The Frum Health Club Podcast
The Frum Health Club Podcast
We started The Frum Health Club with a clear mission: to spark real change in our community’s health and well-being. Too many in the Frum world lack the knowledge and guidance needed for proper nutrition and fitness, leading to preventable illness and, tragically, lives cut short.
This podcast and group is here to change that.
Each episode brings you practical health tips, simple meal ideas, fitness guidance, and inspiring stories, all designed to help you live longer, feel stronger, and have more energy for your family and your avodas Hashem.
Your health matters. Your family matters. Together, we can build a healthier, stronger future for Klal Yisrael.
The Frum Health Club Podcast
What It Really Means to Be a Healthy Jew – Rabbi Shmuel Chaim Naiman
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Welcome to the Frum Health Club Podcast — where health, fitness, and Torah come together to help us live stronger, happier lives as frum Yidden.
In this episode, I sit down with Rabbi Shmuel Chaim Naiman — foraging guide, certified health counselor, and mashgiach ruchani at Yeshivat Lev HaTorah in Ramat Beit Shemesh, where he teaches a daily Healthy Jew class. He is the author of Land of Health: Israel’s War for Wellness and writes the Healthy Jew newsletter. Recently, Rabbi Naiman completed IDF training and joined the Israel Defense Forces as a reservist, reflecting his belief that true Jewish health includes physical readiness, emotional resilience, and spiritual strength.
We discuss:
✅ His journey into foraging, health counseling, and Torah-based wellness
✅ What “Israel’s War for Wellness” really means today
✅ How Torah guides nutrition, movement, sleep, and daily routines
✅ Practical ways to spot real food vs food-like substances
✅ Foraging in Eretz Yisroel and reconnecting to the land for body and soul
✅ Simple first steps for busy people to feel more energy and vitality
✅ Balancing family, learning, parnassah, and health without guilt
✅ How communities and yeshivos can champion health as a Torah value
✅ The Rambam’s view of guarding your health as avodas Hashem
✅ Mindset tools for calm, discipline, and long term consistency
Whether you are already active or just starting, this conversation gives clear, doable steps to live as a Healthy Jew in body, mind, and soul.
📲 Join the Frum Health Club to get inspired, stay motivated, and keep yourself accountable:
https://chat.whatsapp.com/EnelwCB486l73fbKlaHGl9
🔗 Learn more about Rabbi Naiman’s work, book, and newsletter:
https://healthyjew.org/
Rabbi Naimans newsletter: https://thehealthyjew.substack.com/p/welcome-to-healthy-jew
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