A Rabbi’s Rock Bottom: Addiction, Faith, and Rebuilding After Losing Everything
2/17/202646 min
On this episode of We’re Out Of Time, host Richard Taite sits down with rabbi, entrepreneur, and recovery coach Asher Gottesman for a raw, deeply human conversation about addiction, faith, accountability, and connection.
Asher opens up about experiencing profound separation anxiety and loneliness at just five years old, growing up as the rabbi’s son, and feeling different from his peers. He shares how resentment toward faith and fear-based religion shaped his early relationship with God, eventually contributing to eating disorders, substance use, and a lifelong sense of unworthiness. Asher candidly recounts waiting two years to e...
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First 90 secondsAsher Gottesman· Guest0:00
I still struggle. I now have more tools in my tool chest. I struggle less and I'm a wounded healer. Yet, when I use that as an excuse to act out, woe am I off the case. Don't use it to obfuscate yourself from responsibility. Use it to relate to others.
Speaker 10:21
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Richard Taite· Host1:01
Every day in this country, we're losing over 150 people to fentanyl overdoses. Families are being destroyed, parents are burying their kids, and that's the most unnatural thing in the world. Today, my guest knows this fight firsthand. He's a rabbi, an entrepreneur, a coach, and the founder of Transcend Recovery. He's helped countless people find a way back from addiction. His own story from losing a multi-million