Rabbi Yosef Shapiro: What Going Through IVF REALLY Means

Inspiration for the Nation with Yaakov Langer

Living Lchaim

Judaism, Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 992 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Whether you know it or not, a few couples in your life are having a very hard time having a baby.

Rabbi Yosef Shapiro grew up in Baltimore and learned in different yeshivas, while also completing his MBA in investment banking. He received smicha from the Jerusalem Kollel under the leadership of R' Yitzchok Berkovits and now is the Senior Rabbi of the Brookhaven Kollel, a kiruv/outreach community that he and his wife, Rookie, started from scratch that now services hundreds of young Jews.

He recently published a book about infertility and challenge, titled IN IT TOGETHER, and spends a lot of his free time helping couples struggling with infertility around the world.

If you’d like to speak to Rabbi Shapiro about his availability to speak in your community or if you have any questions for him about infertility he can be reached at 678-693-0365 or [email protected]

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0:00.0	This is a trauma, it's a misunderstood trauma to the outside world, but it's something that takes over every aspect of your life.
0:06.8	It's not like during the day you're thinking about work and then at home you relax and then, oh, and I also have to go to that appointment.
0:14.3	It's not like that it takes over every aspect of your life.
0:16.9	You want to go grocery shopping?
0:18.4	Wait, but what time do I want to go?
0:20.0	Do I want to go at 6 p.m?
0:21.5	No, because then people with kids are going to be there.
0:23.0	So you want to go during the day. But what if I see pregnant moms? What if I see a friend who's pregnant?
0:27.3	All these things take over your entire life. And that's besides how am I coming up with 30, 40,000 dollars? Do I need
0:35.1	any therapy for the emotional burden? What about the physical issues?
0:38.9	Welcome back to another episode of Inspiration for the nation. I'm Yaku Linger and we're releasing this episode on the holiday of Passover on Peiag during Klamoid where so many of you are with your friends, your families, you're probably with your families families you're having a fun time but
0:54.3	unfortunately there's so many people out there that struggle when it comes to
0:58.0	making a family or growing their family and that's why I particularly wanted to do
1:02.4	this episode during this time because I don't want to make you sad but I want you to be
1:07.7	thinking about everyone and anyone who's out there it's it's definitely a holiday we're supposed to think of everyone and this is a wonderful
1:15.6	conversation in terms of IVF. What exactly is it and what's the process through it and what's the struggle?
1:22.4	I think we hear about it so much and
1:25.2	you definitely know someone struggling with it, whether you know it or not and this
1:30.2	conversation is just a window to someone's journey,
1:33.9	their struggle, their challenges.
1:36.0	Rabioza is great at telling over his story
1:41.3	and he's a great person. and this week's episode is in memory
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