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Luke: “Is it difficult for you that there is not much Torah in the San Francisco Bay Area?”
Heshy: “That’s what I like. I like communities with a lack of Jewish resources because I tend to cleave more to the Lord without Jews throwing things at me. It’s also the basic psychology of being needed. When you go to shul and there’s no minyan and they need you, it feels good.”
“I’ve never been to a strip club, which is weird because all of my yeshiva friends are huge [into strip clubs]. Hasidim and strip clubs, it’s such a famous thing.”
“I’m just starting to tell people that I’m a writer and an entertainer. I don’t yet make a living at it but it is what I do most of the time.”