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Rabbi Mark Borovitz -- Live and sober in the Lighten Up Lounge... The most entertaining and outspoken Rabbi we have ever had on the show!
This guy was a crook and a con man -- a smooth talker on the make for what he could take -- then he took a turn for the verse. After wandering forty years in his own desert of desolation...well, let him tell the story...
"The Holy Thief" -- A Rabbi, a con man and a thief walk into a bar -- and that's just the first guy!"
Borovitz started with petty thievery—baseball cards, candy, marbles—at age eight. By 14, shortly after the death of his father, he became a middleman, and at 25, he beat two middle-aged men at their own scam. Through most of this he maintained a second life as a nice Jewish boy who went to shul, said kaddish every day for a year for his father, looked out for his sister and turned over much of his ill-gotten gains to his mother to support the family. The scams got bigger, the trail got hotter and eventually he was caught. It took two stints in jail for him to learn that crime doesn't pay, but Borovitz attacked his reformation with the same zeal he once applied to intricate cons. His decision to become a rabbi at age 50 seems nothing less than natural. Borovitz is a storyteller at heart, so it's easy to see how he conned so many for so much. ...Heart-wrenching but hilarious, raw but refreshing, this everyman tale reminds us that even nice Jewish boys can go bad, but they can also be redeemed. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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