From Bocortem, Florida, this is Behind the Bima.

On this episode, the rabbis are joined by David Sacks, award-winning television writer and co-founder of the Happy Minion of Los Angeles.

David discusses what it is like to balance his career with religious sensitivities,

shares stories about how he came to Jewish observance, and explains his religious outlook and influences.

Also discussing pregnancy loss and stillbirth in the Jewish community.

And what is Rabbi Brodie's signature look?

All this and more, behind the Bima.

Good evening, Rabbi Ephraim Gower, John, by my dear friend and colleague Rabbi Joshua Brodei, and we are here to take you behind the Bima.

We're here to take you behind the Bima, continuously still missing our dear friend, Rabbi Moskots. We love and we miss desperately. And even if we don't say it every week, it's obvious, hopefully. But we are incomplete, and we are only a fraction of who we should be. So we continue to dave him. David.

We can't wait for him to rejoin us, hopefully, sometime very soon. Rabbi Joshua Brody. Back in the USA. Back in the USA. Welcome. Back to America. Great. Highlight of your short Israel trip. There was a great wedding, but the highlight. I mean, I'm not saying if the guy that had the wedding is listening that his wedding wedding was the highlight. The wedding was the highlight. But after that, after that, Efrat, with one of the former guests of our behind the Bima, incredible guest, Ripschlomo Katz. Shlomo, what a great job as Yassi and Ripschlomo. It was just, I love it. I was so inspired gave me a safer safe for I think that you learned Bill Vavi Bill Vavi great safer yeah great save yeah you know there's a big lesson in that we're we're actually thinking about it working on it we've done our base Madrish flying and we're gonna do that again where we go to New York you go to different Russia yeshiva to different Tamidaham yeshivas and we hear from them. We're working on another kind of a guise. Sometimes you got to disrupt russia yeshiva to different tummi the chihattam yeshivas and we hear from them we're

working on another kind of a guy's sometimes you got to disrupt life in order to find inspiration

you're just caught up in your own life like going to work paying the bills getting the kids to bed

doing the homework getting to minion doing the like the daily grind of life in one hand

that routine and momentum sometimes can carry you but But on the other hand, sometimes it makes it hard to break out. And you've got to disrupt. It could be a trip. It could be, you know, something in your schedule, something new. So you come back, we're going to be rolling out something very exciting in that arena. Life is dirty. Got to go behind the mask, you know. Life can be complicated. Yeah. Sometimes you got to disrupt. You got to be vulnerable. You got to life is dirty got to go behind the mask you know life can be complicated yeah

sometimes you got to disrupt you got to be vulnerable you got to talk you got to share you got to and you

got to break out no question we've been focusing a lot here in our community this year with mental

health not mental illness but mental health how we can be healthy how we can grow we've done we have

our podcast out of the shadows the next episode will be coming out soon. But we did an amazing, amazing panel. We've spoken about it behind the beam a couple weeks ago with the Foreman family. There's a huge, people have watched it, listened to it, many, many thousands and thousands of people. I've gotten countless emails, texts, and people, I'm so happy that it resonated, it touched people. Some people have reached out to get help, and they're now confronting and trying to tackle their own challenge in this area of addiction and recovery. So it was really, really fantastic and really excited about it. And if you haven't checked it out, it's really worth it. Go on our YouTube channel, Rabbi F.M. Goldberg, on YouTube and find that conversation with a recovering addict, her parents, and her brother.

Because whether you are touched by addiction or not, I guarantee it'll impact you. So we're still focused on working on this area, something all of us need help with.

And speaking of conversations, I just saw an email that there's another big conversation coming up, one that's obviously very personal for you, it's you and your wife. Yeah. Going to be speaking. Yeah, it's an interesting story, actually. O'O reached out to me, and they said they're doing a webinar about prenatal loss, a webinar about people with pregnancy, loss, miscarriage, stillbirth, people who have struggled in that area. And they were reaching out to me as a rabbi. you know it's a pretty pretty big sure probably dealt with it anything you have to offer in that area and they were reaching out to me as a rabbi you know it's a pretty

pretty big shul probably dealt with it anything you have to offer in that area so I said oh are you

are you calling me because of the stillbirth that we had they're like we don't know anything about it

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