Ben Shapiro: The Orthodox Jew with a Conservative View
Inspiration for the Nation with Yaakov Langer
Living Lchaim
4.9 • 992 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Ben Shapiro is an American political commentator, public speaker, author, and lawyer. He is also an Orthodox Jew. He is a firm supporter of conservatism, or “right-wing” politics. Shapiro became a nationally syndicated columnist at the age of 17. Born into a family with Jewish origins, Shapiro excelled in academics even in his early days.
He founded the conservative news and opinion website ‘The Daily Wire’ and serves as its editor-in-chief. Presently, Shapiro hosts the daily political podcast ‘The Ben Shapiro Show’, the top conservative podcast in the nation.
Ben is not afraid to stand up for what he believes in. While wearing his kippah, he put every ounce of his energy in trying to find the truth and bring logic to America.
Also, his wife is a doctor.
In this week's special episode, Yaakov gets to sit down with Ben and ask him about his background, hashkafas, favorite mitzvah and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Shabbas is always the big one. Everyone loves Shabbas. |
| 0:03.0 | Yeah, exactly. That's the easiest pitch for Judaism. Shabbas is always the best pitch for Judaism. |
| 0:06.7 | I still don't believe that this actually happened. Yes, that is right. This week I had the privilege of speaking to the one, the only Benjamin? |
| 0:19.2 | Well, he's known as Ben Shapiro. I started doing podcasts a little more than two years ago and there was one |
| 0:27.4 | guest, one person that I always dreamed about having, talking to, getting to know. And that was Ben Shapiro. |
| 0:37.0 | It was one of those dreams that I didn't actually really ever anticipate it really happening because you know, dream big and that's great you know he's |
| 0:45.6 | one of the biggest podcasters in the world and he's also an Orthodox Jew |
| 0:51.9 | which I like talking to Jewish people and hear about their inspiring |
| 0:59.0 | stories or just great values in Ashkafas, but also he's the biggest, like he's huge. |
| 1:09.6 | Yeah, yeah, I still can't believe it. |
| 1:14.6 | You know, I've been told a few times by people that listen to past episodes that I've done |
| 1:19.9 | when they speed it up. |
| 1:21.3 | I don't know who listens on 2X but sometimes people do and I got the compliment, |
| 1:26.3 | I'll take it, that I sound like Ben Shapiro on 2X. Which kind of makes sense because you know |
| 1:30.8 | when I talk a little faster I can be saying like it so I |
| 1:34.1 | didn't imitate him to him that would have been really awkward but we got to |
| 1:40.4 | delve into a lot of just great, you know, background about who he is, why he does what he does. |
| 1:48.0 | As you will probably hear, I don't really know much about politics. |
| 1:52.0 | Politics is not my thing I've been |
| 1:54.0 | suggested to do a show about politics a show about news those aren't particularly |
| 1:59.5 | things that I care about but I do I do believe in making this world a better place and I do believe in speaking |
| 2:06.8 | the truth and trying to find the truth and whether that's whether you agree |
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