The "Jewish Jordan" Who Gave Up Fame & Fortune for Shabbos

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz’s own words— taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

University of Maryland, pulled up my Yeshiva, there was only 60 kids in the whole school that were coming to watch you play tonight. And that was one of the greatest college basketball teams of all time. They came to watch me play, and after one night, one game, they said, "We're offering you a four-year full athletic scholarship to join a powerhouse college basketball program." And I said, "You're my dream team. This is the meeting I've been waiting for. I'm going to commit. I'm going to commit right away because this is like everything, but I'm never going to play on Shabbat." You probably heard of the on Shabbat." You probably heard of the Jewish Jordan, but believe me, you don't know his true story. He opens up in this episode about his greatest success, failures, and battles he faced. This episode is in memory of Shimon David ben Yaakov as well as Miriam Sarah bas Yaakov Moshe. This episode is also refuah shleimah Yosef Chaim ben Devorah Chaya Golda. This episode is powered by Admire, Wheels to Lease, Sprinkles Ice Cream, and Hiring for Less. Here we go. Tamir Goodman, thank you so much for being here. Uh I'm so happy to be here. A huge fan. Thank you for the opportunity and kol hakavod for

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1. 0:00University of Maryland, pulled up my Yeshiva, there was only 60 kids in the whole school…
2. 4:35ranks is so unlikely because there's so many people and so much competition. Not even from…
3. 9:38shot really poorly tonight, and you got to get back in the gym." And I I…
4. 14:11food? I said yeah, why not? So he literally walked across campus with my challah and…
5. 20:13told me they were building the team around me going into my sophomore year. And to…
6. 25:20your like it's it's incomparable. And and yes, if you asked 15-year-old you, 20-year-old you like…
7. 29:58that my creative brain, like what gave me confidence on the court was like being dyslexic.…
8. 35:32know, I would apologize about that, but on the other hand, I would I would say…
9. 40:07night, I'm like I'm playing again. It almost always comes back to that and then I…
10. 45:18Fabric, you know, head of sports there. Like I'm so thankful. Like I couldn't be any…

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