BONUS: Stadiums, Spirituality and Sneakers- Ari Solomon’s Journey

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this is a special bonus episode on the topic of B Torah and sports there's a big game coming up on Sunday and if you didn't know that you should probably turn off this episode and go back to the rashba you were learning but for the rest of us there are major questions when it comes to the place of sports in the life of a bentor Our Guest this week is Ari Solomon in the first part we talk about his wild life story I won't ruin it for you in the intro but let's just say that Ahi hit it big in the sports world world like really big then we get into some of the meaty questions about Torah and sports why do the best players have such star power is sports a Pastime or a religion and how does Ari educate his talmidim to a healthy relationship with sports Yes you heard that right tell me them my name is yov Wolf and this is Stark tank [Music] [Music] so you have had a very quick rise in the world of professional sports there was a lot of SE D involved so let's quickly run through some of the big Junctions along that Journey let's start with your laptop that broke when you were in Yeshiva the laptop that that is definitely a famous story so ultimately the way that I was always very to sports when I was growing up I always knew I wanted to do something in sports and that was pretty much my life professional sports playing sports and so in high school I actually started picking up graphic design I played five sports in high school so Sports were really just my life through and through

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3. 12:16different path to be able to understand yeah so you did achieve tremendous tremendous success and…
4. 18:20hour at the coffee room and an hour lunch break and an hour run like for…
5. 24:28I just I was it was very awkward for me go up to these guys and…
6. 30:38a person that still you want to be that guy you want to be the guy…
7. 36:46have a feeling of community in from the Torah that you always have AEM to Ru…
8. 42:50another you people always talk about this this concept um I hear this thrown around all…
9. 48:53mean by that is for me I I have a job which I tremendously enjoy I…
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