"The Rabbi Who Advises Google" From Globes TV (Israel's version of the Wall Street Journal)

Rabbi Issamar Ginzberg descends from a dynasty of distinguished rabbis, which includes the Baal Shem Tov and Rabbi Nachman of Breslov. When he was younger his family felt he was destined to become a great rabbi. He wakes up early every morning to pray, and then goes to his yeshivah in the Mea Shearim neighborhood. He studies and teaches Torah until the afternoon. That’s when his main job starts, as an international strategic business advisor, with unparalleled expertise in the Internet and social networks. The rabbi is an expert in Facebook and LinkedIn. He is a strategic business consultant with an impressive track record, and is a sought-after lecturer throughout the world. I’m the secret weapon of some big business people. I help businesses and entrepreneurs build their businesses and their careers so it’s not that that they simply work all the time and receive money, but it could grow into more than that. They could succeed in earning much more money without working too hard. My father, my grandfather, for many generations, they were great rabbis, and it runs in the family to give advice to other people. Rabbi Ginzberg started in Brooklyn, at the age young age of nine paving his way in the business field. He found online a store that sold computers for two hundred dollars each. Young Issamar started buying computers and selling them online for three hundred dollars each. In his autodidactic way, he has learned the ins and outs of the Internet, and in a short period of time became his neighborhood’s local Internet and business advisor. From there he branched out and grew. Today his clients include companies such as Google, Apple, IBM, and Oracle. I have a lot of Torah knowledge, and I also have, thank G-d, a lot of business knowledge. And I know how to take something I heard in the Talmud, in the Torah, and apply it to business, in the place it belongs. I take something our sages have said, and apply it to business. What is the rabbi’s secret? Some people say the best business advice has been passed on between the prayer services through the generations. Rabbi Ginzberg seems to simply transfer this to the modern business world: Traditional Jewish counsel dot com If I know that, say, you know President Shimon Peres, and I ask you, “Can you introduce me to Shimon Peres?” This causes a problem for you. Why? You ask yourself whether it'll be worth it for you to help me out or not. Maybe it's worth it for you; you want to do me a favor. You know me. But maybe it's not worthwhile. If there's a problem afterwards, between me and Shimon Peres, you're going to look bad. But if I would've asked you... It doesn't matter, even if I know that you know Shimon Peres, If I ask you, "Do you know someone who can introduce me to Shimon Peres?" If you say, "I can, don't worry about it," you'll do it, because... you want to do it. It was as if it was almost your idea. You want to do it. Unlike messianic rabbis, like Rabbi Pinto and Rabbi Ifargan, who advise tycoons and boast mystical abilities, Rabbi Ginzberg does not use these methods. He is just a business advisor, with his feet planted firmly on the ground. My goal after a meeting, with a person who won’t see me ever again in his life, is for him to at least know where to go and how to get there. I'm not a person, who holds people by a string so that they have to keep coming back. That's the first thing. Thank G-d I have hundreds or thousands of people who come one time, pay, get what they want, are satisfied, and go. If a person wants to meet more, I also work with people on a regular basis: on a project, on something... for six months, or some other specified period of time. Nowadays, Rabbi Ginzberg is moving his base from Brooklyn to Israel. And you too, if you'd like, can receive business advice from the rabbi. If you can afford it. I charge four hundred Dollars an hour to meet with me. And it’s worth it.