 Hello friends and subscribers welcome back to my YouTube channel Daniel Russell here bring you this video today from Jerusalem Just a few minutes before the start of Shabbat. Today is a religious fast day It's the Jewish fast of Asara betavet the 10th day in the month of Tevet This is one of the minor Jewish fasts. We have two very big fasts in the year We have kippur Yomah kippur and we also have Tisha abiyav, which is the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av in the summer And this is the shorter the one of the shorter ones. It starts around dawn and ends around sundown seta kochavim I'm not sure which exactly but basically you fast during the day, which means no eating no drinking and This is we have a number of these fast days in the Jewish religious calendar I wanted to record this video because yesterday I was a little bit under the weather and they ended up watching a lot of shiurim from the wonderful rabbi Ali Mansour From the admins after a congregation in Brooklyn, New York, and I just wanted to say it occurred to me Because I have no direct contact with the rabbi. I there's no contact form I can complete to reach him So I thought why don't I just put this up on my YouTube channel because I think for once I want to say a massive Thank you to rabbi Ali Mansour. I've been watching his shiurim his Torah lessons for The longest time probably since I was about 18 Growing up and Ali Mansour rabbi Ali Mansour actually has a huge role In why I am Relatively religious and why I ended up moving to Israel. So he said a huge outsized Influence on my life. So I thought he would just as I said say thank you to him When I was growing up Jewish in Ireland, I've done a video about that experience what I was like We didn't really have Jewish religious services. I mean there was like one Shabbat service a month and we had the major Jewish festivals like Rosh Hashanah and Kippur for those festivals because for Jewish prayers You need something called a Minyan ideally 10 Jewish men. We had to import Rabbinical students from the UK and those guys were always associated with Habad now. I know I don't want to really kind of criticize Habad But basically my only reference for orthodox Judaism growing up in Ireland was Habad because that's what was available That's what we had and discovering a orthodox Jewish world beyond the Ashkenazi world and beyond Habad was fantastic I would say that I fell in love with rabbi Mansour for his Eridition and knowledge I began listening to his dafyomi shureem I began listening to daily halacha palioats. He's so many Ventures, but more than that just his general Torah shureem and they actually kept me religious or inspired I should say maybe more than religious when I was living in Ireland. We certainly didn't have any Jewish education I was the only Jewish student in my class and Back in the day, I was I was something of an exercise freak. I used to go on these one-hour jogs. I did a half marathon I was in a lot better physical condition than I am currently in my 30s and Rabbi Mansour would accompany me virtually on these jogs when I was driving to college, I used to listen to rabbi Mansour and When I was growing up in a very not not Jewish environment and trying to stay connected and motivated to make aliyah It was really rabbi Mansour is fantastic shureem that got me through I love as I said his Eridition It's made me really interested in Sephardic culture halachot minhagim and Not really growing up in a religious household. Those are actually the minhagim that I've kind of adopted for myself I've even got interested in Jewish Syrian cooking By Pupudwak's excellent book Aromas of Aleppo, which I highly recommend and basically a rabbi Mansour has opened up A whole new world of Judaism for me. I now feel comfortable going to Sephardic minhagim and I Just the the the inspiration and the lessons have been truly wonderful So that is my video message thanking rabbi Ali Mansour for what he does I put together yesterday for all for other people interested in learning from the rabbi I put together a playlist based on everything I could find on YouTube But his former website learn Torah commisee has had a bit of a facelift But it's still it'll redirect you to a new new domain called I think it's itora and you can filter on rabbi Mansour and select his video messages So there's still lots and lots of content as well as on YouTube that he's making available both audio shureem and video shureem so thank you rabbi Mansour for what you do you're you're an absolute pioneer in using the internet utilizing the harnessing the internet for Jewish education and Not only are you sure you listen to in the traditional Jewish world also lots and also lots of people here in Israel but even people who in the most small Jewish communities in the world the most far removed places from the Jewish mainstream your works have penetrated influenced and inspired and Really people like me. I'm sure there must be others Oh, you an immense debt of gratitude and it would be an honor if rabbi Mansour ever comes to Jerusalem or I ever managed to Catch him in real life in New York or Miami. I will say a huge. Thank you. It would be a true honor to meet him one day That's it. If you're if you're interested in in Judaism Or you know looking for good content looking for good Torah content insuring to listen to at the gym or Just whenever I still highly recommend the rabbis lessons They're wonderful inspiration on always jump act full of knowledge. That's today's video bit of a different one until next week