Join us for a warm conversation with a Torah Jew who happens to be an early innovator in the budding marijuana dispensary industry, a hippie jam-band aficionado, a commercial real estate player and a proponent of Glamping (Glam-Camping). From the Grateful Dead to being grateful to the Source of Life, Chanan Simon lives a fascinating life.

Mordechai Danielov is the Founder and CEO of BitWise, a boutique data management company servicing CTOs. Mordechai was born in very-secular Soviet Georgia, did his time in NYC, and now runs his business from Jerusalem. He tells his story of exploring every religion before finally trying Judaism, and offers a fascinating take on how the Torah's training of the mind to ask questions puts those who learn it ahead in every field.

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Glossary of terms that may not be translated in this episode:

Me'am Lo'ez: Comprehensive 18th Century Torah commentary by Turkish scholar Rabbi Yaakov Culi and others

Midrashim: Exegetical (Drash) commentary to the Torah

Sugya: A section of Talmud discussing a specific, focused topic

Talmid Chocham (Plural: Talmidei Chochamim): Literally 'a student of the wise', a knowledgeable Torah scholar

Shul: Synagogue

Yerushalayim: Jerusalem

Har Nof: A neighborhood in Jerusalem

Shas: Abbreviation for Shisha Sedarim: the 6 orders of Mishnah. Also refers to to The Entire Babylonian Talmud which is structured around the Mishnah

'Frum Yid': a Torah-observant Jew

Yeshivish: Ideologically/culturally associated with the world of high-level (typically Lithuanian-style) yeshivos.

Gemara: Talmud

Ramchal: Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato, Influential 18th-century Italian Kabbalist and Scholar whose works are treasured even today.

Moshe Rabbeinu: Moses, our teacher.

K'lal: The public

Chareidim: A term used, mainly in Israel, to label devout Jews

See below for a free gift! Join us In this episode of OurTribe as we sit down with Yael Trusch.

Yael is a Money Coach and Host of the award-winning podcast: Jewish Money Matters. Her signature online course G-d Wants You To Be Rich has transformed the lives of countless Jewish women and couples across the globe.

Dubbed as “The Jewish Oprah,” Yael is a sought after speaker who captivates and empowers women with her honest, relatable, and profoundly Jewish approach to money and life. Yael’s prolific appearances include memorable speeches at the Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) National Jewish Retreat, Momentum, Wizo, Hadassa, JWE, as well as JCC’s and Chabad Houses around the world. Yael is a regular contributor for Chabad.org, Aish.com, and the Jewish Herald Voice. Her Jewish financial insights have also been featured in mainstream publications such as Real Simple Magazine, The Independent, and numerous podcasts.

Yael has an MBA from NYU and a bachelors in Economics and International Relations from Tufts University. She is a native of Puerto Rico, lived and worked abroad in exotic locations as Shanghai, China; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Santiago, Chile; Jerusalem, Israel; and several US metros from Manhattan to Miami. Yael currently resides in Houston, Texas, with her husband and four children.

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In this episode of OurTribe, we pick the genius business mind of Val Katayev--but unlike other interviews Val has done, we get his Jewish-infused ethical worldview as well.

Val Katayev is a serial entrepreneur with $100M+ in profits & exits. Founded and led four successful startups to hyper-growth centered around digital media in display, mobile, music, search and data. Two of these tech companies, ToneMedia (now Bandsintown Amplified) and ToneFuse resulted in being acquired by Lagardère Group. In addition to success in tech, Val is a pioneer in the Marketplace Lending space as he later partnered with Prime Meridian Capital Management to help the firm grow it's AUM from $5M to $500M in 3 years.

Operating and growing with capital efficiency is where Val excels. This management style generated over $500M in revenue, all before taking any venture capital.

While at ToneMedia, Katayev grew it to a top 3 music property according to Comscore and developed ToneTargeting, a patent pending tech that evaluates consumer demo, buying habits and hobbies based on musical tastes. In 2009, Katayev founded ToneFuse, which he grew to become the world's largest ringtone marketing platform. Also in 2009, Katayev co-founded and laid the early foundation for MobileFuse, one of the leading mobile advertising companies that he still oversees. In 2001, Katayev founded Poise Media, an industry leader in performance and paid search marketing for 800+ clients including eBay, VistaPrint and Rhapsody, while still attending Baruch College.

You'll love this episode if you love tech, if you love entrepreneurship and if you love stories of people who realized the American dream.

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In this episode, meet Mrs Bexley Lyss, an engineer who worked in the auto and health care industries, a Jewish educator, a nurturing Jewish mother, and the survivor of a freak accident in her late teens which reset the course of her life.

Bexley tells her gripping accident story, her story of Jewish change, how she pays her gifts forward, and how she deals with the challenges of an observant Jew in the secular workplace.

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KEY TO UNTRANSLATED TERMS:

LITVISH YESHIVA: a high-school and post-high school yeshiva which emphasizes Talmudic study and ethical development, as opposed to emphasizing Hasidic thought and practice

SEFIRA: The 49-day period between the 2nd day of Passover and the festival of Shavuos, part of during which observant Jews customarily refrain from listening to or playing music

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How did a Jew in Nazi-occupied Netherlands become the mayor of a town and end up remarrying his wife through a Nazi matchmaker?

What is the power of a pilgrimage to Kerister, Hungary?

How do you craft a compelling piece of social media content?

How do you avoid the emptiness of the sea of endless content?

Naomi Abigail Garfinkel of Amsterdam, Netherlands is a Content Creator at Meaningful Minute, a major Jewish content network dedicated to quenching the tremendous thirst for spiritual growth in short time increments.

Naomi, who started content creation at the age of 18, was formerly a social media editor at VaynerMedia and Zoecial Media in Israel.

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