Inside ArtScroll Episode 14: Great Jewish Journeys with Rabbi Moshe Bamberger

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[Music] Hello everyone and welcome back to Inside Art Scroll where the books you read and the people who write them come to life. Today we are joined by Rabbi Mosha Bamberger, the author of many popular art school titles, the great Jewish series. And Rabbi Bamberger is also the Mashki Ruhani at Besla Talmud Landers College for Men in Queens. Thank you, Rabbi Bamberger, for being here. Thank you everybody. It's a good We're here to celebrate and talk about your brand new book, which is the great Jewish journeys book. And I'd like to talk about that, but talk about the great Jewish series in general. How did you come up with that idea and how has it changed as as it it's evolved? Yeah. So actually in 2008 I was giving a VAD which is a Muser class in Lander College for men and every year I give a different topic and one year I just chose to speak about the letters of Gdel Israel and every week I would photocopy a different letter from Arishan from Anah. Um and the guys were getting extremely into it. They really loved it and you know became like the most popular sheer and uh at the end of the year one boy came over to me a sweet boy and he said Rebby I think you should publish this. This is great. This is really inspirational and touching and moving and powerful and historic. And then I had that light bulb moment and I started typing out, translating the letters, uh, introducing them, gathering pictures enough to produce a a sample of what it would look like. And I sent it to Rabitz, who I had a relationship with because I published two other books with Arts Girl at the time, Hal and Shvraas,

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1. 0:00[Music] Hello everyone and welcome back to Inside Art Scroll where the books you read and…
2. 3:35wonderful. Rebe Ladawitz used to call uh the the Arts Girl team the genius cluster and…
3. 7:10you know the uh the Viln uh that is here and and we just like started…
4. 10:42rabbanum for for guiding me in that direction and uh the just his his royalty and…
5. 14:20and I decided to uh to move on and so what what is the role of…
6. 17:55creative way. Um we're able I have a podcast great Jewish podcast which I'm able to…
7. 21:33Long Beach. We over overlapped together. He's a few years older than me, but he's uh…
8. 25:09kavarim it's not a depressing book it's a very uplifting inspiring book that will inspire readers…
9. 28:44piece of the of the the inspiration of that with us. So the point of the…
10. 32:20of Israel and then a little commentary on the other side of the spread of my…

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