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In 2015,
so we're talking
11 years 11 years almost 11 years ago,
someone reached out to me and said
there's this thing called Torah Anytime.
I hadn't really heard of Maybe I heard
of it in the back of my mind.
And it's really good and has a lot of
great content on it. I think you're
you're you're the things you're saying
people will want to listen to. Get on
Torah Anytime.
So I said, "How do I get on Torah
Anytime?" They gave me an email address
and I emailed somebody and
I don't know what I wrote.
They said, "Please send your bio. Please
send some samples." I did. I I never
heard back from them. I emailed back and
forth a few times and that was kind of
the end.
Fast forward like 4 years ago, three
some three plus years ago, 4 years ago.
Think about that.
Um
somebody in the Torah Anytime uh team
reached out to me about something
totally unrelated.
I recognized the name as one of the
point people I'd been in touch with in
2015.
And I said to them,
um hey it's kind of you know, whatever
happened to that email? I I don't I
don't know. I don't know if I maybe I
saw it but
"Hey, it's Ace Rotsky. You know,
do you think Torah Anytime would be
interested in in posting some of my
content?"
And to their credit, Shimon Kolko calls
me up. I remember exactly where we were
sitting. And he asked me what I do and I
told him I'm teaching in this place and
I do that and he's like trying to figure
out to make sure that I'm that I have
the right tire ashkafot. So cute.
I
>> [laughter]
>> really cute. And I
and I he was concerned about some of the
things I was doing like you know, are
you
you're teaching in this place and you're
doing that and this and that you know,
you sure whatever you
your tire ashkafa is straight. I said,
"I learn
Bunovich Bar Shasha, I learn Brisk like
get your gun for something, you know?"
He's like, "Okay, send me a few
samples."
And uh I did. He said, "Okay, let's see
what happens."
Now I I want to tell you something
really interesting. When I started,
there was no way to know how many people
were watching your stuff.
Um and I told him I don't want to know
for two reasons.
If there's very few people, I'm just
going to get going to get so like you
know me you ash and like I'm preparing
this for this many people which is not
okay by the way cuz even if one person
is inspired it's good.
And if it's a crazy amount of people I
was going to go straight to my head and
I'm going to think I'm just flush of a
morbid style of magic sheer slash magic
and I'm not. So
>> [laughter]
>> for the first
two plus years I had no idea how many
people watched any of my any things on
Torah anytime.
>> Wow.
>> Um
the only way I knew that some people
were watching was cuz I would get emails
and responses and meet people and I'm
like okay so I guess someone you're the
three people watching it great.
And then at some time they shifted the
technology just recently and all of a
sudden you have a dashboard and you can
see so I all of a sudden started seeing
like where I'm holding by
and then right before this previous
campaign they sent like plaques I guess
to some of the speakers
to help us incentivize us to help
support Torah link Torah Torah anytime
whatever.
And like my plaque says on it like you
know you have 1.2 million
>> Wow.
>> downloads of sheerum and in the last
year you have like 350,000
>> Wow.
>> views and I'm like
pish posh hey Lando look at what I've
got going on here you know what I mean?
So but I really have tremendous hakaras
hatov to them tremendous because I'm
seeing like
a lot of hatslacha in other areas like
speaking opportunities
and and many other things that I do
which have an opportunity to inspire the
people for sure are directly connected
to the reach of Torah anytime.
And listen I saw that I saw that I saw
you know your fundraising page as well.
That's where you really get to see how
much you rate.
Cuz
I really didn't you know I didn't call
anyone up and say please donate to Torah
anytime. I'm sorry Shimon I I I didn't
do that um I didn't email my my lists
and whatever but when you see that x
amount of people donate
I got just got a donation right as we're
sitting down now. Did Did you do
something?
>> I didn't.
Um
you realize that people are moved enough
that they want to donate towards Hakaret
Hatov to the platform that's giving it
to them, so that's really special.
