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Our Mission

RSK is committed to being a bridge of support, creating opportunities for financial stability for families with a desire to grow financially, and guiding them to achieve their goals with dignity.

Our Vision

Our Financial Coaching Program provides families with one-on-one coaching in order to give them the peace of mind and tools at hand, to thrive economically long term.

With the help of trained financial experts, we help middle-class families, learn how to manage their finances, and plan for the future responsibly — so that they are empowered to hopefully never fall behind again.

And long after the program is completed, the positive impact of The Key continues to unlock a healthier financial standing and welcomes peace of mind into their homes.

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Brief History

2006

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Mattis Gilbert lives in Pinsk, Belarus. He spends time in Kerestir and is inspired to help people.

2013

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Mattis comes back to Monsey and begins distributing cooked meals to families in need.

2015

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One women says, “I am healthy and I can cook. I just need money for the ingredients.” The grocery assistance program is born.

2016

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Mr. Gilbert helps a family on grocery assistance get financially independent through facilitating financial coaching.

2017

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Mr. Gilbert and his wife experienced the transformative impact of financial coaching on their family, inspiring him to make this powerful tool accessible to every frum family.

2019

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The Key - RSK’s Financial Coaching Program is born with one coach.

2020

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The first official cohort of 5 coaches in Monsey is trained.

2021

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March - Our Lakewood branch is launched.

2021

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May - Our Brooklyn branch is launched.

2024

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Career Coaching is launched.

2025

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May - Our Monroe branch is launched

About the Founder

Mattis Gilbert

Mattis Gilbert

Named after the great Reb Shayeleh of Kerestir, whose Avodas Hachesed was matched by his passion for bestowing Parnassah upon Yidden, RSK was established by Mr. Mattis Gilbert to foster financial well-being across Jewish communities.

Mattis is passionate about helping families set themselves on the path to prosperity so that they can budget right, live right, save right, and be financially self-sufficient in an enduring and long-lasting manner — with complete dignity.

You’ll always find him working tirelessly to help families come together and live with peace of mind, shalom bayis, and as calm parents. He is motivated to help every frum family around the world achieve their goals and dreams in life through learning how to manage their finances effectively.

Frequently Asked Questions

Find answers to common questions about our programs and services

Financial Coaching is a start to finish process of helping a family understand their numbers, and learn how to manage their finances. Coaching helps a family learn a defined process organizing their finances, and address any specifics that come up along the process. The coach helps a family learn tools, mindsets, and habits that promote financial well-being and financial peace.

Financial Coaching helps you first get clarity on a precise number of how much the deficit might be as well as the source of the deficit. Once you identify the source of the deficit, then the coach helps you strategize towards solutions using a large combination of ideas and directions to help you work towards closing that gap.

The first thing you can do is track your expenses for two weeks and then ask yourself what you are becoming aware of when looking at the data. Then use the data to ask yourself what you want to do differently the next week to stay on track. We find that three months of data is where the real change starts happening.

A budget is simply a spending plan. The plan is there to help you achieve your big picture financial goals. Instead of having to think and decide about each financial decision each day, you plan once a month and make all the decisions together. During this planning is when you discuss priorities, goals, and strategies. Then you simply follow the plan.

Both spouses in a family contribute to the complete picture of finances. It doesn’t matter so much what each person does, but more so that both spouses are working together and are on the same page financially. Coaching opens up communication, helps you get on the same page, and builds financial Shalom Bayis.

Financial Coaching helps you identify a very precise picture of how much is ‘more’? Do you need more money each month? Do you need more income for annual expenses? Financial coaching helps you strategize customized ways to increase income, decrease expenses, and manage finances more effectively so that there is actually more money at the end of the month. Financial coaching helps you solve the picture in percentages at a time so that you can track the progress and actually resolve the financial challenges

This isn’t just about numbers. Apps help you track numbers. Financial Coaching is about values, mindset, habits, and support. RSK’s Financial Coaching is centered around a Jewish family’s lifestyle and the Jewish calendar. Financial Coaching is personal — and built to actually work for you.

Keeping track of expenses is a great first step, but it’s like trying to undo something that’s already happened and is already complete. Financial Coaching helps you think proactively, plan ahead, and take appropriate action. Of course tracking is important but it’s only one step. Financial Coaching can help you accomplish the whole picture of getting your finances on track and accelerating.

The first step out of debt is to stop creating new debt. Often when you are in the debt cycle it’s hard to break out and change the direction. Financial Coaching actually helps you put on the breaks and stop the debt in it’s tracks. RSK has a very clear path to how to stop debting, create a financial foundation, and then in the right time address the debt effectively.

Financial Coaching will help you first plug the holes that might have been contributing to the debt happening. Then our coaches will help you find the best combination of strategies to resolve the debt and to build the debt payments into your consistent budget. Then when you are debt free that line in the budget translates into savings.

Financial Coaching teaches you how to identify the pattern and the data around those unexpected expenses. You’ll be surprised that there usually is actually a rhyme and reason to those surprises. Once the coach helps you identify each category of seasonal, annual, or emergency expenses, the coach will help you create an annual plan for those situations.

The highest quality coaching! That is the difference. Our team of coaches are hand picked, professional, and highly skilled. Our coaches work as a team, so when you are being coached by any of our coaches you are also benefiting from the team’s collective experience. RSK provides the most affordable financial coaching in the frum world, that provides a proven, well-defined program that caters to each family’s specific needs.

Financial peace is acquired in steps. Financial Coaching will help you from wherever you are at, and the coach will help you get to the next step as you consistently climb upward. As you lay a good financial foundation you will be surprised to learn that it’s more about habit and consistency than about numbers.

Our coaches can help a family build a realistic plan for investing based on their monthly and annual budget. Our coaches will provide expert investing information and education, but cannot offer specific investment advice. For that you need to hire a licensed financial advisor.

Financial Coaching is for anybody who handles money. Financial coaching helps each family identify their current financial situation and helps them set goals to grow greater financial fitness and financial peace. Whether it is about closing a deficit, increasing income, getting better at directing and managing money, or even paying off debt, financial coaching can help you. Often when a family has sufficient income, they might find themselves spending without wanting to, ‘just because’. Financial coaching helps a family become intentional about telling their money where to go.

We offer one time consultations if our intake director deems this to be the best fit for your financial needs. Our financial coaching program also addresses savings and investing through helping you build it into your monthly and annual budget. Our coaches can offer you saving and investment education and information based on your financial situation. We cannot offer specific investment advice.

This might be true if you have a business, work on commission, or have lag in your pay. Even though from month to month your income might fluctuate, the coach can help you look at the data to find a pattern and an annual number. Then the coach will help you build a monthly budget based on your family’s priorities and needs. Once you have the information and clarity, you can begin to prepare to have the steady income needed for each month through balancing out the highs and lows of the year.

Our Team

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Mattis Gilbert

Founder and CEO - Visionary

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Aron Bar Horin

Director of Development - Development

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Eliezer Weisblum

MGO - Support

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Mrs. Bruchy Feuerwerger

Director of Programs - Leadership

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Mrs. Blimy Tauber

CFO - Empathy

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Mrs. Esty Kestenbaum

Intake Specialist - Empowerment

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Mrs. Hershkowitz

Supervisor of Coaches and Financial Coach - Energizing

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Mrs. Chaya Fasten

Director of Financial Coaching Program and Financial Coach - Indefatigable

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Our Coaches

Meet the coaches who lead with passion, guide with purpose, and inspire with positivity.

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Dovid Marder

Intake Consultant and Financial Coach - Perspective

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Meir Y Hirschler

Empowerment

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Chaim Rottenstein

Determination

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Shoshana Mohadeb

Balance

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Aliza Weinberg

Dependable

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David Weinstien

Systems

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Eli Meisels

Guidance

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Yosef Mytelka

Strategy

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Dovid Rex

Grounded

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Akiva Portnoy

Savvy

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Moshe Finkelstein

Creativity

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Yoseph Schwartz

Dedication

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Chananya Silber

Depth

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Tzvi Miller

Passion

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Leah Loeb

Motivating

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Yanky Stein

Practicality

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Avromi Meisner

Perceptive

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Shloime Silbiger

Empowering

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Shimon Peikarski

Stability

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