How One Tweet Turned Him Into a Jew

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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.

When we first got married, we had no kids, no distractions for about two hours every morning reading, just what we had at the time, which was just a Tanakh. And alongside my wife would read and take notes, and we would post about it on Twitter because that's just my journal at the time. So, one day I post something about the Trinity because I still had yet to unravel that story. >> And the guy commented saying, "This is not true. The Bible doesn't actually say this." So I engaged with the guy and I'm like, "Okay, tell me more." You know, like, "Okay, tell me more." You know, why are you saying this? Where you where are you sourcing this information from? And then he shows me straight out of the Tanakh that it says, "Hashem is one alone. There's no one else." And then I took that and that began the journey towards Orthodox [music] Judaism. That moment right there. >> Wow. How in the world does a black kid from Atlanta with Haitian and Caribbean roots, a Christian, find himself saying, "Barakashem, and I'm a proud Orthodox Jew." Why did he leave Christianity? One comment online about the Bible totally changed Khal's life. This episode is in changed Khal's life. This episode is in memory of Shima Binyakov Schlma and Miriam Msarbasak Mosha. This episode is Rafu Schlma Yosesefaya Golda. This episode is powered by wheels to lease Bitbeam United Rafu Healthshare the Dream Raffle and the OU's NCSY. Now before we jump in, I recognize this episode will draw a lot of non-Jews to this episode. Please let us know in the comments whether you're Jewish, not Jewish, or I don't know, not even sure what you are, but whatever you are, let us know so we could get better data on who you are so we could put out episodes

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4. 14:21>> And what about your wife? Was she like totally on board with you? You guys…
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