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NATE HIEKALI: Persian Jew Seeing Torah Miracles RTH PODCAST #14

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Rabbi Yaron Reuven

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hi everyone and welcome to this interview I'm your host Sunny gig and it's my pleasure to introduce today's guest today we have Nate being tempted by the evil inclination growing up surrounded by secular influences unfortunately Nate soon finds himself off the path where than R ruven steps in to save another Jewish Soul we're very excited to have him here with us today to share his journey and experience so without further Ado let's get [Music] we have Nate with us today he's been following Rabbi ruin for uh many years now he's a b cha he's 35 living in Los Angeles uh and Nate first of all thank you very much for taking the time and uh you know are willing to share your story with uh Us and other people course my pleasure Nate if you don't mind uh can you tell us a little more about your life prior to doing chba you know some history uh your upbringing just a little more about yourself yeah of course yes so you know I was actually raised in a modern Orthodox family I went to Jewish school most of my life through Like Preschool kindergarten and middle school and up to high school ninth grade I was actually in Jewish school um I don't know for some odd reason my parents decided to send me to public school for three years I had maybe that issue with the principal or school I don't know um so I went to public school for three years 10th 11th and 12th grade and then um little by little I don't know I was seeing myself you know going off the D you know like the first year in high school I got very tempted you know obviously kids there are eating like very delicious foods like you know like burritos and you know stuff like that so

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  1. 0:00hi everyone and welcome to this interview I'm your host Sunny gig and it's my pleasure
  2. 5:16Son asking ABA do you need anything do you need a pillow do you need water
  3. 9:53there's so many I probably listen to like 95% of his lectures but it's hard to
  4. 14:39his lectures and even though she's like kind of conservative but she was surprised oh wow
  5. 19:24like he's got to eat protein carbs he knows how to work out so it's like
  6. 24:13birthday I only passed awake like five years ago was it his birthday or something like
  7. 29:02the light and everything will come to Perfection so someone that's in business how would they
  8. 33:48earlier I told him what happened he's like wow like and then like you know he's
  9. 38:30life which obviously I have a lot of challenges too myself but it could be good
  10. 43:25and become religious hopefully by that I I think I think the rabbi Alona was saying

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