Rabbi Binyomin Pruzansky — Stories that Inspire Greatness

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[music] >> Welcome to Inside ArtScroll, where the books that we read and the people that write them come to life. It is a personal pleasure and a to welcome Rabbi Benjamin Prusansky shlita to ArtScroll studios. >> The pleasure's all mine. What a what a schus it is for me to be here with you, Rabbi Landau. Rabbi Prusansky, this is like your 15th book. >> Yeah, hey, listen. >> Yeah, hey, listen. Time flies when you're having fun. >> Mazel tov. Stories that inspire greatness. A beautiful cover actually, by the way. I'm sure you did it yourself. >> Thank you Rabbi Eli Kroen and everybody else. >> He's unbelievable. >> Um did you when you wrote your first first book, you thought that you'd be having a conversation about your 15th book? >> No, never dreamed. Never dreamed. >> Okay, so take us back all the way to that point and then we're going to jump right back into Stories that Inspire Greatness. Why did you write your first book? What did What happened? >> Okay. Well, you know, I I always wanted to Well, you know, I I always wanted to inspire on some level. Actually, my first attempt at writing a book, I was writing a mussar sefer. And I thought maybe that would inspire people. And I actually sent it in to ArtScroll. >> In English? It was in English? >> It was in English. And they told me they don't want to hear mussar. I said, "What do they want to hear?" "They want stories." So, I said, "Hey, stories." And it got me thinking, you know, there are stories out there that could inspire even better sometimes than a mussar sefer.

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1. 0:06[music] >> Welcome to Inside ArtScroll, where the books that we read and the people that…
2. 2:08goal in mind and you know you want to you want to do it, nothing gets…
3. 4:44today in so many different ways. When I say a great person what's the first person…
4. 6:46special." And I would start taking walks with him. And he answered my questions. There was…
5. 9:18and then share at your Shabbos table and let your kids hear about the stories and…
6. 11:50that's one of your books. >> It is. >> Okay, we're pushing the book over there.…
7. 13:52videos screaming at you and you know, you you need pictures today in order to feel…
8. 16:28Problem was that the dinner was a few weeks away and only 75 people signed up.…
9. 18:30entertainment. We watch you every day from heaven seeing you try to do this. You know…
10. 21:04And so, bezrat Hashem, I plan on keeping going strong, keep on putting out more books,…

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