A #Jewish #businessman from #Iran - Status Island

Michael, you know, people, we had you on the status a couple of times. People ask me, "Where's the guy Michael? He has such an interesting, good personality. Which culture? Where are you coming from?" >> Yeah, I live in West Orange, where I'm from, West Orange, New Jersey. Born and raised. Um, interesting place. You know, it's a smaller Yiddish community. Nathish, but yedim nonetheless. And my family's from Iran. >> Oh, really? >> Yes. Paras, land of Morai and Esther. >> Look at that. >> How many years ago did your family come here? 1979. >> Oh wow. It's good you're not stuck there now. I don't know. >> We actually had come over. The chief rabbi of Iran came over to our house. >> Oh, I saw he came to your house. >> Yeah. A month ago in the summertime. Rabbi Gami and he told us about the Yidam in Iran. They have mikvah in every single little village in Iran. >> Well, they're living nicely over there. >> Look, no one's in his states living nicely. But for what's going on there, you know, believe it or not, this is no security in the shs. He walks around this keepa. >> Oh, wow. They got yeshivas called Danim. I have a relative who's a Dion there. >> We have relative dian. Yes. So when the Rav Gami came to America, not only did he meet with the um Iranian Jewish community and he also was very popular amongst the man Chris. >> Which did he meet with >> this time around? He definitely met with the Satarba. I know he's met with the le in bar park. He's met with um Baba 45 reb he's also very close with Kabad amongst many. Very interesting. >> Yeah. >> Now, how far is West Orange from Tene? >> T It's around 35 in a similar style community. >> Oh, cuz I have a lot of followers from there. They tell me, "Come make a tour." You know those? >> Yeah. I Some of my very close friends um are big fans of yours. They're not from the same community, but nonetheless, they love Status Island. Out of all the statuses, they love Status Island the best and they want to come invite you to check out other communities as well. >> Oh, we got we got to schedule it. We got to schedule it. >> Definitely. >> Okay. So, in the meantime, whoever needs text messaging knows where to go. Event.app. But it's good to get to know other other parts, not only what you do for business. >> Definitely. Thank you so much. Thank you.