Hey there, welcome to How to Be a Jew. I'm one of your hosts, Josh Cross, and I'm all alone this week.

A few weeks back,

we sat down with A.J. Edelman, the first Orthodox Jew to compete in the Winter Olympics,

and the pilot of the current Israeli bobsledd team. Shortly after that interview, Tablet signed on as a sponsor for his bobsled team, complete with merch you can find at tabletmagstor.com.

This week, we're bringing you a dispatch from the World Bob Sled Championships where AJ competed.

It's the biggest stage the Israeli team has ever been a part of, and AJ did Israel proud.

Here's the three things you need to know about what it means to compete at this level.

First of all, the sport is

extremely dangerous, as AJ will tell you. The winter sports are the ones that you can get killed

doing. The brain, when it gets bashed like that, the first impulse that your body has, even with

experiences, I've got to do something, right? I got to get this under control.

You're going to crash quite a lot, especially in your first two years.

But I'd say like there's generally like a bell curve.

The less experience and worst pilots crash quite a lot.

The medium pilots don't crash very much at all.

And then the top end pilots as well crash a few times

because the more you push the sled towards doing things

that will make it faster, the less control you're going to gain over it.

It's like you can die doing this course, so you get really, really injured.

I think my craziest run ever was when I was running, the push bar just fell down, so I grabbed

onto the sled and was being dragged along the side. The guy who was the second seat, he saw

and he grabbed me and threw me into the sled. Like, this is one of the Drew's boys. And I always

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