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David Aaron

David Aaron

Sep 22, 2026

51:59
Yeah.
51:59
And one of my donors said, "You need a fundraiser 'cause you're not gonna be able to succeed on your own." So he hired somebody that would be the CEO of IsraLight and manage the financial and the development.
52:13
And this fellow said to me, "You know what you need to do? You need to write a book." And I said, "I'm, [laughs] I'm not a writer.
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I'm a speaker.
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I don't know how to write." And he said, "Well, I'm just telling you, you should write a book, and you should write a Jewish Road Less Traveled," which was the best-selling book on the New York's Times bestsellers b- list for years.
52:33
Like, like, like, world record years that this book was on, on, on the bestsellers list by Scott Peck.
52:42
And I said, "Yeah, right.

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So are you married at this point when you start writing books?
58:15
I'd love for you to share some Torah that will be geared towards the Shark Tank listeners, B'nai Torah, and the workforce as we approach Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and the Yom HaNorayim.
58:23
Even though I'm an Orthodox rabbi, I will honestly say that there's a side of me that does not like Rosh Hashanah.
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But there is a side of me that likes Rosh Hashanah, so don't give up on me yet.
58:34
The side of me that doesn't like Rosh Hashanah is something I think most people can identify.
58:39
I don't think anybody likes to be judged.
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I don't think anybody likes the idea that the creator of the earth is paying attention to and remembering, remembering every single detail of my last year and everything I did wrong.
58:51
People don't like to be criticized.
60:46
Now, when you're a kid, birthdays are really happy,
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What are we returning to? Can you expand on that a little bit?
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Well, we're like a silver dollar that's been tarnished.
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And a person picks that up on the street and looks like this is just some dirty, worthless thing.
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But somebody says, no, underneath it is pure silver.
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The soul that you gave me is pure, and there's nothing you can do to contaminate the soul.
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What you can do is cover it up.
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What you can do is block yourself out.

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Am I being too vague or do you understand what I'm asking? I

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