Sunny Levi: The Champion Black Belt Who Found Hashem From the Fight
Inspiration for the Nation with Yaakov Langer
Living Lchaim
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🗓️ 25 October 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Inspiration for the Nation is the weekly Jewish podcast from Living Lchaim, hosted by Yaakov Langer.
When Sunny Levi was a little girl, she prayed every day for her disabled brother to be healed - prayers that went "unanswered" and left her questioning God, faith, and the meaning of prayer itself. Years later, that same heartbreak became the catalyst for her spiritual awakening. Now a 7th-degree black belt, Emunah life coach, and founder of the Hitbodedut Spiritual Boot Camp, Sunny channels that early pain into purpose - teaching others how to find strength, peace, and clarity through personal prayer, faith, and self-discipline.
Her website: https://www.sunnylevi.com
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This episode is in memory of:
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | There was this one day where we both came home at the same time. I came home from training with my |
| 0:04.2 | coach so nauseous, like pushed past the point of my physical limits that I just had to throw up. |
| 0:10.8 | And my dad came home from chemo, like weak and wobbly and like also so nauseous. And we were the only |
| 0:15.7 | two people in the house. And we were literally throwing up in two different bathrooms at the same |
| 0:20.2 | time for two totally different reasons. |
| 0:23.1 | And the juxtaposition of that really, really shook me up. |
| 0:27.8 | There was nothing like sitting there thinking, what? |
| 0:30.6 | Like, here I am throwing up, chasing my dreams, becoming stronger. |
| 0:35.3 | And here's my dad, like, getting weaker and dying. |
| 0:38.3 | And then the thought of death really made me think about what's life. |
| 0:43.3 | Maybe you clicked on this conversation because there's something about karate that's fascinating. |
| 0:48.4 | But you'll be surprised to hear how this quickly turns into a talk about deep connection |
| 0:52.7 | with Hashem and talking to him for over eight hours. This episode is in memory of Shimon David, bin Yaakov Shalima, as well as Miriam Sarabas Yaakov Mosha. This episode is also Rufuaheim, Yosef Chaim, Ben Devorahya-Ga-Golda. This episode is powered by Bip-Been, Wilslees, Turro, and Twillerie. Here we go. |
| 1:12.3 | Sunny Levy, thank you so much for coming and doing this. |
| 1:15.1 | Could you tell us about your childhood, where you grew up, and what was your, I guess, connection |
| 1:19.8 | with us from back then? |
| 1:21.3 | Well, I grew up in Chicago, one of six kids, kind of the middle child. |
| 1:26.8 | I would say my parents were on a spiritual journey. They were |
| 1:29.8 | somewhere between very modern Orthodox and conservadox. I'm not really sure what to call it, |
| 1:34.8 | but I'll call it modern, modern Orthodox. My connection with Hashem, I hated the guy. I just, I had |
| 1:43.2 | a very big moment of disillusionment when I was young, where I came to the conclusion |
| 1:50.2 | after spending about a month talking to God that I felt either he doesn't exist or he does exist, |
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