Illusions Explained 💫 Interview with Magician Extraordinaire 🎩 R' Yishai Rasowsky 🏒‪@yishaimagic‬

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I am here this evening with magician extraordinaire, Yishai Rasowsky. And we're going to ask him a few questions about life as a magician, what is magic, a little bit about the Torah's perspective of magic, and maybe at the end he'll treat us to some secrets of the trade. So, I mean, the first question, of course, is Yishai, how do Tell us a little bit about yourself and how did it come about that a religious Orthodox Jew such as yourself entered the magic industry? Like, what what happened? What what do you do and you know, let let Tell us tell us Tell us a little about this. >> Rabbi Klein, it will be a pleasure. First of all, thank you for having me on your program. It's a real treat. >> Yes, you've been had. >> My background story how I got interested, to tell you the truth, when I was younger, like my classmates who experienced tricks and they saw different performances, we got the the desire to learn. And my older brother had a friend, Daniel Share. He was my first magic teacher. And I was more interested in others and practiced and even did shows with a friend of mine, Aaron Starlic, a great a great guy. And later, um, I discovered when I came more religious, in college years, I would be interested to perform magic or learn it, but I had thought, based on what I heard in a shiur of halakha from uh, Rabbi the great Rabbi Yisrael Salanter, that it's not permitted to do. That was my impression of the consensus of opinions. So, I

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