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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
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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
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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
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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
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