R’ Yoely Gold’s Inspiring Journey | Yoilish at MDY

Hello my friend my friend. So um it was an amazing Shabbat. There's a lot of surprise that we cannot talk even here. I didn't know that it's secretive. >> Yeah. >> And that's why you you mentioned Shabas but you know that over thousand people listen to your live obviously it's not that secret. >> No I mean it's Yeah it's uh the headlines is not secret but we're going to tell you the details when the film comes out. >> That's going to be in hashku.com. >> Okay. So, let's talk about but but you got on this uh on this MDY program for how you had an interview last year. >> Last year had an interview and I had such a good time that um they invited me again. Honestly, if they wouldn't have invited me again, I probably would have paid my way to come here. >> Don't tell them. >> Well, it was amazing all throughout and they gave you a good >> incredible. It was an incredible shabas. I I think you cannot explain it in words unless you're actually here. Uh to be together with people who uh who learn the dafay um with her belly it's uh it's it's a family. It's a family and uh you have people from all walks of life beckes which by the way I feel very high mish with I you know I want to jump into you. Yes. And everybody feels so united because nothing nothing unites us like a black gammuda. That's the that's the fact. So uh that that's what makes it so special. >> So let let me ask for a minute. I'm not we should do an I I I grabbed you by with a almost with a gun. Question is who is your gold? I mean we know each other for many years. Yet who's gold? >> Y gold is a true one. Okay. Y gold is a mdy >> uh MD MDY is a ch um I don't identify myself with a specific sect you know I always joke that I grew up in Williamsburgish I learned in lit yeshivas um I married a safharic girl you know Syrian and I was the rabbi for a couple of years in an agarian schul so you know from Holocaust survivors from Hungary um I relate I really feel connected to every yid you know it's uh I'm a Yed. That's how I identify every Yeah. And I I think that's the way it should be. >> You know the the story, you know what touched me the story? I mentioned it in another interview with my official >> the story that you your Shiva. It's a longer story. I hope you have it on video somewhere. But this is that was the first time I shared it actually. >> Yeah. Wow. >> He drove and we couldn't get what is the punch line is going to tell him like him or and then boom the >> Yeah. And yeah mention it now or uh >> I can give you I was in Adelfia yeshiva. I was there for high school. Uh my parents got divorced when I was 11 years old and you know I was at a crossroads because I grew upish. My mother became modern Orthodox. So um where do I go? Which school? Which isido? At the time I was struggling so I went to Adelfia. Adelf Adelfia. It's 10 minutes out of Lakewood. >> Oh. >> Um it's a small uh small town. Um and uh I got to know Rabba Trank was my rebby and he really was one of the people who had a big impact on my life. Um four years I spent there. After four years I um I applied to Pica of Mayor Stern and my train did not want me to go. He didn't want me to go. He wanted me to stay and so uh he decided to um to take me to Bernam the zakushia at the time he was in his 80s already and he said uh I'm taking you to Denty. Put me in the car. We drove down route 9 all the way to flatbush it was 1:00 in the afternoon was coming home from first seder and he sees David train who was his Talmud and he says David what are you doing here says I came with my Talmud Yi I want him to stay in yeshiva he invites us into the apartment and we sit down and my begins crying and uh he says please tell Yoli to stay in Adelfia for another year and takes my hand and he says uh tell me why you want to go. I said, "Rashiv, I think um I've grown as much as I can here and I want to learn, so I'm going to p" He says, "If you want to learn Tyra, then go." And my Revi smiled and uh that was it. That was the end of the conversation. We got into the car, we drove back and we we didn't speak about it again. I ended up leaving the yeshiva pose. Um and that was it. uh around 20 years later. Um it was when I was 18 years old. So I'm 44 now. My rebby passed away 7 years ago, 8 years ago. So yeah, 20 years later, my ribb passed away. I get a call from the Rebbitson. He passed away and she wanted me to be Maspe at the Leva. Um and I had a flashback, you know, I had a flashback that my rebby wanted me to stay. You know, when a person passes away, that's when you take a reckoning. you start reflecting about their lives and your relationship and you start having your regrets. >> Uh that's how it goes. Bottom line, I um >> You told her that >> I Yeah, I told her and she said to me, she said to me, "Yei, uh Rebi never had an Akad on you. He knew you have to go. I mean, it was time to go. You you you wanted to grow." The reason why he took you to is not to try to get Rmul to tell you to stay. Really, he knew what was going to say, but he wanted you to know that for the rest of your life, wherever you go, if you encounter challenge or struggle, you have doubts about yourself, you should know that you're worth fighting for. >> Wow. >> You're worth fighting for. You know, >> he knew that back then. >> It takes 40 years to be rabbi and 20 years. But, uh, that's that's the that's the um that's the story. And um I tell people I tell people I you know you are worth fighting for you know your growth youni and of course our children are worth fighting for as well. So it's uh to me it's a powerful story. >> It's it's amazing. It's amazing and I remember the the time that we saw your gold um speaker. I don't remember when it was the first what it was the first video we saw but it was uh it's it remind the flashbacks from Kaid still. >> Yeah. So it's it's amazing how things turn out to be because see when you have I always there's interesting concept I want to hear your opinion on that >> the the young generation they have so much more information in their in their head because there's so much more info >> openly now >> but their experience they don't have but they feel they have it >> life yeah life was not yeah I mean >> younger generation I uh it's a lot of uh nishkite their heads I I was I was a rebi. Uh I I think any anybody who was teaching to first of all the most important job in the world is to be a rebi. But the biggest challenge that I had was um getting the kids to concentrate. You know there's so much on their minds. They they are bombarded with information >> and there's a competition between so many outlets to get you. >> That's right. That's right. Everybody is vying for your attention, trying to get you like you're saying it. And uh so it's it's pretty challenging. >> I also try to get the attention of people through my status and stuff. I try to be the good >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The good influence. Yeah. Yeah. You are. Yeah. >> Thank you so much. I got you. And >> my pleasure. Okay. >> And I hope to I guess I'll try to visit you in LA. It's going to be I hope it's going to be easier >> cuz people are like, >> "Okay, don't bring the camera. Just come. I'm going to say avenged Colton.