Finding G-d In Prison: The Story of Shawn Balva
Meaningful People
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🗓️ 18 November 2023
⏱️ 99 minutes
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Raised in a secular home in Las Vegas, Shawn Balva was the star quarterback of his high school football team who dreamt of going pro. After dabbling with violence and crime, he lost control and spiraled into a life of desperation and addiction. Shawn was arrested for armed robbery and sentenced to prison at the age of twenty-one, where he began a search for a life of meaning. He is the author of the recent release ‘Conviction’ documenting his life story.
Contact Shawn at
Phone # 702-580-8616
Email [email protected]
Website to buy the book : Shawnbalva.com
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| 0:00.0 | What is a Jewish boy doing in a Catholic school? |
| 0:02.8 | I actually went to a Catholic school called Bishop Gorman. |
| 0:05.4 | That's like a top 10 high school football team in the country. |
| 0:08.7 | There you had to wear cross on your shirt. |
| 0:11.8 | So at 16 and a half being the football star and I started off |
| 0:16.2 | drinking once a week. The drinking turned into smoking which turned into a drug |
| 0:22.4 | addiction. One night it was August 25th |
| 0:25.0 | 2015 I had my gun I had a ski mess and I robbed seven convenience stores. |
| 0:31.0 | How long were you selling this man? For eight years. Wow. It's a very dangerous |
| 0:35.9 | place. You're surrounded by every single gang possible. So I was looking through the |
| 0:40.9 | Olive magazine talking about Yom Kippur coming up and you have to fast. |
| 0:46.8 | So I fast for the first time. |
| 0:48.8 | After the fast, there's Nazis in the prison too. |
| 0:51.6 | He comes out to me with the swastika tattooed on his head. |
| 0:55.2 | He sees me eat in a pork and cheese bowl and he says to me, I don't understand you Jews, |
| 1:00.8 | you fast and you pray, but you eat non--culture and when he said this to me |
| 1:04.6 | something like I was like whoa like I'm a Jew you know now I'm praying three times a day |
| 1:10.8 | with a minion in prison you know robustion would teach a |
| 1:14.0 | a Tanya class he comes up to me and he says you know we're in the same housing unit |
| 1:18.1 | we should learn together doing every single day we learn humash with Rashi and Rambam. That's how my Torah learning started with |
| 1:26.4 | Rabbi Rablashkin, right? Wow. Hello everybody and welcome to another |
| 1:31.2 | episode of the Meaningful People Podcast. |
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