I'm with Kylie Oro LaBelle. Welcome to Walkins. Welcome. Thank you for coming. Thank you. I'm so happy to be here. And as you know, I'm a huge fan of you. And first heard you on Rogan and then I love your writing. I'm just so happy to be here. Thank you. I love your writing. I'm excited to talk to you about your book. I have it right here. Everybody should go check it out. Tell me really,

let's get into it. Why did you write this book? And what does it mean to you to be chosen?

You know, it's such an interesting title right away. I'm like, well, what does that mean to her?

Yeah. So I wrote the book because I wanted to tell the world about

my conversion journey. I wanted to tell them about Jews and then, you know, I'm an Orthodox Jew and there's

a lot of misinformation out there about us and Jews in general, as you know. And also I was, you know,

just grew up in Baltimore. I was an atheist. And I think

there's a lot of people right now who are missing faith from their lives. And I really want

people, you know, you don't have to convert or anything, but just to believe in God, like

believing in God, again, gave me so much hope. And I think that's what a lot of people,

especially in America, are missing right now.

And to be chosen, that's a misnomer.

People think that, you know, the chosen people means that we think we're better than everyone else.

We look down on everybody else.

But the way that I heard it was God shopped around the Torah to all the nations and the Jews were the only one that wanted to take it on.

And so we were responsible for spreading God around the world through Avraham, monotheism.

And yeah, so we chose to take the Torah on.

And our role is to show that God exists to the world.

And you don't have to be like us.

You don't have to be Jewish.

But just to believe in God and lead your life in a good way.

And were you raised religious or were you an atheist or what role did religion have in your life before you converted? And how old were you when you converted? I was 26.

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