Meet the Rabbi Whose Business Smarts Have Attracted Google
(Wednesday, August 28th, 2013)
“Does anyone here not know what a Kindle is?” asks the man leading a $180 business seminar at Jerusalem’s Ramada hotel on a recent evening, his side curls swinging as he takes a quick look around the crowded room.It may be a strange question to pose to budding entrepreneurs, but some of Rabbi Issamar Ginzberg’s clients come from the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, where some consider Internet and TV taboo and many maintain a lifestyle built around tradition that has little need for modern technology.
As a scion of prominent Hasidic rabbis himself, Rabbi Ginzberg is steeped in this community and its religious sensitivities; his family, he says, traces its roots back through rabbinical dynasties to King David and even Adam and Eve.
I HAVE MET RABBI GINZBERG IN LONDON AT ONE OF HIS MEETINGS HE TALKS WELL, SPECIALLY ABOUT ALL OF US ORTHODOX BEING ABLE TO BE BUDDING ENTREPRENEURS. HE TELLS HIS LISTENERS ALL THEY HAVE TO DO TO BE ENTREPRENEURS IS LEARN HOW TO SPEAK. RABBI GINZBERG AND HIS FRIENDS ARE BA'ALE TESHUVA. BE WARNED THEY HAVE LEARNED THIS CON IN THE WORLD THEY COME FROM.
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2 comments:
Hi R' Gabi,
Thanks for sharing this with your "oylam".
While I respect and appreciate ba'alei teshuva, "gradeh" I was born into a frum family B"H. not sure why you thought otherwise.
I met you at the Bayis Lapleitos dinner in London (there where what, 1200-1500 attendees?), and you came over to me afterward to thank me for a great presentation...
You are entitled to your opinion of course, just unsure if you are saying that A) I said all you have to do is speak well or and/or that somehow my consulting is "a con"?
it is certainly not my opinion that "ALL THEY HAVE TO DO TO BE ENTREPRENEURS IS LEARN HOW TO SPEAK" as you write above.
unless I misunderstood...?
have ah git gebentsht yohr!
I WAS TOLD A THE TIME BY THE ORGANIZERS OF THE LONDON BAYIS LAPLEITOS DINNER THAT YOU ARE A B.T.
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