Adam Lee Rosenfeld
Met 2023-09-12 11:00 at Numa Hotel, She’erit Israel 1 Tel-Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel.Adam has some hearing loss so uses an mobile app that amplifies my voice into his earpiece. It was my first time speaking into a phone to talk with someone next to me. I liked it. When trying to cure it, doctors shot steroids into his eardrum.
Lives in Jerusalem. Born in Israel, parents from America, grew up in Cincinnati. Big culture shock to when he moved to Israel at age 15 to a new little community with only 20 families. Being a father in Israel is core to his identity now. Now at 45 he has eight kids! Ages 20, 18, 16, 16, 15, 12, 11, 9.
Having one kid is harder than eight. With one kid, they need you for everything. Two kids, they can entertain themselves. Eight kids? They learn how to support each other and solve problems independently.
His wife is very punk rock. It felt quite punk to have eight kids. Making music is very central to their family's life. Messianic Jewish, like evangelical Christianity but a focus on the Jewish roots. Messianic Jews see Jesus in the Hebrew name Yeshua as the Messiah.