you really want to feel better 10 minutes No Interruption take a count five in hold it for five let it out for 10 it's too long for you go four and do this for like 10 minutes you probably fall asleep and any type of breath work journaling even going for a walk between trees Nature Nature has a great power just going for a regular walk not with the phone it's another copy mechanism I close my phone for hours that I could whatever bashem I I tell you I do it's not to and and when I don't do it I say I don't do it but it's very important and I wasn't always like this like nothing near to where I am today like I couldn't stop looking at my phone and today I barely have time to check what I need to check beautiful so let's say you're singing at a concert and you don't feel in the zone you don't feel in the mood you have to you have to put on you have to put in all your energy so what do you do over there happened to me so I tell myself a story on stage like I can I can talk to myself and say look you got this you did many many times you can do it again you're now on stage this is J that's the thing could it get boring for you since you did it so many times could it get boring it doesn't get boring it could get sometimes you think it gets easier sometimes it could get difficult because so many new singers so many new songs learning everything being always up with again maybe that's a challenge maybe maybe you say you don't need to be anybody else you just be yourself again that's always the battle like you open up a bakery somewhere there's a lot of competition and you say okay but I'm just going to do what I do best okay but you also want to sell right so it's always the battle but I think for my for me what works is to always be authentic and when I'm on stage I do what I can do and uh I leave the rest beautiful I want introduce to you to the weekly inspirational messages that are changing so many shops tables and communities Around the World parion Knowledge provides incredible beautiful short and sweet inspiration of the para short and sweet to the point something practical you can take away from a beautiful lesson that makes you feel better about yourself you could get it to you every single week on your email WhatsApp you could email info.com 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that time it was difficult I didn't know how to deal with it I had no training I had no toolbox I had no Jour Ling I had no breath work I I know nothing of it it was just me being surrounded by all types of people who also didn't know I think that's like a song to make and about being about being helpless and hopeless and helpless and hopeless and being surrounded by people who are helpless and that's a good song to make could we work on it right now could we try to Y hopeless and helpless all I'm going to record it let's see how it's gonna go let's see hopeless and helpless and all let's see let's see I think there was a time I was hopeless and helpless or so I told I was surrounded by hopeless and helpless people so they told until came time that I realize that there's hope hope hope that there is hope hope hope that there is hope hope hope that there is hope hope hope and once I change my story I surrounded myself with new people of Hope and once I changed my story I found myself with no people of Hope [Music] la la beautiful wow wow wow guys you he it you heard it here first may come out in five I have so many things is is it too late to add a song on the album we be talking about I just I just cut off a song Oh I had it wet with a friend of mine I had to and that also comes from personal growth because the codependency if you never he that word is my friend came and he sang it and now I have to put it out but it's not a g it's it's right for the album and want to do more English songs so I have this new idea which is not yet published but the time you give this out it's going to be published is that uh I'm going to make this album for the first time I've been wanting to do this for a long time and now I'm really pushing it I'm making my the first is the authentic my momu it has the Kish half of it is regular thrill songs and half ofish and right after a week later or so I'm coming out with English really so it's mixing English English and Yiddish so people can can really understand what I have and a week later come out with yish really three separate how's it going to work it's gonna be three separate Collections and the songs are all going to be the same but certain songs will have explanations with the end in English what it means so when's the first one coming up from this THS day week okay be calleda Ela Lia yeaha like the name you're your first your name is Alazar leipa yeah mhm I just actually saw you sent out the cover was that a picture of you a picture of your son yeah yeah picture of you yeah me that's a picture of me holding who you exactly that's your whole life story wow it's very deep wow this little kid built up a whole career wow it's beautiful yeah from now from then till now was Mish incredible yeah beautiful and after the TU bishvat when's the English the English one coming out hopefully a week later week later a lot of people like me personally I don't know that much jish and and uh you should spread the word that Lea now is thinking about like you amazing so all we're we'll spread the word yeah and the reason why I'm putting it in English and not in English is because it's more authentic to where I am where I come from instead of trying to be someone else and trying that my English is going to be who knows what perfect and I think that's more authentic to show my I have the real album and then this translated into English beautiful looking very very forward B yeah is that is that you SP most of your you spend most of your day doing music I spend most of my day so a month and a half ago I made a schedule that I'm trying also to paint and do a lot of stuff besides my meditation and now the album I realized this is like the number one I have to finish it so I took a month off of everything and now I'm going to to do uh after I finish the album to go back to a schedule so it's not it's also my art my music my drawing everything together beautiful do you have any art with you or sure but uh it's um it's downstairs you would have to change so maybe let me think maybe you could maybe you could send me a video should later tonight send me a video I will we'll include it right over here in inid the episode yes and I'm also going to talk because it ties into everything when our brain becomes more clean when our mind becomes more clean our life becomes more clean our room becomes more clean when we declutter we become decluttered and now I'll show you how I decluttered my art studio so for Jewish and joyful I'm going to try to give a little tour of this Art Studio we spoke about it said I'll give a little tour and I'll give a few insights that you can Implement in your own life learning from my mistakes and things that are working to be stronger and better at so first of all thank you for Jewish and joyful for your finger anyway so the point is that uh one of the things my Studio it was it was like a mess and now there's still a bunch of bunch of stuff all over the place I can't say that I know everything with it is but slowly but surely I'm trying to designate places to know okay here are the tools where are the scissors organization is key and part of the process of getting more organized is just throwing out whatever you don't need it's not myish there are many uh gurus on cleaning but one thing I could tell you is that the more my studio is organized the more my mind is organized and vice versa when my mind is organized my studio becomes organized and it will take it will take a while we'll get there but I'll give you one insight about I do many Avenues in art out of many I want to also condense this because sometimes we're all over the place then we don't get to where we want to get it's a it's a process to Zone in and and I'm a work in progress like everybody else one thing um all my art has in common is I do it in layers so for example when you hear music there are many many layers from the mixing the the I mean the mixing is the last process but it starts from like the Rhythm the drum the guitar the bass today's days is more digital but I do a lot of background vocals it starts with four takes one above the other then know how many four takes sometimes six sometimes eight some have many many many tracks so a painting my me or any art I do has a lot of a lot of layers layers and layers and even if the viewer do does not see exactly what's behind every layer but it comes out it comes out like for example this if you look here you can see like a tiny line like this line for example this line you see here it's covered but you can see something you see here it's looks like dark but you can see under underlining things and this gives texture you can see things sticking out from here maybe this going to be covered entirely but this is how I work with layers layers and layers and layers and just to show one little thing I'll I'll do one layer now and um I'm a Leti at one second I got to change the phone I'm doing a selfie here um I'll finish this later just uh just just to go a little bit this is not like painting this is just covering it and in glazers and putting layers and on this layer I'm going to put much more stuff once this dries but uh it's more about the process by me taking it step by step by step by step by step doing a layer after layer after layer and then a beautiful painting um comes out of it and one of the paintings that I like one of the techniques I like to do is to let my music guide me guide my hands and there certain uh paintings actually I'll publish where I use my whole back and my whole body and I dance and I go crazy on the on the canvas and then I hang it up and I take out characters from it and I take out whatever I see from different worlds and different planets whatever the painting shows me and I let the characters dance together with me while painting it so it maybe sounds very uh poetic the way I said it but one day I'll demonstrate it in videos but that takes somebody else to hold the camera and it takes a whole hours of me getting into this home more soon see this little leaper it's on my desk well yes nice is that kid he decided he's going to show everybody and now I tell him it's okay you don't need to show we're good wow you can go like this that's it inside so if you could talk to your little stuff right now if you had a time machine you could go back to little I do it I don't need a time machine I sit down with this kid do it right now you tell the last few months was the first time in my life that I finally got to a place where I sat down to sink for him wow and I'm sure it took a lot of uh time work to do feel like Edy what is this right it shows that you you're comfortable with yourself now that's a big reason people when they're all alone with themselves without a phone without anything they're some people could be afraid to talk to be alone with themselves they don't know who they are and the society we grew up on and even part of the Judaism it works very well with be able to run away because you always have where to run what to do and if you can put in put in the the the the the toy into it and say okay no I'm doing it for the right reasons but we have to be careful it could also be part of it could be always running and to go inside from that place to connect to Hashem to yourself and through everything you do beautiful so there's a whole like these days especially like in back back in the olden days was it such a thing as a celebrity a singer no I think I think in in my side of the world that's what that's what triggered that's a trick of the whole thing yeah because I was kind of the first one but it was it was really I think the world was ready for it like even in this album people will be shocked by a new adventure of songs that I sing about and I think that in four years from now it almost be the norm it will be hard for people to sing okay just another regular I mean people still sing byas but I think people will want to connect they would want to open their hearts and they would want to there a difference of I'm listening to an album because I also have to be part of the Haw okay I want to hear the song or when you drive and you say you know what I'm going back to this album of leaper I want to really connect and go into it yeah yeah yeah so I think it's different it's different what are the pros and cons of being a Jewish singer when you say Pros encounter being a singer or a Jewish singer because in terms of what do you want to compare you want to comp compar why do we lose by being only a Jewish singer Jewish singer though you have the power to a fre told me Al fre told me once that today's singers are like rebers yeah with the audience they have and the people listening to them if you if you say something it gives people they relate to it yeah I keep on telling the story over and over there was once a guy who was the B and he said why do why do they listen to singers why not the plumbers TOS right they wanted to tell him that really everybody wants to be listened to and hasem just decides who gets the listeners so why we're singer Z I don't know maybe there's a certain authentic part in in in authentic artists and I think that also people are not stupid people listen to one more than the other it's not necessarily because somebody is an Entertainer I think by me for example the singing is now becoming only one of the colors in my whole uh you know being I think that authenticity I paid maybe a big price but now I think I'm reaping the fruits and seeing the n and I think that people want not not you see not I think I know I know that people want authenticity people want people who are honest people who bring the truth people who say it as it is people who make mistakes that's another song to be made you know just to be real well a lot of people don't know themselves they have to get to know the real you mhm and how do you get to that so you get to that through exploring yourself and getting closer to Hashem so to get to authenticity so I'll do I'll say the opposite no we could say you get closer to Hashem and you become more authentic but you could say you become more authentic become close to Hashem because the real Hashem and I'll tell you what I mean what I say about the real we don't know what means yeah but when it's a difference if you do everything robotic because we have to or if nobody is around it's just you and AEM what do you do then it's called religious robots yeah so but then some listeners may get scared oh if only people know what I do but that in itself could also be just based on fear that people put into you maybe Hashem loves you the way you are exactly and so the coin has two sides being authenticity more to Hashem your own relationship than to other people doesn't have to make you more fear because Hashem it could also make you more love [Music] Hashem created you you're beautiful and you're a human and we have a beautiful way that we follow to be but it's not a robot it's not a machine and hasem it's your relationship with hem but if Hashem becomes the people and oh if people would only know what I do ah then it's a big thing so that's where it gets challenging so we have a very superficial way of thinking the more we really connect to the essence we worry less what people are going to say and we all we have only one chance to live and it's mindboggling to see how many people live through life and then they get depressed and they get older and they don't even know why and their subconscious gets depressed because they their whole life went by or other people other people or they wanted to the whole prize the eye on the prize was like they'll get a certain cover in in this place and one day they're going to and what is that cover and once they can change the story it means nothing means nothing you can be normal enjoy the world is beautiful for you to have and and Hashem created it just for you as the same as for Thea as for the net as for everybody and and and and that's something to realize the real connection with hasem is beautiful it's not painful beautiful you know this the song came out recently with Ura you know the song hasem needs every year yes so the message is so beautiful because especially a kid he may say I'm I'm not smart no one pays attention to me why why does hasem need meem needs D you hasem wants you it's true yeah I loved your per video by the way With Ur m is hilarious now we're chosen from the one above if hasem chose us that means we're here for a reason exactly and our goal life we have to find what their reason is we have to figure out what what for but we can only do it if we find ourselves right there's a question we asked the guest who is the happiest person that you know the TRU this it can only be yourself and I'll tell you why because you can never know on any other person if they're really happy or less happy or how really happy they are and even if they tell you and even if you think you know you don't have the nervous system and their mind so you can't feel what it means so you can't really answer uh em answer on this but if it's on yourself and you're happy then you can say I'm happy so you're you're the third person to say that so far beautiful yeah because you don't know what's going on in someone else's life a lot of times we think oh we have troubles but my my friend doesn't my neighbor doesn't so how how do you uh we have to try we have to realize that we have to realize because he talked before about not comparing yourself to right so it starts by retraining our minds and it takes time but that the stories that we tell ourselves are based on other people's stories that they told us when we were in childhood it all started over there and the if we can realize that all the bad feelings we have is because we compare ourselves and we measure ourselves by a recipe that was given to us if we can change that recipe then then we change everything because I know I'm good I'm just good the way I am and if I need to work on stuff which I'm a human being for and that's what I'm here for I'm doing the work I'm just comparing myself to a certain story to what was told to me and that breaks my heart if I can stop comparing myself again and again how do I change the story by journaling by talking to yourself selft talk I have a song of selft Talk D made a lot of selft talk the was talking to himself a lot a lot what you know what he's going through and at the same time to Hashem it's all one and connected and what does music and art have to do with healing and all plays a big Groll in it a big part so so first of all music is healing and art is healing and it could be a channel for healing not for everybody just like Jing is not for everybody but I think in essence it's healing it's a it's a language that touches even animals you know music can music has a crazy power playing music can relax even animals you know saying um so I musical relax animals I think so they have studied you know let's Google it right now music impact animals one second let's ask Chad G second hello I'm here on an interview and I'm telling them in the interview that music has such a power that it can even impact animals that I say something correct is there research on it yes there's research showing that music can impact animals for example classical music has been found to reduce stress in dogs and cows so you were correct in your interview thank you I'm going back I'll talk to you soon you're welcome good luck with the interview talk to you soon fun you know I have a friend who works with AI and he says AI is the worst now that it's ever going to be what it means to say is it's going so quick that a year from now compared to this is just the worst who could imagine I really wonder we have to be careful yeah but it could it has an impact so music is a great is a crazy language but in this is a general answer to answer in in person for me the way my is is it seems to be because that's what I'm doing I share my story through my songs through my interview so if I went through a lot of healing I talk about healing and if part of my work is through music and through ART so it comes out in this way and could be if I come out in lectures but now it comes out through music and art and I'm waiting for the day that Shiva should stand up and the day will come I promise it will come B hopefully still in my lifetime that a Biga will stand up on the podium and say just want to say it's not an easy day for me to say this but I think it's good work I went through a lot of healing I worked on myself very hard I'm doing much better now there was a few years I was here you didn't see it but a lot of stuff and it talks like this and if Lea talks like this I'm I'm I'm the I have the gift that I can break the ice I I talk like this but tomorrow will do it another one a DI a and then everybody will be H it's okay okay we're just human remove the stigma there's there's a big there's a few parts in it obviously shame embarrassment guilt perhaps so I'm starting my album I'm thinking if this should be the beginning first song or not but I have doesn't matter if it's not starting the album it's in the middle of the album the song that start the song that I'm starting the song in the album I'm talking to the and I'm telling him that I'm connected to to your soul my soul's connected to you we have we we de we dehumanize so many you of the Giants that we learned like the to was full of all Theo I have a song he learns with me it's full of stories that when I was growing up every little thing I would be blushing he's such with meic the way he learns with me everything father it's it's like he talks about any Story the same and it's amazing for a father and son to have a connection like this he doesn't have that he didn't have that upbringing of if if it's a story what does it mean he doesn't have to close his eyes the way M I'm telling you the is unbelievable not only from the learning but from that aspect I just explained beautiful so we take we dehumanized like I wanted to sing in the song I wanted to say I feel my is connected to your but right away comes in the negative Voice who are you to say it like this and I constantly have to quiet the voice and just be myself and I sing about and I and I I tell do it you can help me explain the community this is what I tell in in in the production help me explain the community that talking about healing shouldn't be a stigma because we say it in all day but because it's it's it's in English healing oh what's going on stigma I said do you were thrown out your own family shed you and you worked on yourself you journaled and you became the King this is what I tell help me explain the community let's take off the stigma a lot of people struggling I think they're the only ones that are struggling that's the that's the CR that's the issue it's going to become so popular that struggle will just become part of life now it's also part of life but it's something that we want to deny it will become something that we're going to embrace and if we embrace it what do it accomplish then then it's just like food part of life is Death part of life is struggle part of life is pain and then how we deal with it we don't have to have shame no stor when things have to happen it's going to happen beautiful do you have any stories that give you any stories of hope that you want to share the story when I see people making progress when I see the world changing when I see people are growing when I see more and more people people are waking up to see the light yeah any stories stick out any stories that you know personally maybe even a rabish any story I saw a on the last week I did a grandma of the and he come from rabish family and he shaved his beard and from the the re's house they called me that I should make sure the even is's going to have friends with clean shaving beards I should respect it the whole family of the rebos and I said I'll go between the lines it happens to be the who hir me told me that he wants me to go between the lines then before the someone told me a story this B was once driving a car and was close to his man and he saw he's not making it home for Shas so he parked on the highway the police came he gave his license and his keys and he walked several hours to get home wow so I kind of looked at the story and I was like here he may he's may he may be an outlier from from the family and he he may be different and they think oh but Lisa he parked his car and walked for a few hours and it shows this little glimpses of what Hashem is and what real connection means so I don't want to cause any controversy you know but you know the story with Mike TR and the S yeah I made a song on it you there what's it called beard beard where is your beard but at that time see that's a song that I made even if it's true but I came from a place of I was upset I was passionately upset I want to make change and now I'm I'm okay everything is okay well what's a song called look on 246 right now it's on the hidden spark is the album shout out to 246 oh 246 is the best we G do good stuff hidden Spar is the album Hey where's your beard um yeah something like this he k or something like this it's there I can send a song yeah when did this album come out which year oh I don't even know like in the like when he first started or no saying that these days it's a lot more electronic than music those days 2011 something like that 2012 after ask my son yeah because these days everything's a lot more electronic those days you're probably one of the first more like electronic types of music and that's where you said spark the things going on one of the things at that time I was already I was almost on the other side of the bridge what's one question that you wish someone will be asking you that you never asked before you can say it's a good question question think everything was asked for me um I don't know because people ask me all types of questions so there's not a shortage of questions there may be things topics that I would want to talk more but I'm hesitant but it's okay it's a stigma we're waiting you know the stigma you're waiting for everyone to go out there and say I have problems and people started doing that you know the re W Jacobson shot I know him so we had him on the podcast but in a different interview after that maybe I'll try to bring it back on but he talked about his own anxiety issues beautiful he said that when he was a when he was a child if you look at any pictures of him he said this publicly in the interview he said if you see any pictures of him you see that he's missing some here in the front he's very embarrassed by it why he had an issue he had so much anxiety I forgot what the term for is but he used to pull his ear and that's why you said is very these days why because he talks about it from the heart he relates to it yes yes you should you should take a look at the the album it comes out yeah I'm I'm waiting I'm waiting I'm waiting I send you the promo I'll send you about my art and uh yeah and to be continued amazing so what's one closing message you like to share with our listeners that everybody you see on stage and every Rebel and every Riva and every nugget who flies with a helicopter or airplane and every doctor and every poor man and every mother and every little child everybody is just an other human being who is going through the same things that you are going through remember that I hope you enjoyed the sixth episode with the Great Leap Meltzer hope he gave you kizak his journey his story so powerful so beautiful so inspiring be sure to check out his latest album if you enjoyed this episode please share with friends and family and please subscribe raest five stars be sure to download the kabat app the app that's being used by so many people around the world 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