R’ Eliyahu Pereira: From a Life of Nightclubs to Teshuva & Tzfat
Inspiration for the Nation with Yaakov Langer
Living Lchaim
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🗓️ 7 February 2026
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Inspiration for the Nation is the weekly Jewish podcast from Living Lchaim, hosted by Yaakov Langer.
R’ Eliyahu Pereira tells his story without glossing it over. He describes the environments that shaped him, the faith he struggled with, and the questions that stayed with him. It’s a grounded conversation about emunah and the long road it can take to find your footing.
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| 0:00.0 | A lot of pain, a lot of hurt, a lot of disappointment. |
| 0:03.0 | And when I got out of the army, I definitely was like empty. |
| 0:08.0 | And I started working immediately like two weeks after I got out and I was working in a very shady business in Tel Aviv and not good stuff. |
| 0:14.0 | I remember like wanting to, not wanting to. I did it. Like I made Kidush in Friday night, a Kedush. Interesting. Not for anybody else, |
| 0:23.8 | but myself quietly. No one even needs to know. He grew up between wealth and nothing. Bounce |
| 0:28.4 | across continents, had no real religious foundation, and spent years lost between party culture, |
| 0:34.8 | army life, and empty success. Somehow, though, breakdowns, miracles, and relentless |
| 0:40.5 | searching, that kid ended up becoming a Svass Yid, who found home by discovering Hashem |
| 0:46.4 | where he least expected it. Meet Alia. This episode is a memory of Shimon Dhabibyanak of Shleim |
| 0:52.0 | Makh of Shleim and Miriam Sarabas Yaakov Moshe. This episode is powered by our friends at Bitbean, Wheel to Lease, Thelze, and the community in Tucson, Arizona. |
| 1:01.0 | Here we go. |
| 1:02.0 | Eliahou, there's a lot to discuss, but first could give us a background of your childhood. |
| 1:07.0 | Where'd you grow up and what was it like? |
| 1:09.0 | Well, so I was born in Miami and lived |
| 1:13.7 | there for a few years, not really religious family, but connected. Kid do Shun Shabha, go to Shul. Thank |
| 1:21.5 | God's Farty, so if we did go to a synagogue, it was like an Orthodox Shul. And at least I was, |
| 1:29.7 | what I did see of Torah was actual Torah. |
| 1:36.6 | And around six or so, we moved to South Africa. I was there for a while. |
| 1:42.4 | Didn't really find myself there. And I don't think my family did either, even though my mom I was raised in South Africa. South Africa was a very dangerous place. My parents met there. They left when they were pregnant |
| 1:48.1 | with me. And then we were back there a few years later. And again, it wasn't a place to be. So |
| 1:52.9 | we continued to the UK. And I went to school in Scotland. I went to school in England, |
| 1:59.6 | different boarding schools. Very posh, very, you know, rich |
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