Country Yossi & Heshy Walfish: The Power of Laughter & Friendship

Inspiration for the Nation with Yaakov Langer

Living Lchaim

Judaism, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Inspiration for the Nation is the weekly Jewish podcast from Living Lchaim, hosted by Yaakov Langer.

Yossi Toiv, known professionally as Country Yossi, and his best friend Heshy Walfish are American Orthodox Jewish composers, singers, radio show hosts, authors, and magazine publishers.

Country Yossi is by nature a composer and singer in the Jewish music genre and Heshy is the music playing and logistics manager. Toiv to his credit three albums as members of the group Or Chodosh ("New Light") circa 1971–73, and together they have seven albums under the name Country Yossi and the Shteeble Hoppers, and a series of six albums for children called Kivi and Tuki.

They also released "Country Yossi's Classic Calls" a humorous collection of actual on-air phone calls to his radio show.

Their journey is quite a tale and the way the two used each of their talents to work together is inspiring.

You can see more of their epic work here: CountryYossi.com

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0:00.0	This man he went to visit his mother who had Alzheimer's or dementia and he sat there for hours holding her hand and the nurse you know would come in and out
0:10.8	Finally one day the nurse ask him. Why do you come here and sit here all day
0:15.1	she doesn't even know who you are and he said maybe true but I know who she is
0:21.8	hey how's it going in your car?
0:23.5	I hope you're having a good drive.
0:25.2	I don't know if you're actually driving, but if you are, then you're like, hey, how does he know this?
0:30.7	Because 97% of our listeners drive when they listen.
0:34.3	I made that step up, I don't know.
0:36.4	This week's episode is filled with tons of laughter.
0:40.1	I got to interview two of the biggest legends in the comedy world in observing Judaism,
0:49.5	Country Yasi and Heshi Walthish.
0:52.3	You probably have heard some of their music, their Kivian Tooki, their
0:57.4	legendary phone calls.
1:00.4	We're going to include some of that here, so you get the feel and more
1:06.3	Important than the work they've done it's it's beautiful to see their friendship and you'll see it throughout I am honored to present you this episode. This
1:14.2	episode is in memory of Shim and Deva vignacov Schlyma. It's also in memory of Miriam
1:18.8	Sarabas Yacov Mosha and I will tell you in middle of this episode about a fantastic podcast.
1:25.0	Here are the legends.
1:27.0	I'm Yaku Blank.
1:28.0	We can all use some inspiration to help us overcome the obstacles we encounter in our lives.
1:36.0	Get ready for thrilling conversations about struggle and triumph with those in pursuit of making a positive impact in this world.
1:46.0	I'm Yaku Langer and you're listening to Inspiration for the nation.
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