#11: Special Guest - R' Aaron Kotler
Behind the Bima
Rabbi Efrem Goldberg
4.8 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2020
⏱️ 63 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Rabbi's Ephraim Goldberg, Philip Moskowitz, and Josh Brody from Bochrotone Synagogue |
| 0:07.0 | schmooze about contemporary issues. Every week features an unscripted, lively discussion, special guests, |
| 0:13.1 | at a behind-the-scenes look at leading a large and dynamic Jewish community. Welcome to Behind the Bima. |
| 0:22.2 | On this episode, the rabbis are joined by Rabbi Aaron Cutler, |
| 0:25.9 | CEO of Beth Medrish Gavowa, the famous Lakewood yeshiva. |
| 0:29.4 | Rabbi Cutler shares his history with the yeshiva |
| 0:31.4 | and discusses his unique perspective administering and guiding a 7,000 student yeshiva. |
| 0:36.8 | Also, who's gained weight and who's lost weight |
| 0:38.6 | during this pandemic? And Rabbi Brody's secret black hat past is finally revealed. All this and more |
| 0:44.0 | behind the Bima. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, it's 9 o'clock Wednesday night. And you know |
| 0:50.5 | what that means? It's time to spend time with our friends. I'm Rabbi Eff from Goldberg, |
| 1:00.0 | joined by esteemed panelist, Rabbi Philip Moskowitz, and as well, Kiva from Stiesel. |
| 1:06.3 | No, that's Rabbi Josh Brody. And we are going to take you behind the beam. |
| 1:10.8 | Welcome back to another incredible episode, another incredible night. Great to be with our dear friends and great to not only be alive, but thank God to hopefully be making some progress and heading in the right direction. |
| 1:17.9 | We hope. |
| 1:18.9 | And Arshul certainly is doing that, trying to safely, incrementally. |
| 1:22.7 | Not everyone is. |
| 1:23.9 | But nothing's a given these days. |
| 1:25.4 | Anytime you can be with friends and have a night that enjoy, conversation, inspiration, |
| 1:29.9 | it's not to be taken for granted. What's new? What do you guys have to say? Right, Brody, you look a little different this week. First, I'm just trying to share this with the rest of the world, but yes, we have a very special guest tonight. You know, I'm coming from the Yeshiva Velt, so I want to make sure that, you know, |
| 1:45.2 | we have a good time tonight. It's going to be great. I'm just saying, Robert Brody looks like |
| 1:50.6 | he walked off the set of Shababnikim. That's all I'm saying tonight. It was a great week. |
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