Ari chats briefly about the benefits of moving into a Jewish community

On this Elul special Ari talks with special guest Jodeci Jospeh of @jodecitalks about faith and mental health. Is relgion a crux or a cure or is it maybe a little  bit of both?

Ari and Jodeci talk about personal experiences, the japanese art of beautiful scars, community and much much much more.

Put some gold in your bowl, please listen share and like.

Making a special guest appearance Elio from the legendary podcast Two Chassids in a Pod, joins Ari for for this Elul special to talk about Teshuvah.

Ari and Elio talk about two levels of Teshuvah, what the Rabbis have to say on the matter. How to start to make Teshuvah  and what it really looks like.

Then Elio talks with such passion about his own life story taking us from Miami to Israel, to the IDF, back to Miami then to yeshiva and his current work on the Two Chassids in a Pod Podcast. 

This is one of the most honest, open and truly passionate stories on the show to date. Listen to it, share it with your friends and and take time to make changes in your life.

In this episode Ari speaks with Naama from Ben Zion Fine Arts about contemporary Gedolim art work for Jewish homes. 

In this fascinating episode we learn why its important to connect to a Rav and what difference it makes to a Jewish Home.

Amazing portraits of Rabbis and Chassids available on www.benzionfinearts.com 

Ari and Yisrael talk with Motivational Speaker, Chassid, Legend and one time owner of a pink motorala phone.

Jodeci shares part of his incredible story with us how he found out he was Jewish at the age of 11 and going and how that changed his life. Jodeci also talks to us about his time at Yeshiva, making Aliyah and between us there are some terrible jokes too.

On this amazing episode Ari and Yisrael talk with Yehudah Pryce about his incredible life journey from gang member to prison inmate to Orthodox Judaism.

Yehudah speaks candidly about his life, what happened, what changed and how his whole life was leading up to this moment. 

Yehudah's story is both incredible and inspirational as he tells us of his new life not only as an Orthodox Jew but as he works in the social work environment helping people who are prison bound.

On this episode Ari speaks with good friend Shmuel about growing up somewhat estranged from his Judaism and his journey from liberal to Orthodox Judaism.

Throw in a little politics, a little theology, some chat about Netflix and some recommendations to contact your local Chabad Rabbi.

Ari talks with Dovi Halpern of @jewishmetal and Hashem's Warrior. Dovi tells Ari about his life, some projects he has been working on and how he came to create Jewish Heavy Metal.

Putting a spark of light into the darkness.

Ari and Yisrael are joined by Ciara Shalome, social media activist and Instagram legend.

In this episode we talk with Ciara about her Zionism and Anti Semitism activism, Jewish Identity, focussing on Jews of Patrilineal descent and some of the issues they encounter and how best to navigate that landscape and just a little bit of Jewish faith thrown in for good measure..

Yisrael and Ari talk Zionism. Brace yourself its about to become a little uncomfortable. 

Rabbit holes aplenty in this episode, history, politics, fake news, the squad its all in there.

Ari admits his guilty secret, He watches Al Jazera news!!! find out why in this episode.

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