#34: Special Guest - R' Yoel Gold
Behind the Bima
Rabbi Efrem Goldberg
4.8 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From Bokrotome, Florida, this is Behind the Bima. |
| 0:05.0 | On this episode, the rabbis are joined by Rabbi Yoel Gold, rabbi of congregation-based Naftali in Los Angeles, and renowned motivational speaker. |
| 0:13.0 | Rabbi Gold discusses the source of his passion and the secrets to telling a great story, plus a surprise question from a fan about to celebrate his bar mitzvah. |
| 0:23.6 | Also, should rabbis use their titles and their Zoom names? |
| 0:27.1 | What questions are inappropriate to ask a rabbi when calling about a Sheduch? |
| 0:31.6 | And the rabbis talk with new Bokortempsiton-Sitog, chief operating officer Jeffrey Goldgrab. |
| 0:34.1 | All this and more, Behind the Beamer. |
| 0:39.2 | Welcome to Behind the Beema, everyone. |
| 0:40.4 | It's Wednesday night, 9 o'clock. |
| 0:45.0 | I am Rabbi Ephraim Goldberg, joined by my dear friends and colleagues, Rabbi Philip Moskowitz, |
| 0:49.8 | and Rabbi Josh Brody, and we are here to take you behind the Beema. |
| 0:51.1 | Behind the Beema. |
| 0:54.8 | That opening video is a great addition, although it's a little slur between the rabbi shmooge shmooge we got a great show for you tonight we got an amazing sponsor |
| 1:02.3 | we've got incredible guests guests including breaking news a very special breaking news |
| 1:08.3 | segment tonight and we got a big simcha that we're going to be celebrating that is upcoming. We're coming to you live, in my case, from my backyard here in Boccurton, sunny South Florida, not sunny right now, but we are going through a cold spell. I think it's in the 60s right now, maybe. Freezing. Freezing. So we've got a... Is that is that a real background or that? We've got a fire pit. That is a legit fire pit taking place behind me. Whenever the, whenever the weather dips a little bit, my kids beg for a fire pit. And I, uh, draw from my old boy scout expertise. My kids make fun of me. I make them gather around so I can show them how first the twigs. First, you got to get started, a little fire starter. How you line up the logs, you've got to build them up. You got to leave some air to breathe. If there's no breathing for the fire, they can't ignite. And I teach them from the start exactly how to get it done. So I might get sunburned. Let me know if anything's happening behind me. Your sweater might catch fire, by the way. It's possible. Let me know if anything is happening behind me that I need to be aware of tonight. Gentlemen, what is new? How are you both doing? How is your week? Amazing. Amazing week. Well, we got to celebrate at a very, very special wedding. And I think one of the most exciting parts of this wedding for me personally, but I think for all of us is that when you get you get called up right now, it's not just Rabbi Goldberg, the Morda Asra. It's Rabbi Goldberg, the Morda Asra, and the host of Behind the Bima. And then Phil gets called up. Now, hold on, hold on, hold on. Two of us got called up as the host of Behind the Bima. And then Phil gets called up. Hold on, hold on, all that, all done. |
| 2:34.3 | Two of us got called up as the host of behind the Bima. |
| 2:37.9 | Right. |
| 2:38.1 | And one of us had to coach the announcer a little bit to remind who, which one was that, |
| 2:43.1 | Robert Broder? |
| 2:43.6 | Well, |
| 2:43.8 | you know what? |
| 2:44.2 | Sometimes people forget. |
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