Calev Jean: How a Haitian Music Producer Found Judaism on Twitter
Inspiration for the Nation with Yaakov Langer
Living Lchaim
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Inspiration for the Nation is the weekly Jewish podcast from Living Lchaim, hosted by Yaakov Langer.
What happens when a hip-hop producer from Atlanta discovers truth in the Torah? Calev Jeantean (formerly Demar) shares his unbelievable journey from the music industry and Christianity to Orthodox Judaism - all sparked by one comment on Twitter. From studio fame to faith and family, Calev opens up about identity, race, courage, and spirituality, revealing how two hours of daily study transformed his life forever. This is a story of truth over comfort, faith over fame, and the power of one small moment to change everything.
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| 0:00.0 | When we first got married, we had no kids, no distractions for about two hours every morning, |
| 0:03.5 | reading just what we had at the time, which was just the Tanakh. |
| 0:07.6 | And alongside my wife would read and take notes, and we would post about it on Twitter, |
| 0:12.3 | because that's just my journal at the time. |
| 0:14.3 | So one day I post something about the Trinity because I still had yet to unravel that story. |
| 0:22.8 | And the guy commented saying this is not true, |
| 0:25.9 | the Bible doesn't actually say this. |
| 0:28.0 | So I engaged with the guy and I'm like, okay, tell me more. |
| 0:31.0 | You know, why are you saying this? |
| 0:32.7 | Where are you sourcing this information from? |
| 0:34.9 | And then he shows me straight out of the Tanakh that it says, |
| 0:37.5 | Hashem is one alone. There's no one else. And then I took that and that began the journey |
| 0:43.2 | towards Orthodox Judaism. That moment right there. Wow. How in the world does a black kid from |
| 0:48.1 | Atlanta with Haitian and Caribbean roots, a Christian, find themselves saying, |
| 0:52.8 | Barach Hashem, and I'm a proud Orthodox Jew. |
| 0:55.7 | Why did he leave Christianity? One comment online about the Bible totally changed Kaleeb's life. This episode is in memory of Shimon Dauvah bin Yaakov Shlema and Miriam Meshirebaz Jacob, Moshe. This episode is Rufuah Shlema, Yosef Khan, Bind de Vara Chaya Golda. This episode is powered by Wheels to Lease, Bip Bean, United Rufua Health Share, the Dream Raffle, and the OU's NCSY Now, before we jump in, I recognize this episode will draw a lot of non-Jews to this episode. Please let us know in the comments, whether you're Jewish, not Jewish, or I don't know, not even sure what you are, |
| 1:28.4 | but whatever you are, let us know so we could get better data on who you are so we could put |
| 1:33.2 | out episodes for you. Also, let us know in the comments, your thoughts. We'd love to hear them. |
| 1:37.6 | Here we go. Formerly, D. Mark, now Kalev, there's a whole journey over here. |
| 1:44.3 | Culliv, can you tell us about your background, where you grew up and what was life like? |
| 1:49.6 | All right. |
| 1:50.1 | I'm more than happy to. |
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