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How the founding father of international finance remained humble and steadfastly committed to Torah values.
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y maternal grandparents are Rothschilds. Inevitably, when I share this information with anyone, their immediate response is, “You mean the rich ones?” I always respond with the answer that my grandfather gave me when, as a young child, I asked him the same question. He recounted, with a twinkle in his eye, that when the patriarch of the Rothschild family, Baron Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812), was on his deathbed he turned to his two sons and said to one of them, “To you I bequeath all of my wealth,” and to the other he said, “And to you I bequeath the brains and smarts.” My grandfather concluded by saying, “We didn’t get the wealth!” Mayer Amschel Rothschild was an incredible man, commonly referred to as “the founding father of international finance” and ranked seventh on the Forbes magazine list of “The 20 Most Influential Businessmen of All Time.” Yet, while he
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regularly circulated in royal circles as financier to Europe’s kings and queens, he remained steadfastly committed to Torah values and Torah observance. He was also known to be exceedingly humble. This blend of extreme fame, massive wealth and humility is a rare anomaly. What exactly was the secret to his pious and grounded life? There is a well-known story that has been passed down through the generations that may be the key to unlocking this mystery. Mayer A. Rothschild once hosted a well-known Eastern European Torah scholar at his mansion in Frankfurt-AmMain. At the end of a busy work day the Baron invited his illustrious guest to accompany him on a stroll through the mansion’s expansive gardens. As they walked, deep in conversation, they passed a small quaint cottage within the confines of the mansion. The Torah scholar asked the Baron about the nature of the cottage. The Baron replied that it was his private office. The perplexed guest pressed further, ”But don’t you have a private office in your
home? Why the need for two offices?” The Baron tried to change the subject, hoping that his guest wouldn’t belabor the issue. But the Torah scholar persisted and the Baron finally capitulated and led him towards the cottage. He reached into his pocket and removed a key to open the door. He turned to his guest and related that even his own family members had never seen the inside of the cottage. When the guest saw the interior, he was shocked! The bare windowless room was completely empty except for a coffin in the center of the floor. Inside of the coffin were burial shrouds, and the book Ma’avar Yabok (a handbook of Jewish Law on death and mourning). Seeing the shock on the Torah scholar’s face, the Baron explained, “My professional life affords me the opportunity to interact with Europe’s kings, princes, the rich and famous. I know that I can easily slip into the pitfall of arrogance and start believing that it is thanks entirely to the power and might of my own hand that I have prestige and wealth. So, at least once a day I try to slip out into the garden, enter this
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11 Surprising Facts about Rain by Dr. Yvette Alt Miller
Things to know while praying for rain.
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ach autumn, during the Simchat Torah Mussaf service, Jews around the world begin reciting a prayer for rain, praising the Divine for providing the essential miracle of rainfall. In celebration of this year’s first week of this powerful prayer, here are 11 surprising facts about rain. Raindrops aren’t drop-shaped. They’re shaped more like hamburger buns. The speed at which rain falls flattens out drops, making them flatter on the bottom than the top. The driest place on earth isn’t over the desert. The continent with the lowest rainfall is snow-covered Antarctica which receives just 6.5 inches of rain or snow annually, making it the driest continent on earth. (In comparison, North America receives an average of 256 inches of rain annually.) Rain has a smell. It comes from the Earth: some plants and soil-dwelling bacteria excrete chemicals into the earth that are released into the air when rain falls, moistening the ground in which these chemicals reside. The pleasant smell that results is called “petrichor” and
is associated with the fresh feeling we experience after a rain shower.
statues, God will make their “skies like iron” from which no rain will fall (26:18).
Prayers for Rain
Rainbows signify a promise in Judaism.
Reflecting the understanding that rain comes from the Divine, Judaism contains blessings to say over rain-related phenomena. Upon hearing thunder, it’s customary to say “Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the Universe, for His strength and His power fill the universe.” Over lighting, we praise God “who makes the work of Creation”. After seeing a rainbow, we bless God as well.
The Torah recounts how, many years after the creation of the world, it had become morally corrupt and God sent a flood to wipe out every living thing. Only Noah and his family survived. After the flood subsided, they turned to God, who promised He would never again destroy the world in this manner, and chose the rainbow to be His special sign of this promise. “I have set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth” (Genesis 9:13). To this day, Jews recite a special blessing upon seeing a rainbow in commemoration of this promise.
Rain doesn’t start off as rain. Up in the clouds, rain most often starts off as snow. Clouds are made of freezing-cold water droplets and tiny crystals of ice. In most rains, this cold water adheres to ice, forming nascent drops that then fall out of the clouds. As they descend towards the relative warmth of the earth’s surface, they melt and become rain. In the Torah, rain has a special meaning. In the Torah, rain is a reward for following God’s laws: “If you follow My laws and are careful to keep My commandments, I will provide you with rains at the right time, so that the land will bear its crops and the trees of the field will provide fruit” (Leviticus 26:3). Conversely, the Torah warns, if the Jews fail to follow Divine
Rain doesn’t always reach the earth. “Phantom rain” occurs in extremely hot climates. Sheets of rain are visible in the sky, but high land temperatures cause the water to heat and evaporate before it ever reaches the ground. Rain Records The most rainfall in one year ever recorded occurred in Cherrupanji, India: 25.4 meters, or about 1,000 inches of rain. The most rain ever recorded in one 24 hour period occurred in the Indian Ocean island of La Reunion: during a cyclone in
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1966, 71.9 inches (182.5 cm) of rain fell in one day. Large raindrops fall faster. According to Britain’s Met Office, raindrops fall at an average speed of about 14 miles per hour. At that speed, a raindrop falling from a typical cloud height of 2,500 feet would take a little more than two minutes to reach the ground. Larger raindrops can reach speeds of up to 20 miles per hour, while tiny raindrops can take up to seven minutes to fall from 2,500 feet. Rain is compared to blessings. In the Talmud, abundant rain is compared to blessings streaming down on us from Above, strengthening and nourishing us spiritually just as rain sustains us physically. Rabbi Yehuda compared “the Day of the Rains” to the “Giving of the Torah”, noting that the Torah compares Torah to life-giving rain: “My teaching shall drop like rain” (Deuteronomy 32:2). (Taanit 7a)
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The Greatness of the Avos Parshas Lech Lecha “And it was as they came close to coming to Egypt, and Avram said to his Sari his wife, “Behold, now I know that you are a beautiful woman.” — Bereishis 12:11 HASHEM told Avram to leave Charan and go to the land of Cannan. When Avram arrived, there was a famine in the land, and he was forced to go down to Egypt. While traveling there, he said to his wife, “Behold, now I know that you are a beautiful woman.” Rashi, in the name of the Medrash, explains that up until this point Avrohom Avinu didn’t notice his wife’s physical appearance. Because they were traveling, the situation caused him to become aware of it, and he now recognized that she was a beautiful woman. This Rashi becomes difficult to understand when we focus on why HASHEM created beauty in a woman.
Men are from Mars; Women are from Venus
Men and women are different in almost every way imaginable. They speak differently, act differently, and have different value systems. It would seem near impossible to take two individuals from different backgrounds, with diverse natures and upbringings, put them
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together for a short time, and then ask them to live together for the rest of their lives in peace and harmony. In all relationships, differences of opinions tend to escalate, so feeling are hurt, and eventually the liaison ends. Most business partnerships end with a fight. Most friendships weaken when people go their separate ways. It seems impractical to expect the institution of marriage to succeed. To allow marriages to flourish, HASHEM placed within the heart of man the capacity to form a bond of love. Love allows a couple to overlook each other’s shortcomings, to ignore their partner’s flaws. It is the glue that holds a marriage together. To help form this bond, HASHEM created a number of catalysts. One of these is a woman’s beauty. When a husband notices his wife’s appearance, there is an awakening in his heart. He feels attracted to her, and this increases the love and attachment he feels towards to her. This element is so significant in creating that bond that a man is not allowed marry a woman without first seeing her in case “she may be ugly in his eyes.” The Torah’s approach to a successful marriage is not to ignore the physical, but rather to understand that it is a tool to be used for greater devotion and attachment of husband to wife. So how is it that Avrohom wasn’t even aware of whether his wife was attractive or not?
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The answer to this question seems to be that because of the great level of spirituality they were both on, matters of physical beauty were irrelevant. Apparently Avrohom was on the level of loving his wife totally and completely for her inner beauty — for who she was as a person. The external would neither have helped nor hurt. If her physical beauty would have added a dimension to the love and devotion that he felt towards her, we have to assume that he would have used it as such. Rather, it was something that wouldn’t have added to the already powerful bond and attraction he felt towards her. What we see from this is an amazing illustration of the great spiritual planes the Avos and Imahos were on. To Avrohom and Sarah, it wasn’t that the physical took a back seat; it was irrelevant; it didn’t weigh in at all. They lived on such a pure level that they bonded as a couple with complete and utter devotion, without any need of the physical drives that HASHEM put into mankind.
The difference between a mile marker and the North Star
This concept has great relevance in our lives. We are told that a person must say, “When will my actions reach the level of the Avos?” Chazal teach us that to reach greatness, we must use the Avos as
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It is important to remember that in our own lives and marriages, physical elements are important. A wife should do her best to make herself attractive to her husband, and a husband should do his best to make himself attractive to his wife. We aren’t Avrohom Avinu and Sarah Imenu. Therefore, we were given tools to help create a powerful attachment that withstands time and the travails of life. Physical attraction isn’t the end goal, but it is a key element and driving force in a successful marriage and a Torah home. At the same time, it is important to have in front of us an image of what a human can aspire to so we can set our goals for our own greatness.
Rabbi Ben Tzion Shafier was a high school rebbe for 15 years before creating Shmuz.com. The Shmuz, a popular website that dispenses weekly Torah inspiration to 10,000 people across the globe, reflects the down-to-earth, practical voice of Rabbi Shafier. Offering refreshing parasha thoughts, life-changing hashkafa workshops, and captivating marriage seminars (like “10 Really Dumb Mistakes that Very Smart Couples Make”), Rabbi Shafier is direct, daring, and downright funny, providing audiences with essential Torah principles packaged in an enticing, enjoyable way. A father of six and grandfather of four, Rabbi Shafier lives in Monsey, New York.
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Operation Brothers:
The Mossad’s Secret Scuba Operation in Sudan by Rabbi Shraga Simmons
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ola Reitman was enjoying a comfortable life as an El Al flight attendant and avid deep-sea diver. One phone call changed everything. It was Yola’s diving instructor. He’d been recruited by the Israeli intelligence agency, the Mossad, to lead the rescue of thousands of Ethiopian Jews who had fled famine and war into neighboring Sudan. The year was 1982 and Israel’s Prime Minister Menachem Begin was determined to rescue the long-lost Jewish tribe, Beta Israel. For centuries, communities of Jews lived in some 500 villages in northern Ethiopia – with a millennia-long yearning to return to Zion. Though Beta Israel’s precise “Jewish connection” has been a topic of debate, prominent rabbis from the 16th century Radbaz to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef have recognized their Jewish roots. Thousands of Beta Israel had fled Ethiopia on foot for refugee camps in Sudan, a harrowing month-long journey traversing harsh, barren desert. An
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estimated 4,000 Jews died along the way, victims of starvation, exposure, and violent bandits. Those who survived were left languishing with millions of other refugees in squalid camps – subsisting in shacks made of straw and cardboard, with epidemics of malnutrition and disease. The Mossad, the storied spy agency known for the secret capture of Adolf Eichmann and the daring rescue at Entebbe, was sent on a rescue mission. Saving Ethiopian Jews presented a daunting challenge. Sudan, a Muslim country and member of the Arab League, was a sworn enemy of Israel. Sudan had sent troops to destroy Israel in three successive wars, and the Sudanese capital of Khartoum was the site of the Arab League’s infamous 1967 rejection of Israel – the “Three No’s.” How could this operation succeed in covertly transporting thousands of Jews out of enemy territory, without raising suspicion at any local or national level? Sending a convoy of buses to the Sudanese
border was impossible: The land route between Israel and Sudan crosses Egypt, at the time another sworn enemy of Israel. Geography proved decisive to the solution: Israel and Sudan both have coastlines on the Red Sea. Mossad agents hoped to locate an obscure lagoon in Sudan where naval rescue operations could be secretly based. This solution itself was fraught with danger. Any suspicious activity would threaten not only the Mossad agents, but thousands of Ethiopian Jews who could be subject to violent retaliation. Yet when Jewish lives are at stake, the forces of fate devise their own strategy. The Red Sea is a scuba diver’s paradise – with spectacular coral reefs and a diverse population of fish, dolphins and sharks. It so happens that a decade earlier, a group of Italian investors had the cockamamie idea of packaging “Red Sea Diving Tours” in the inhospitable third-world Sudan. On an isolated Red Sea beach, the Italians built an entire resort village – complete with bungalows, kitchen, dining hall,
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The extraordinary first-person account of the mission to save Jewish refugees, soon to be a film starring Chris Evans. Going Undercover “It was surely an offer I could not refuse,” Yola told Aish.com from her home in central Israel. “This was a once-in-alifetime opportunity – not only to serve my country, but to save thousands of Jewish lives. It also spoke to my adventurous spirit.” Besides her knowledge of both deep-
Germany and raised in Israel) and fit the “native European profile” so crucial to the covert operation, up to and included her falsified European passport. “I invented a whole life story about my German identity,” she says. “But because I left Germany as a little girl, I always got a bit nervous when meeting a German tourist. My best device was to fall back on the German children’s songs I knew from
Israeli naval commandos on a red sea rendezvous (Mossad Exodus - Geffen Pub.)
and essential infrastructure. When the enterprise failed, the resort lay dusty and dormant... as if awaiting its destiny. The resort – named “Arous on the Red Sea” – was tailor-made for the Mossad. Israelis with European backgrounds would pose as entrepreneurs from a Swiss travel firm looking to promote the woeful Sudanese tourism industry. This gave the Mossad a highly plausible reason for operating on the shores of the Red Sea, while maintaining all the necessary boats, trucks, and communications gear. For a cool $320,000, the “Swiss entrepreneurs” leased the entire resort complex for three years and with it, official “protection” from Sudan’s Tourism Ministry. So it was that Yola Reitman’s phone rang that day. Would she agree to join the Mossad and “act” as director of a diving operation on the shores of the Red Sea? The timing of the call was exquisite. Yola was in Eilat on the shores of the Red Sea, hosting tourists on deep-sea diving excursions.
sea diving and tourism, Yola was a talented administrator (she later became chief flight attendant at El Al) who could manage the resort at professional standards. “Our ability to successfully host actual tourists,” she says, “was the difference between people believing – or not believing – our cover story.” Best of all, Yola spoke German at a mother tongue level (she was born in
piano lessons in Israel.”
Rescue Operations Getting the resort up and running was no simple task. The infrastructure in Sudan was so primitive that fresh water had to be delivered by tanker truck and electricity was supplied by the resort’s own massive generators. Vehicles,
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communications equipment, and diving gear were almost non-existent; some wellplaced bribes helped grease those wheels. While Yola and team got the resort into shape, a select group of Ethiopian Jews were sent into the refugee camps to locate fellow Jews and prepare them for departure. When the timing was right for an operation, hundreds of Jewish refugees fled into the nighttime desert, taking only the barest of possessions. There, they were packed like sardines onto trucks for an arduous 600-mile journey over badly-potholed roads and frequent police checkpoints. After a full night of travel – navigating by moonlight – they would stop and hide in a gulley all day to avoid detection. Only when it was dark again did they continue the journey. For these operations, Yola was stationed in the middle of the desert, serving as a communications transmitter between the refugee trucks and the rescue boats. The second night of travel culminated in a beach rendezvous where Yola helped transfer the refugees onto Zodiac rubber dinghies. There, Israeli naval commandos ferried them on a 90-minute high-speed cruise to the Israeli mother ship, waiting outside Sudan’s territorial waters. From there, it was home to Israel. “Getting shuffled around from place to place was a traumatic experience for the refugees,” Yola says. “By the time they arrived in Israel, they were quite disoriented. Then these people – totally unfamiliar with modern life – were thrown into culture shock.”
Alternative Reality Though the rescue operation cost many millions of dollars, the vacation village managed to enjoy a steady stream of paying guests. A travel office in Zurich, owned by a Jewish man who was “in the know,” enticed groups of wealthy Europeans with the offer of first-rate gear, professional divemasters, and fresh tasty food. Locals were hired as support staff. On Fridays, the Sudanese chef would bake fresh braided bread – what he chose to call
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“Shabbat bread” due to its resemblance to a “braided sandal” – called “Shabbat” in the local dialect. He never suspected any
an entirely different reality. “Hiding the secret from our Sudanese staff was the biggest challenge,” Yola says. “I’m proud that during the entire three years, nobody ever had an inkling of what was happening around them.” Because of the nature of her job as a flight attendant – away from home for long stretches, and constantly switching
crews – co-workers didn’t even notice her long absence. The top-secret nature of the mission meant that Yola couldn’t even tell her family her whereabouts. “On my occasional return visits to Israel, I would avoid meeting friends because they would ask too many questions,” she says. connection to traditional Shabbat challah. The resort also became a popular destination for Saudi Arabian hawkhunters in the desert, and for diplomats stationed in Khartoum. “Because the region had so little recreation,” Yola recalls, “the wife of the Egyptian ambassador to Sudan told me how much she appreciates our being there. If she only knew!” The village once hosted a team of elite British commandos sent on a “wilderness survival exercise.” They enjoyed the full resort amenities – while reporting back to commanders about having endured the “harrowing Sudanese desert.” Without their knowledge, the locals and tourists were living in an elaborate stage set while the Israelis were living in
Dangers Averted In Sudan, Yola established good relations with the governor of the Port Sudan region, and – because of the restrictive Muslim Sharia law – secretly supplied whiskey to the local chief of police. Through this the Israelis gained preferential treatment and were rarely stopped at roadblocks. What was Yola’s backup plan should she ever get caught? “I was instructed, in case of emergency, to take a Zodiac boat far out to sea... then wait for an Israeli helicopter rescue. What a ‘plan’!” Besides the ongoing exposure to exotic and potentially lethal diseases, every day carried the risk of discovery.
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Airplane Rescue Two years into the operation, it was determined that naval rescues had become too dangerous and the focus shifted to airplanes. The “small details” was locating a suitable landing site in the middle of the Sudanese desert. This proved, once again, a Godsend. Mossad operatives discovered a forsaken airstrip built by the British for use in one of the remotest battlefronts of World War Two. Though abandoned for decades, the runway was in pristine condition – no potholes or trenches. For these operations, bedraggled Ethiopians were brought in the dead of
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The Mossad, the storied spy agency known for the secret capture of Adolf Eichmann and the daring rescue at Entebbe, was sent on a rescue mission.
years earlier. Landing in the heart of enemy territory, Israeli planes escaped detection as the nearby battery of surfaceto-air missiles proved but a rusted remnant... now improvised as a children’s playground. The Ethiopian Jews, having never before seen an airplane (donkeys were the common mode of transport), were petrified as the metal behemoth rumbled down onto to the desert floor. Amidst a spectacular dust storm, Israeli commandoes deplaned bearing assault rifles and rocket launchers. Some of the terrified Ethiopians tried fleeing into the
“Operation Brothers,” as it was affectionately known, came to an abrupt halt in 1984 when an irresponsible Israeli politician bragged publicly about the mission. Predictably, the news caused outrage in the Arab world. Facing certain torture and death if caught, the Israelis evacuated the Arous village overnight. They left behind a resort filled with scuba-diving tourists who would awaken the next morning to find the entire senior staff had deserted them – yet with the promise to refund their money. U.S. Vice President George H.W. Bush, a former CIA director, stepped in to help rescue the last Mossad operatives – shipping them out of Sudan in large boxes labeled “U.S. Diplomatic Mail.” Gad Shimron writes: “Sudan was one of our finest hours, the enlistment of an entire defense establishment for a truly altruistic purpose... What other country would be ready to invest tens of millions of dollars to set up an operational infrastructure for secret activity in an enemy country, involving large army forces, only to save several thousand famished refugees in war-torn Africa?” Indeed, the Sudanese operation marked the first time in history that blacks have been systematically moved from one country to another – in freedom rather than in chains. Prior to this operation, approximately 250 Ethiopians lived in Israel. Operation Brothers increased that number by nearly 5,000 percent! Operation Brothers became the precursor to new daring rescues of Ethiopian Jews. For example, on May 24, 1991, as the Ethiopian government collapsed in the face of a rebel takeover, 34 El Al passenger planes rescued over 14,000 Ethiopian Jews in the span of 24 hours. “Operation Solomon” set a world record with 1,067 passengers crammed onto a single flight. Today, there are approximately 130,000 Jews of Ethiopian descent living in Israel. And while the transition to Israeli society has come with challenges, Ethiopian Jews occupy respected positions in academia, medicine, arts, the military, and the Knesset.
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Yola describes their “nightmare scenario” of burned-out Israeli vehicles, charred refugee bodies, and Israeli agents being paraded before TV cameras as proof of “nefarious Zionist activity.” One day the army conducted a routine anti-smuggling raid on the resort. Yola was tipped off in advance by a local businessman grateful for the freshlybaked bread Yola supplied him with daily. This gave the Israelis precious time to hide some of their more “suspicious” gear. Things did not always go smoothly. One night, while transferring refugees onto the dinghies, the Israelis were caught red-handed by Sudanese soldiers looking for smugglers. When the soldiers began shooting at the dinghies, Mossad agents began yelling: “What do you think you’re doing!? This is an important tourist event! We’re showing the beauty of night-diving in Sudan – and you’re ruining it all!” The soldiers backed off sheepishly, as the frightened refugees hid in the dark night. Another threat to the rescue operation came from a well-meaning group of Diaspora Jews, whose vocal demand that Israel rescue the Ethiopian Jews drew dangerous attention to the issue. Due to the increasing peril, standard Mossad protocol would call for abandoning the mission and immediately returning home. In his gripping first person account, Mossad Exodus (Geffen Publishing), Gad Shimron writes: “How could we leave [our fellow Jews] behind in the unbearable conditions they endured? Soon we came to think of it as abandoning comrades on the battlefield, or even betrayal!”
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hmuel Gniwisch, a devoutly religious Hassidic Jew, stroked his beard as his eyes twinkled. As former CEO of Ice.com, an online jewelry retail company, Shmuel, along with his brothers, transformed the family business from (literally) a “mom and pop shop” in 1999 into a company with over one hundred employees, more than $80 million in annual sales, and garnering awards from Internet Retailer as one of the “top 100 e-commerce companies in the world.” He has been profiled by the New York Times, Fortune Magazine, Bloomberg, and Xconomy.com to name a few. What intrigued me the most was the credence this family gave to their faith as inspiration not just for their spirituality but also for their business acumen. As Pinny Gniwisch, Shmuel’s brother and co-founder of Ice.com, once remarked, “Jewish history has shown me how we have persevered over thousands of years and come back stronger every time we were knocked down.” Pinny, an internationally respected thought leader in online marketing and an adjunct professor for McGill University’s first ever eCommerce course, sees Judaism as a “success story” in the marketplace of religions and believes the Torah contains wisdom for how to successfully persevere in any business. As Shmuel and I clinked glasses and said L’chaim, I got right down to the business of mining his mind to find those “diamonds of wisdom.” RLW: What is the most important lesson you would share with young entrepreneurs starting their own companies or organizations? SG: Hashem (God) brought the world into existence over the course of six separate days. I think that’s a message to celebrate the “little wins” of progress in whatever it is you’re creating. Some people think you must “go big or go home,” but in my experience I’ve seen how important it is to celebrate the little things that worlds are built on. When I started out I didn’t have it all figured out or know exactly what I was supposed to do with my life. I just knew that if I do it well and I’m changing the world, then it’s good. So I would advise young entrepreneurs to get involved in their communities. There were times in my life when I couldn’t give money so I would give time. The main thing is that by going beyond yourself to give to others, you’ll automatically go beyond what you’re capable of in other areas of your life. RLW: Who has been a great influence in your life? SG: My greatest mentor is my father with whom we started Ice.com back in the 90’s. He modeled many values and attitudes that guide me in how I approach my businesses and also life in general. Here’s one example. Eight years ago, our
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company was expanding and we put in a bid to purchase a new office building in downtown Montreal. We went back and forth with counteroffers and eventually settled on a price with the firm representing the property. Two weeks later we got a “hazmana” - a “religious subpoena” to appear before the local “beit din” - a rabbinical court usually presiding over matters pertaining to religious Jewish life. Apparently, one of the other bidders on the property was a Jew who owned property next to the office building we bought. He wanted to take us to rabbinical court over the complaint that we were violating the Jewish law of “Bar Metzra”. “Bar Metzra” is a fascinating legal discussion in the Talmud (Bava Metziah, 108) centered around a case of two parties vying to purchase a property and whether or not the owner of adjacent properties has preferential rights to purchase the piece of land close to his. As a devoutly religious man, my father instructed us to show up to the rabbinical court where they researched and weighed both sides of the dispute and their conclusion was that we had to give the “neighbor” preferential rights to purchase the office building. So we called up the firm representing the property and they were flabbergasted. They even sent a delegation to our office basically saying, “There is no basis in Canadian law for this and that guy has no case!” But my father emphatically said, “The bottom line is that we conduct our business according to the ethical code of the Torah.” So we transferred the sale over to the other party. This impressed upon me that honesty and ethics must come before anything else and are the key drivers of a religious businessman.” My parents are Holocaust survivors and every morning my children and I learn Talmud with my father before we head to the office. There’s a Talmudic teaching (Tractate Shabbat 31a) that after one passes away and ascends to Heaven, the very first question the soul is asked is “Did you conduct all your business affairs honestly?” RLW: Did you and your family ever have to sacrifice because of these values? SG: Yes, I remember one time my brother Mayer bought a building in Manhattan which housed an Andy Warhol exhibit. We sold off some of the paintings and artwork, fixed it up and
placed it back on the market. A fierce bidding war broke out and one guy called us on the phone and offered us the price we wanted. It was Friday afternoon and we were heading out of the office to go home for Shabbat and we told him, “It’s a deal!” Mayer returned Monday morning to see that a fax had come in over the weekend offering us $300,000 more than what that guy had offered. Although we hadn’t signed any documentation and there were many ways we could have handled this, we didn’t have a doubt in our minds as to what the right thing to do was. We had given our word and we would honor it. RLW: It’s obvious that your Jewish values have had a big impact on how you do business. Are there any specific mindsets from your Jewish upbringing that you credit with bringing you success? SG: Yes, I credit my Chabad Yeshiva schooling with imbuing me with some attitudes that have helped me in business. One example is the time I was in New York City working out of a hedge fund office there and was invited by some of the head guys there on their private jet heading to the West Coast. They told me that there wouldn’t be kosher food on the flight. At first, I thought that I didn’t really need to eat and it would be worth it to get there quicker on the jet. But then I had an idea and called up the local Kosher deli and asked them to deliver enough of their best sandwiches to feed all the 8 people on the flight. I asked the limo driver they sent to pick me up to stop on the way to the airport and picked up the sandwiches. When I got on the plane, one of my partners asked, “What’s in the bags?” I replied, “When I travel, I bring food for everybody.” Not a single person ate the airplane food as they all wanted to try “the Kosher option.” They loved it and to this day even some of the Christian businessmen on that flight still order Kosher sandwiches from that deli when they’re in the neighborhood. But what meant the most to me was when one of the partners who is Jewish approached me and said, “Thank you. I only eat Kosher food but was too embarrassed to say anything.” I think my Yeshiva education taught me not just to be proud of who I am but to have
When I met with the Rebbe, he blessed me that I should accomplish “more than I can measure in a way that I could see it.” the confidence not to be intimidated by status. Just as I approached high-powered executives wearing fancy suits in the streets when I was just a young kid to offer them a chance to put on Tefillin, so too I’ve closed many deals by having positive chutzpah to call up the owners and CEO’s of companies whom others might have been too intimidated to reach out to. RLW: Have you learned anything in the business world that’s made you a more devout Jew? SG: Actually, the main thing working in business has taught me is that “it’s not you.” In other words, I look back at the trajectory of various business deals and companies I’ve started and see there’s a higher power guiding the random coincidences and opportunities that have come my way. If you start thinking it’s all you, then you limit yourself. But when you know it’s God running the show, the
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I glanced at my watch, marveled at how late it was and muttered some comment to Shmuel about time passing when you’re having fun. He pulled out his iPhone and proudly uttered the traditional “afterblessing” of gratitude for the drinks we had.
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positives can be unlimited. RLW: As a Chabad Hassid, have you ever received any business guidance from the Lubavitcher Rebbe? SG: When I met with the Rebbe, he blessed me that I should accomplish “more than I can measure in a way that I could see it.” To this day, I consider making money a spiritual matter as well and I view my drive to create wealth and to innovate through the lens of the six days of creation. Just as Hashem’s six days of creation led to the holy and peaceful Shabbat on the seventh day, so too my drive to create and innovate is fueled by my desire to utilize my resources to make the world a more heavenly space. I glanced at my watch, marveled at how late it was and muttered some comment to Shmuel about time passing when you’re having fun. He pulled out his iPhone and proudly uttered the traditional “after-blessing” of gratitude for the drinks we had. As I shook his hand and got up to leave, I knew that I was walking away not just informed but profoundly inspired.
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