The Deaf Rabbi | Rabbi Yehoshua Soudakoff

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hey everybody welcome to another episode of the meaningful people podcast your host Naki Gordon here and boy it's a good one I spoke to Yeshua sakov the deaf Rabbi this Rabbi has been deaf his entire life and he is the rabbi to the deaf community in AR to thr but beyond that Abroad online teaching classes uh translating Torah through sign language an amazing story and this idea to do this episode really came to me when I was by the K with my brother and Rabbi sov got on stage and started and it was just silent obviously he cannot speak and he was signing a speech and and it was just remarkable you know the silence but the message being portrayed of course he had someone who was uh you know translating for him but it was really incredible and I think this episode is really G to you know teach you a lot that maybe you didn't know of course in this episode we have somebody that's speaking for him as he is signing so if you're listening you're going to hear a voice of a translator if you're watching you're going to see Robie sakov signing and and mouthing some words so I really hope you enjoy this episode this episode first of all blooms is the

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1. 0:00hey everybody welcome to another episode of the meaningful people podcast your host Naki Gordon here…
2. 7:30keeping shabas or or not really my parents are traditional my mother is from LA and…
3. 13:13what the what Torah was all about wow and did did you Lan with sign language…
4. 19:06become a rabbi and that brought me to New York h how what were your parent…
5. 26:15sitting with all the students and having an oral examination they like the rabbi would ask…
6. 32:20was completely silent but the impact and the the what was communicated was so was so…
7. 39:43people and and she said she said yeah you you've you've met many hearing people I've…
8. 46:48$50,000 to your house purchase and a free tuition at Providence Hebrew day school for your…
9. 53:21deaf schools often they're the only deaf Jew in their class and they don't have Jewish…
10. 58:45community and I want to do the same kind of thing for other things in our…

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