Human Up Season 2 Ep 2: The Power of One Good Deed (Mitzvah) with Rabbi Levi Harlig
This is a transcript of Human Up Podcast Season 2, Episode 2 with Rabbi Levi Harlig, which you can watch and listen to here:
Dave: Welcome to the Human Up Podcast. I'm your host, Dave Marlon, and today it's a huge honor for me to be joined by Rabbi Levi Harlig. Thank you. It's honor to be here. Awesome. This is very special to me because we've been friends for five or six years now. Yeah,
Rabbi: Just about.
Dave: And since then you've invited me to your home a dozen times to various holidays, and I've learned a tremendous amount about my culture. I mentioned my mother is a Holocaust survivor, so I loved it. Just today. I mentioned I have some Jewish blood and you corrected me and said, no, you are a Jew. 100%. 100%. And to me, that's a beautiful thing. I want to start by opening with, the thing I think of you most famous for is I know lots of people and I've asked them lots of hard questions, but to me, of every person I know, anytime I ask you a hard question, you always pivot to the light, to the optimism, to goodness, and you see that in every situation that you're presented with. Could you share what this is about, light and how you are light?
Rabbi: I don't know if I am light. First of, first of all, thank you for asking that question. In general, we were discussing this before the world. It's unfortunately an evil world and it's a dark world. Most people can focus on the dark. You go into a dark room, darkness sticks out. But as I mentioned, if you light a small little candle, all of a sudden the whole room lights up. You got a room a hundred times the size of that candle because light dispels a disproportionate amount of darkness, and that's because darkness we believe is not really an entity for itself. Darkness is the lack of light. So the absence of light, darkness will come. So the shortcut will be you'll be a candle, a beacon of light. You'll be a kinder, better person when you do so darkness dissipates automatically. So why focus on the darkness? You can focus on what's true and what's real, and it's extreme. I'll keep talking about the way it's extremely contagious. People are searching in this world, we'll talk about recovery as well. They're looking for something deeper, something more meaningful, looking for purpose. When I say light, it's spirituality, it's religion. It's your belief that is the core of every human being.
Dave: That's awesome. It tunes me into my calling because I help people get clean and sober. And while I'm not anti wine, I'm not anti bourbon. What I am is I'm pro being clean and sober, and I'm grateful. I've been able to help over 10,000 people in this valley stop drinking and using drugs so their lives could be better. So again, I try to be that light and in my little lane, it's a light of recovery.
Rabbi: Hai, I'm on some water. Continue being that light.
Dave: Now, something that strikes me about you is you are an Orthodox chi.
Dave: Could you talk to me about your orthodoxy and how that strengthens your spirituality?
Rabbi: Yes. Thank you for asking that. It's not a very popular time to be in my position. So I'm a Hasidic Orthodox studio. Do a little bit of research amongst the Orthodox Jews. There are non has or other sects of Hasidic Judaism. Sometimes the longer sidewalk locks or thicker hats,
They're all different customs where they came from in Russia, in Europe, the dress customs are different, but the core remains the same. An Orthodox Jew is completely devoted to God's word in the Torah, in the Bible, in the five books of Moses. And we stayed true to that core throughout our life. So I was blessed. I'm fortunate. My parents moved to Las Vegas from Brooklyn in 1990, part of the Habad Hasidic movement and the Haba rabbi, the grand Rabbi, passed in 1994. He said, no, he's coming after the devastation of the Holocaust. And he said, it's our mission to find our Jewish brothers and sisters. The same May, God forbid, the Nazis hunted us down at Tate. We got to find our brothers and sisters and bring them back with love at a level they're comfortable with, but really inspire them and be there for them. Rabbi said, it doesn't always be spiritually in the synagogue. Be there for them in a, from physical perspective as well. They're not food to eat, be there for them. They're struggling emotionally. Be there to support them. I started pivoting. I started a nonprofit called Friendship Circle.
Dave: Yes, a nonprofit. I've been to many of their events. I love what they do.
Rabbi: And shout to Vegas Stronger, A consistent supporter of Walk for Friendship, a friendship circle. People ask me all the time, it's that nonprofit for special needs individuals. Rabbi, what are your credentials? I'm not offering clinical support. I'm offering community support and friendship. And for that, everyone can be a friend. We all have that within ourselves to be that friend, to be that support. So growing up, I was born into it. Thank God I was born into it. My parents moved here and started the first Habbat Center. There are now 10 habbat centers. There are synagogues, outreach centers, education, adult education, burial society, visiting prisons, and I am privileged people to visit a couple of the mental health facilities here in Las Vegas, not as a clinician, but as a rabbit offer that community and that support and that spirituality, which is integral in the recovery process.
Dave: Tell me, you say it's integral. I know recovery, spirituality and Judaism. Let's talk about how they intersect.
Rabbi: Yes. They cannot intercept anymore, meaning every human being is made up of a body and a soul. There may be a person that lives his entire life, never in touch with your soul, but you might have those moments of inspiration or you're in search mode. You can't really put your fingers on what that is. That's the soul expressing itself, wants to connect to that. Higher power wants to be a better individual, better human being doesn't want to be confined by that animalistic instinct that the body produces. So when a person is going through his stuff, emotionally struggling addiction, you have to encompass, you have to include the spiritual, the soul as well, because the body and the soul mirror each other. If the soul is ill, the body is ill, the body is ill, the soul is ill. So it doesn't putting in my opinion, putting a bandaid on it. If you're only focusing on that body, if you're not including the spirituality, you're not including that soul in the recovery. It might be a bandaid, it might help for a long period of time, but ultimately, you're not getting down to the court the depth of what the real issue is. So when you're going through whatever you're going through to dig deeper into yourself, find that purpose in that meaning, connect to the soul, connect to God the higher power, and you'll see that will accelerate your recovery tenfold.
Dave: I a hundred percent agree. I could help someone cease using the harmful substance, but unless they develop a purpose, unless they,
Rabbi: You created a vacuum now.
Dave: Correct. Something's got to fill that vacuum. So it's imperative
Rabbi: That has to happen. You've got to create that vacuum. But I always say that next step is just as important, if not a little more important for the vacuum.
Dave: No, I agree. I often say that when somebody comes and they have heart problems and they go to the heart doctor, that heart doctor after surgery says, good news, you're 80% or you're 90% of what you used to be here with substance use disorders, we cease using our substance and our clients end up being better than they ever were because of that vacuum enables them to fill that with the spirit and they could live richer and more purpose lives. Yeah, it is an amazing opportunity. Now, you mentioned you go into different treatment centers. Yes, I do. Can you talk about a little bit about that work when you walk in these residential treatment centers and see people?
Rabbi: Yes. So in my line of work as a haba rabbi, so you've got to be flexible. Might be called for a hospital visit, may be called to help bury someone may be called to a child with special needs to their house services daily, a lot within our religion on a daily basis. I was called about seven or eight years ago from someone who asked if I could help cater or connect them to someone to cater kosher food for a residential treatment center. I had no clue what that meant. I said, I'll try to help you with the kosher
Dave: Food. I assume this was my friend Mindy.
Rabbi: Yes, love him. Shout out to Mindy. Thanks to Mindy. I got involved. So I said, I'm happy to help with the kosher food and I'd love to help as an older student in my rabbinical colleges, I would naturally gravitate towards the troubled youth to help them mentor them. Not in funeral capacity, but the challenging, the more challenging the kid, the more I was there to try and help out. So he said, if you want to get involved as well, can you please? I said, I'd love to. I remember first time walking into the treatment center, I met with the clinical director. She told me something, which takes me every day. She said, you may be used to visiting a hospital. Someone breaks their leg. God forbid they get a cast on six, eight weeks later, recover, good to go. This is a lifelong illness and you've got to support and love and be there permanently. And that stuck with me. So I got involved just meeting with the clients, talking to them, and through one treatment center, came to the second, came to the third, came to multiple hospitals on chaplain, a few hospitals here as well on an on-call basis when they need extra support, it's kosher food. I want a little bit of spirituality. I'm happy to visit and support the best that I can.
Dave: That's a beautiful thing. It is funny, you talked about the mission of other Jews who have now been called to reach out and find, and when I showed up at the Shabbat and the fact that you guys rolled out the red carpet and you're like, Dave, come on in. I have a sister who lives in rural Idaho and she's told me that multiple times people have drove two hours out to her to go knock on her door.
Rabbi: My people during the summer months, they'll go out. So there was the Grand bie. He's like, go find the far off forgotten Jews and remind them that they matter. Not looking to make people religious, but to connect with their inner self, which is that soul, which transcends all that we have in this physical world.
Dave: To me, I identified without a lot because when there's someone who is lost that they're too drug addicted, that no one could help them. To me, those are my favorite people. And when you've called me or your dad's called me and said, Hey, we have somebody we don't know what to do with 'em. We love being able to just drop what we're doing and rush over there and let's go help someone because we have seen the light and it's a health to recovery, and if we could help somebody else get that, we have the same fervor.
Rabbi: So I always thought we're in the same line of business.
Dave: Yeah,
Rabbi: There is no, so in various levels of being charitable charity is not only with your money, it's with your time and with your talents. So the highest level of charity, yes, you give it anonymously. So there's no embarrassment. There's no honor. But the highest level is to give someone the ability to stand up on their own two feet, which is what you do on a daily basis. There is nothing better than that.
Dave: Now, that was particularly well said. It wasn't to give someone a house. It wasn't to give somebody money. It isn't to give somebody,
Rabbi: Which is also wonderful and charitable, but
Dave: The highest,
Rabbi: Let them stand on their own two feet.
Dave: Teach
Rabbi: 'em how to fish.
Dave: Yeah, offer them a hand up, not a handout. Correct. Correct. That's beautiful.
Rabbi: I like that line.
Dave: Yeah, thanks.
Rabbi: Offer them a hand up, not a handout.
Dave: Good stuff.
Rabbi: That is the best you can be.
Dave: Now speaking of the best you can be, you were one week away from having your sixth baby. My wife is due this Friday. This Friday. So thank you so much for spending some time with me when all your whole world is, my wife is
Rabbi: Always late. I booked my calendar until next week, until the high holidays next week. Oh, wow. Okay. Because I'm planning for her to be a little bit late, but as soon as it happens, I I'm off you off. Wow. The biggest blessing in this world. Going back to what we started with you and me and everyone listening, you're here in this world not for ourselves. We're here for the other. It's for our children. It's for our friends, those that are struggling, those that seem like they're secure. My father-in-law always says like this Yiddish expression, we're not living for ourselves. You got to take care of yourself, make sure you're healthy and able to provide for others. But even if it takes away from our comfort zone and goes into our wallet, that is the reason why we're put into this world. God wants us to be a conduit of goodness and kindness for everybody else. So as much as I can with my family, with my community, the extent the community, I'm want to try and do that. Not perfect at it, but do the best that we can.
Dave: Those are pearls of wisdom and they're right for everybody. And just today, I was lamenting because as a clinician, I've been asked multiple times to join the self-care bandwagon and I've done seminars, training clinicians that, oh, self-care is so important. But now I step back and I take a look and I said, the most important thing I could do to take care of myself, it's help other people. It's get to work. That is, it's go being of service. When I think self-care, I want to get a massage. I want to take an extra nap. I want to go on vacation. But to me, that doesn't fill my soul. Like reaching out my hand to somebody on the street, having 'em come in and have them then learn to be self-supported. Correct. That truly is, is self-care
Rabbi: Because the souls are all connected externally. We're all different internally. We're all the same. It's ultimately, that's the ultimate that we're, we're all oneself. We're not going to talk at length about the self-care movement. Yes, you got to take care of yourself. And a massage once in a while is a good thing. But we have to always remember the mission is to be there for somebody else.
Dave: The mission is to be there for somebody else. Pass it on. So congratulations on your current five kids and congratulations in advance. So like I said, I hope number six is fat and healthy.
Rabbi: If it's a boy, I don't know the gender, if it's a boy, there's eight days later, is the circumcision, the briss? Yes. I'd love for you to be there. If it's a girl, we'll have to tell a party for the girl as well. You don't want her to miss out. I've got four girls and one boy. So wow. Hoping for a boy, but a healthy baby, a blessing from my blessing from God. That's what counts.
Dave: That is Congratulations again. And that's so beautiful. Now, you talked about this Bris and you talked about these holidays. What holidays are coming up?
Rabbi: There's a lot. This is the craziest time of year because the marathon of holidays starts next week.
Dave: Next week.
Rabbi: Right now the Hebrew month of ell, which is the last month of the year, there are 12 months in the Hebrew calendar, is a lunar calendar. I have a calendar right over here. We're starting the year 5, 7, 8, 6, 20, 25, 20 26, 5,000 7 86, and Judaism, the world was created fifty seven hundred and eighty six years ago. So starting next month, we've got something coming up shortly. We've got Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, two days, time to spend. We're coordinating God as our king people, claiming God as our king. It is the day of judgment's, more of a serious somber holiday. We do incorporate a lot of sweetness. That's what I brought with us here. A honey cake. You brought me a honey cake. We're going to have a sweet New Year. We are short to it. The God who is our king, but also our father's going to bless us for happy, healthy, sweet New Year. So I brought a honey cake. A lot of the foods on the Rosh Hashanah dinner,
Dave: Shana Tova.
Rabbi: Shana Tova means
Dave: You bring me a honey cake every year and thank you so much. Always,
Rabbi: Always
Dave: A pleasure. So that's Rosh Hashanah Benmore
Rabbi: Yo Kippur, the Day of Atonement. It says on Rosh Hashanah, it's inscribed on Yom Kippur. It's sealed the verdict for the year. What kind of year are we going to have? A prosperous year, a year of struggle, a year of health. So from Hashanah until Yom Kippur, the days of repentance regret on the past resolve for the future. And it culminates with Yom Kippur Day of Atonement. It's a fast day. So we don't eat. We don't eat. We try and remove ourself from the physical as much as we can. Don't wear leather shoes. You can't shower most of the day is spent praying in the synagogue most of the day. Services basically throughout the entire day. A time again for introspection to reflect on the kind of lifestyle that we've been living and how we're going to resolve for the future. A lot of confession going on in the text of the prayer book on various sins that a person may commit throughout the year. And that's a one, a two day holiday. Hun Kippur is a 25 hours. It's Wednesday night to Thursday night, October 2nd, first and second. And then a couple of days later, we have the holiday of Ko. Ko.
Dave: We go to the
Rabbi: 10th. So that is the least. Everyone knows Rosh Hashanah, y Kippur Ko. What is Suko? It's an eight day holiday where we have two commandments. One is to eat in aah. Aha. Remember how God protected us as he left, went through the desert with the clouds of glory we eat in the Soka. We also shake the lu love. We walk around. So I get strange looks whenever I walk, when I walk around with the palm branch in my hand and a lemon, I get even stranger looks. But one important lesson from eating messa. We leave our permanent home, we go out into a temporary structure to remind us we can't take any of our blessings for granted. You can look through, you can see the we can never be too secure. We've learned from COVID, we've learned from crazy wars that every day is a blessing and we are blessed so much on a daily basis.
Dave: So Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, Ko,
Rabbi: Marathon of Holidays.
Dave: Alright, now you also brought a, to fill in with
Rabbi: Your, I don't want to overdo with everyone here, but so to fill in what arts, to fill in the English translation is not going to help much either. Phylacteries, what are phylacteries? So these are commandments. There are 630 commandments in the Torah, in the
Dave: Bible. 613. That's
Rabbi: A lot of commandments. There are a lot of commandments. There's always an opportunity to fulfill God's work. A lot of them are not relevant these days because it's only relevant in the times of the temple. There are plenty that are still relevant now. So during, from a boy, a Jewish male, a boy who has his bar mitzvah, age 13, there's a commandment to bind God's name upon your heart and your head, which is the to fill, fill in. There are boxes with pieces of parchment handwritten from a scribe. The Shama prayer here is of the Lords God. The Lord is one inscribed on those parchment inside these fill, we put 'em on daily besides for Saturday Sabbath, Chavez, and holidays.
Dave: Thank you for the friendship. Circle ya.
Rabbi: Yes, of course, branded. And Dave, you're always a support. You always put on the fill with me. I do. I appreciate it. We're going to make blessing together in Hebrew. I'll translate it into English. It'll take us about two minutes, but this is how it works. These are the, I'm going to stand up.
Dave: So these are these scrolls. I'm going to stay here to stay in camera.
Rabbi: These are fill in for the ham inside. This box right here is a piece of parchment. They're holy, but don't put them on the floor. Don't discard them. You can't wear them in the bathroom. They're supposed to remain
Dave: Safe. I have one of these at home too.
Rabbi: Yes. You bought your own P. Yeah. Okay. So we're going to make a blessing in Hebrew. Now repeat after me. Bar.
Dave: Bar. Nu anu Kit nuva
Rabbi: Fil, which means blessed are you, Lord our God, king of the universe, who has sanctified us with his commandments and commanded us to put on the fulfilling. Amen. Amen. So that's one on the arm, seven times around the arm. And then we'll put one on his head. This is opposite. The heart represents your binding, your emotion, and your intellect to God. What we feel and what we think about on a daily basis should be holy, should be pure. Okay, one more blessing bar
Dave: Aai, A Nu anu nu kit. Nu nu mitzva Mitzva
Rabbi: To fill, which means again, blessed you Lord, our God, king of the universe who has sanct commandments and commanded us with the mitzvah, the commandment, the good deed putting on to fill. Now the prayer. Shama
Dave: Ra. Yes, Israel aai Anu. A
Rabbi: Hero. Israel, the Lord is a God. The Lord is one. Blessed be the name of glory of his kingdom forever and ever. On reverse shaanan the oat al
Dave: Vain. Vain, you
Rabbi: Should bin them as a sun, as a sign on your arm and as a reminder between your eyes and the doorpost of your doors and gates, which is the miza. Now my custom is the ritual ends with a quick selfie, which we'll do quickly. It's part of the ritual and that we'll continue with a little chatting. So that is a mitzvah. That is the good deed to put on the te fillin. Usually I encourage people to take a moment, make a silent prayer. But we can take 'em off now. We're blessing
Dave: You. It's amazing. Every time you've done the Te Fillin with me, you've always acknowledged my mother
Rabbi: Dma. That was the next thing. So bless David, the son of Dagmar. For we just pray. God blessed it me protect you and love you from all illness and the stress grant you and your family. I shall notah a happy year, a healthy prosperous here. God should give the strength to continue doing all the good work you do for many more long, happy, healthy years with your family and friends that are say amen. Amen. I keep on until we finish.
Dave: Lovely.
Rabbi: So that is the film. That was a lot of information. Hope it wasn't overkill. Look it up. chaba.org and look up to Fillin, TEF for Frank, I-L-L-I-N for Nancy. And it is pretty fascinating.
Dave: Thank you. It is. No, no, my pleasure. And one thing I recognize by engaging in these rituals, which some people are more familiar with, some people are less familiar with, some are becoming more familiar with becoming, but there is some reflection. There's some nostalgic connection, which it's
Rabbi: Undeniable because it's the soul. I'll tell you, you're giving oxygen to your soul. Unfortunately, many people in our society, they starve the soul. Right? You have to feed the soul. The soul wants to be moral, ethical, but also we have obligation to be a holy people to follow God's word. Sometimes we understand it, sometimes we don't. Sometimes it works well with our agenda. Sometimes it doesn't. It doesn't. For the devoted servant to Hashem to God, devotion is all the way across the board.
Dave: Then you call God Hashem.
Rabbi: Yeah, Hashem
Dave: Means the name, the name most. So we don't say it. We say the name.
Rabbi: You don't say God's name. God's name. You cannot say God's name in name.
Dave: Okay?
Rabbi: So Hashem is God's name, the name that was a little about the film. That's a little bit about the holidays. And we have to focus on being better human beings being to support each other and the world will naturally become a better place. Right?
Dave: Amen. That's certainly what we all want. And you doing your work helps bring that about me. Doing my work helps bring this about.
Rabbi: We did a friendship kitchen session that was our newest project and we had egg get stronger benefit from it. We plan to do it again soon.
Dave: Yeah, you brought food and watching my clients Super
Rabbi: Bowl.
Dave: Yeah. Eat the food. It was really, it was very special. It was culture, food, sales in addiction treatments, our business is evolving. Is Shabbat evolving?
Rabbi: Yes and no. We always got to adapt to the times. But if the Torah Bible is true, the ultimate truth, that's never going to change. So the rules of the Torah of how to keep the shabbas, it's actually, it's a hot topic, right? Right. How to keep a, we're just talking about this, how to keep a kosher diet. Keeping Shabbas we spoke about is the disconnect, right? You're not on your phone, no social media 25 hours every week. And for some people their business, the hottest time of the business is the weekends. It's very difficult to disconnect for those 24 hours.
But if the to is the truth. So yes, we have to adapt, maybe be a little more approachable for society these days, but cannot change our core values and follow the rules of the Torah. It may not be popular. It might rub some people the wrong way. It might not be the most politically correct, but if Torah is true, you stick to the truth 1000% and never bent or never wave. There's one of, there's a teaching from the Mishna which says that we should be like the students of Aaron, the high priest, the brother of Moses who loved peace, D loved peace. He pursued peace. He went out of his way to create peace. He loved all creations creatures, all people, and brought them close to the Torah, to the Bible, and he brought them close as opposed to lowering the standards of the Torah to accommodate someone's schedule, you got to lift them up to bring them closer to the Torah. That is the ultimate. So sometimes it's a bit of a fine line. You got to balance not always easy. People don't always understand it, but you got to stay true to what you believe is true, which is the word of Hashem, the word of God in the Torah. And its midst those in the commandments.
Dave: Wow. It's
Rabbi: Not the most popular thing de this day and age in Las Vegas.
Dave: Although most people these day and age admit that we got a bunch of stuff wrong.
Rabbi: We're all a little bit messed up.
Dave: We're all a little bit messed up. So recognizing that there's some truths and some rituals that adherence to them improves wellbeing, brings us closer to God.
Rabbi: So I mean, I'll speak to that point for Judaism, but every religion, I always tell people, Lord, who are very secular Jews, find one or two parts within our religion. It's a beautiful religion that talks to you and connect to that and grow through that. There's so much duty to our religion. You can go through 70, 80, 90 years of this world and before you know it, your life is over and you haven't invested 10 minutes of time into that. So research, educate yourself. There's so many beautiful parts to it and that we're here to help in any way that we can.
Dave: That's awesome. Which is
Rabbi: What you do here.
Dave: And I will say, I met you five, six years ago and since then I've told you this a few times, we've become good friends. I appreciate that. We both get very busy. When you're in March, you get very busy.
Rabbi: We're always busy. But if you don't have time for your fellow,
Dave: Yeah, we consistently make times to visit. And to me, your perspective about light always makes me want to carve that time out to spend with you because I feel better. I also, when I leave you, part of you comes with me. That's a good thing. Yeah, no, very much. In Catholicism there's a little bracelet. What would Jesus do? You kind of have it on your wrist. So when you're doing things, is this something you would think about? And to me with my relationship with you is I'm going to go be seeing the rabbi tomorrow. Can I go do this if I'm going to see him tomorrow? So I just told
Rabbi: You other day that I'm upset. I'm honored his wife telling him, is that what the rabbi would want you to be doing it? But it's truly not me. Just a conduit of Hashem's mission.
The grand Rabbi, again, it is on subject. We have an obsession with putting onto fill or doing another mitzvah amongst the orthodox circles. There was a lot of pushback. You go to someone who's not religious, who's a secular Jew, what is the point of wrapping film with them? Right? What are you going to gain from that? You're not going to change their lifestyle. What is the purpose? The rabbi always said one mitzvah. You do one good deed that creates an everlasting bond between God and that human being that will never go away. So yes, in an ideal world, you'd like it to be continuation. Of course you would. It makes a difference. You have an opportunity to do a mitsa with somebody else.
Dave: Do it. If you have an opportunity to do a mitzvahs or somebody else, do it absolutely
Rabbi: Infallible. The rabbi would stand every Sunday and give out dollars. Stand in line. There'd be line for three or four hours, thousands of people, Jewish and non Jewish alike, and give out single dollar bills to come by. Ask for a blessing. A dollar. What point said, when two people meet, it should result in a positive action. So remember we said give a dollar for charity, and there was a lady who approached the rabbi. A bit of a Nik Nik is
Dave: Nudge. Okay, you heard
Rabbi: Of the word il nun. So famous joke. What's the difference between Azel and
Dave: Nik? What is the difference between ail, azel and a
Rabbi: Nik? So theil spills the soup on the Mazel and the Nik is busy worrying what kind of soup it was, right? Always a nudge. So there was a lady who asked Rabbi, how do you do it? Rabbi's in his nineties standing on your feet, physically draining, giving out dollars to each. How are you physically able to do it? Rabbi told her, when you count diamonds, you never get tired. Every human being is a priceless diamond. They may be covered over about with layers of schmutz and dirt, right? But there's a priceless diamond there. That's your perspective on the other individual. You want to spend time together. You want to create, connect. You want to do another mixer together, they're priceless. That sold is a priceless gem.
Dave: It is a lot of how we feel in Vegas stronger. I often tell every person who walks in, although they might be dirty and smell and on drugs, to me, it's somebody's son or daughter. It's somebody's mommy or daddy. It's certainly a diamond worthy of helping them become self-supporting again. Now, the name of my podcast is called Human Up. So I'm going to punt to you. What do you think? And there it is. What do you think human up means to you?
Rabbi: It's what we've spoken about the entire time. A human being is made up with a body and the soul and the way we human up. If I'm thinking, what you're thinking is by staying in touch with that soul and being a better human being to the other. If you're in touch with your soul and you're automatic, the embedded human being to the other, that's the reason why you were put in this world in the first place and you're living a happier, richer, more fulfilled life.
Dave: My name's Dave Marlon and this was a Human Up podcast. Rabbi Levy, thank you so much. We'll do it again. All.