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Yeah. >> Okay. So, [Music] yeah. is the the main is yet problem. Doesn't have to give. He's a miser. He holds holds his money. You know, >> a kagench. Oh, that was the word I was looking for. >> See, we're I'm going to teach you English. Sorry. I look forward to teach you Yiddish. I learn >> forward for the journey. >> Okay. Everybody comes with with certain skills and certain talents, certain packages that are that are unique to them. How does every person get to become a great person? That's the >> great person. >> Okay. is a belt. >> Okay. >> Hem made me the way I am and that's it. No to make change. You got to change. Make a change in your life. Mhm. [Music] Okay. Tell me a little bit more. Berlin in Germany. Okay. How did you become so great? >> Okay. >> I'm not so great. Great in Yiddish is ready. >> I'm not so great. So he said an amazing thing. He said that yeden free and Mamat can get tied his shoes. >> Okay. whispered in his ear, learned Morgan. >> Wow. Her father was wasab her father was but you had a lot of reform. You had a lot of the feeling. >> Yep. She was always encouraging him, go learning yeshiva, go be go learn. >> Did he survive the war? >> Yeah. >> So, how what was that like? What was that story? >> Okay. Because he was a German citizen. >> Okay. >> When the war broke out, the the the pol he was learning in Mir in Poland. >> Okay. from from Poland. >> The Poland Polish government basically the government was attacked against Poland. Yeah. Sweden. >> Okay. in Sweden out saved thousands of people's lives >> getting visas and things like that and then he went there he was there for I think nine years in Sweden at Gala Eph seminary for girls >> in Sweden. >> In Sweden, the girls that were leaving the DP camps the end of the war >> you heard that there were girls there was a shortage there was a shortage of girls in Sweden. So they said let's take the girls from the DP camps and Swedish men. My grandfather saw this in the newspaper. Ah, the government camps. Wow. Okay. >> In in the newspaper in a in a train to to meet up with the with these with these girls. You're not going anywhere. You're coming with me. We're opening up a school for you. >> Okay. So famous. Mhm. bread. >> Yeah. Okay. >> For lunch. Okay. Mhm. Okay. Teacher in the seminar. Ah, in the middle of a meeting. [Music] How much time? But Wow. Yeah. Right. >> They called him Berlin. They're Berlin. >> Uhhuh. Sounds a little bit derogatory. >> Derogatory. >> It doesn't have a good ring to it. Sweden survivor. Okay. finish 45 minutes. Yeah. >> Okay. >> Okay. So, right mention mention >> that was my whole my whole life. Everyone was asking me that. >> Okay. >> My grandfather always said, "You need to be great. Don't you know there's no shortcuts, >> right? A bunch of zeros. Yeah. >> Okay. >> So, I'm trying to put a number. >> I think you got there already. >> I'm trying. >> Okay. So, in >> Yeah. Okay. >> I have to tell you a story. I have to say it in English. Go ahead. Whatever you're comfortable with. I once was uh with my brother. We were playing, fighting, you know, like kids do at home. >> Mhm. 9 10 >> okay >> 9 10 years old and my mom is given shocked said you wait till your father comes home till till Abba comes home my father comes home my father sits me on the front porch and he says to me I'm not upset that you said what you said I'm not upset I just want to know where did you learn this [Music] So I said, "There's a public school right here. I play with all the Puerto Ricans, the Italians, the African-Americans. I play with them all the time." That's what they say. Okay. The next week we went to my moved. Wow. In my you don't have public schools. out. >> Wow. >> He said, "My child is not at fault that I put him in a place where there are challenges." >> Uhhuh. months. >> Two months. Okay. Right. Okay. Yeah. 15. >> Wow. How did that happen? Nth grade. Okay. >> Ninth grade. What What does every ninth grader do? I don't know. I didn't learn much. So, I started thinking if I want a chance to have a relationship with my grandfather, now is the time. >> Yeah. He was in his 80s. >> Okay. Oh, yeah. >> So, I told my father as well. [Music] Okay. >> At that time, he didn't have a yeshiva. He left Beryakov. He didn't have a yeshiva. He was giving her the grandfather was giving a mir he was giving ashm in cultan. He he had his ba muser. He had other things he was busy doing. I'm not helping you. It's your problem. No problem. I'm not helping you. No, I'm not going to get you into yeshiva when I don't think it's the right thing for you. >> Okay. Okay. [Music] near my househ. Okay. The Harvard 10th grade [Music] 15 years old. I don't know how to learn a gamorra. It's given me [Music] cracking and I'm out. Going to go to the army. Very worried. I would d in late at night. I would cry. Ask Hashem. Help me. Help me. That's it. [Music] Trying again and again and again. I remember the first time I learned a garra, like really understood a gumarra. I jumped out of my seat. I was on top of the world. on top of the world. I'm used to it already. [Music] How can you be used to it? This is the most delicious thing in the world. And it was the greatest gift in the world to be there. I was there for two years. >> Okay. [Music] >> Okay. 181 19. >> Okay. I asked him questions all day. army citizen. Yeah. in his house all the time. Yeah. >> Oh, okay. Crystal clear. >> Okay. a group of guys. We're going to work on midas together. >> Okay. >> V. 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Uh but says that everything you see is a lesson for you to learn. >> Mhm. >> And my grandfather was one of the one of the foundations of everything he taught. When something happens, it's a lesson for you. Shalom is talking to you. It's not random that you saw something that you heard something is communicating with you every minute of the day. That's the number one lesson. Yeah. connect. >> Yeah. >> Morgan Stern >> Okay. I had the opportunity to meet with her in Houston. What do you teach? What do you learn? I said, "Yeah, there are many different paths." He said, the heart. It's building a relationship with that's what it's about. Does make a difference. >> Yeah. Okay. I got to get out from the country. Yeah. 23 years old. Yeah. >> Okay. Army. We figured it out. >> Okay. >> 24 years. >> 24 years. Okay. So, Okay. [Music] Okay. Give us a direction. We're losing We're losing. They're intermaring, right? >> Okay. [Music] So Jerusalem. >> Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Bring it to Houston >> to Texas. Yeah. Are we going? Let me learn. [Music] One second. Minimum basically. Mhm. >> Okay. >> Studying tests. >> Okay. a program for the for the women as well. >> Okay. So this is Don Houston, Texas. [Music] Yeah. Men of us teaching the the women. This is women teaching the women. Right. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, [Music] a whole search a whole search for a job in the in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He's given an opportunity to an outreach director programs bring mention. Okay. Terrific for 10 months. Good fit. >> Okay. Okay. Houston, Texas. We met. >> Yeah. >> By conference. conference conference in Baltimore. >> Okay. Houston, Texas. >> Torch. >> Torch. Okay. Okay. >> Oh wow. Okay. Sure. In the organization the director of torch. So from the contact. >> Yeah, we came here for an interview. We like the place. A great opportunity. >> Okay. >> There was nothing here then. There's 100% the quality of life for sure. Is this Klein? Okay. Wow. Okay. Okay. Wow. Okay. schools thems is given. >> Wow. >> More than 600. This is so tax exploded. >> This is a combination of things. Okay. >> A is given. [Music] Okay. is the we find outreach professionals programs. Trained foreign. Okay. >> Okay. is the Lakewood. >> Lakewood. >> Lakewood. It's It's all from Lakewood. Lakewood, guys. >> Oh, mine. >> It's It turned into a liquid coven torch. >> Ah, okay. So, oh, so into >> Okay. Zama versusch Torah outreach center >> resource center of Houston >> I thought O R is outreach outreach is one word >> resource center of Houston >> Torah outreach research center Houston >> resource >> resource okay fine that's like a tongue twister fine so >> lon okay >> okay okay we are teaching as anybody who's interested from any background, any affiliation, come learn. And it's free. Come learn. It's you. It's an inheritance. It belongs to every Jew. We're here to give it to you. Okay? No agenda. I don't have a shul. I don't have a school. I'm not trying to get you into my kahila. Just come invest in your own yiddish. >> Oh, one second. What? Which one? >> Torchwood. >> Yeah, that's that's now >> meaning when you started that's not what it was. >> Okay. So, yeah. theology psychology. No problem. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Okay. base. So from Wow. A few examples, you So, we have a lot of uh technology today. Today, it's a little easier than it used to be. >> Mhm. >> Only you'd go and you meet someone in the in the supermarket and you'd say, "No, come come for shabas. Come for coffee." Yes, this is easier with social media. [Music] Okay. that the I always love new technology because Hashem gives it to us to use. >> Mameshame it's invented for this. >> Yeah. >> So when we when internet started having audio I started having audio on on the website >> game like of their website. >> Yeah. old technology and podcasts and videos and shorts and reals and what's >> so number number one of podcast number two of listeners the most impressive is the amount of the internet Crazy. [Music] Okay. Nice. The whole same same factory. >> Yeah. 18 18 podcasts. >> 18 different podcasts. >> 18 different podcast. So can you list them topics? Okay. >> One is my brother, one is me. Yep. >> Okay. Okay. So para one, para two. >> My my brother this Jewish life Okay. [Music] Jewish history podcast. >> Okay. This is for beginners. All for beginners, right? Okay. something. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Nice big named prayer podcast. This is for me, my students. You think it's for you, it's for me. on the way. >> We're going to share it with everyone >> and thank you for making me >> learn >> learn. Wow. >> Obligating me. Okay. on sharing everything I know you know alf teach alf you know bay teach b that's Wow. of name. It's Arama is the the arms the weapons of auh You learn something new every day. >> I'm telling you. >> Okay. So now you know. You're welcome. >> Thank you. So, so but I'll tell you I wanted to understand. Wow. This an amazing point approach example is the art amazing art school. What do you need me to give a Talmud class? I'll tell you why. Because when my students ask me, I wish I could say this all in Yiddish, but when my students ask me, where do we know this from or the rabbis made up all the rules? You want to translate it many times, right? of okay >> say everything is in the everything is in the Tory and what I show is we learn a line of gar I show how that line of gar is sourced someplace it has to be sourced >> the mak where is that mkaran always no rabbi in the world has the permission to make up Mhm. >> Everything needs to be sourced. You can translate. >> But it it's it's for me to understand that it took a long time to understand that we're not just learning. Oh, open up a gamorrah and just learn. You have to understand what's going on over here. We're trying to It's an interesting thing. I'll tell you an amazing story. Someone asked me to do a um invocation. What's an invocation for the Holocaust Museum >> in Houston? >> In Houston. >> Okay. >> 1,200 people. >> Was it an event? >> An event. A dinner. >> Okay. >> Famous people, actors, senators against. Okay. They asked me to do with a with a pastor. >> Okay. >> As as me and the go meet for coffee to talk about what we preparation. Yeah. Preparation. >> Okay. So I go I meet him in a coffee shop and we're talking. He says, "What what synagogue are you a rabbi?" I said, "No synagogue. I just teach Torah. I teach Torah." So he says, "What are you teaching? What are you teaching?" So I said, "Right now, I'm doing a series. I'll explain in all these different synagogues, all these different any question you want. question and answers any question. So who I'm talking to who I'm talking to talking to a right I said to him do you do that for your congregants >> for your congregants you do question answers and he looks at me he says do you know who you're talking to he says in our religion there are no questions I said, "What?" I said, "In Judaism, everything's about questions." He says, "In our religion, if you start asking questions, it all falls apart." Foundation. >> Yeah. I said, "It's shocked." I was shocked. We open up a gmorra moni every question, every line is another question. Where do you know this from? There's a steer to this and a endless. Why? How can we stand when there's endless questions because we are looking for ems. >> No problem. No problem. Not only that, we also have a source. If you take all of the names, you take all of them from the entire Gmorra, it'll be a quarter of just the names that are quoted of us. You need the source. >> Uhhuh. It's not anonymous sources. It's not the New York Times or AMI. But you know what? gave him credit. Yeah. It's all about authenticity. Wow. Thank you very much. >> That's what we do. That's what we do in the class. So, we always want them to see the whole connection. >> Yeah. >> Very nice. The fifth sponsor from the episode Smokehouse get the smoked meat. The best in America. Southside smokehouse in Lakewood. Texas came to the New York and New Jersey area. 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She said, "I heard that >> very by the way >> Z is a highly yedish Yedish as an Mus." >> Okay. >> Musar, I want to know if you can come teach Musar and mine in a conservative synagogue. A conservative ship. Conservative ship. [Music] Let's schedule a time. We'll we'll see when I can come out there. Put down the phone. I called my rebi said, "What do I do? They want to learn burkwitz." I said, "They want to learn, but it's a conservative shul. Can I go in? Can I not? You have to go is the god door in America. You have to go. If anybody gives you a hard time, I will personally knock on their door and explain to them the importance of what you're doing. >> Yeah. Is okay. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Not during the time of of Okay. >> In come teach and leave. Okay. So, it was a 3-week series and it was amazing. Amazing. And they said, "We want more. We want more." This was in November, right after they said, "We want it till the end of the school year." Okay, no problem. after that year and it was an amazing year for me. It was learning learning new things and teaching new things. It was it was then I was thinking one second I'm in the conservative maybe I can get into the reform. Okay. Maybe. So they So I went I had my my one of my students was uh in the reform temple and he says I said to him, "Can you introduce me?" >> Introduction. >> An introduction. I remember the day it was pouring rain. Pouring rain. And we get there, meet the rabbi, meet the president, meet the head of education. Okay. I'm aided. I was like the pis I'm not hiding anything. I was like, you coming to teach us orthodoxy? Said, "No, I'm coming to teach yishkite. What does it mean yishkite?" I said, "We're not going to talk about makita. We're not going to talk about shabas. We're not going to talk about kashras. We're going to talk about how to be a good person, how to be a good father, a good mother, a good husband, a good wife, a good child, a good neighbor, a good friend. We love that. As long as you don't teach about orthodoxy >> uh fear, fear, frightened. Yeah. Okay. >> Okay. As uh so at Gazok the the rabbi at Gazok four weeks you can do a four week series. You did four weeks and the people really enjoyed it or they said it's just two more weeks till Khan and you just do two more weeks. Said whatever the rabbi says. They said it's it's okay. The rabbi found out about it. >> Okay. >> Found out about it. He said, "Never again. Never again. You're not coming back into this into this place." He didn't even He didn't tell me. He told them, "I don't let you have this rabbi back here." The morning before the last class, I called him and I said, "Rabbi, thank you. Thank you for opening your doors." Said, "Tonight's class we're talking about. I want if you can please come for a few minutes and just share some ideas on a that's it before we finish the class forever. So he comes to the class and he's sitting there and everyone's like, "What is the rabbi doing here?" The rabbi said, "No more class. It's never going Why is he sitting here?" So before the end of the class, I'm teaching the whole regular all the and giving all the the stories. And I said, "Now I want to express my to the rabbi for letting me come in. And because this is going to be the last class, I want the rabbi to teach us a little bit about maybe he can share a few words." So everyone's shocked. The rabbi says, "I cannot believe the class I just heard." He said, "I thought that you're making everyone faf. Everyone's going to start running out of here with shaitels and running to with shabas, you know, with kala knives ready to buy their uh their sourdough." He says, "This is so beautiful." He says, "As long as I'm rabbi here, this class is not stopping." Wow. So then I said, "One second, I'm in a conservative. I'm in a reform. Let's go to all of them." In Houston, we have 19 reform temples, seven conservative, I had one rabbi came to me. He says, "Rabbi, you don't like me." I said, "Why not? I love you. You're great." He says, "You never came to my synagogue." Wow. >> So, >> exactly. It snowballed so fast. We were driving hundreds of miles. Houston is a big city. >> Yeah. >> Right. We were driving to all corners of the city. There's so many congregations here. Most people don't even know there are so many congregations here. You have in Kada, you have the you have a reformed temple in Sugarland. You have a reformed temple in in uh in League City. You have a reform and a conservative in the whole you go all around Houston. It's unbelievable. It's all kind. >> Yeah. Teach them. That's it. One rabbi before I meet with before I start the class, I meet with the rabbi. I have a few rules that I make. >> Okay. >> One of the rules, we're not allowed to charge. >> I don't want your money. >> I don't want to have any commitment. Yeah. Oh, you know, we pay or you have to do this then. No strings attached. >> Free man. >> Free man. That's one. Number two is that everybody is welcome to the class, not only your members. Okay. >> Okay. Because I have a a shul here for my members. No, >> everyone is welcome. >> Because we want to teach. Okay. >> Someone wants to come, let him come. >> Fine. >> So, I meet with one rabbi and I tell him, listen, I need to give you a disclaimer. Disclaimer. It's possible that someone will become from and leave your sh. >> Oh, like trigger warning. So, >> yeah. I I don't want you to be surprised and be angry at me. See, he grabs me by my hands and he says, "Arya, if you can get one of my people to care enough about Judaism to leave and become Shamash Shabas, you can keep him." Wow. So of the business. >> No, no, not not worried at all. We're good friends. We learned together. Me and the rabbi. >> Wow. >> So it really is it it's amazing to see. People are really thirsty to learn. People are really thirsty. They want to learn. And we have unbelievable Dan Coleman. we mentioned. >> Yeah. >> The president. Not only that very angry orthodox coming here. They got a special meeting with the rabbi, with the president, with the Gansa board. What do you want? But you guys invited me here to teach Judaism. That's it. Yeah. >> So social [Music] neighbor is my neighbor. Unbelievable. It took 10 years, 12 years. Rabbi has brushing my teeth on Shabas. I said, "You're not there yet." She says, "No, I just slowly slowly. Never. Never. Not only that, you never know who their parents and grandparents were. You never ever know. >> Before we didn't talk about when I was a bak I went to to Russia. I was in Ukraine many times. >> Okay. >> I went with Yankee BL in in with Stalin. Okay. >> They had over there in Kiev and uh one of the kids from Europe. Yeah. Okay. In shock. like anor >> obviously left >> man he was a greatgrandfather >> okay >> but you had in Europe you had you had in in in in in Russia you had the Soviet Union they couldn't keep Shabas they couldn't keep Kosha >> right they lost everything so if we're not going to reach out to them who will no one >> that's our up. I was shocked. This is a platform anyway something for everybody. >> I'll tell you I started a podcast called the parish review podcast. review. [Music] Yeah. The whole review. Eight minutes. Wow. >> Good to know. >> Is I share a few things on the whole picture of the para. So it's just a review. Not I'm not not going to find some book, you know, of all my titas. It's simple things. I try to share it in a way that's easy. Anybody can get it. You want to know the story of the para? This is what happens. >> Wow. In mention >> everything's online. Walby torch tora >> right but if people want to visit your website or listen >> torchweb.org >> torchweb.org or go to Spotify. >> Spotify. >> Apple podcast. >> YouTube. YouTube. >> Tik Tok. >> Tik Tok. Facebook. Alts. >> Wow. >> And I don't go to Tik Tok, but I have a a a program that it takes my class and it cuts shorts and it posts it to automatically. I don't have to go there. >> Wow. I don't have to go to Instagram on Facebook reals YouTube shorts outs. >> Okay. Amazing. >> Even Kick can kick. >> Kick is a messaging app. >> No. Kick is a live streaming. >> Oh, I'm not familiar. >> I'm not either, >> but it's there. >> It's there. >> Okay. Now road trip. >> Oh my goodness. Okay. So, let's do let's do another episode American politics the president an anti-ionist Antist. Okay. So, thank you, Rabbi Welby. >> Oh, I love the studio. It's beautiful. >> I apologize for my Yiddish is already >> It's amazing. Rusty. Very rusty. Thank you. 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