Shmulie Hartstein | The Most Avoidable Tragedy In Our Community
Meaningful People
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4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In this emotional and eye-opening interview, we sit down with Shmuie Hartstein, the founder of B’Sefer Chaim, an urgent initiative born out of heartbreak and driven by love. After witnessing the repeated devastation of families who lost a parent without life insurance, Shmuel decided enough was enough.
With raw honesty, he shares the story that led him to launch B’Sefer Chaim—an awareness campaign dedicated to ensuring that no Jewish family ever faces financial ruin in the wake of personal loss.
This isn’t about business. It’s about responsibility. About protecting those we love. About building a future where dignity, security, and foresight replace panic, shame, and last-minute fundraisers.
👉 Visit https://www.bseferchayim.org/ to learn more and take action.
Don’t wait. This conversation could change a life—maybe yours.
Email them today: [email protected]
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's up, my friends. Welcome back to another episode of the Meaningful People podcast. |
| 0:04.4 | So happy you are here. I sat down with Schmully Hearts in this week. And this is an important |
| 0:08.5 | conversation if I ever had one. Wow. Really important topic. And there's actually like a call |
| 0:13.0 | to action here. So listen to this and drive yourself to action based on this conversation because |
| 0:17.6 | we've seen way too many people not listen to this message. So please do. This episode is sponsored by my friends at PZ deals. Head to their app, head to their website or their app, whichever one, but I have their app. I love their app. And you will see 42% off, 50% off, 36% off, 18% off, 53% off, like constantly, constantly over 50% off items. |
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| 0:53.2 | This episode is also sponsored my friends at Colt, El-Habod. |
| 1:12.3 | Take out your phone before we start this episode or or if you're on your phone, then maybe after or come back or you could do like the play, keep playing me in the corner of your phone type thing. Go to the push cap and boom, give some siddaka. That's all you got to do is give some to Siddaka. Give some for push.com. Go to Pushka.cq.com. Today, give Sadaka every single day. Get your streak going. You have a |
| 1:18.6 | 10 day streak, a 30 day streak, a 150 day streak. Imagine that. On the push app, pushgo.combe. |
| 1:23.1 | Pushka.com. Pushka.com. And enjoy this episode. It's not every day that we interview someone that |
| 1:28.9 | that's like, maybe people really don't know you. So there's like a good opportunity for people |
| 1:34.2 | really get to know who you are and what you do. Isn't that exciting? It's very exciting. A lot of |
| 1:39.1 | people know me, but I guess, let's see. Well, we're talking big, like, you know, all over the world now. |
| 1:45.0 | So I guess, tell us who you are, what your name is, where you're from. |
| 1:50.0 | So my name is Smiley Hartstein. |
| 1:52.0 | I grew up in Brooklyn. |
| 1:54.0 | I'm 39. |
| 1:56.0 | Place called Bar Park on 8th Avenue, 56th Street, right near the 18th Avenue Park for all those who |
| 2:02.6 | who know where that is. |
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