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Mayer Weiss | Why A Mexican Kid Became a Hassidic Jew [Re-Air]

Meaningful People

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Education, Religion & Spirituality, Jewish, Jew, Meaningful, Self-improvement, People, Judaism

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

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.


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I'm gonna go Saturday in the morning to the synagogue here.

0:06.8

She wasn't having it. You step out of this house, you're out for good so I told her okay I'm telling you right now you

0:16.8

take a foot out of this door I'm gonna spank you and you're gonna remember what my

0:22.4

name is.

0:23.0

So I question, I thought, why are you so upset?

0:25.0

You didn't tell me to be Christian, Catholic, anything.

0:28.0

Why does it bother you?

0:29.0

So, she said, you're going to sit down and that's it.

0:32.0

So I said, okay, fine. I sat down everybody weekends

0:36.6

watch TV football soccer or whatever chips sit down in the living room took a pillow

0:42.1

and I covered my face.

0:46.1

She said, what are you doing?

0:47.7

T'O Shabbas, we don't watch TV. Say, called my phone, don't pick up.

0:53.0

Shabbas, we don't answer the phone.

0:55.0

We don't touch electricity.

0:57.0

Sat down like a mench for the first time in my life

1:00.0

with Borachala, whatever food.

1:03.0

I sat down to eat in front of everybody.

1:05.0

And I did this for a couple shibbles.

1:08.0

She didn't let me go.

1:10.0

And I would cover my face, and I would sleep through whole shabbers.

1:15.0

And during those weeks I would dive into a shamb,

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