The Shabbat Show - Episode 14: Jewish & Black

[Music] and a little ready welcome back to the Shabbat show it's an honor to be with you again what an incredible what an incredible opportunity that we have every single week to see each other really this is the highlight of my week to be able to spend knowing that I could have to come in to Shabbat with all of you and the different people from all over the world and one of the really that the highlights for me is being able to look at that chat and being able to see whether it's through Facebook or through online all the different people that are coming in from all parts of the world that's the beauty of I fine what's the most beautiful thing about the Jewish people as different as we all may be as diverse in where we are from as you all may be we're all the same we're all one united under Hashem and many times like I say whenever I travel and I end up in a shul and I feel off I feel different I feel like I'm not from this area so many times I find myself pulling a sitter off the shelf hearing the same dobbing making the same kiddush and being like I'm at home today we have a very special show and I want to share with you a little bit of what this show stands for so some of you may or may not know I come from an interesting background my father comes from Aleppo Syria my mother comes from une koch which makes me a walking united nation with better resolutions right I always say everything I eat either has rice or margarine that's my life and as a kid growing up I grew up in a very asked Anansi world today it's a little different but even when I was growing up the schools the groups the whole thing it was a very us canasa centric world and all I'd look Ashkenazi a little bit I can pass for it I have Sardi customs I'm sorry so I went in a different minion I dabble with different prayer group I had different customs and I was a young kid in a school and a couple of the older boys I remember one time were making fun of stardom and I remember being offended I feel different I felt like it was unfair I felt like I was embarrassed now I couldn't be prouder but as a kid growing up sometimes if you're not like everybody else I went to my I went to the rabbi the Arabs everything fine with you everything's funny goes what's going on I said I told what happened and he said something so interesting I'll never forget it he said you ever noticed something interesting about Judaism he said God created the Jewish people and he could have thought it in anyway imagine if you were building a nation you're building a team you're building anything he could do it any way he wanted to if you were building it you'd probably pick exactly the person you want you'd craft him perfectly you'd put him in the safest best location and you provide everything that he or she needs to be the beginning of your nation he tried that once Adam and Eve but then came the Jewish people later on put him in Egypt and he brought them out and finally after bringing them out you would think he would say ok this is what I want he doesn't you know he does he makes 12 tribes with different flags he makes 3 he makes Israelites and Levites and Kohanim priests he says you could do this and you could do this and you're from here you're from here is he not asking for trouble like you wanna know why we have arguments you know why we're not connected or United is because we're different and not only that the rabbi says to me he says to me you ever notice how even tower works it's there's an oral law and everyone's got an opinion and you read it one line at Allenwood and it's like everyone's fighting with each other and you go to one person's house they had this custom they have that customs and you don't see any rabbi saying get rid of all your customs and do what this person does a starting eats rice on Pesach Ignasi doesn't isn't God asking for trouble and they're happy don't forget says to me you know why he did that because he doesn't tolerate diversity I said yes and what he goes God doesn't tolerate diversity he said he built it we don't tolerate diversity we are built on diversity who we are is the as the fabric of our nation is diversity there was never a moment in our history where there was a Jew that was led Jew from the inception we've always been diverse Ashkenazim start and where you're from it feels off he told me because you're getting you're growing up in this world that I want to tell you there's no better or worse we're supposed to be different in fact there are 12 dates for each different tribe which is why there's this incredible law that synagogues should have 12 windows that's what Jacob is the father of Israel Jacob's name is Israel because he had 12 sons true Jim didn't judy's and then start with Isaac as one or Jacob as one it started with the twelve we are a nation whose fabric is based on diversity there is no one look that a Jew is there is no one background where a Jew comes from there is no one custom that is more Jewish and in fact there is no one Jew that can claim to be more Jewish than any other Jew in the world that's the majesty of our people and we want to talk about today's diversity we want to highlight different parts of our of our nation and hopefully we'll do this for multiple weeks into the future identifying different types of Jews and recognizing how the same we are and sensitizing ourselves to make sure that we are always being sensitive and empathetic and open because if somebody doesn't look like us the Jewish eyes spiritual eyes can't see what's in front because they have more to do with us than anyone in the world any country any nation we're one that's all we had the show and today we're highlighting an incredible part of our nation Jews of color incredible incredible incredible people a part of our nation that we need to learn more about and to appreciate more so that we can fulfill our mission which is being the nation that sees only the soul to have a nation of spiritual eyes so we've got an incredible lineup of guests excited for what we have here and we've got a great show so stick with us we've got Kahoot coming back last week we had made a move to go with something else we got some real pushback so thank you for the feedback so this Kahoot here so let's get the games going on Kahoot we've got an incredible group we've got a prince former prince that is going to be one of our guests coming up pretty pretty soon we've got ELISA Brock a Klein coming up an incredible woman I have that opportunity to spend time with we have rabbi Daniel price here rabbi sitting here from Toronto we got a new rescue jaime Geller say thank you so much for tuning and we got a great show coming for you this show is sponsored for to lean Leeloo a new Shamas for the honor of the soul about Sheva blima basarov Moshe OSA filet vive Esther who is an inspiration to her family her friends in class well a couple things before we get started first is one-on-ones it's been growing wonderfully one on one is a program that we have in which we have the opportunity to learn one-on-one with different parts of our nation you get to pick an incredible learning partner and be able to learn with them I'm not sure if we've got a video of we want to show the ad for the one-on-ones my project inspire team there we go [Music] my name is Alex Asti my name is Desi Goldberg I'm the vin burns in Arizona I've been part of project inspire for almost a year now I'm from Brazil and I have been a part of the one-on-one learning program for over a year now I just didn't have a Jewish education my parents are from the former Soviet Union where it was illegal to learn I grew up in a family and where unfortunately in Judaism in the culture was not passed down so I didn't know anything coming into this program talked about everything from life liberty the pursuit of happiness we started learning once a week she has made such a huge impact in my life and she just really meant me where I was in a totally non-judgmental way so whatever comes up with relation to Judaism and Torah and Talmud and Mishnah and Kabbalah anything we just kind of talk about it put it out there project inspire has enriched my life by enabling me to set aside 30 minutes to an hour each week and dedicate time to learning about different schools of thought if it wasn't for them I wouldn't know how to read Hebrew it's really beautiful to see how Judaism shapes my everyday life where I would have never even realized that before so I highly recommend getting matched up with a one-on-one partner if you are looking for a personalized way to stay connected with Judaism in your busy life I'm very much looking forward to growing in my Judaism and my faith and having a stronger impact on the world around me because of it thank you project inspire and I can't thank you enough so thanks [Music] so if you haven't yet signed up for one-on-ones please do so it's such an incredible program you could always check out the check it out on 97 thousand texts one on one to 97 thousand you go to project inspire org and find out the information here before we talk about the next program I'll get I'll let the inspire crew get ready for the next program we're gonna show her but I want to give a couple of shoutouts jacob con shout out to you rush el Kerzner shout out for to Rochelle and my cousin from Toronto thank you so much Ken South Korea stretch along to you Ken from Skokie Illinois and a special hi Rifkin Patriots Rock one of our top performers include - Hannah shabbat shalom shabbat shalom - the Cohens in Macon Georgia shabbat shalom - Jason Kessler in New Rochelle - the Pope ELLs in Miami to the Novack's in Toronto rifki Tyler shabbat shalom - you were pulling for you this week I know you're in Baltimore but we know that you're a huge Patriots fan Patriots Rockies Patriots rock by the way you'll see her most likely and go who today Heidi mauka the Arizonian living in Chicago shabbat shalom - you shabbat shalom - Jenice Fitzgerald in Harrisburg Pennsylvania shabbat shalom - yalla yalla Epstein in Toronto Canada - the Hess family in Fair Lawn so the Reubens in Richmond - the silvers in Highland Park to the franco's in Brooklyn Roth from Jeff Rothman from Thornhill Michelle Rice nur from Suffern near okay we're gonna move on a little bit we'll keep on giving those shabbat shalom bring them in please we love being able to wish each other shabbat shalom we've got a new program coming up this week it's called it's a mindflex program I'll be hosting it it's an a new program that we're launching I hope that you guys enjoy it it's an interactive learning session I'm hosting it for the first week this week it's called issues that matter we're gonna dig down into real issues and create breakout rooms where it's not just a class we're gonna have the beginning with a presentation then we're gonna have actual breakout rooms we get to learn sources and delve deeper into real big issues and it's so critical that during this time we have a night that we can go to we can hear each other speak we can really go today this week we're gonna talk about God for grown-ups we have a real conversation about God you would hope you get to come up you can dress and I'll be hosting it this week so I hope I get to see you there and thanks so much for tuning in okay I want to choose our first guest it's an interview that I was able to handle this week we had the I had the opportunity to interview our guest he's living in Israel his name is rabbi not ngah Meza he was born to the royal family of Swaziland and from that moment of being a prince he as he got older started this incredible journey of Judaism that took him to Israel to Judaism and now through this incredible incredible journey he is a rabbi and teacher of Judaic Studies in the northern city of Suffolk where he lives with his wife and son listen to this credible man and his story of Rabbi Naughton and how would he how he became who we became so it's an honor to have you on the show thank you so much for being here you have such an incredible background it's something that is so unique to our people and as part of the royal family of Swaziland you began your life in a very different way than most people that I've met personally so can you share this a little bit about your background and how you ended up in Israel well that is a very long story because I could give you a shortened version and that is I was studying at University in South Africa in Johannesburg I'm a language major so I studied French German and Italian and one day I found myself very bored in any tagging class and I didn't find that the lecturer was saying something so interesting so I looked around myself to see what other people were doing and there was someone sitting to my right who was writing backwards from right to left I looked at him when he was right here said that's not Italian what is they and after the class I asked him I said tell me what were you doing there he said I was doing my Hebrew homework there was a Jewish person so I thought wow if I can write like that that would really be fancy you know to study Hebrew and after the first half a year we had learnt the basics of the grammar the Hebrew grammar and then we had what they called language laboratory sessions where they had a native Israeli help us with pronunciation and comprehension of texts this is all anniversary of Advaita starts this it's called for sure oh sorry it's called myths for short and the first text that I remember I remember I was sitting in this language the part with my headphones on and all of a sudden I hear this middle-eastern music in the background and I sort of relax and all of a sudden I realized that this in the music there's somebody saying something so I concentrated more and I realized what he was saying I heard the words provide he had the marina la very leukemia site Abraham by you Marilla Abraham by immersion in me for human Kuttner it been hard yet in CarShare after it's fun when I flick on it it's a Maria Sheryl Meredith these are lines that come up in the in just be in chakras just after the Kabbalists people are just before the car bothers some so and I when I heard this present it's akkada Smith's car binding of issac when I heard that there was something in me that it sounded familiar and you've never heard before I never but the first time heard it it sounded it felt like something it felt like it was telling me something very very deep about myself Wow but let me telling you something about yourself you're not even Jewish and at least at that time I wasn't so I I'll tell you what it felt like it felt like I had lost my memory and then this this text that was I was hearing in my ear was reviving my memory and a man who chatted even though I had Wow so it was a very very intense just really intense and I felt like more like Sherlock Holmes which is one of the books that I used to read detective books it was there a moment where you came here and you were studying what was what was the moment where you said I have to take it from this is an interesting exercise and intellectual exercise exercise of passion and meaning I feel something too I have to convert to be part of his people was there a moment for you than when that happened yes indeed what happened is that my friends who I knew from South Africa they called me up when I wasn't studying for my PhD in Hebrew they called me up from South Africa and they told me that they were coming to study at a yeshiva in Russia like called Oh Samia and they said they wanted to see me so I went over to see them and I was really surprised at their dad the way they look to those their yarmulkes and tzitzit and they could see how it was really puzzled with what's happened to these guys and they invited me for dinner and they said how do you explain that a non Jew brings Jewish people closer to their tradition I looked at them and said what are you talking about they said what if you wasn't for you we don't even know if we have become religious nothing to become from at all but you introduced us to the Rumba minute opened our whole world up and we start going to show him and then there was stunning tomorrow in the in each other Wow so when I saw bad and I said look there's some there some classes open for every anyone can come if they're one a year you know about Jewish philosophy don't have to be Jewish to come and hear those so I said okay I'll come in here a few classes so in I can put a yarmulke sat in the back row and all of a sudden the rabbi started speaking and I said this is it what I've been searching for all this time in other words I knew there was something in the language but I did not know what it was all of a sudden I made the incredible discovery that what I loved about the language was the Judaism in it because all of that attracted me where Jewish spoke speaking about druid that was like a sledgehammer every time when people come in they come from different backgrounds they look different they have different histories how did you deal with challenge along the way did you feel it and what was your approach towards dealing with the challenges that were in front of you well there are challenges and their challenges I I felt that I might be be surroundings that I was in were challenging for both myself and those that surrounded me because I was really the only black person around right and it's true that not everyone treated me so nicely you know from the surrounding neighbors and that but who the history having studied both my Master's my bachelor's and my mark no part in South Africa did that what I felt in Israel was nothing compared to that right so that's a challenge on a personal level which I found pretty difficult but I used that energy to focus on my studies hmm studying Kimura and I really got into it and I think I always since I was so sure that this is what Hashem wanted for me I allowed all maybe comments that weren't so nice sometimes I didn't roll over my bed what an incredible story he hasn't there's so much more to that interview that I hope you guys get to see look out for it from Project inspire that introduced about 30 minutes with much more the detail of the story there's one part of the story that I hope you get to watch where he gets mad at Hashem for not making him a Jew after he realizes that he wants to be one and he goes to Rome and when he gets to Rome and he starts taking a tour around the Roman Empire he keeps on thinking to himself but what about what you did to the Jews and he is he is he feels compelled to to go back to Israel and he gets into his room he says it's incredible watch it and he says he just says schmeyer all and realizes that he can't he can't he can't hold it back gets back on an airplane goes to Israel and becomes a rabbi and he's a legend in orsa math and his brilliance and what he's done it's an incredible story it has to be watched and has to be understood we have a great video coming up right now before we do that I want to show it just a couple more shabbat shalom today a parallel shabbat shalom to you Aviva geesh Abacha to Ossie in Baltimore at least Tendler Esther for Baltimore shabbat shalom to you rabbi D shabbat shalom from the Kessler's lay in richard the village jewel shabbat shalom to you too Alan and Stacey 11 grant from South Maryland shabbat shalom to you and thank you for your kind words Michelle writer shabbat shalom Michael and Leon DeRozan Blatt from charades feel of Toronto special to of course to the Simon's a Phoenix shabbat shalom - you in - Michelle and - Debbie from from New York okay time for this is an incredible video on that really speaks about the diversity of Jews and the impact especially on State of Israel my name is Alan gaya I'm 19 years old I'm from the world my parents from Ethiopia they came on operation Solomon in 1991 I [Music] was four years old when all the bombs talk to my family related get hit by rockets one of them was you well he was four years old and David was two years old the machining program in South Africa Johannesburg I was working with kids from grade 8 to 11 and I spoke about how is to be Israeli how to be Ethiopian Israeli has to be a black Jew because for them it's not obvious I've left you the beginning that asked me are you converted are you Zhu mu who are you and what are you doing here and what you're doing here why speaking of route [Music] it's a dream that came true I always wanted to be a young ambassador of Israel to be the face of Israel when people looking at me they can see the beauty of Israel after the gap here when I came back to Israel I can say that's the first time in my whole life I felt Jewish I feel that I need to go that I have to go to give back to my people and be part of something big [Music] next guest is an incredible woman that I had the opportunity to interview this week as well her name is ELISA brothel Klein she's a social worker for the Oak Park schools in Michigan prior to joining Oak Park schools Lisa worked for the Detroit Police Department's victim assistance program where she provided crisis intervention for victims of domestic violence sexual assault and secondary victims of homicide elisa has also worked for Saint John Providence Eastwood clinics as a therapist she holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Oakland University and a master's degree in social work from Wayne State University lisa has held leadership roles for several Metro Detroit Jewish organizations it was an incredible interview and I look forward to sharing it with each of you you know give us more about who you are so we can get to know you better okay so my name is Lisa braja and I was born in Detroit Michigan and I am a Jew by choice and so that's not something that I always offer up right away I feel that sometimes people look at me and they say oh you're kind of interesting what is your background is your story and I try to get a little bit vulnerable just so people can understand where I'm coming from and so my parents along with myself we all converted many years ago and my parents are reformed and then I took on being more religious over time and then I hadn't wertha Doc's converging myself and then I am Who I am today so that's a little bit about me just to start off just a little bit there's a longer story but that's just like a little bit in nutshell we appreciate the appetizer it's always an honor to meet a Jew by choice right that means that you found something about our people that was so enticing that you came and you decided on your own that there's something you wanted more was there a moment along the way where you decided that this is was it like an aha like you want to be part of it was it a slow growth what was that moment where you will you choose you chose us I think it was a slow process I grew up in a Jewish neighborhood and I had a lot of Jewish friends and so my days were spent with many different kids of different backgrounds but most but mostly Jews and I remember if it was let's say a Jewish holiday like Passover something my mom would make sure and my dad would make sure that those students or my friends would be keeping kosher Passover right and also let's say if I had a birthday party at my school my parents would also make sure that whatever that they were providing for the snacks for my birthday that it was kosher so that was like the first step into being exposed to the Jewish community and my parents were exposed where they were exposed to Jewish community when I was when they were younger as well growing up in Detroit and then over time I just my parents and I wanted something different and we wanted something we thought that Judaism was the truth right and so then that's how we ended up finding Judaism for ourselves and so it was it was a process it was a slow process it was a gradual process but then over time we just happened to find it for ourselves and so that's how that's how it happened what an incredible an incredible approach I think one of the most beautiful things that I find about Judaism and I know that your you've spoken about this you've written about this I've read a lot of your articles which are wonderfully written about being sensitive being open and just educating ourselves about the fact that the Torah God there's no diversity isn't a thing that we have it's a thing that we are built on right we are the most we are built to be diverse God wants it to be a religion worth where everyone comes out of from a different perspective and when people could come at Judaism from different perspectives it only enables all of us to be better and all of us to be a much greater nation what have you found along your journey in which that has something that you had either encountered or agree with and I know that that you're in many ways you you're providing and I've read a lot of what you've written and it provides people with an opportunity to understand people of different backgrounds always that we become better as human beings along the way so I think that in order for us to become better human beings along the way it starts for just basically putting yourself in their shoes right and also knowing that there are things that makes us unique and makes us different and not everybody's not the same right and so it's very important for us to know that and to treat people with respect and to treat people with kindness and I think that's something that is hard for people to do nowadays which is unfortunate because that should be the first thing that we're doing Yeah right so that's one that's one point another part is just also being vulnerable and asking the right questions and to you know know that like there are people there's there are many people out there that are that are different and they may not look like you but at the end of the day you know we're we're all creating an image of God yeah yeah that's exactly right I think one of the things that are you know I think people in general I think people in general tend to connect to things that are like them that sound like them that agree with them I think people have a general sense of hanging out with people that vote the way they vote and look the way they look and talk where they talk and sometimes what's interesting is that one of the what happens when anyone sees anyone at any level that is any different there's like a sense of like they can't be themselves which is the craziest thing in the world as if the person that maybe comes from a different background or a different country or a different perspective or a different job as if the they don't want you to be just a regular person and I find that to be so interesting that we sort of seem to be like okay were around people that are like us and Suze it's not always that like we forget how to be regular right so sometimes I have that experience I know sometimes that a Shabbos table let's just say that I can't read her sometimes people say things that are not but not necessarily appropriate right and if they see me they don't necessarily try to be so sensitive to the things that they're saying right and I've had to numerous times tell people like hey what you're saying right now is not necessarily appropriate you know I'm sitting here would you would you if it was reversed would you want this to happen to you yeah it's not a comfortable feeling right it's just not at all and so these are things that have happened that's happened to me several times and it's and it's it's not a good feeling what can we do as a community to get better at it what do you think of things that we can do to be because at the end of the day like you said in God's eyes were the same like in God's eyes were all just his children and what are the things that you think we can do as a community to get better to get to be more sensitive to be more open to somebody else and this I think applies at all levels but in this particular area what are some of the things from your perspective that you've experienced that you think you kind of wish people sort of knew so I wish that people knew about their own biases and they were able to self reflect on that and to check their own biases in the things that were the things that they've grown up with and kind of have some reflection and understand like that they may have different things that or they may have different biases or different things that may be different or they didn't know what they had some prejudices and you have to see that within yourself also you have to may want to make those changes right you have to want to you know be mindful about that and to also put yourself in somebody else's shoes and also to to be empathetic yeah to show it to show that respect and two it's a treat people and that's me going back to treating people with respect and kindness and if we're able to do that then we're able to go much further yeah a special shout-out to a leader brother was an incredible again we have a much longer into you for those interested keeping an eye out we have the opportunity to create much longer interviews but we want to make sure that the show stays tighter so please keep an eye on and we'll be able to send out the longer interview with Lisa and a special shout out to the whole Kline family quite know very well and special shabbat shalom to you guys I want to turn to Kahoot let's get going I know that that's a interest of what we're doing on and as we as the project inspire crew gets good going I'm gonna give a couple shabbat shalom sup here we go it just happened so quickly seventy five oh five one two three if you're out there let's get the Kahoot players rolling it's time to play some Kahoot here they come while they while the players start rolling in and we're going to wish a couple more shabbat shalom' rifka mansoor shabbat shalom to you shabbat shalom to an in Las Vegas the Franco's from Canarsie my hometown from the Shalom from the Dukes in Thornhill tomorrow and alone trick us off from Toronto I love in Toronto shabbat shalom - cutie and Lewis Morris and Silver Spring shabbat shalom - Goldie - Jeff - Bonnie artell shabbat shalom - Karen Kaplan and the family in Scottsdale she watched him to Ruth cream from West Orange okay here we go a couple more seconds already for Kahoot few fibers from Manalapan shabbat shalom to you the patel ski family in Waterloo Linda from Buffalo Jen from Georgia loving the love Bonnie from Austin Texas thank you very much of course Judy hurtsfoe shabbat shalom to you and thank you for your kind words Lily trip special them okay we got our team got the crew they're pulling in right now I'll give you one more set okay let's get rolling we'll do it right now here goes first question how do you say summer in Hebrew Aviv khayat's Stav or her f aviv khayat's Stav or her f answer quickly special until a in Montreal remember study one-on-one 97,000 study what just text one-on-one to ninety seven thousand nine more seconds left to get it in my relieve you should watch along to you kites is the right answer let's see how we do let's see what the first round brings us RM hillary Phe rocks is right there for say ik and Alejandro okay here goes next question this former NBA all-star now lives in Israel and place from a copy Tel Aviv who am I talking about Dirk Nowitzki Yao Ming Amar'e Stoudemire or Dennis Rodman this former NBA all-star now lives in Israel and plays from a kabhi Tel Aviv who am i speaking about shabbat shalom to Goldie's brother Joe salesman shabbat shalom how're we doing over here five seconds left we're gonna go a couple seconds to Facebook Twitter box loom to those that are on Facebook answer is a Maori stata Maur who's a great guy by the way Amar'e Stoudemire 41 okay next question here we go the Kahoot game continues passaic is on top which of these popular items was first developed in israel hair gel the plunger Nintendo or the cell phone love this I love this this is some good trivia that you can use which of these core items was developed in the Holy Land hair gel the plunger Nintendo or the cell phone shabbat shalom' from Guadalajara shabbat shalom' excellent it's the cell phone the cell phone although from Jason Kessler hair gel was perfected in the streets of Ben Yehuda excellent Passaic Johanna Jamie's mom Special K okay here we go last question which of these famous events took place on Shabbat July 4th 1776 the signing of the Declaration of Independence first of Year one the day of creation July 20th 1969 US lands on the moon or year two four four eight from creation the giving of the Ten Commandments is it the Declaration of Independence the first day of creation we land on the moon or God gives us the Torah which one is it for the final question in Kahoot two seconds left and let's see what we got the answer is the giving of the Torah took place on Shabbat and let's go to our winners let's say let's see third place is Kaplan welcome to this to the leader board second place is Phoenix Arizona know who that is Phoenix Arizona does well in the first place is Joanna Joanna congratulations remember to email project inspire dot-com for your gifts every we give out gifts we're now ready for our segment that everybody loves so much it is with our partner Jaime Yeller check out the latest food that Jaime is bringing us straight from Israel Thank You charlie it is such an honor to be here on the show with you every single week so I'm really excited about this week's recipe because it's homeless and who doesn't love hobo so good I love it but what I love about it is that it's not meant to be enjoyed alone right like no one sits down to a plate of hummus except for me but it's meant to be enjoyed by family fun I'm Jaime Geller and today we are making my lemon lover's kumo we start with a fifteen and a half ounce can of chickpeas of rinse and drain well next part clean up but this is 100 percent clean up or tahini paste got there ready to eat zucchini that you buy in the fridge section next to you're ready to eat hummus so just 1 tablespoons and now we need 1 clove of garlic give it a smash quickly release the paper and that goes any want more garlic just put more in lemon lover school must I promised you two lemons we're going to use the juice and the zest so what you want to do a little trick for juicing your lemons put two hands on it but all your body weight on and roll it that will make the juice come out a lot easier when you go to juicing next we want to get the zest now be very careful when you're zesting that you only zest the yellow part and not the white tip all right now we just cut your lemon in half quick way catch the seeds in your hands and just let the juice go through another idea holds it right-side up and squeeze this way this way all the pits stay inside the lemon and the juice just comes out we've got our salt you need about 3/4 of a teaspoon of kosher salt cumin it's got a really earthy warm taste without being spicy hot quarter teaspoon cumin and okay now we're good to go guys with the food processor running extra virgin olive oil half a cup but once the olive oils are going in a steady stream we've certainly to half water and half olive oil if you want but I love the flavor for this now just at one point we want to scrape down the sides of our bowl let's take a little taste mmm then you just let it run so smooth and creamy Michaelmas is done I'm gonna show you how to make the perfect play the coolest and we're gonna use the back of our spoon move the plate as you smooth out the hummus to the edges pretty almost like a well on the inside now inside this well you can put anything in little hearts desires that I mean anything today I'm gonna show you a nice little idea for the inside with chickpeas so you think hold chickpeas we're gonna add a little bit of dots our doctor has a Middle Eastern spice it's got basil oregano thyme savory sesame seeds a little sumac I just add a little bit of salt a little bit of olive oil to this and this we're going to put into the center of the wheel that we created oh my gosh the smells and looks divine okay now we're going to do a little bit of paprika just around the size and then just a little bit of fresh chopped parsley or cilantro on top for a little bit of greens and tell me that is not the most beautiful gorgeous homemade hummus plate Thank You Jamie for that again that did look absolutely delicious as it always does for more great videos go to Jamie comm Facebook Instagram Pinterest YouTube Twitter tic toc at Jamie Gellar and a Jewish Jewish bye Jamie my next guest is a friend of mine that I have spent a Shiva with decades ago and I've had the opportunity to be at his school and just watch what he has done with one of the most one of the greatest schools we have in North America it's the one of the largest schools in New Jersey and I was able to be there live and just see just what it looks like under under his leadership he's the head of school at the Rosenbaum yeshiva of North Jersey ry & J he is a must mock he's got his rabbinic ordination from reats which is a school in university and he grew up in Silver Spring Maryland rabbi Price welcome to the show thank you it is an honor to have you autumn it's good to see you we're all watching what you're doing for our people and we thank you tell us a little bit about your background and how you grew up give us a little bit more about you so I grew up in Silver Spring Maryland I went to Hebrew Academy going to Washington which is now known as the Burman Huber Academy I'm one of six and you know my my family was in that area for a very long time my my grandparents on my mother's side were pillars of the community my grandfather was a guy by they were very very involved in the show and the ability for the community to thrive as I moved from Washington DC to the suburbs and on my father's side I am a seventh generation Washingtonian so my father my father's side we have been in the United States of America for a very long time but that's just seventh generation just in Washington Wow and so yeah so I have a lot a lot of history in this country and my parents my father my mother grew up from grew up in the sphere in the Jewish community and my father was an african-american part of the Washington DC community and my parents eventually met at parent in DC Teachers College my father after leaving high school and going to the Navy and being in the submarine for a very long time did a lot of reading did a lot of searching and he wanted to become a professor that was an original dream and he met my mother at DC Teachers College and one of the stories that's so beautiful about my father's experience was my father did not have the easiest upbringing and when he was in Teachers College at certain parts of time during the year his classmates would disappear some of them wouldn't be in class for a couple of days and he would say to them where were you and they're saying oh you know it was a Jewish holiday and so we were when he weren't able to come class for a couple days so my father actually was very nice he took notes for them and gave them their his notes when when when they were gone and he said well what do you do during your holiday and the answer that struck him and will last with him for the you know the rest of his life unfortunately my father passed away a number of years ago but the answer was our holidays are about family time and for my father that was the most important thing in the world to be in an environment to be in a culture that valued family that's what hit him that's really what grabbed him so as a child growing up you know an african-american father Ashkenazi mother what was it like growing up what was that was your experience like I was very fortunate myself my siblings we were very fortunate growing up in Silver Spring Maryland because we were very much sheltered you know it was a beautiful community warm accepting I would say the best part about it was I was Daniel price and that's it I wasn't Daniel price the son of the black Jewish dentist which by the way my father became a dentist he didn't become a professor but that that's something that always I felt like it was amazing I was able to be myself and I wasn't put into a box at least not in my in my early years a little bit later on when I became an athlete then you know sometimes that stuck out a little bit but I always you know I think about one of my earliest memories you know when you're little when you're like six and seven that's when you start to recognize the difference between you and others developmentally and you laugh at this but by one of my earliest memories of recognizing a difference between me and my friends was not my father it was the fact that my mother was sheitel and not every woman in the community were sheitel so I think when I think back to that you know I get props to the community because my father stood out like a sore thumb you know but it wasn't that it was it was that was normal in my life as a child you know and that was something growing up in that bubble was really wonderful for me and I would say for my siblings as well Silver Spring was just a great community and that allowed us to grow up and just feel like we were just surprise children right we were unique in a sense but our uniqueness wasn't something that was called to the front all the time right your uniqueness wasn't based on skin color your uniqueness is based on what was on the inside which is the way it's supposed to be kudos to that community did you feel that way always was was there other moments where that changed or was it was that just sort of your general experience here it was definitely my experience growing up once we stepped out of our bubble we all faced our different challenges you know not every community is like the Silver Spring community and and therefore at different points in our time in our lives we did face those challenges I would say you only once in my school Emma in my school year driver ever remember a teacher saying anything inappropriate you know we were just very very sheltered unfortunately sometimes when we sent out of our community out of our bubble we saw some of the things the language that people use the terms that people use weren't always appropriate and was shocking considering how we were brought up and how accepted we were as a family well it's incredible that you say it the way you say which is you were given this gift of the way it's supposed to be in a very micro environment which is great and it's just just how we all have to be you know in general so it's this great opportunity for you to sort of get it right the first time versus I guess in a flipped environment which is just wonderful you know it's amazing where you sit you have this opportunity to be sensitive to things beyond what someone would have if they came from a more quote/unquote typical place and now you have the opportunity to educate so many people the future the Jewish future the head of school in the current environment in your position what's the message that you would give to your students what's the message you would give to the viewers where we can all be bigger and better to make sure that every single Jew is being valued by what's on their inside by their name if you will and not by anything else I think the first thing that I would say is something which was shortly stressed earlier on the program is when you look at the Jewish people we all come in different shapes and sizes no one looks the same and I think that it struck a chord with me when you think about what the Torah says you know the toe is our guide the Torah tells us everything that we need to do in order to accomplish God's will God's Russell in this world and the Torah tells us that we have to be we have to respect and love the game the conference because we were also converts what's the Torah saying there the Torah saying is your experience where you grew up in your background is really no difference then we're a conference is coming from and therefore just like you want to be treated like everyone else irrelevant of your color and your race your height your background your size that should be the approach we have to everyone so that's a message that I always see how I think about in terms of as an educator as a head of school someone who guides others is that a very very important message of recognize that everyone has a place in this world you know I always use a muscle of puzzles with it with the little children we all have a puzzle a piece of the puzzle or adding and we're trying to fill a Qatar spiral food world with each one of our pieces and each one of our pieces is unique and if we don't offer our pieces the puzzles incomplete amazing rabbi thank you for who you are thank you for what you do continuing continue inspiring so many people and thanks for being a part of this program it's really my pleasure great seeing you Charlie great to see you as well good Shabbos too much alone it was it's really incredible in he and he's exactly right he's exactly exactly right the recognition that we are pieces of puzzles this this goes well beyond just a type of Jew this is goes about this is about how we raise our children this is about how we see ourselves is how we walk through the streets this is what God wants of us we're unique we're like kief compares us to the stars cause each star is totally unique remember we've got a big week coming up here so there's an incredible mindflex coming up this week we've got this new program that I'm hosting on taking places week look out for the ads on that and in addition please look out there's another Q&A with the Rebbetzin that were very popular that's coming out again this week so please keep your eyes out for some more great programming from Project inspire it is now my honor to introduce an incredible guy he's a rabbi a motivational speaker and a therapist he has delivered inspiring lecturers worldwide he has a BA in Liberal Studies a master's degree in education and a master's degree in marriage and family therapy he's currently the rabbi of the village shul and Asia tolerance in Toronto please welcome rabbi Syd nur to the program hello hello Charlie great to see you around why it's so good to see you I miss you love in the office love it love it loving seeing it out you're taking us in this is it this is the final moments of the show we can almost taste the challah it's almost in our mouth share with us a moment of your inspiration to enable us to bring in the Shabbos properly thank you so much charlie it's an honor to be here with you as always um you know I don't know what your experience has been like in the last couple of months but for me I'm missing having guests you know like I'm so used to having guests on my Shabbos table I'm like all of a sudden to not have guests on job it's just been weird you experiencing the same thing yeah totally so it's nice to be able to go into Shabbos with everybody here and if I could pretend for a second that you and everybody who's watching and listening are guests at my Shabbos table just for just for like three minutes you know every week at my Shabbos table Friday night after we do the whole Shalom Aleichem and we did the whole thing in Asia sky um you know giving our children the breakfast I stand up and I hold my kiddush cup all right I'll pretend all right this doesn't do it justice I hold my kiddush cup and I look at all my guests around the table and I always in fact sometimes I even interact with them and I tell them I say point to people I said what do you do for a living got some a lawyer what do you do I'm a doctor dentist finance right and I ask people what they do and after kind of going around the table a little bit I point out that sometimes when we do something five days a week eight nine ten hours a day we could begin to think that who we are is what we do and what we do is Who I am my identity is I'm the doctor I'm the lawyer I'm the finance guy that's me everybody knows me as that and I and I always stop every Friday night and look to my guests and I say guys you are not what you do what you do is how you make a living who you are so much more than that who you are is all the stuff that they talk about at your funeral not to get morbid but I pointed out that I say that's what it is and no one talked about what you did everybody says wow it was a pretty father he was great but she was a great mother she was a great sister a good friend look what they did for the communal legal aid for the Jewish people that's what everybody talks about they talk about your mission in life nobody talks about what he did for a living I said and Shabbos we stop and we remember that I sham created the world that there's a crater in the universe that there's a purpose to this world and so every single Friday night and we we disconnect for 24 hours from what we do and we connect who we are we connect our purpose and I remember one time I had two designers two famous designers at my Shabbos table and it wasn't even coordinated and I said we'll just call them Michael Kors and Calvin Klein okay and we know these two guys on my Shabbos table and I as soon as I looked I said one second Michael you probably know Calvin you guys are both and then Michael stops me and he says not on Shabbos rabbi Oh uncho this I'm just Michael and I remember there's actually a great line from from Mark Twain where he said the two most important days of your life are the day you're born and the day you figure out why and I feel like that's what Shabbos does on a personal note it reminds us every single week that I'm here for something so much more important than just making a living and surviving and just getting by I have a mission in this Rob an important contributions in this world to the Jewish people and to humanity and every Shabbos were reminded of that role but it's not just on a personal note I think and I think you can relate to is it it's also on a national level like as a nation every Shabbos were reminded that we have this crucial crucial role in the world as well you're supposed to be or legaia emerge it's not just about us it's about us and humanity's but it's being the type of people that affects the entire world and I remember hearing a story actually recently sorry my brothers shared the story with me with Howard Schultz Howard Schultz was the former CEO of Starbucks right yeah okay so he was in Israel and with a bunch of other very wealthy entrepreneurs and business people and someone somehow set them up with robust ins fee Finkel the rest receive of the mirror and he was very ill at the time and they get together and they're all sitting around not knowing what to expect and of Knussen's fee walks in he sits down and they see him trembling and shaking and some of them kind of turned away didn't want to look at him because it was just so uncomfortable and he even said to them look at me look at me so they all look at him and it was even harder for him to talk and was hard for them to listen and he looks at them one by one and he throws out one of the most difficult questions he says to them what's the lesson of the Holocaust and they kind of sit there hoping it's you know one of these you know questions that they don't actually have to answer you know maybe it's rhetorical and he points and he says you what's the less than the Holocaust so one guy says never forget he says no and he points to the other he says what's the lesson the Holocaust he says I don't know we have to we can't be victims he says no and he goes around to each one what's the lesson of the Holocaust and then eventually he says you know when all these Jews were getting on these cattle cars going off to concentration camps when they got off they were handed one blanket for every six people and a night when it was freezing cold in the bunkers and they laid there together the one person who was handed the blanket had a choice and the choice was am I gonna keep myself warm or am I gonna share the blanket with the other guys and reminiscent see finca looked at them and he said each one of these Jews who had the blanket shared it with the other five he said the lesson is that we each have a blanket and we have to share it and he turned to Howard Schultz and all these businessmen and he said you all have a blanket and when you get back to America got a share with the rest of the Jewish people and share with the world incredible and I feel like Shabbos reminds us that we have that role we have that role personally but also nationally as a Jewish nation it's not just about us it's about us sharing the blanket with the entire world so it's an honor to be here and God willing we should merit be able to share that blanket as we going to Shabbos together and we should be an inspiration to each other but to all of humanity as well you're awesome rabbi thank you so much for your kind words so much love coming at you from all the chats and Toronto and all over the world and thanks for your kindness enough to you Charlie great thank you for for leading leaving us with such an incredible message and I want to end with that with with earth or birth the rabbi just said this is really the goal this is what he's getting at is the point it's understanding that each and every one of us have a blanket we have something special about ourselves maybe the reason why God made us diverse is because we wouldn't geek we would just blend with everybody else if we weren't and God wants us to fight past that confirmation bias of having it filled me feel comfortable to see the uniqueness the blanket in each and every one of us in every one in our nation you know what's amazing about Shabbat is ciabatta is all about seeing past the physical the wine bacala's the slow down everything we've been doing on the show for the past few weeks has been conditioning ourselves to see past something it's not just bread it's not just wine that's not just my wife it's not just my kids it's not just another day what Shabbat does is Shabbat is there so they we can now start to take our physical eyes and start to make them more spiritual God runs this world you slow down and we get perspective and spiritual eyes are hard which is why we have it every week it's a lifelong lesson and it's a lifelong mission but those spiritual eyes not only belong to our lives our careers and our families they belong to everybody around us they belong to our nation when we look around to the people in our nation you have to always check ourselves making sure that everybody that we look at we look at them for who they are not from where they're from not for what the colors of their skin but for their soul and if we can be the nation that does that for everybody not only are we doing good by others we're doing good for ourselves they're becoming the nation that God wants of us and there is no greater day than Shabbat for those moments to reflect and to think about it and to come out stronger greater and clearer for me and mine and you and yours shabbat shalom to all those who were waiting with shabbat shalom readings give give chances shabbat shalom - may this be a week may this be a Shabbat that is restful that brings your wisdom that brings you clarity that brings you empathy that enables us to make everyone around us whether they're living in our home down our block or in some part of the world feel how unique and special they are but our eyes can do in growing the people around us is unlimited you should realize our power and share our blanket with everybody around us I hope next week - see you in in Jerusalem but if not hope to see you here 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