Special Guest - Jeff Swartz, Former CEO of Timberland
Behind the Bima
Rabbi Efrem Goldberg
4.8 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2021
⏱️ 79 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | From Bokrotone, Florida, this is Behind the Bima. |
| 0:04.6 | On this episode, the rabbis are joined by Jeff Swartz, former CEO of Timberland. |
| 0:09.5 | Jeff talks about his path to observance, shares amazing stories from his time navigating |
| 0:13.5 | the corporate world as an Orthodox Jew, and explains the critical difference between |
| 0:17.8 | managing risk and embracing uncertainty. |
| 0:20.7 | Also, deciding when and how to speak out on issues, Rabbi Goldberg says goodbye to teaching over Zoom |
| 0:25.9 | and the fallout from a Miami Heat player using an anti-Semitic slur. |
| 0:30.5 | All this and more, behind the Bima. |
| 0:33.1 | I am your host, Rabé from Goldberg, joined with my dear friends Rabbi Philip Moskowitz and |
| 0:36.4 | Rabbi Josh Brody. |
| 0:55.4 | It's Wednesday night 9 o'clock, and we're here to take you, behind the Bima. Behind the Bima is like, it really has become its own enterprise. I was at a Schlossim earlier today at the Youngerser of Deerfield Beach, and a woman who's slightly older than I am, us just say calls me across the machita i come to the majitza and she says it's nice to be behind the |
| 1:00.3 | bema with you i'm like okay thank you so we have fans of all age categories they love the behind |
| 1:07.9 | the bima um what's the behind the bima what is it our brand we're going to talk about branding tonight they love the behind the Bima, what's the behind the Bema? What is it? Our brand. We're going to talk about branding tonight. They love the behind the Bema brand. So it's good to be together again, gentlemen. I want to thank our sponsors for tonight, once again for the third week in a row, our dear friend Jeremy Galbart and beepermd.com, Beper, B.E-E-P-E-R-M-D.com. Free at-home PCR testing, $30 rapid test. Unfortunately, we're still in this time of this period. We're talking about having to be tested and knowing what we have to be safe and to keep the community secure. And this is an amazing, easy way to do it. Free at-home PCR testing, $30-D-D-com. Also tonight, we have a sponsor my new dear friend raffi aggola raffi |
| 1:47.5 | agelah lives in l.a currently checked out our community and was grateful for the hospitality the warmth |
| 1:53.1 | he felt in his day and is a co-sponsor of tonight as wave saying thank you to our community raffi is a |
| 1:58.4 | huge sports fan we had a little debate while he was here about who's the |
| 2:02.2 | goat, who's the greatest that ever lived, the greatest of all time in basketball. He's from L.A. |
| 2:07.2 | So Kobe's up there for him. Of course, the answer is MJ Jordan. There's no close second even. |
| 2:12.4 | But he even entertained LeBron. Early this year, the NBA warned LeBron against flopping. |
| 2:20.4 | Any player who has to be warned against flopping, |
| 2:23.1 | Rabbi Bro, you have no idea what that is, but it's pretending that you were fouled or hit |
| 2:26.4 | and falling to the ground. |
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