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Michael Macks

Oct 4, 2026

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Can you tell us about that? Yeah,
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it's a great question.
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So actually, my first job was in the rabbinic sphere.
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I went to school at Yeshiva University, and I went to the Samikha program, so became a rabbi.
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And a few months after I graduated, I worked as a pulpit rabbi in New York in the Bronx.
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And I did that for a couple years.
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And that was technically a part-time job.

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Interesting, yeah.
AyalaHOST
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Yeah.
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But first, like one word of preceding this is that You mentioned that, you know, just learning about Kabbalah made you more excited to, you know, let's say like cover your hair for lighting candles.
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So the Sefer Haredim, which is, he was another one of the Kabbalists from that Tzfat school in the 1500s.
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There were a bunch of like major game changing Kabbalists at that time.
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Rev.
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Lazar Azkiri, he writes in the introduction to his book that in order to get the maximum impact of a mitzvah, there are 16 criteria and he lists 16 things that if you're not doing these 16 things, you're not going to appreciate a mitzvah.
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So three of those that stood out to me were you have to do it with love, you have to do it with awe, and you have to do it with joy.

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AyalaHOST
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