Join us for a warm conversation with a Torah Jew who happens to be an early innovator in the budding marijuana dispensary industry, a hippie jam-band aficionado, a commercial real estate player and a proponent of Glamping (Glam-Camping). From the Grateful Dead to being grateful to the Source of Life, Chanan Simon lives a fascinating life.

Mordechai Danielov is the Founder and CEO of BitWise, a boutique data management company servicing CTOs. Mordechai was born in very-secular Soviet Georgia, did his time in NYC, and now runs his business from Jerusalem. He tells his story of exploring every religion before finally trying Judaism, and offers a fascinating take on how the Torah's training of the mind to ask questions puts those who learn it ahead in every field.

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Glossary of terms that may not be translated in this episode:

Me'am Lo'ez: Comprehensive 18th Century Torah commentary by Turkish scholar Rabbi Yaakov Culi and others

Midrashim: Exegetical (Drash) commentary to the Torah

Sugya: A section of Talmud discussing a specific, focused topic

Talmid Chocham (Plural: Talmidei Chochamim): Literally 'a student of the wise', a knowledgeable Torah scholar

Shul: Synagogue

Yerushalayim: Jerusalem

Har Nof: A neighborhood in Jerusalem

Shas: Abbreviation for Shisha Sedarim: the 6 orders of Mishnah. Also refers to to The Entire Babylonian Talmud which is structured around the Mishnah

'Frum Yid': a Torah-observant Jew

Yeshivish: Ideologically/culturally associated with the world of high-level (typically Lithuanian-style) yeshivos.

Gemara: Talmud

Ramchal: Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzato, Influential 18th-century Italian Kabbalist and Scholar whose works are treasured even today.

Moshe Rabbeinu: Moses, our teacher.

K'lal: The public

Chareidim: A term used, mainly in Israel, to label devout Jews

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