From Bokuritome, Florida, this is Behind the Bima.

On this episode, the rabbis are joined by Jewish historians Ehuda Geberer and Davy Safira.

Yehuda and Davy discuss the value of studying history, explain how they got their start and talk about their collaborative process, and share their favorite types of stories to write.

Also, Rabbi Brody gives an update on his trip to Israel, and that Dysavit has it close to home. All this and more, behind the Bima. Good evening. It is Rabbi F. from Goldberg. It is Wednesday. I'm joined by my colleague and dear friend Rabbi Josh Brody, on location, as always, on the road, but nothing holds him back from joining us and we're here to take you

behind the bema behind the beama rabbi brady where are you so right now we're actually in the

holy city of modi inn never been here uh only passed through but i know that you have some

family here god willing we'll see them soon. Very special city.

Incredible, incredible people. And it's part of a very exciting trip that we're on right now. So we'll see. Matthew in Israel. We'll hear more about that in a moment. But first, thank you to our sponsors. Very grateful to Morris and Rachel Rachel Rachel Tabush of Brooklyn, New York. sponsored in honor of Mori Litwark

for the amazing work he does

for the Shiva schools across the country.

Mori's a good friend. He does incredible work. Teach Florida, teach New York, the OU's efforts to help day schools and yeshivas get some from the government. Millions of dollars are being poured in. It's really incredible, incredible, incredible work.

I remember people were cynical

at the beginning of it.

Like, yeah, as if we're going to get money, it's never going to happen. Millions and millions of dollars. In fact, the state of Florida is the biggest supporter of Jewish education in Florida, more than any particular philanthropists. And I'm sure the same is true. and growing.

So thank you to Tabush for sponsoring

in honor of Mori.

Mori should have continued strength

as he does his great work.

And this evening, And I'm sure the same is true. And growing. So thank you to Tabush for sponsoring in honor of Mori.

Mori should have continued strength as he does his great work. And this evening's behind the beam is also sponsored. Yehahad and I are sponsoring in honor of Judy and Lester Hanner with tremendous gratitude. They recently did a huge favor for us and we're so grateful to the Hanners. Judy and Lester are fantastic people. They are kind and generous and giving and a little bit outrageous and funny. In fact, Lester did the favor and then I was with him. I said, Lester, I can't possibly thank you enough. So you know what he said? Give it a shot. Give it a try. He's hilarious. So thank you, Lester. Thank you, Judy. They're good friends and really, really grateful to them. So tell us, Robo, what brings you to Israel? Oh, we're doing a little scouting, a little scouting mission. You know, God willing, in a few years, we don't know exactly when. We're going to be here. I guess we're all going to be here, but we're just looking at communities. So we're taking the time to meet lots of people, to people on the ground. And I'll tell you an incredible story. What just happened, we're in Tsvat, the holy city of Tsvaz. We're walking down the artist colony. And there was one picture that just caught my attention. So I walked into the store.

And you know, there's many, many stores on the street.

And this guy sees we're wearing like a Miami Dolphins hat.

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