Batyah Furz: How a Filipino Christian with a PhD Left It All to Become an Orthodox Jew
Inspiration for the Nation with Yaakov Langer
Living Lchaim
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🗓️ 24 January 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Inspiration for the Nation is the weekly Jewish podcast from Living Lchaim, hosted by Yaakov Langer.
Batyah had everything in her life, a close family, a successful career, and a deep connection to Christianity. Then one day, her pastor stood before the congregation and admitted that everything he had been preaching was false. In that moment, her entire world collapsed. But even in the confusion, she felt certain that God was real. She just needed to find the truth.
Her search led her to explore Judaism. It meant walking away from her career and leaving her family behind as she traveled from the Philippines to Israel. She took on a cleaning job, a role that was humbling and incredibly difficult, but she accepted it with a simple thought: if this is what Hashem wants from me right now, I’ll do it.
From there, her path only grew stronger. She converted to Orthodox Judaism, married an Israeli man who grew up in a very charedi neighborhood, and today she is a proud Jewish influencer living in the United States. Her journey is raw, brave, and full of faith.
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| 0:00.0 | You have such a clear connection to Hashem. Where do you think that comes from? |
| 0:04.0 | In my previous religion, it's very faith-based. Judaism, you have to ask everything. |
| 0:11.0 | It's 613 versus 7. |
| 0:13.0 | Batya grew up Catholic in the Philippines, a peaceful country far from the horrors of war, |
| 0:18.0 | but somehow found herself moving to Israel at a not so peaceful time. |
| 0:22.4 | It all started as a chain reaction when her pastor told her that Jesus was not the Messiah. |
| 0:27.1 | When's the first time you started looking elsewhere? |
| 0:30.8 | Our preacher said that I have a big announcement to me. |
| 0:33.7 | Jesus is not the Messiah. |
| 0:35.4 | I was crying. I was sobbing. I felt betrayed. My entire life has dedicated for him. I worship him, pray to him, and he's not the Messiah. |
| 0:43.3 | Now what am I going to do with my life? I'm going to convert to Judaism. I had a good life in the Philippines, a teacher, a manager, had a doctorate degree, and then I cleaned toilet. So I talk to Hashem, |
| 0:56.1 | this is what you want me to do? Okay. Now that you're Jewish, do you see more hate than maybe |
| 1:01.8 | the average Jew online? I first received that threat in my life. Have you ever sacrificed anything |
| 1:07.2 | for Hashem? Me, Baya. Someone who literally gave up her old life, even cleaned toilets |
| 1:12.1 | so she can be a Basisrael. She is the epitome of determination. This episode is a memory of |
| 1:18.3 | Shemdavabh Banyak of Shlaima and Miriam Sarbaz Yakk of Moshe. You'll hear from our awesome partners |
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| 1:30.3 | Here we go. |
| 1:31.6 | By you first, could you tell us where you're from and what your childhood was like? |
| 1:36.1 | Okay, before I'm going to answer your question, I want to say that I have a group of people in mind. |
| 1:44.2 | The people who are noahide, the people who are Gentile, they are not noahad, they have their |
| 1:51.1 | belief system, the people who are converting to Judaism and, of course, our people, Kela Lestral. |
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