Abie Rotenberg's Passion is NOT his Parnasah

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it's important to mention that having that that uh career in a business enabled me never to to turn to music as a as a form of sustenance for my family I I never needed to put out an album for prosa I never needed to perform on stage because I I needed the [Music] money Shalom welcome to Stark tank the podcast about the challenges and opportunities of being a bentor in the workforce this week we sit down with AB Rottenberg AB is a legend in the world of Jewish music having written dozens of popular songs over the last 50 years for example a manishma and and those are just his Hebrew songs he also has five albums full of beautiful English ballads called Journeys as well as four kids albums called the mar MOS machine but what you probably didn't know is that AB is also a businessman making his parasa from his a businessman making his parasa from his family business until he recently retired and if all that wasn't enough he also has published to farm as well as a fiction book about baseball and Judaism we spoke about having a Passion which is not your parasa how he combines the role ofik and musician and about his love for baseball before we jump in two quick housekeeping notes the first is that that next Monday we will be having our third Stark Tank live event a lunch and learn with r David Lapin in Tel Aviv for

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2. 5:16big shock was it hard for you so I had trans transitioned a little bit before…
3. 9:55to be known by it's something I can only imagine the pressure of having to do…
4. 14:32certainly K is is is uh is in the back of my mind when I write…
5. 19:08didn't give it to any of the other nations so it's really a treasure that we…
6. 24:14MOS right and we've established already in this conversation that the music is a form of…
7. 28:52I I sat down and wrote that song to to those words as opposed to writing…
8. 33:31long time what should we take from that story that he was successful at a late…
9. 38:05place to live in New York and they rented a house for the summer for the…
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