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 Presansky 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 Presansky, this is like your 15th book. like your 15th book. >> Yeah, hey, listen. Time flies when you're having fun. >> Mazel tov. Uh Stories that Inspire Greatness. Uh beautiful cover actually, by the way. I'm sure you did it yourself. Thank you Rabbi Eli Krohn and everybody else. >> He's unbelievable. >> Um did you when you wrote your first first book, you thought 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 What happened? What happened? >> Okay. 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? >> 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

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1. 0:02[music] >> Welcome to Inside ArtScroll, where the books that we read and the people that…
2. 2:04enough stories to write your first book? >> It was a process, but once you have…
3. 4:40could do it. Bring out your greatness today in so many different ways." >> When I…
4. 6:40>> two. Very slow, but diligent and hours. And I would ask him questions. And then…
5. 9:14people say your stories. Not only say your stories, write them down and then share at…
6. 11:47package, but to give the person that that flash of inspiration. I think that's one of…
7. 13:50and age, when with so many pictures and videos screaming at you and the you know,…
8. 16:22that is really how they raise the money, the funds to keep Ohr Naava and all…
9. 18:23there. And the yetzer hara says, "YANKEL, WHO YOU KIDDING? YOU KNOW you can't push this…
10. 20:58That's becoming a a bent over closer to Hashem, a working on their on their talking.…

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