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Conversation with Rav Sharon Shalom

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okay so just continue the dream you had mentioned that when you would come to shut up cuz you said to go down and then we were wondering well beautiful dream but how is it actually coming you were describing the interaction for all the assertive. Almost an inferiority complex and then say you were saying that you had turned it around you were describing this conversation things to describe an actually the color the official color of the actually closer to the Challenger is describing more broadly for the Ethiopian Jewish Community Center why I know I told you I almost sent it to when when we are a beginner Zig and the mountain Ethiopian Jews be careful before ascribing labeled you know I wonder if there's even if they are at least someone who are struggling with races issues or at least don't necessarily have the you no have the experience and life experience to be open to you know Judaism in jewishness to being a little bit louder now that sounds I remember it is another possible challenge over the last probably 10 years you'll know better than I will I certainly been hearing a lot about some of the differences with the the range of socioeconomic parts of the community and Israel and that there are many who are below the poverty line in that there's an increasing gap between those who have lots of four more of the wealth concentrated it's in the hands of relatively few and their menu including members of the Ethiopian Community who are struggling more I remember for myself my first exposure to this was actually an American Teenager I was in a program and we did not necessarily interact with fully immersive cultural experience is really Society intricate stop in for me this is this exotic and at the city of the 16th and maybe some artists you know some you buy you buy some pizza. can you bring it home if the place of Tourism it was the history of Truth in modern-day Jewish to buy some food back and we actually went into the real spot as it were or an extension of stay another really thought Community had a very comfortable bus from our wonderful tour we stopped in the local supermarket and it was one of my early encounters with poverty I mean there was it was just very difficult to see and it was so unexpected for American tourists we are and my understanding is that there is a substantial Ethiopian population for inspection center Insider Jack and in the I just wonder about the status a larger challenge for the Ethiopian Community what strides have we taken what work remains in terms of that element says of your rabbinic leadership and of the of the community. for each for each one immigrant from one country to another country to America from Boston Road Boston Road okay is not easy language from Russia is not this a Jewish came from Europe is not it as I mentioned before you move difficult mode Israel a lot of Crisis culture prices some people say he's really is racism I don't want to recognize Israel as a reason a community I say hey what's I call stigma assumption one time and asked if you open origin should improve to my neighborhood that I'm very clever but Ashkenazi he shoot to improve which is he's very very stupid beautiful in other words is a basic assumption is probably the report to the problem is about the basic assumption I prefer to okay you know when I arrive please babe I know nothing and I even went to electricity okay forgive me back I even I don't know I didn't know how to sit in the in the toilet okay and now I have after 30 years I find myself Rabbi in community I finish already my PhD ayi is this I from know maybe from if I can say nothing today I a rabbi and an end if you called when she see because because because I take I took it supposed to be today someone someone told me someone Insure One what is the authority and I already I didn't make of it and you look for my when I arrive please write and about so I asked my grandma you have to go to the Mikvah and he told me if someone say I want to marry my daughter does this guy you see the in other words you told me you need to be very clever no right to be right okay you're right and I listen to this and I for the time to be very clever like this I wish myself responsibility for the time in the state of Israel is something like racism if I have something I have that address very very important to you seem sweet gum trees red you can do it without a I don't I don't I don't I didn't exaggerate but you can see a lot of Ethiopian is that they succeeded but in the other hand have a lot of week does the phone down so they still want more work to do I'd love to stay on this for a while but I wear a little bit limit I mean I don't want to I don't want to pass up the opportunity to talk a little bit about the cepher that you wrote I have not yet seen this but I understand we have very excited to get my hands on it and a modern-day halacha guide for for the Ethiopian community Ethiopian community in Israel in I you mentioned earlier that this scenario were talking about the case of the gas it was not traditional for Ethiopian Jewish communities to write it yet even though they would have to buy that's right is at the very big questions about to rush about that but also about what should be the proper approach to modern-day Ethiopian Jews do they have a completely different set of traditions are there Part auto parts of Israeli helicopter modern day generally accepted helicopter other parts of the community that had is that all that work together how does all that fit how do you how do you begin to tackle something like that what was the approach that you took in your book Fred that the everything to do to do to bring his European Jews and end and they represent the only thing that's a very similar today Orthodox word to exposed that's very similar to the old Ethiopian of cottages send me talk to the old the very Jewish when you take the Contemporary practices that many other objects can you referring to many of the different Heat. their tradition based on only on the Bible by Damon Ashkenazi more similar to one another much more similar and you're saying that's an orthodox as opposed to video give too many which was really Park Aurora now I know is separate from from the underworld actually we like you're entering into a different Zone like a sew in with the weekend in the Bible I can give you circumcision my grandmother my grandma she was a mermaid and and and you know for example just poultry just chicken or in one in in my home which is very very different don't mean to kind of category you coming over for Shabbat meal come to where you are very light colored still in and I know 200 black but the actual back to him already should have it you have it here are much more light colored as opposed to my black colored Beetle if they don't have contact in principle we can kind of go over this but when it comes to friends and buggy chicken so that's you know that that's the really hard issue if someone thought I was problematic nowadays but then you know it might strike weird is it you know are the real tension there in terms of had an integrative Ethiopian Community with the larger Azalea it's exactly what I tried to do in my room Vizzini hey Kim did you score today which me how he is the continue button in they can integrate to the douche work today which is good in my book was very very difficult and it. 2 years didn't eat in my house call parents house and I come to my house. And you say taste test so anyway and I decided that I must a right book coconut oil for concentration which in her game will it continue to fill I know it's a grant to use Road and what is very very. We need to stop them continue in Israel this sink group in Israel opportunity today to see what bring us to be but it's please to continue our tradition we need to live Jewish Community Center Ethiopian community in Wisconsin who did Huey Lewis did you consult with anyone do you have other people who are from the same or similar you were working on these subjects or this really are just you casing also but I know it I don't know about you. then you have it because you know why because I'm here and you're right because of me. I will be very from you is it your pants I say you go more and more clothes I try to add an account to use it Go in seconds Bibi bourelly z222 the differences and destroyed and now this and how and when it's group The we need to sing how we need to bring all the Jewish people to live under one umbrella what's going on okay can make people go to countries and different background different all the Jewish wedding today in is the challenge of all news paper today even in Philadelphia responsibilities for the beautiful message and the work that you are doing and if your community or Ethiopian community the larger Jewish mean that all of us are doing to build the unified police up should be a harbinger of the time of Greater off do it I know that the official date is tonight and tomorrow I'm going to I celebrated in Israel yesterday and I understand that in 2008 the Israeli government passed a law that they observed or celebrated by Israel Houghton the government in the future also from their Chase celebration flying Direct according to what you said open the central part of definition so it was a dream to Jerusalem from from Philadelphia I tried a comedy try to put it together to see it at the last second if we thank you so much for your time parents are very much room for two beautiful age of us together

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