Meaningful People

About Meaningful People

Meaningful People is a podcast on Lehallel — the filtered YouTube platform. 1262+ of their episodes can be watched here, with no ads and no comments.

Meaningful People is a podcast in which, in its own words, Nachi Gordon & Co "sit down with the most influential and meaningful people in the Jewish world" - a new episode every Saturday night. Most episodes are one long conversation with one guest about the road of his life, numbered as the series went: "The Story of Uncle Moishy" is #2, "The Story of Zvi Gluck - CEO of Amudim" #7, "The Story of Benny Friedman" #9, "The Story of Rabbi Nosson Scherman - General Editor of Artscroll" #23, "The Story of Yaakov Shwekey" #52, "The Story of Eli Beer - President of United Hatzalah" #61, "The Story of 8th Day" #74 and "The Story of Jewish Music Legend, Avraham Fried" #82.

Many of the guests are rabbis and teachers: Rabbi Menachem Nissel, Rav Judah Mischel, Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Rav Reuven Feinstein, Rabbi Chaim Aryeh Zev Ginzberg, Rabbi Yom Tov Glaser ("The Surfing Rabbi"), Rabbi Ari Dembi and Rabbi YY Jacobson on "Why So Many Frum People Feel Empty". Some tell a road no one expected: "The Journey of an Evangelical Christian Turned Rabbi" with R' Gavriel Sanders, "From Learning Quran to Teaching Torah" with R' Yaakov Sadigh, "From Grammys to Gemara" with Ari Blau, and R' Eli Stefansky's "8 Minute Daf".

Since October 7 the podcast has given whole episodes to Israel: "Firsthand witness: The UNCENSORED truth about Oct. 7" with ZAKA's Yossi Landau, "The Lies, Threats and Mind Games Hamas Used on Israeli Hostages", Arnold Roth on his daughter Malki, murdered at fifteen in the Sbarro pizzeria bombing ("Israel Freed the Terrorist Who Murdered My Daughter"), and R' Yehuda Kaszirer, "From The Bais Medrash to the Front Lines". Other episodes tell of a man who was inside the Twin Towers on 9/11 - "Only 4 of His 662 Coworkers Survived" - and of a family's emunah after the Meron tragedy.

And it asks the questions families ask at home: "What Shadchanim Actually Think (But Never Say)" with Rabbi Tzadok Katz, a shadchan of more than 23 years; "Shocking Dating Tips From An FBI Consultant" with the psychotherapist Dr. David J. Lieberman; a new approach to preventing divorce with Eli Goldbaum, a mediator in the Orthodox world; and "Too Many Charities? Inside the Fight for Jewish Donor Dollars" with the philanthropists Yosi Hach and Simcha Shain - beside leaders of the community such as R' Chaim Dovid Zweibel, Chaskel Bennett and Dan Butler, "The Jewish Judge from Squirrel Hill".

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