Unveiled: The Hidden Side of Yaakov Shwekey

[Music] remember those songs course my mother has visionist family her mid name is Adler I feel that people see that in you like if when you admit that you're human they feel like wow looki said that it's like in this generation this is so important my dear Tomy you don't know how much I love you the fact that he fell the fact that he fell that's what made him aad I enjoyed it tremendous to you you know I really enjoyed are so into the details they love to know the background of the song How It Was composed when it was composed what did you eat that day you know that's my next question literally cash potatoes over there in B Park where the guy says and I'm ordering and he's telling me and I put on a and I asked the guy how much is it he said like $7,000 I'm like wow and it's heavy I don't said I I don't know how you move your head with that thing is 150,000 people there what does uh what doesi need to have when he travels you have direct questions that make sense [Music] thank welcome to another episode of positivity today I'm super excited to bring on the legendary I I call him Rabbi because I know he learns a lot Rabbi Yakov schi but in the podcast I'm going to call him Yakov because he's a friendly person um a person that I've been looking up all my life from when I was born enjoying all of your beautiful albums but also recently since the world of social media and we've start started seeing messages from Yakov of inspiration ofik um you know he and every very oftenly Yakov will come out and speak about connecting with people because this is I think we've moved into a generation where there's a lot more healing a lot more awareness and I think also even your music has shifted into that more like uh with a message and a power and we are a miracle and we are a light and all these kind of Concepts and ideas so my first question is I'm curious from your end how have you seen that shift from your music perspective where the beginning it was all about like having a a catchy song like Ben bagbag and in or M which was already yes very spiritual to creating now songs that I think are more spiritual as the world is changing into a more Spiritual Awakening healing kind of place uh first of all welcome to my home yes it's great to be here Ellie thank you I mean seeing you in different places your smile your happiness positivity is very very important in yish it really really is important thank you we spoke about that a little bit just just to be B and to be have that Joy is everything Hashem wants from us we're coming into El and I don't think I think um many people you see take it of course you have to take it seriously but they think and I thought also when I was younger taking it seriously means being with your head down and really really in a state of not totally happiness but more you know down about things and I learned as I get mature and as you grow older and as you look atar and as you learn and first of all the the the title Rabbi it does not does not really fit um I don't believe that so but I feel that a lot of this F talk about the joy of yahadus the joy of Judaism is something that is everything I realize as I get older is everything Hashem does not want I mean even in Pras K it says we're going to get there soon it says straight out that all the negativity and everything that happened in the world that was from Heaven you know deserved upon is because I mean if you can't get a more revealing PK than that you have to do it with a good heart you talk about positivity good heart Happiness joy yes there is bumps in life but music I look at at music really and as you're right as I got more into it seeing that the youth are connecting to messages that they can relate to you said more spiritual it was spiritual from the beginning you talk about raim talking about songs that have been the cries and the prayers of Jewish Jewish people to me it's doing everything now it's doing music for everyone every type of genre you we're here in Deal New Jersey so many of these kids in AR Syrian community were not kids that listen to Jewish music they didn't connect toic Style music and I branched out a little bit to connect to them the whole point was to you know get to the youth and really connect had really worked wonders to see even tonight in the restaurant you saw this little kid yeah he's coming over and talking about songs he's connecting he's not going to connect to a song like raahim but he's connecting to we are a miracle he's connected to I can be anything he's connecting to you know cry no more he's connecting to certain English songs that talk to him and you have to do everything in music today today CL is growing we're all over the world and it's important to send you know now we do EPS it's not really full albums anymore we did goof shama now and it's just EPS of five six seven songs you don't give them 12 13 songs too much but we do have to cater to a lot of different you know backgrounds in am Isel and music is the one language that talks to everyone right it's the universal you know emotional language right you're getting me super curious as you're sharing these beautiful things um in my head I'm going to that little young shweky before he was shweky so I didn't even think I'll go there cuz you're you kind of I don't think you need an introduction but what was young a young version of shweky growing up as a kid as a as a b how at at which point did you want did you feel that you want to help people through Sim and then you said and then you said you know what let me sing this is my gift that's really interesting I mean going back I'm working now on a shabas project with with Arts squirrel and writing a safer about zirus MH and also the stories behind the shabas songs and working with Donnie girls to put out you know brand new medes of shabas songs right cuz me growing up the memories I have was of my brothers and sisters sitting around the table and singing every type of music songs bza songs kabad songs we sang diaspora Yeshiva ban Jo Amar of course David aled who inspired that was that you your father like who it's interesting my my mother was born in DP camps in Germany Al Shalom and my father I a Shalom you know came from Egypt when he was 14 years old so vast opposite extreme so more you probably more the family the kids that brought in this kind of music style so my really my older brother who composed a lot of my early songs um my brother [Music] composed really he composed he compos a lot of my earlier songs he compos remember those songs of course anyway I'm asking him to do some shabas for me now on this project but he's a legendary composer and a big and he brought in a lot he's a musical genius my sisters are also very you know have a sister KH she's very very into music she lives in Miami now her husband is a rebi but anyway we brought a lot of everything philarmonic songs MH silver Zer of course Boys Choir Miami Boys but everything right and my father was very open although he came from Egypt at 14 and my mother you know was was totally from the ashic side my mother has kidish Vision family her maid name is Adler W and so a lot ofish cousins too so we have both sides in the extreme basically yeah and then came me you know a fusion of you know everything everything so I'm trying musically to be able to yeah you connect the dots and connect every you know you just had a kidish concert you just gave out a collection album recently that had six or seven different medes a shabas yeah it was a beautiful album a major hit so I I I that it's really inspiring so I'm curious how many siblings all together four boys four girls four boys so eight siblings how did one you said you have older younger how did this Oney rise up I'm I'm very curious interesting I was always on the table on the shabas table I always thought about as a kid that Che is a first name you know like everybody say yeah so it's catchi did you make up like a stage name I like oh that's my name it's interesting somebody told me by the way from the music industry I'm not going to say his name he said by the way don't use that name schy because nobody's going to know who you are they're going to think it's some sort of Disney character or something so I said that's my name I got to use my name what are we going to use uh you know Rosenberg or something Ein horn I'm going to be honest the I was in the gym now and the trainer over there she had a hard time like identifying but when she heard the music she was like wow this guy is good and she's not even Jewish yeah I again by the way a lot of the in Deal New Jersey everybody has a ma or two you know House made okay and I come into these homes sometimes I eat shabas there IAT you know we're all friendly here yeah and the goas are singing along they're all yeah I'm like wow they know the music today with streaming and this that everybody but anyway we cater to by the way the syan community who always said the word Shabbat they never said chabas they didn't even know what shabas meant they're all singing now it's shine all of them yeah and they gra interational and also an international song yeah so it's interesting how it works that music can penetrate and go into every home today and be able to combine all different communities and backgrounds you go to I perform bem all over and you see everybody gravitating to not only their type of cuz they're so everybody's so well educated now everybody's so well versed yeah social media listen you talk about social media some say it's a very negative thing which you could use it for positivity right like you're saying you use the technology today was given you know I asked I asked actually a few ranam High leading ranam one of them is in Israel and I told him by the way I specifically have a social media account but I don't have it I I'm not somebody does it for me but should I should I engage it meaning should I be he said if you have an inspiring thing to do this that the the youth are there if the youth are there you have to show them inspiration and you have to carry the torch of being the Ambassador for Hashem right it's a k Hashem if you can make positive inspiration and do it in a way that you can send the message home to different kids I'm telling you I got to say this when covid was happening and my wife told me my wife Janine who has the special children center you know that yeah an organization that he helps almost a thousand families now started in five towns and have a 100 children there and we're in Brooklyn as well and she has a deal Camp so she's very very well-versed with so many she told me you have to do a concert from home stream a concert I'm like I didn't want Stream So when Co just began and people were really she was telling me she said music is such a Healer everybody's home do a concert from home I'm like who's going to watch who's going to care about a concert from home do you know that the guy told me I still hear about it till today hundreds and hundreds of thousands tuned in they said every let's say it's the average of three four five per per account that logs in whatever login I would say according to them it's over a million people oh my God you know were were attending and and I looked at myself afterwards and I got calls from around the world about it I can't believe it I I just can't believe the power Hashem sent technology I thought I was home my son-in-law came in we my daughter was in pajam set up or what yeah I got a guy with a mask to come in here like a robot he came in all you know geared up to like a Spaceman to to to connect to connect the the technology of I didn't even know how to do it I hired a company to do it and I'm telling you I could not believe the inspiration from people around the world that called me with this room by the way was a video I had this thing set up everyday videos for Bar Mitzvah wow and weddings for people who are having backyard they wanted to do something for their children so used to reach out to me hey can you do a video for the and you don't realize how Hashem sent technology yes there was a virus sent yes it was difficult yes there was a lot of sad news but if you can uplift people with technology and you can use it for you know raising the inspiration what better uh use is that yeah and to add to that I think also you're doing a great job too Alie thank you thank you I sometimes I feel like in in a sense I feel like I'm So Young it's sometimes such a big responsibility but that's also so what I feel like I feel like like you said the youth they they connect to people that have a following everybody likes to look up to a rabbi sometimes but sometimes they feel like okay I I also hear my Rabbi but then there's different parts of the day where i'm looking for an inspiration from somebody that is a musical singer and that that is or they call it a celebrity let me see what he's talking about especially when it comes to things like going through difficult challenges how is this person tackling his life how is he going through and if this person is going through something many people and I'm young I feel very humble when I say this they tell me like oh you know like Ellie if you can admit that you had a bad day then that means that I can also have a bad day like if if you're human then I'm also human I feel like they see the I feel that people see that in you like if when you admit that you're human they feel like wow look shweky said that it's like in this generation this is so important listen you're right when I first started I and this is uh many years already I didn't realize how you know my words carry weight with with people I took it easy like I didn't realize and then years go on and you're like wow this guy became from this guy had a today I had a story today I went to sing at a camp in the middle of the the day today in in Lakewood Camp he they call it this guy was a staff member he comes over to me this was today mhm and he says I want to thank you for you know the fact that I'm religious today is the song M I thought it was a great dance song you know he's in Atlanta Georgia he's a kid wow and he's sitting and listening to this song and he says my dream is to learn toyra one day and to be religious not religious and he tells his parents and his parents said no way you're going to college they don't know any better you're going to college and this is what you're and he kept listening to the song and dreaming and praying and ding that he can one day be in Lakewood New Jersey and just learn and be a Frid and he's thanking me today and I'm looking I I recorded his message I sent it to YY wner because I went back to the studio there to to finish another song that's going to come out soon and we always talk about it ysy and I because we're very close over so many years writing songs together to hear these stories non-stop of people connecting to music like they can never connect to anything else of course rabbis are important of course we need our Ron of course you need t t is the greatest gift of all but at the same time the V writes by the way if there wasn't T in the world he would be dealing with music all day long the V said that he's willing to give onethird of hisa if he learned how to sing to connect through music they felt even the felt that if you could and that's why is the mouthpiece of is you represent through song even when he had challenges he still started it with mismar he still started with a z he still started with she everything was a sheer everything was a mism took life and he made it into a song and sometimes you have to learn how to sing and even through hardships in life but at the same time you're right they connect through stories they connect through songs and people I've seen tremendous change tremendous change with people uh many stories like I heard today so it's a tremendous hus to to be able to be the no question about it right that's beautiful and you have now um the 27th you have a very nice big concert coming up August 27 light up the night light of the night uh tell us a little it's a tremendous Kem we have uh this year comes out on a Tuesday August 27th light up the night for the special children center special children center is an organization my wife started when she was 16 years old you're talking about many many many years ago actually when I just started singing she was like a year before that so it's almost 25 years and it's amazing the amount just this morning after daving I'm just telling you just today a father came over me have a special child really emotional Thanking us for the fact that he can live the fact that his other siblings are taken care of he can send them to the center I mean every day stories and stories but it's unbelievable it's an after school resit it's a school they have group homes they have a Therapeutic Pool they have 30 acres of land as a farm with therapy horses I mean you name it they have it and it's something she started many many years ago and they do concerts just to bring also the community together they do very very very nice very nice concerts Outdoors it's on Ocean Avenue on DSN MH and you can click I mean if you can send the link out for people that want to put it in the description people want to join it's uh Tuesday night August 27th and we're going to also sing this brand new song that's coming out tomorrow on 246 and then later on on Apple and Spotify and everything it's called Dance your fears away oh so I want yeah so very interesting so what's the what's the dance the fears away cuz I think that we live in a world that's very much driven by fear I think that that that CL Ru in general in general our story is a fearful story even from the beginning there was fear that went in obviously Al in the last few hundred years with anti-Semitism we do live in fear even though maybe today we shouldn't be living in fear there is nothing to fear I think we live in a in the most beautiful time in history like I feel like we have so much abundance the nicest houses the nicest cars very lucky good food all over like but people still have fear deeply rooted inside of them because of their own parents and you know generational trauma they call it like it's it's not even their own thing it's you know well first of all there are places in Israel that still live in fear and our people you know you have to understand it's not just America you know there are people that are really belat people living in hotels now for the last I don't know who knows almost a year if not more um because they had to move out of there kib or whatever it is so there are people really living in fear but in general you're right but there was a story it's amazing an inspirational story that from RAB y why Jacobson's mother I'm very I have I'm lucky to be close to RAB y why and I heard him say this story once and I was very moved about his grandmother his grandmother went to seek uh and get a br from rabi and she went to him and she said besides this bro I need I need assistance I need a way you know an idea how to get rid of my fears and anxiety and he looked at her and he he knew he knew her Mrs lipsker Al Shalom she's in the beginning of the video and you see her looking at the rebi and she he said I want you he knew she knew how to dance he says I want you to go once a week Uninvited to a wedding and Just Dance for someone else and be happy for someone else and come back to me in 12 months and then we can reassess the issue yeah she went and she danced and she danced and once a week she would go forget about the food forget about the schoras Borg forget about everything else I'm dancing for others I'm being happy for someone else and she danced her fears away 12 months later she came to the Reish she was a different person and she said and the rest of her her life she kept on dancing and it's amazing the last night of her life she had a grandchild's wedding she couldn't make it to she was in the hospital and they came back with wedding clothes and they danced around her bed as she returned her Nisha to her maker Hashem made it that way that they should danced around her the night of her grand show the night of her grand so I thought it was a tremendous Genius of the rebi tremendous he doesn't need my compliments but I took this inspiration and I did a very probably my most energetic English song by far in terms of energy because it's danceable if you turn on the song and you don't get out of your seat yeah that means you're sitting in a very very comfortable chair that you can't even get up because it's so dancable and so emotional yeah like you said before you can do the most energetic song but it's got to have a message yeah yti and I always say Jewish music is about inspirational messages through the song not Stam what they sell you you know in in the street and unfortunately the Goa music most of it is just yeah there are deep songs I'm not saying there isn't but our our music is inspirational spiritual messages even if it's a fast song even if it's a dance song it's got to have is light the fire that you have inside yeah you have a fire within you to light you got to light it you got to believe you got to know it you don't have to believe you have to know it all these things have a specific message and an emotional message so this Dancy fre is always coming out tomorrow on 246 and then it's going to come out uh subsequently on the other platforms and also working on the video to come out hopefully tomorrow the next day M AEM right the video has got robots in it it's got you know different yes how how did you go about going that modern in this day and age I mean I felt that today you need also the the energy of today when you have like I spoke about technology before when you have the sound of today when you you're able to really kick it into high gear um with all the libraries of of technology that we have today I think if you can insert it in a way that makes the key is the lyrics the message the emotion that comes with it not Stam noise right that's the key you put on noise noise is easy right it's to find the within the song right to find the right lyric to find the right message I got inspired from this story I said I got to do something so many people have fears anxiety it's a great idea yeah let them listen to this there was a guy actually in the studio YY walner was telling me today who's going through a very very challenging time in his life with his marriage and YSI played him the song he was telling me he's like Play it Again Play it again he transformed him to a different place yeah you close your eyes and you listen to the lyrics and you're able to take yourself out of the situation and go somewhere else that's a gift Hashem gave us in this world and we must use it for for you around the world wow I think that uh you say every song needs to have Kish but I think that the Kish of your career of yakobi is that you're not just a singer which there are many I think you're also very much a performer and probably the best in the best Jewish performer in the United States who has done probably the most shows and stuff like that when did you get into performing I'm curious and how does that feel for you because it's it's different than singing it goes together but what I love about performing is that it's it's an action you're taking action exercising yourself you're exercising the audience to get physical yeah I I mean I don't know how truthful your positive accolades about me is but but I I I don't know I have to say that singers come over to me all the time and ask me certain things about music about how they can be more successful and I really feel that I really feel that you have to be deep into your song meaning this dance song for instance or we are a miracle or whatever you mentioned before you got to be Allin meaning you're not doing the song for St another it's another song to your career it's a you know what I want to make this song a hit I don't really care if it's a hit or not a yeah MIT AEM it should be and I of course I care that people listen to it and but that's not the main focus is to be deep into the message feel the message and really close your eyes like nobody's there I don't care if there's two people in the crowd 200 people 2,000 or 20,000 or whatever you have to feel like you're the luckiest person to be the messenger of that song and to and to be in it mamish be in it close everything out in your life when you're performing and focus solely on being in the mville music yeah I should say being kn and be toling in the in the music and have I see that the I feel that the greatest performers are those guys that are able [Music] to you know Knee Deep really into the message and not care so much about everything that comes with it right okay celebrity this that don't matter really doesn't matter we're just like everybody else we're we're we're have a gift that not ours I could speak for myself it's not I'm not any more special than anybody else I have a gift that Hashem lent to me he lent it and he wants to make sure that I represent it correctly and I try as best I can to do that and to feel like it's not mine it's for Amis and to really be yes I have to make a prosa yes you have to work yes you have to be there for your family but at the end of the day all our gifts that we have is really not ours it's something that's on on loan yeah we say every day right thank you for returning back my yeah so they ask what's what is this just say thank you has for giving me back is really his belief in US wow thank you Hashem for giving me my you know why because you believe in me you must have given it to me back today because you believe in me and you believe I can do something good today and if you like you're doing on your podcast or whatever you're you're posting or whatever it is if you feel you want to send the right message to Amel and you say to yourself in the morning hey what could I do to inspire people today that's what you're doing thank you Hashem for giving me back my soul because you believe that I can do something positive for the world today right I'm aspired and and touched I think that I have another question I have a different question I'm go to this question I want to know how you address you talk about how Hashem needs us but I feel like so many people they do a little thing wrong sometimes a little bit something in their Yiddish guide and they feel like I'm I'm not relevant anymore I'm not I don't fit into my community I don't fit into God I don't fit into into the into what the toy says cuz I can't keep this one thing how does a person like that get up from that and and take out of that he is still good enough for well first of all if you look if you look at this F if you look at this F you're you see the greatest Yahara is that wow the greatest Yar is y to give up hope hope is probably the most powerful word that we have you must believe that if he gave you back your soul today Hashem wants put it this way look at it this way every mother has Rahman on her child right yes there's no greater R than a mother on a child who created that who created that that a mother should have rahas on a child if you take all the mothers and all the rahas and everything from the beginning of time till now when you put it in a box they say Hashem is thousand and millions times more R than that so yes you have to feel he's AO before Malo he's he wants the best for you you have to just do something do something small and never feel like you're not relevant because chuba is the greatest gift he could have given us if he he why did he do that why did he he should have said you know what I created you I gave you everything whatever you do you do whatever you don't no I give you a day you can cleanse I give you I give you I give you this I give you he wants you to just make something small on your list that you can be better if somebody by the way it says right sadic falls seven times and then he gets up it was a talid that wrote hutner is a famous letter he wrote this this thing he says I'm giving up my Yahara is too strong I can't I do too many a I don't feel him relevant anymore and he writes him back he says you are so wrong he writes my dear tomed you don't know how much I love you the fact that he fell the fact that he fell that's what made him aad the fact that the made him aad he said there's nobody that didn't make mistakes ever in history nobody very few very very few less than a handful maybe right that were total pure everybody on their level of course but you have to just understand and think look at a fuse Farm look at the books and see that Hashem our father is someone that's he not a human so we can't we can't relate to it but he's the creator of the world that all the Rahman that we see he is thousands and millions more than that so you can never that's the and the ofar is the greatest enemy he's he's there to say that that's his biggest weapon yeah you're not relevant you didn't do good yeah you are very relevant you're a shining Nama you just have to sometimes brush it off dust it yeah dust it I love that um yeah I don't want to keep you for much longer I just I have to ask this question you're a great interviewer thank you you're a great interview thank you good you have direct questions that makes sense thank you thank you I appreciate it um this is when I come up here you see have oh I wrot some stuff very good with your Pam respect anytime take it home with you oh sh um yakob I got to ask fancy I should have gave you one something better go ahead um I feel like this question you're probably going to say no you know again positivity but the honest truth is you are one of the humble most humble people I ever met and you have all this reason to be a to be a big shot to be to have that ego to to but whenever I met you um you're always so nice and to everybody not just to me I I watched you I observed you in different restaurants and you're just the most humble guy but besides humbleness I want to get to something else that I noticed in you which is calmness you have this calm energy that nobody has and I I notice it when you are on a h concert I noticed it from knowing you in person and meeting you um and calmness is something that so many people want in their life they just want to be calm they're like whatever is happening in my life I'm okay with that how do I stay calm and present in the moment I've I've yet to to meet somebody that is so calm like you are like a good positive energy I mean it's it's a good question I I I never I never on the spot yeah no I never had this nervousness of of uh I do believe that you have to be very confident in what you do if you're confident doesn't mean you're you're arrogant and means that you're you know you have a great gift you know the greatest G I mean even ra this he knew he was the greatest of the generation yet he was the most humble because humility is really not it's not being confident it's knowing who you are but knowing that the gift is from him that that is humility not oh I'm nothing I'm not no I'm am something I'm very confident in my abilities but I know my abilities is not really me and listen I I learned in great yeshivas and and I used to learn we the very big focus in Yeshiva was muser and character and always trying to and you I have plenty to go you know every day that you're alive you're supposed to you know understand that character is the most important thing if you don't have character and you don't have you know the prerequisite to to learning toyra is having the foundation of human decency of human positivity of human you know being an ambassador of Love of light of understanding that you can give a good word to someone anybody can do that you can good word to someone and you can lift them up to the heavens saying hey it's a beautiful suit you're wearing hey that's just a great haircut hey those are beautiful shoes what do you lose what do you lose by I learned that from my reame over and over and you start trying to behave that way and you realize you are making a positive impression on people by giving them the confidence that they are everything they can be you go to a little kid coming in the Shool I always say hey you come to sh you're amazing just by coming to sh you're great right you're dressed beautiful you're and you never know those type of things it it you know the calmness of it I mean I guess it's a it's it's something that I was never nervous to jump on yes at the beginning was definitely yeah I was just going to ask you performed the front of tens of thousands of people something's got to go through your body there's no question you're you're feeling the adrenaline of what you're doing that doesn't mean you're nervous I I feel that yeah there were times in the beginning beginning I wasn't used to it I was a little nervous for sure that's a natural thing but as you get more used to it and as you get up and you say a prayer and you ask Hashem right before you get on stage hey it's all you give me theay give me the help that I need to to be able to the voice is so sensitive I mean I'll never forget sitting with uh my my dear friend aam Fred in Israel we were at a restaurant we had concerts the same night in different places and we stayed in the same Hotel so we went out to dinner together and we were talking about it and he was like he was asking me questions about my voice and I was asking him obviously everybody's different everybody every human is different he's very sensitive to air conditioning MH so he can't sleep like the night before he has to sleep with very little air conditioning he can and I I'm sensitive not to that I need just my sleep and we were talking about it we say look at the N Hashem has to make for us look at the miracle you go through so many concerts so many years you have to have health you have to have voice you have to have but anyway it's a calmness knowing and realizing that hey nothing's up to us we just got to do our part and he does the rest right it's it's really really inspiring and beautiful um I'm going to go through a few short questions that checking off the list on checking off the list no it's more like people want to know people like the interesting things and we didn't get into a little bit who really Yakov is this was very inspirational um I'm curious what's your biggest challenge of being Yakov schi what's the biggest challenge of being famous I mean in the beginning years was just you know working on the patience for everyone making sure you take a picture with every kid make sure you try to make everybody happy you walk away I just did a few camps this last few weeks a bunch of camps and there's thousands of kids and you want to walk away saying hey you left an impression on every kid right you left a good impression and you try your best to and then the pressure is to make sure that you're using the tools that you have you know to to Really uplift people in the right way and that that to me uh you know a challenge it's a challenge but you you try to push through and you try to have patience and you you know you work on it what's your um favorite favorite Yiddish word Yiddish yeah uh let me think there's a few of them okay go for it famous the favorite you're saying yeah good good good very nice I know especially now the you you just did a concert recently two years ago I had that you know I try to be the last word there very nice you know you understand Yiddish or a little bit right you concert yeah you just did two years ago and they loved you and I know why I can tell you why cuz between me and you let me frame this correctly you're a great performer so for the it was interest to watch a great performer you understand what I'm saying I I watched that concert live I remember you were there no I was watching it was live was still halfway and I remember just the way you walked up and I was like of course they brought shweky the guy can perform you know you came up with your nice suit and the nice pants and you just did your thing they enjoyed it you know I enjoyed it tremendously you you know I really enjoyed them are so into the detail El they love to know the background of the song How It Was composed when it was composed what did you eat that day you know that's my next question literally cash potatoes over there in B Park where the guy says V and I'm ordering and he's telling me and I put on a strl and I asked the guy how much is it he said like $7,000 I'm like wow and it's heavy I don't understand I I don't know how you move your head with that thing it's it's like animals on your it's amazing and first of all it's beautiful but it's it's something that I really enjoyed I enjoy their their their interest curiosity curiosity their them are very curious they want to know everything yeah yeah is amazing what did you do this and how you I'm like wow what's are all these questions yeah it's not PES yeah anyway it was it was amazing always connected to your songs I mean I remember when Ben bagbag came out right that was like coolest song ever as you see the words on the wall over there oh wow it's amazing yeah sent me that from Los Angeles oh yeah yeah that was I think one of your first like hits no like caught up on fire and everybody was just singing it yeah it was um my next question is literally and I feel like the biggest who ever but my next question is what's your favorite food wow yeah me wow kind of predicted it I predicted it the truth is Friday I to tell you in Deal New Jersey there was a guy who invited me and I don't I was jumping from from there to there I had to go to him he says I'm having a herring party hering I'm like what aaric guy here in Deal having Herring I said I went there he had every type of Herring and it was something I I enjoyed very much I it was my favorite food of all time I don't know but it's up there hering it's up there okay the right Herring the fresh ones all right um favorite song or I know favorite a good potato keigle is also up there okay okay favorite song is not really a question but I'd say a song one of your songs that you personally connect let me tell you I and I I don't mean to sound uh you know cliche answers but every song that I put out I'm into it to put out if I don't if I'm not into the message and into the song I won't release it right so there's now very much into this dance song because we we're releasing it now so that's where my head is at and every song I put out has a unique you know somebody asked me you know your children which child do you like best each one is different each one is beautiful each one is great I love each one songs I like that also and sometimes you get in the mood to sing different things but man you know whatever song I'm releasing I'm into there's no question about it otherwise I wouldn't I wouldn't put it out right and as you mentioned you do so many different genres that's very interesting from you do isra you doish you do English yeah okay we're jumping around I have two more over here your biggest show yov your biggest show first of all I personally love the concert in casaria I don't know if that's that was one of your big probably was I think I mean but I personally love that show you you were fire over there in casadia you remember your show oh yeah sure we did a bunch there yeah so biggest show I guess quantity yeah one of the biggest ones and one of the ones I'll never ever ever forget was celebrating 50 years of Y at the cotel wow yeah I watched that one there's like 150,000 people there and it was something so unique at the cotel where you praying where you ding you're singing and there's people and you see the crowd you can't see the end yeah it to me it was one of the most memorable I mean that and for sure is up there there's no question you're traveling tomorrow what does uh what doesy need to have when he travels I need to have some books I need to have it CU I need to have the right I need to have the the the headphones making sure I download what I need to listen to to that's for sure novels or self-help or no no I'm I'm reading now a book called actually I think it's I'm not sure it's called The Joy of amuna it's a great great book you talk about amuna talking about being everybody should read that book The Joy of amuna joy of there's another book making a kashem by Arts girl also a great great book no I'm reading books that can really I don't have much time at home so when I go on a plane it's the time to Zone in and to read and to you don't get bored 11 12 hours I do I don't love the flights I'm not a flight guy I mean some people like it I'm not I try to take advantage of the time you know uh that you can have you know focused and for yourself no cell phone there's no phone there's no this but you know I think that it's a great time to read and to learn and to accomplish amazing that's all my questions and now they have and all they're saying I see shur I see this I said wow it's amazing you don't have only you know stuff that you can just waste time they have stuff that you can really we yeah has SH now amazing RAB maner a friend of mine who's from this community has his parha classes on there really yeah so there's no excuse not to learn you know I'm here I got to learn you know exactly exactly you'll be surprised I met a lot of unbelievable people on airplanes over the years people that I'm friend friendly with till today cuz you're on a plane there's nowhere to go go you I mean the guy has to sit there I have to sit there and finally you get to know each other like wow today everybody's bringing their phones to dinners yeah everybody's the best thing is no phones Hashem Knew by the way when he created chabas no phones no nothing the greatest that's what I'm doing with the chabas project and with SH with the Arts girl connecting your youth back to chabas understand what you're singing understand the gift of it right and realize the beauty of it thank you so much Ellie for coming my biggest pleasure thank you for for sitting down with me and uhi tickets we're going to post the link in the description to purchase tickets for this concert looking forward I look forward to being there and maybe you're going to give me a high from stage course I'm going to give you a no question about it stage yeah thank you so much really really pleasure yeah you want kigle from Tom's River right okay hi migle all right that's a good idea let's bring keigle I have a vlog now now I have a vlog idea thank you so much yako for your time thank you for inviting me into your home greatest pleasure and Friends ra said first of all we can you can purchase this 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