Hello, I'm Dr. Stephen Hassan with another episode of the influence continuum.

And I am so excited to share one of my favorite people on planet Earth with my audience,

someone who has really touched my heart, my soul, and redirected my life, really.

Reb Moshe Wolducks is my guest today. And Moshe Waldox, I credit for bringing me back to Judaism, really.

For those of my followers, you know, I got in the Moone's

and I went on this long spiritual quest to figure out what I believed,

etc., etc. over many, many years.

I did, Moshe, Taste for Judaism, put on by the Reform Congregation,

and I agreed with everything I heard in those several-hour courses. And then it was like, well,

how do we find, how do I find a shul? How do I find a community?

And a friend at the time had seen you in the Boston Globe. There was a big feature article

with you. And she said, let's go check out this rabbi. He wrote the big book of Jewish humor.

And I was like, huh? I read that book

from my parmetsmoe back when. It's a very famous book with Bill Novak. And, you know, it's funny.

Still in print. And it's still in print. So I remember. I remember going to Brookline to Temple Beth Zion in 1998. There were

wooden pews. There was an iron railing across the Bima. Erwin Pless was the president.

You were there part-time.

And I listened.

For a while, we had only, we met in a chapel downstairs because we didn't have that.

And it sort of grew, it was, it was,

I think there were 40 people or something. It was an old conservative temple,

and Irwin and other of the founders were like, we need a new approach. Let's try this

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