SHNEAKO - December 13, 2025


Are You a Good Person?


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On this episode of the podcast, I sit down with a good friend of mine, Rabbi Yitzchak, to talk about the recent events that have happened in the world since October 7th, and how they have impacted him personally.

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00:00:00.000 Are you a good person?
00:00:02.880 Everybody's a good person.
00:00:04.420 Those are some bad people. Wasn't Hitler bad? 0.86
00:00:10.980 If you died tomorrow, would you be happy with what your life amounted to?
00:00:14.060 Yeah.
00:00:14.580 No.
00:00:15.100 Absolutely. I wouldn't be happy.
00:00:17.400 Yeah, I think this is what I was put on earth to do.
00:00:21.720 Break people together and build communities.
00:00:24.080 So I would die happy.
00:00:27.540 Shalom. Nice to meet you.
00:00:29.060 Shalom.
00:00:29.820 What's your name?
00:00:30.620 Yitzchak. 0.84
00:00:31.440 Yitzchak. 0.84
00:00:31.840 Where are you from?
00:00:33.040 Williamsburg.
00:00:33.940 Williamsburg?
00:00:34.820 Okay.
00:00:35.980 Are you a good person?
00:00:39.060 Everybody's a good person.
00:00:40.620 There's some bad people.
00:00:41.440 Wasn't Hitler bad? 0.99
00:00:44.600 He did bad things,
00:00:48.420 but the thing that God is creating is a good thing.
00:00:51.980 There's everything that says in the Bible, in the Torah,
00:00:57.420 that Hashem made everything good.
00:00:59.500 The people that are doing not good things, but the thing is good.
00:01:04.620 Everything is good.
00:01:06.480 Everyone's good?
00:01:07.640 Yeah. 1.00
00:01:08.340 When you die, are you going to go to heaven or hell? 1.00
00:01:12.560 I hope I should go to... 0.98
00:01:15.400 Would you be happy?
00:01:16.680 Oh, is this your train?
00:01:17.600 Huh?
00:01:17.980 Is this your train?
00:01:18.640 Yeah.
00:01:19.160 Shalom.
00:01:19.560 Thanks for coming on.
00:01:20.180 Mazel tov.
00:01:21.000 All right, bro.
00:01:21.560 What has the attitude been like since October 7th here?
00:01:26.360 The reason I don't want to talk about it, it's not because I don't want...
00:01:29.220 It has nothing to do with the business.
00:01:30.860 I am Jewish, and I know that it is a highly
00:01:33.100 contentious problem, and I have had,
00:01:39.660 I've been assaulted on the subway,
00:01:41.160 and I've had issues like that, so it's just not,
00:01:43.300 and I'm telling you this in confidence right now,
00:01:45.440 and I'm hoping no one else is hearing it.
00:01:46.700 I really don't want this to be published,
00:01:48.140 but it's hard to say that,
00:01:49.840 so I just jumped on the personal question.
00:01:51.780 Oh, okay, 100%.
00:01:52.840 Is that bad when you get assaulted on the subway?
00:01:54.920 It happened to me, and I had glass bottles thrown
00:01:57.120 Do you support Israel or Palestine?
00:02:01.120 Palestine, all the way. All the way. That's such a silly question.
00:02:05.120 You would think so, but actually you are the fastest answer 0.92
00:02:09.120 I think we had all day. Everybody's been hesitating to answer.
00:02:13.120 We don't support genocide. All eyes on Marifa. We're not part of that.
00:02:17.120 Where are you from? Yeah.
00:02:21.120 Every time I try to debate, even before October,
00:02:25.120 you know people are like oh there's no oppression there's no apartheid but it's facts it's all like
00:02:30.800 uh the propaganda is like able to manipulate people yeah but now because kids are dying
00:02:37.200 like you see the truth is out like with rumble and x and tiktok that's why they want to shut down
00:02:42.460 tiktok but you know oppression is there no matter what i went there when i was a kid
00:02:47.060 uh it was a different experience i saw like you know soldiers there you know on the ground i i
00:02:53.680 When I was a kid, I knew something was wrong, and I saw the people oppressed.
00:02:58.320 Where are you from?
00:03:00.140 I'm here, New York City.
00:03:01.820 You're from New York?
00:03:02.880 Well, not originally, but I've been here for 30 years.
00:03:05.300 Where are you originally from?
00:03:06.500 It doesn't matter to me.
00:03:09.200 Is it Israel?
00:03:10.420 It's not.
00:03:11.160 Oh, okay.
00:03:12.460 But I have relatives in Israel.
00:03:15.060 Oh, okay.
00:03:16.060 What do you think is the biggest change since October 7th?
00:03:18.900 It's like, people are talking about that way more now.
00:03:20.880 I think it's terrible what's happening. Israel was attacked very brutally and everybody forgot it. It's Israel that's blamed for everything. 0.92
00:03:31.440 I mean, white people have most of the power, money, leadership positions, capital.
00:03:41.000 Where?
00:03:42.480 Chief executives of most corporations, most college presidents, most political leaders in the U.S.
00:03:53.900 The biggest lobby in America is AIPAC, Israel-funded lobbying.
00:03:58.360 I didn't know that.
00:03:59.600 Wait, you just finished a job interview?
00:04:02.340 Yeah.
00:04:02.820 Oh, is this your resume?
00:04:03.620 I'm not going to leak it.
00:04:04.600 Yeah, it's just my resume.
00:04:06.180 Do you mind if I read it?
00:04:07.880 I won't read it out loud.
00:04:09.100 I just want to see, like, a little bit.
00:04:10.380 Is that cool?
00:04:10.820 I'm not going to leak.
00:04:12.180 I'm not going to leak.
00:04:12.760 Okay.
00:04:13.500 It's been a while.
00:04:14.160 You say, like, okay.
00:04:18.000 You know what?
00:04:18.540 I would hire you.
00:04:19.580 Really?
00:04:19.920 I would hire you.
00:04:22.220 Do you think that you showed good initiative?
00:04:23.540 How many job interviews have you went on without getting hired?
00:04:26.920 See, I lost count after, like, four. 0.93
00:04:28.740 if you were to die tomorrow
00:04:31.340 would you be happy with what your life has accomplished 0.54
00:04:33.360 yeah
00:04:34.760 yes yes yes
00:04:36.260 hope not gonna die but
00:04:38.640 if you think about it we all might die
00:04:41.020 we might not make it home today
00:04:42.840 it happens so
00:04:43.760 it's gonna happen
00:04:45.460 what's the hesitation you don't seem fully convinced
00:04:48.820 you don't seem fully confident
00:04:51.280 that if you died you'd be happy
00:04:52.900 no I don't know I don't think about
00:04:55.360 this so
00:04:55.940 I just go
00:04:58.140 I'm really grateful and blessed for my experiences.
00:05:01.620 Even through all the trials and tribulations,
00:05:04.240 I've grown to accept where all the obstacles have taken me
00:05:09.560 because of how I handled them.
00:05:11.200 I'm proud of what I've done, but I'm not done yet.
00:05:13.400 I'm only 26. I've got a lot left to achieve and do.
00:05:16.600 So I wouldn't say I'm fulfilled completely because I'm still hungry,
00:05:21.040 but I'm definitely proud of where I've come so far for sure.
00:05:24.380 I mean, I have a house. I have a girlfriend.
00:05:27.560 you know I have a lot of things to appreciate and I do appreciate them so I
00:05:31.880 haven't lived up to that to the fullest extent however I think when I die it's
00:05:36.980 because God has a plan for me and at a certain point in my life if he chooses to
00:05:40.220 end it there's a reason for that as well you know so I wouldn't want to keep
00:05:44.300 living without his permission basically no not at all I've done a lot of cool
00:05:48.680 things but there's so much I want to do I think the biggest accomplishment of my
00:05:52.820 life so far is finally getting a cat um no I wouldn't I wouldn't be happy there's
00:05:56.720 still a lot of work to do there's still a lot of things for me to do uh you know i i need to help
00:06:02.000 nick i need to help uh nick fuentes is my boy i believe in his movement 100 i believe in everything
00:06:07.900 he does like it's it's like it comes to a point where i trust nick so much to where if he wanted
00:06:13.800 to say yo tenria i want to be a plumber tomorrow i want to start a plumbing business like all right
00:06:18.640 let's get the llc bro let's go like let's get out there and do that oh yeah yeah i have a wonderful
00:06:24.720 time good food good wine good love and a lot of international trips you know i had a good life
00:06:32.240 fuck no i would be i wouldn't be fulfilled i feel like that's the most important thing 0.75
00:06:36.740 where do you get fulfillment from um god i guess my family to a degree but more god and finding 0.99
00:06:45.800 some sort of purpose yes even the hard parts yeah you know make the goods when i look back
00:06:52.160 my life has been golden. I can't
00:06:54.100 complain, not having more of it
00:06:56.280 because what I have lived
00:06:57.640 has been amazing.
00:06:59.720 Is this a new change of mind that you've had?
00:07:01.380 Yeah, I'm actually dying of breast cancer
00:07:03.740 and so I'm in the final stages. 0.95
00:07:06.840 Sonny, if you died tomorrow
00:07:08.020 would you be happy with what you've achieved in life?
00:07:10.580 Nah, I wouldn't be happy.
00:07:12.460 Would you be happy? No one's got to you.
00:07:14.480 You would be happy?
00:07:15.860 I think I've got to get a lot closer to God.
00:07:18.020 I had a very spiritual day yesterday
00:07:20.020 it was really nice talking to God
00:07:22.140 you know I had an emotional moment and yeah I really want to get closer to God
00:07:28.260 I want to be be able to leave more money behind for my family I want to leave
00:07:31.680 kids behind so I have a lot of stuff that I want to do bro we got we got a
00:07:34.800 long way to go you know we do what was the biggest change of mind you had in
00:07:42.640 the past four years change your mind about what like I don't know what was
00:07:47.520 the biggest shift in mindset you had past four years
00:07:49.620 Well, I learned how to grow up, so one of the, I guess like, like if something bad happens, then I have to analyze it and be like, is this my fault, like did I make a mistake here, and if it wasn't and it was like the universe, I'm like, ew, that was the universe, like what can I do about it, I can't be mad at it, but it's just like that.
00:08:08.260 Was there a specific event?
00:08:10.200 It was like a culmination of a lot of events, yeah, like, just.
00:08:15.140 I'm in the middle of an interview, bro, so we're too, bro, I appreciate you, bro.
00:08:18.080 Um, what was I saying?
00:08:20.180 Constantly.
00:08:20.980 Um, and what?
00:08:23.460 Those are your boys?
00:08:24.540 I have no idea who they are.
00:08:25.780 I think it's time to be less and less judgmental as I get older.
00:08:29.520 Judgmental of who?
00:08:30.440 Less judgmental.
00:08:31.580 Of who? Of everybody or yourself?
00:08:32.940 In general.
00:08:33.980 You know, you imagine that people live very complicated lives.
00:08:37.660 What's the biggest change of mind you've had recently?
00:08:39.680 So the cancer, that's what made you go down this path?
00:08:43.460 What was it?
00:08:44.480 The cancer is what made you start to think about this?
00:08:46.580 Yeah.
00:08:46.920 Yeah.
00:08:47.920 Yeah.
00:08:48.920 Okay.
00:08:49.920 What do you want to do with the rest of your time?
00:08:51.920 Here in New York or on Earth?
00:08:54.920 Earth.
00:08:55.920 Oh.
00:08:56.920 See my kids as much as I can.
00:08:59.920 Yeah.
00:09:00.920 See my kids.
00:09:02.920 Meet people.
00:09:03.920 Travel.
00:09:04.920 Yeah.
00:09:05.920 It's getting hard though, but I still love it.
00:09:07.920 Yeah.
00:09:08.920 You seem really vibrant and seem happy too.
00:09:11.920 I am so happy.
00:09:13.920 Nothing's better than New York.
00:09:14.920 new york i used to want to have kids and now i probably don't not not the type of change of
00:09:19.660 mind you were probably asking for wow no that is what made you decide to do that um it's complicated
00:09:25.480 i still don't know for sure but i just feel like i've realized that as much as i really do want
00:09:30.240 to have kids there's a lot of other things i want to do in life that might be more important and
00:09:33.900 society kind of teaches you to assume you're gonna have kids especially as a woman and i never
00:09:39.700 really examined that when i was in my first year of college that was when covid hit
00:09:44.440 So then I had all the time in the world to really sit and think about myself.
00:09:48.320 And that's when that change came.
00:09:50.900 Do you think you're a better person from all that?
00:09:53.200 Yeah, for sure.
00:09:54.440 Honestly, being a liberal and just like how I see it.
00:09:57.520 Let's go.
00:09:58.420 No, bro, it was bad.
00:10:00.240 Like, it was not.
00:10:02.180 Go into detail.
00:10:03.680 Like, painted fingernails.
00:10:05.640 My favorite artist was Lil Peep.
00:10:09.000 I was 225 pounds and I was like four inches shorter. 1.00
00:10:12.460 You were depressed, suicidal, short, ugly, stupid, and now you're, you still got the 1.00
00:10:17.400 nose ring, but, I mean, come on. 1.00
00:10:19.360 Definitely working healthcare, because if you told me four years ago I would be cleaning 0.99
00:10:23.400 up someone's poop or anything like that, I would tell you you're out of your mind.
00:10:26.620 It's no way in hell. 0.81
00:10:27.960 Like, Jesus would have to come off his throne to tell me that I'm, and now I'm just completely
00:10:32.680 different now, so I don't know if it's just, like, my calling or this is just where I'm
00:10:37.680 supposed to be for right now, but it has humbled me, and it's kind of getting me, like,
00:10:41.780 ready for like any potential like motherhood i don't have any children right now but it's perfect
00:10:46.360 now i you know not saying i wasn't cooking and cleaning before but now i do it more you know so
00:10:51.540 i feel like i'm somewhat getting ready for my adulthood kids are going to be a cakewalk after
00:10:55.720 dealing with special needs yeah exactly using a diaper is nothing compared to the bm yeah exactly