David Sacks shares his journey from Hollywood to becoming a Baal Teshuva and discovering Hashem through reflection and gratitude.
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I got an Emmy for my work on The Simpsons and a Golden Globe award for uh a show called Third Rock From the Sun which was about aliens impersonating themselves as human beings and that show had a lot of Torah in it for me I felt like the best way that I could say thank you back to God was by keeping shabas I think all of us feel deep down that something is missing and kind of the more sensitive we are as human beings beings the more we're in touch with that aspect that we feel is missing and a lot of us don't know what to do with that sense you know and we try to fill it with different things and Nothing fits and the reason Nothing fits is because it's a god-shaped hole the only thing that fits is God if you're watching this episode on YouTube or Spotify let us know in the comments with the word fire five lucky winners will win the brand new Kut book by riply besser and arts skull and you'll see how it ties into skull and you'll see how it ties into David's life in this thoughtful episode Emmy and Golden Globe winning writer David Sachs known for The Simpsons Third Rock From the Sun Malcolm the middle and more shares his unique balua Journey this isn't a story of dramatic Visions or Divine interventions but one of introspection love and deep realization that Hashem has been orchestrating his life all along from Harvard to Hollywood and Beyond you'll also hear about AR and an incredible organization dedicated to educating inspiring the Jewish World bit Bean a Powerhouse in business Innovation and software Solutions twillery whether
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