Money, Shidduchim & Pressure: What’s Really Going On? | Rabbi Joey Haber
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🗓️ 7 June 2025
⏱️ 97 minutes
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In this riveting episode, Rabbi Joey Haber sits down with Nachi Gordon for an unfiltered, thought-provoking conversation that tackles some of the most pressing—and often taboo—questions in the Jewish world today.
What does it really mean to live a Torah life in a world obsessed with status? How can we tell the difference between true mitzvah and materialism? Are we setting up our youth for failure by defining success through narrow expectations—like the 3-to-5-year Kollel rule?
From the Syrian and Ashkenazi community dynamics to financial pressures, lavish weddings, and the emotional toll of the shidduch process, Rabbi Haber addresses it all—with clarity, humility, and refreshing honesty.
This is more than a conversation—it’s a mirror for our values and a wake-up call for our assumptions.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is starting in just 10 seconds, but I want to let you know right now that you can comment anything at all down below here on YouTube. |
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| 0:10.1 | Like this video, leave a comment, and a winner will be chosen by Thursday night. |
| 0:13.1 | Good luck. This is my conversation with our by Joey Haber. |
| 0:16.8 | First thing I want to make clear is that our behavior has no idea what's about to happen, right? |
| 0:20.4 | Yes. |
| 0:21.1 | You came into the lines down over here at meaningful people, and you have no idea what's about to happen, |
| 0:26.3 | but that's what makes it fun. |
| 0:27.7 | So I'll tell you what I had in mind when I came over here today. |
| 0:30.6 | Figure, okay, we could talk about our behavior's life. |
| 0:33.2 | Cool, nice. |
| 0:34.8 | Or I have an opportunity to sit with, I mean, Joey Hey, but we could talk about |
| 0:37.8 | some of the biggest topics and issues that people have questions on. |
| 0:42.5 | We opened up the forum to the meaningful minute plus members and we said, hey, if you |
| 0:46.3 | have a question, send it in and we'll try to ask us. |
| 0:48.9 | I want to break this up card into like three categories. |
| 0:51.8 | I want to talk about money, finances, big topic right now in the Jewish |
| 0:56.1 | world, always is. I want to talk about Shedokim and Shalombais. And of course we'll |
| 1:02.8 | sprinkle in some questions throughout from our people, but just starting out about money, about |
| 1:09.2 | finances. So there's a lot of questions that were sent in. |
| 1:12.4 | But I think the biggest one that I think jumped out at me, and I think it's something that we |
| 1:17.2 | maybe struggle with as a people right now, is at what point does Hidermitsva turn into materialism? |
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