You Live WHERE??

I have with me on camera somebody who's an old do user and how do I get to know this person I'm meeting out for the first time he took daim to learn a memory of Steve North and he took quite a lot of daim and I noticed that the location was quite odd it wasn't Brooklyn New York or Lakewood New Jersey or tck New Jersey or even Miami Florida or Chicago Illinois so why don't you tell us where are you located so I I live in the Olympic mountains and that's in Washington State uh it's in the the Northwestern P peninsula of Washington state so it's an isolated area so I'm geographically isolated from uh a lot of tour life so what aloff has allowed me to do is to get access to the sheram that I need to unlock the talmood so art schol has been uh gain changer so so much but I've started and stopped learning gamar with art scr as well because I haven't had the sheum to really back it up to um unlock and unfold things and so what I've been able to do with aloff is to um listen to like Rabbi Ellie stansky and rabie Rosner and rabie schwarzberg um and and and unlock things in ways that I I've never been able to do before and that has just kept me going and kept me going and made me very excited about things and I'm so excited uh every single day to get the new sheram and to keep going because I I I'm currently geographically isolated and so what aloff does is it breaks down the geographical isolation there's also a a temporal isolation like on separated in space and time and so I I can be getting sheram literally in the wilderness you know congressionally designated Wilderness I I live right next to Olympic National Park and I was a park ranger for at this point uh many many years I'm not a park ranger anymore um because I'm shirot again and so you know I had to make make some changes but for many years I was out there literally in the wilderness and so what aloff has allowed me to do is is to get access to the the learning that that has really pulled me back to yides kite pulled me back to the Torah like it's it's not some sort of either or you know either you're living in New York or you're totally in gas uh it's it's it's allowing Tor to penetrate in ways that never happened before when I saw that uh um that there was the for stepen newworth I said well like this is somebody that I can say thank like here's here's a man that that I I I I see him I'm hearing about him like this is somebody to whom I can say thanks like that you like you helped bring this to me you don't mind um taking a step back how how do you how do you hear about alaf and even further back like you mentioned you were on an off observant like you seem like you're at a place now where like you I just see and hear from your voice like the excitement you have for just horor learning I I I would ask you for a to give me that excitement even though we pray every morning right make make it sweet for us but we all really want it to be sweet so we take take a step back like where did you taste it and like how you end up you know where you are now and like how the would you hear of alaf and you know and and what it's doing for you now so I I heard about Al I mean it just by searching it was just a basic search like how do I learn learn and and and I mean I I'm going through we were going through kadan um so that that's when I when I when I started I was learning with with a Kusa uh who lives in EK and I've been learning with him for over a year and um I found him through Partners in Torah and I had started with a previous Kusa in 2009 2010 uh learning bakama and so I in in there's a a section where it refers to condution uh and um like how does ownership get established and how do you make a Kenyon uh in in the in the in the 20s um and uh um so I I looked at the schedule for do yomi and I I I I said oh I we can I can start at kadan and in order to uh to to to do that like I I I needed to I needed I needed shm and so that's where aloff uh stepped in with these resources that grew up in you grew up in the wilderness you said you grew up in this area that's right yeah yeah wow wow so when you were growing up did you have any um Jewish educational background or no no wow so so uh it um so there's this starting and stopping but with with uh with the shiram it it just keeps you keeps you going and there's the the the continuity where this is happening every single day if I miss a if I miss a day fine you just miss make it up and rabbit La has been very clear about that like okay you missed a day you missed two days you missed three days fine just keep going don't stop going yeah and it and has happening every single day and so it's just it's just very exciting and it's it's h it's like eating or drinking or uh breathing air I mean it's not something that I can just store up Bank up or something like that it's something that I need every single day how' you get to this how' you get to this passion and joy of learning Torah by doing it and being supported honestly I mean that's not um I I I loved it in 2014 when I stopped and 2009 when I I stopped but to have this sort of support is is a totally different experience and so that's pushing pushing me actually pulling me out of out out of the Wilderness and and make me say Okay I I I need this I need a I need a community and so it's pulling me toward toward Seattle where there's a a thriving Jewish I mean some there there are moments honestly I'm not exaggerating when I I I I want to cry and I don't cry but I but like in general I don't cry but there are moments when I want to cry because I'm just so thankful because it it's like somebody just like took the plastic bag off your head and all of a sudden you can breathe and it's like oh my goodness like I'm just so so thankful because this is the I mean this this is this is Jewish life right here this is this is Jewish life and and this is the most important thing that we can be doing right now and uh and yet so many of us have have gotten uh distracted by oh well am I getting paid enough at work and uh am I getting getting far enough in my in my job and uh what's my retirement accounts looking like what are my investment accounts looking like and there's so many distracting things and and to know that I I I mean I literally pick up I I'm I'm holding right now like the the the resource that the key that unlocks the door to gamarra and Jewish life that goes goes back thousands of years and it's and it's and it's right right here and and and again those downloaded sham I just like anywhere I am regardless of whether I have the the connection or not I I I can I can I can pop those open unbelievable so I really appreciate this conversation is like is above and beyond for me what I could say to you is is that act first of all keep up the good work um if you need anything from us if you're ever in the New York area give us send us an email send us you have my phone number um you know send us send us a text and you're an inspiration for all of us I'm certainly going to share this with the newer family um this is this is essentially you know there are so many different people who are benefiting from these products and projects but when you hear from somebody who's literally you know cut off in time and space from regular Jewish life and they're living and breathing and connected to Torah and as you share spending hours and hours a day sometimes connected to Torah learning um it certainly makes it all worthwhile for all of us you know and it's uh inspirational for us gives us the energy and encouragement to to keep on going thank you