Oorahthon Interview feat. Adam Brodman and Rabbi Yossi Mozes

[Music] thank you very much Oh Conan it's a great honor to be here tonight with Adam Brodmann we've arkasha seen tremendous things from way back me and Adam go back to his days in the teens in the teen division and razón and I still remember that first Friday night when I saw Adam up on the chair singing and dancing his heart out of feeling the energy of Shabbos I knew that Adam is going to be going tremendous places Adam is here tonight with us to share with us his journey his tremendous tremendous journey of sacrifice and all the programs of aura that he's been involved in and all the individuals that made the difference to bring him where he is today Adam let's take everybody back to the beginning can you tell us how did you end up in the zone so that started with chill zone obviously chill zone is our mother Shabbos program a brainchild of one of the counselors one of the kinds of camp said we have obviously boredom let's get these boys will be there other subhan oh yeah I started I was in a shul in Mill Basin and a friend of mine was trying to get me to come to chill zone for a very very long time and I kept refusing and then he told me there was pizza even he missed that part out and then there was raffles and I was like okay I'll come he's like you can't lose so I came and the first time I came I met this person who I still am in touch with till this day his name is Daniel Chagall fish he's my tour mate for years and I met him I fell in love with this guy is such a sweet soul and I won the raffle the first time I want the chills on I won this boombox it's huge like just speaker system that I had no use for but I was so happy that I had won the raffle for the first I don't win raffles I felt like maybe I'll win a raffle and that's why I bought one tonight also and bought a raffle for five bucks and going air at Easter all six tickets and ighting I guess whoever wants to come so that was that was the start like chills is where I really started how'd that lead you from there into camp so you know you win a boombox you come next week you know I mean like you came next week and then and I kept coming and I got really close with this person Daniel Moshe gelt fish and he started teaching me the olive bass the olive bass yeah teaching me you didn't know the olive bass before you I I like I knew Hebrew because my mom's Israeli but not as good as I should not at all and he kind he taught me pretty much from the basics I was learning out of phase with him so we needed more time because I chose Anhui we were doing home mission was like a whole group so he we started learning even outside and we just became tour mates and we did that and then Ora introduced his own they had like they had this crazy video and you like you didn't really out of a choice you had to say I want to go I mean this video is like so awesome it's like do you like ATVs do you like to have fun and it showed everything the zone has to offer and I was like hypnotized along with everyone else in chill zone that that faithful night and I was like I'm coming I'm coming over Wow so this story made the viewers how much of an impact they have on your life tremendous I mean this guy he he went above and beyond he taught me out of phase which means he gets credit for like every word of Torah I've ever learned and he also taught me like just basic Yiddish guy he's like just by being just a good like normal just really like sweet Jew and we continued into the zone when I came to the zone that was also pretty awesome like I met rabbi Zucker was okay ya rabbi Zucker is like he's also you first [Laughter] I don't know amazing I loved him so much and I still do and he he stuck with me till I even went to yeshiva he came with me to my interview and Eve I went to an either any emotions you with Rabbi Zucker I had the whole team I had an all-star team I came into the dark hey Toro at my tour made on my right I had the teens director on my left I came in and that was great if you would be able to give a message right now today to daniel moisture goldfish goldfish yeah what do you think you would say cuz we happen to have him right here on the line I'm sorry about that surprise but he's on the line right now say something that any emotion I mean hi how you doing brother I don't think there's anything we should we should probably start learning again you should pick up and I love you thank you so much and I totally yeah like he knows this he I hope he knows that like I you there on the line with us I am here Adam I am so one don't touch there everywhere you say and I love you too and I would love to start morning agenda okay Daniel Marsha I miss you question what you started learning with this boy olive days what do you think would be the future of them did you think he would become Shimer Shabbos you think you have a dream you become you see the bother I have no I had no such dreams other than his dedication and commitment from the start to Oliver in the off days that I think that was a pretty good indicator that something was going to happen Wow why heard rumors that used to walk a quite a far every Shabbos to spend time with with Adam 45-minute walk from Borough Park to I forgot the show where is that show Danielle my brother is on the life and and he was actually like one of the first Shabbos meals I'd go to and while the Niels mom cooks the most unbelievable Shalvis meal and like just this beautiful blue table and those mirrors were insane like his whole family harmonizing and and we'd learn all the faith and that just kept going and going that's really cool that you guys just got him on the line well Daniel moisture brings you to dark I so yeah so and did you come to the zone thinking I'm going to the zone and I'm leaving the zone in a year and I'm in at the end of the summer I'm heading to that oh no totally not not even cause I came into the zone like totally not I didn't even know what what a dark hey was I don't think I knew what it was even when I went like I just knew like I love the counselors this is where like the ones I had a personal catcher with like Joseph Devore if you guys pull him off right now I'll be really cool just pulling out people Yosef or a lot of great names Noah Kieffer was going hi Noah if you guys are gonna get into like I don't know so I had no idea I was gonna go to a yeshiva though I was gonna go to a Jewish school well I ain't really like know anything about Jewish schools like I kind of just went to this random school like I kind of signed up for this place I don't even think the rabbi's were the rabbi's were Froome I don't if the kids were retrospect it was a weird place and was a great place I don't want to put it down but I just I didn't know what to look for any is Shiva at all and I just knew when I came to Ora I made friends and I knew like if I was gonna go to Darkrai I'd have like the support of like Yosef Devore these are older really like really sweet like beautiful guys like these people like this that made me fall in love with Judaism so I'm like yeah sure sign me up okay you have to wear a black hat I'll take it that's all it takes I can't why so people are paying money right now giving a couple of dollars for boys like you that knew nothing about how many of your friends from back then today Albany Terrier are from that you know here in Lakewood you still keep up with some of these people yeah yeah do I have a keep up with I have a say any names but I'm really bad with names I just Mickey remember Mickey sure Mickey I spoke them like that I'm still in touch with Ali begun le begun hi how are you I'm just okay he just had a baby boy he did yes he there yes he has a good mole coming up really oh yeah oh gosh that's great so tell us a little bit about you moved on barricade Dante became a family what is the D you do you I believe is one of the most crucial things we have the teens coming into teens and they're still not settling and making a life for themselves but the D you I think that's the cleanser tell us a little bit about the D you so do you is is like where it came in for me it was like I went to I went to like a yeshiva which is pretty like pretty like standard regular yeshiva but when you become vault Ruvo you can't really you you have to stay connected to like where you started and for me that's rough or is where it began and or is like where I'm staying so like I realized after a couple of years in yeshiva like I needed I needed to go back like I needed the zone but I'm like wait I'm Way too old oh there's a program called D you for guys just in my situation and I came back to the zone and that like rekindled all of those all of those like it was like a whole like Genesis again of like all the reasons like all those things that I loved so much about becoming a Yid and I came to D U as an adult was like I came to when I came to or as an 8th grader versus coming as an adult with learning with other guys like my age and the staff there was amazing I'm still very close to at the Rabbi Rafi I go to his house every week for Shabbos I don't say that but I do go it's great food and I'm very close with them and gave me tremendous guidance let's just ask you a quick you were just chosen to be the doormats kiyah in what a very Shiva until they close down for the Coronas man yeah and what are your dreams and aspirations now you've been through the zone you've been through the chill zone you've been toru mates you've been through D you what are your dreams and aspirations now if you could get the ultimate job the ultimate job well the ultimate job it would be something it would be in the realm of helping Jews come come back to like outreach would be outreach it would be teaching it would be teaching Torah it would be like outreach because that's I feel like um that's uh that's why I feel my strengths are because it's um it's where we were really like Kindle dots that spirit inside of me and that would be that would be a dream like if I can outreach and just help guys let's so we've you seen again one of hundreds or maybe thousands of bokram starting off from nothing what kind of kid do you by the way back then before you showed up in his own before I showed up in his own a before I showed up in the zone it's actually so like I started becoming religious a little bit before I came to the zone and I was like I was starting my path I in a shul in Mill Basin in a safari shul I actually started out Sparty even though I'm asking us and then ashcoff eyed me whatever I just they still had the the kibbeh and I lost my gene so I didn't lose out so I was fine and before I came to the zone I was like beginning my religious journey I was leaving public school and I knew I wanted to go to a Jewish school like I got my letter from Morrow high school and I like chucked it in the garbage like no not gonna happen Wow I know I wanted to go to a Jewish school I just didn't know like okay I'm not wasn't exactly sure what a Jewish school was there was my I have to I have to give a shout-out to my eighth grade English teacher mrs. Rosengarten she was a Jewish lady's wife of a rabbi and she was my English teacher in eighth grade and she would she was like she saw like I was having an interest in Judaism and she like she caught on to it and she started bringing me like kosher food and talking to me about Hashem then she like at a certain point she's like you want to go to a Jewish school at him and you need to this is where you belong I'm like I don't know what to do and she literally started driving me to random yeshiva it's like trying to help me out and she really did and it's like amazing she used to bring me squash every days I'm just I just want every listener to get this message over here you have a boy who knows nothing an English teacher meets up with him and sees that spark and takes him to the next level says move you on maybe try the chill zone chill zone takes him to camp camp can send him to dark a where he gets the whole family of amazing amazing we've sent so many bokram through your Shiva's like dark' and they've asked us for more send us more Baucom became the topic remand our clay from the camp from knowing nothing moving on coming back to be part of the you family and now hoping to become a get a job in Cuba like him and we want to thank Adam for joining us thank you and of course everybody if you want to be part of this this is happening every day every minute be part of it enter the auction and you will have this hood of partnering with people like Adam and any emotion elfish [Music] you