The Shtark Tank Pesach Mega-Episode Is Here
2+ hours of divrei Torah from Bnei Torah in the workforce — built during one of the craziest months I can remember
The last four weeks were not normal.
War. Kids at home. Pesach cleaning. Work deadlines. The kind of month where you look up on a Friday afternoon and genuinely can’t account for where the last six days went.
And yet, this mega-episode happened.
That’s the thing about Shtark Tank. It’s a real time commitment. It asks a lot. But it gives back more than it takes. There’s something about sitting down to work on it — to think about Torah, to hear how other Bnei Torah are wrestling with the same texts and the same questions — that fires me up in a way almost nothing else does.
So even in the chaos, we built something special.
What This Episode Is
This is the Shtark Tank Pesach Mega-Episode: over two hours of divrei Torah for Yom Tov, from a group of Bnei Torah who are also deeply embedded in professional life — real estate, finance, therapy, venture capital, medicine, and more.
Eight contributors. Eight different angles into Pesach. Each one bringing something real.
Here’s what’s inside:
Rav Yakov Danishefsky — Writing Your Own Story
Rav Jonathan Livi — The Revolution of Freedom
Rav Max Berger — Matzah and Authenticity
Zak Lenik — Freedom or Slavery?
Mark Tobin — The Holiday of Emunah
Dr. Mordy Goldenberg — Late Night Vision
Yoel Van Messel — Understanding Our Goals
Yaakov Wolff (me) — a conversation originally recorded for The Greatest Parashah Podcast with Raymond Ashkenazie and Emma Dayan
Why This Community
One of the things I’ve always believed about Shtark Tank is that Bnei Torah in the workforce have a particular relationship with Torah. We know what it means to feel pulled between two worlds. And we’re toilinng to figure out what it looks like to live with real avodas Hashem while also building a career, a family, a life.
A Few Thank Yous
To everyone who contributed their time and Torah to this episode — Yakov, Jonathan, Zak, Max, Mark, Joel, Mordy — thank you. I’m grateful that you made time in your busy schedules for this.
To Raymond Ashkenazie and Emma Dayan for generously allowing me to use the recording from The Greatest Parashah Podcast — your show is a gift to the community.
To Shlomo Price for the extra editing help — it made a real difference.
Wishing you and your families a Chag Kasher V’Sameach. May this Pesach bring real clarity, real joy, and — after everything this year has held — real geulah.
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