Crossing Borders of Faith | Mayer Weiss's Journey from Hispanic Upbringing to Hassidic Judaism
Meaningful People
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🗓️ 15 July 2023
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Through great travails, challenges, and opportunities, Mayer Weiss navigated his way to Judaism. His journey is an inspiring story of growth and renewal, from his roots in Mexico to his various stops along the path to a new way of life.
Mayer can be reached at: [email protected]
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| 0:00.0 | I'm going to go Saturday in the morning to the synagogue here. |
| 0:06.8 | He wasn't having it. You step out of this house. You're out for good. |
| 0:13.8 | So I told her, okay, I'm telling you right now, you'd take a foot out of this door. |
| 0:19.3 | I'm going to spank you and you're going to remember what my name is. |
| 0:23.0 | That's all right, question that. Why are you so upset? You didn't tell me to be Christian, |
| 0:26.5 | Catholic, anything. Why does it bother you? |
| 0:29.1 | So she said, you're going to sit down and that's it. So I said, okay, fine. |
| 0:33.9 | I sat down. Everybody weekends, watch TV, football, soccer, whatever, chips sit down in the living room. |
| 0:41.4 | I took a pillow and I covered my face. |
| 0:46.1 | She said, what are you doing? To the Shabbos we don't watch TV. |
| 0:49.8 | Say, called my phone. Don't pick up. Shabbos we don't answer the phone. |
| 0:55.2 | We don't touch electricity. |
| 0:57.4 | sat down like a munch for the first time in my life with |
| 1:00.5 | about a chala, whatever food. I sat down to eat front of everybody. |
| 1:05.5 | And I did this for a couple of shabbos. She didn't let me go. |
| 1:10.7 | And I covered my face and I would sleep through whole shabbos. |
| 1:15.6 | And during those weeks, I would dive into a shabbos. |
| 1:21.0 | She's not going to back down that quickly. |
| 1:23.3 | Help me that it should it should work. |
| 1:27.0 | Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Meaningful People podcast. |
| 1:30.0 | So happy to have you again. We sat down with an awesome guest this weekend. |
| 1:35.1 | His name is Mayor Weiss. You probably do not know him. |
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