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They Left Tech Jobs to Serve the Jewish People. Was It Worth It?

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Shtark Tank

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There there was so much in front of me. I don't think it made sense in a career sense. But when speaking about with my wife, we said to ourselves, in 40 years from now, what are we going to regret more? And I we felt like missing out on this opportunity for us and our family, and to get back to the Jewish people was too much for us to miss out. And we didn't think the downside was catastrophic. We just had faith that Baruch Hashem, we would be able to be able to figure it out and work it out. Before I came on shlichut, I'd already done four or five rounds of miluim. And coming on shlichut and coming on shlichut and >> I want to just add that it was the biggest of my life to be able to to be in the army in this time, and protecting Am Yisrael over the past two and a half years has been such an unbelievable zchut. I will say that I went purely for the sake of protecting Am Yisrael, but there is a lot of positive that comes to the shlichut when you go to miluim on shlichut. I will say that someone in the shul that I'm I'm pretty involved in here told me that this was actually the first time he in two and a half years that he felt a real

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  1. 0:00There there was so much in front of me. I don't think it made sense in
  2. 4:35through World Bnei Akiva and all those things were extremely meaningful to me. And like after
  3. 8:41to be able to look at Eretz Yisrael despite the challenges, despite what everyone is hearing
  4. 12:46to create uh Jewish pride, Israeli pride um and I think that the other thing that
  5. 16:49thousands of dollars on security. We are not allowed to publicize flyers with with uh with
  6. 20:53obviously fundraising skills as well. So, maybe take us through that journey from your perspective. >>
  7. 24:56I'll be able to continue and transition back to Israel and continue with this job or
  8. 28:57we're living in as a Jewish people, still at war, you know, under after uh you
  9. 33:04call. But it's something that uh is very very difficult but give us a little bit
  10. 37:07We're just we just feel like we're here temporarily in Canada representing Am Yisrael and Eretz

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