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He dug a winery into the bedrock beneath his home, wrote a Sefer Torah by hand, built his house, and makes his own wine. Meet the founder of the Gat Basela winery. His thinking is simple: if Hashem gave us a mitzvah, then He also gave us the ability to do it.
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Yakov, how are you doing?
>> Morning, Sam. So, you have a very cool
thing going on here in your home. Tell
us a little bit about where we are.
What's going on?
>> Okay, so you This is a
>> [music]
>> As you guys are going to see, it's a
winery I dug into the bedrock over here
and and it's an ongoing process. You can
see a lot of things aren't really
finished, but everything you hear you're
going to see is my own my own handiwork.
So, some of it was done with a machine,
some more with a jackhammer.
>> Okay, let's go down with you.
>> it.
>> As if some people have like bomb
shelters in Israel, you have a winery.
>> Yeah, so this is the this is the first
room that was that I dug and yeah, when
there's a siren, so we sometimes we come
down here, take something out of the
barrel, take a nice drink, and l'chaim.
>> All right, now we're in the holy study.
>> The holy study, this is where the
learning goes on. This is where I teach
my kids with. We learn the parashah. I
wrote the sefer Torah in order to
to to fulfill the mitzvah. This is one
of the mitzvot of the Torah. If God said
to to do it, then you can do it. So, I
said So, I said that I wrote it on this
table. About 13 years ago I wrote it.
Took me about a year and a half cuz I
did it the same year that I built the
extension over here of the house. And
what This is beautiful skin. What's the
what's the class? It's real. It's called
g'vil. It's what the Ammonites wrote on.
It's the whole skin of the animal.
>> Incredible.
>> Not separate without separating it. This
is the ancient tradition.
>> So, you're really you're you're you're
getting all the mitzvahs.
>> If Hashem said to keep a mitzvah, you
don't think if I can do it I can't do
it. If he commanded you, then you can do
it. Hashem said to live in Eretz
Yisrael, we live in Eretz Yisrael.
Hashem said to write a sefer Torah, we
write a sefer Torah. He said to get
married and have kids, you get married
and have kids. He said to build a house,
you build a house.
>> So, you built this all out.
>> I built the house. You want to eat meat,
you slaughter a sheep. You want to drink
wine, you make wine.
>> Wow, wow, Yakov, you're an inspiration
for all of you and really
so beautiful.