"How do I talk to god?" and other questions.

What was the first Jewish temple-like-tent called and why was it erected? Why do folks froth over Rashi? Who’s that person in Synagogue who sings louder than everyone else? How does one talk to god? In this episode, Tami and Shoshana talk tabernacles, hazzans, rice cookers and other miscellaneous topics, requested by listeners. Plus Shoshana is obsessed with a hilarious advertisement in a Jewish Facebook Group. 

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Transcript

Welcome And Misc Questions Setup

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Shame to ask, ashamed to admit, got dewy, dewy questions. This is it, this is it. Why is wicked simple are unsure how to ask? We'll open up the books, the ark will open up your cynical heart. No such a thing as a dumb question. Okay, that's mostly true. Dummy and Shashana are here for you. Ashamed to admit. Ashamed to ask.

SPEAKER_02 0:33

It's everything you didn't get in Jewish studies class.

SPEAKER_04 0:36

Hey everyone. What's up? You are listening to Asham to Admit, a podcast by the Jewish Independent. Otherwise known as the Independent. I'm Shoshana Gottlieb Becker.

SPEAKER_01 0:53

And I'm Tammy Sussman. I like stretching. I can't cook rice. And I don't understand why all of my super smart friends like the dumbest reality TV shows like The Bachelor, Married at First Sight. I don't get it. But there is a direct correlation.

SPEAKER_04 1:15

Um, I'm not gonna lie to you, I spent so long coming up with the three things that you prompted me to come up with. I don't know why I overthought it so much.

SPEAKER_01 1:22

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 1:22

Um, and I was really thrown off by the fact that you can't cook rice.

SPEAKER_01 1:25

I can't.

SPEAKER_04 1:26

Have you ever bought a rice cooker?

SPEAKER_01 1:28

Everyone says that. Even in a rice cooker, I will always burn the bottom.

SPEAKER_04 1:32

It's so easy to make. Everyone says that. Maybe you're making like not enough rice. I don't know what it is, but I can't get it. I can make I can't make a lot of things, I can make rice. Okay. Okay. Anyway, I like buying books, which is a different hobby to reading them, but I enjoy writing buying them. Um, I can't do a handstand, and I don't understand most mathematical concepts.

SPEAKER_01 1:55

Same-sees.

SPEAKER_04 1:55

Yeah. I did three unit math in year 12 and then like never thought about maths again.

SPEAKER_01 1:59

For someone who doesn't understand mathematical concepts, you did quite a high level. I just like everything fell out.

SPEAKER_04 2:06

The second I finished my HSE, everything fell out of my head. Right. Like, I don't remember anything. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 2:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:12

That's some miscellaneous information that all of our viewers and listeners just received right there. And that's appropriate because today's theme is miscellaneous. It's miscellaneous. It's just basically miscellaneous questions that you, our viewers and listeners, have sent in over the past few weeks that we haven't got a chance to address. And so Questions in a Hat. Yeah, that's what we're doing. It's another questions in a hat episode. And I'm not ashamed to admit that a lot of the questions excite me.

SPEAKER_04 2:48

I'm I'm really happy for you.

SPEAKER_01 2:50

Thank you. There's some pretty good questions. Yeah. And they're in a hat today. They're in a hat, which is I'm holding up to the camera. It's probably upside down.

SPEAKER_04 2:58

It is upside down, I would say.

SPEAKER_01 2:59

It says perfect punem on it. Yeah. And punem is a Yiddish word, Shoshana, meaning face. Yeah. So if you wear this hat, you have a perfect face.

SPEAKER_04 3:10

It's like a magical hat.

SPEAKER_01 3:11

Yeah. Um, and this is a really cool Melbourne brand, Kvetch and Kvel.

SPEAKER_04 3:18

Are you also maybe wearing her t-shirt? I am.

SPEAKER_01 3:20

I'm wearing their t-shirt. Uh two Melbourne Jews or Jew adjacent people.

SPEAKER_03 3:28

Slah.

Why Rashi Matters So Much

SPEAKER_01 3:29

Yeah, have started this brand, Kvetch and Kvel. It's online. Check it out. All right. So I'm holding the hat. I'm shaking the questions. Shoshana's gonna take one out. And the first question is Rashi. Why does Shoshana frotheshana froth over Rashi, who I love Rashi? Is a figure that's come up a lot. We probably should have just talked about him earlier. I love Rashi, he's amazing.

SPEAKER_04 4:00

Rashi is one of the commentators of Tanakh. Um, he's a rabbi, he lives in France in like the 1080s, right? So he's a medieval scholar. Rashi revolutionized Torah study. He like you cannot learn Torah today. I'm sorry, I'm gonna make sounds if I play with that anymore. You cannot learn Torah today without Rashi, right there. And when you describe a page in the Talmud, right, and you've described it before on this podcast as there's text in the middle and there's text around the side. One of the bits of text around the side is Rashi's explanations of the Talmud. You can't learn Talmud also without Rashi. He fills in the blanks. He knows what words mean that we don't know based on all of his wide reading. He has all of these amazing interpretations. And his goal for specifically for the Torah and for the Tanakh was how do I make this like simple and accessible, right? How do I take everything that's written in the Talmud and the Midrash and all around my knowledge and create an easy way to learn this? And so and then he did that and he wrote this um this commentary on Torah. And basically what he does is if there's a word that we're not sure what it is because it's been lost to time, it only appears a couple of times, you can't figure out what it means. He usually has an explanation of what it means based on his study. We use him for midrash, he'll bring down famous midrash to explain the story as well. He sometimes does like um logical explanations of the if something in the text doesn't quite make sense, he tries to logically figure out what it could mean. Uh, and he just is he's he changed the game in terms of like literally you can't study Torah without this guy. He's also really fascinating. Um he is one of the most important resources to scholars of medieval French. Because in his um, in his commentary, if he's trying to tell you what he think he thinks a word means, he'll uh translate it for you to the language that he speaks that is not Hebrew, which is medieval French. And so, but when he's writing, he's writing it in Hebrew letters, and so he let's say he says the word crocodile, and he but it's the medieval French word for crocodile, but he's written it in Hebrew letters, so we can sound out what he meant and what it sounded like, and it's one of the ways that that medieval French scholars have figured out pronunciations of these words based on his commentary. Wow, it's fantastic it's amazing, what a fun fact that is. So Gentiles appreciate they froth as much as you? Specifically, no, probably not. Okay. Um, Rashi's also super famous for only having daughters. Uh, he had three daughters, and so it's like a really interesting, I don't know. Tidbit. Tidbit. It's more that like when people talk about women having more of a role or being able to do certain mitzvot in Judaism, there's one specific example that I'm thinking of, which is that if a woman wants to wear tefillin, the example that she will give Rashi's grand Rashi's daughters, they wore tefillin. But I've as a proof of here is a really famous rabbi whose daughters wore tefillin, I think that sucks because one, there's no actual proof that they did wear tefillin. And number two, it's used, I think, in a way to say only the most learned women who were daughters of the most learned men are allowed to wear tefillin, right? So it's kind of like turning it on its head. Um, they also famously, and I'm pretty sure there is historical evidence of this, they would, they were his scribes. So they were literate, right? They knew how to read and write, they probably learned a bit of Torah as well from him. Their sons were their own sort of class of rabbis who were also all commentators, or a lot of them are commentators on the Tanakh. There's famous stories around Rashi being um a uh, I don't know how to say this word, a vitna, like a wine maker.

SPEAKER_03 8:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 8:10

But those are also kind of unfounded, and he probably just knew a lot about wine because he describes it a lot because you know he's French and likes wine. Classy. Anyway, this is like he's just a really interesting guy. Do I have any other notes of things that I wanted to mention about Rashi?

SPEAKER_01 8:24

No, but if but if you had to choose between Rushi and Maimonides, who would you choose? Oh, Rushi.

SPEAKER_04 8:32

I love Rushi. Wow. Like in terms of my personal preference, yeah. I'm a I'm a Tanakh girly. Okay. I like that's what I I fuck with that. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 8:43

You know what I mean? That needs to be a t-shirt, Tanakh girly.

SPEAKER_04 8:46

Yeah. It's the difference between like, do I want to do a degree in English lit or lore? Right.

SPEAKER_03 8:54

English lit all the way. I don't have a lore brain.

SPEAKER_01 8:57

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 8:58

I'm Tanakh girly.

SPEAKER_01 8:59

Right. So Maimonides is more lore.

SPEAKER_04 9:02

Yeah, he's like, or like, like hectic philosophy. Okay. Yeah. Anyway. Got it. I love Rashi. He's so cool. Big fan. Rashi is also an acronym for like you know how Rumbum is an acronym because his name is Moshe Ben Maimon. We did this like eight, like one of our first episodes. Rashi is an acronym for Rabbi Shloma Yitzhaki.

SPEAKER_01 9:25

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 9:26

So like she's just this little name, like this kid named Shlomo. Now's name's Rashi. I met someone in Israel once who they had a friend named Rashi, like this girl named Rashi. I'm like, that is the coolest name in the world.

SPEAKER_01 9:37

Where were you?

SPEAKER_04 9:38

In Israel. In Jerusalem. Wow. So just like this like little American named Rashi. I'm like, that's sick. That's sick. I want to name my kid Rashi.

SPEAKER_01 9:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 9:45

Sky has already said no. Okay. In our discussions of our future children. So that's yours up for grabs. Name your daughter Rashi. That name's sick as hell.

SPEAKER_01 9:56

In fact, one of our best. Australians are such a fan of Rashi that we named one of our iconic swimwear.

SPEAKER_04 10:03

I bet Sky said we can't use it because everyone will just call our kid Rashi.

SPEAKER_01 10:06

So if you live overseas in Australia, I guess what you might call sun protection shirts, swim shirts, we call them rashies. No one knows why. A rash shirt. What do you mean? It prevents you from getting a rash from sun. That makes sense.

How To Talk To God

SPEAKER_04 10:24

Yeah, sure. I'll take that. Okay. Right. Shall we move on? Yeah. Next one. Next hat question. Oh my god, okay. How does one talk to God?

SPEAKER_01 10:39

This was a question that one of your followers sent to you and it made it onto the list. Big sigh. Why the big sigh, Shoshana?

SPEAKER_04 10:52

How do I phrase this? Do you want to talk to God like a prophet talks to God, like a crazy guy talks to God, or do you just want to talk to God?

SPEAKER_03 10:59

You know?

SPEAKER_04 11:00

Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 11:00

They weren't very specific. They weren't very specific.

SPEAKER_04 11:02

If you want to talk to God like the prophets talk to God, right? Where we spoke about the prophets a few episodes ago, you got like your Jeremiah's, your Ezekiel's, like that kind of vibe, your Jonah's, even your Moses's. God kind of chooses you to talk to. Um if you want to talk to God, you just kind of talk. It's like the little, it's the little voice in your head. You just have a chat with it. Right? You pray three times a day, like religious Jews do. That's them talking to God. And your mind wanders and you're thinking about other stuff because like you're not a very considerate conversationalist. It's pretty one-sided. I know, it's just or like take time to meditate, you know. I think it it depends how you conceptualize God. You have to figure that out before you can figure out how you're gonna talk to God. Right? If for you, God is like an entity in the sky, then talking to God might include sitting in a quiet room and meditating. If God to you is the people around you and the things around you, then maybe talking to God is looks different. Maybe it's action instead of like actual talking, you know? Yeah. It's such a vague question. Yeah. And it means something different to everyone. My answer, my official answer is just figure it out. Do you believe in God? Do you talk to God?

SPEAKER_01 12:26

Wait, firstly, this is not in the hat. Second of all, so sorry.

SPEAKER_02 12:31

We never go off script.

SPEAKER_01 12:34

Second of all, you are someone who changed my whole perspective of that. Oh my god, I forgot about that. Yes, do you remember believing God?

SPEAKER_04 12:43

Yeah, but do you remember I remember that you told me afterwards that I made you believe in God.

SPEAKER_01 12:47

Because you described God in a way that I'd never heard God described.

SPEAKER_04 12:51

I forget what that was. Remind me.

SPEAKER_01 12:54

We it was the very first podcast we did together before we had this one where you and I were supposed to be co-hosting. And then like you didn't know. And then our interviewer didn't show up. And so I ended up just asking you questions and I asked you, Do you believe in God? And you said, Yes, in the God for you is many different things. But it, you know, for instance, you're sitting on a balcony with your friends, and the sun is setting, and you're all having a great time, and you know, God has time, that's God. Yeah, and then like a week later, I went on first date with my now partner, and it was beautiful, and it was just like, yeah, the the weather was amazing, the sun was setting, there was like this beautiful breeze, we were having such a good time, and I was like, Oh, this could be God.

SPEAKER_04 13:43

So, well, yeah, I'm amazing. You are um I so that's like two times I've been able to do that, right? So, like I made you believe in God, and then one time I had a student. Um, we had a Tish. Have you ever been to a Tish? Maybe back in like in your life.

SPEAKER_01 13:58

I've heard the word Tish, is it isn't it a you sing songs on Shabbat?

SPEAKER_04 14:02

So a Tish is like an Australian Tish is different to other Tishes. Usually it's you're sitting Tish means table in Yiddish. So you're sitting around the table, you're having a jolly time, you're singing. In Australian circles, Tishes are really intense, and you sit in semi-darkness in concentric circles, and you sing really like slow, beautiful Jewish songs. And usually they take place on like youth camps. And so one time I was on a camp and it was beautiful, and I like I talked. I think I did a similar spiel to that of like, you know, God is time and space and feeling and energy and things like that. And we sang, and it ended with this most beautiful song, and everyone sing, everyone's on their chairs, like screaming, singing. And afterwards, a girl came up. She was like, I don't know what I just felt, but I think it might be it. And she's like, no, she was like an atheist, she's like, she's like a very serious science, logical kid. And I was like, Sleigh, got another one. Yeah, but I don't I should get a raise every time I get someone to believe in God.

SPEAKER_01 14:59

I still don't know. If someone said to me, Do you believe in God? I wouldn't just go, yes. I'd be like, it depends. Like, how do you define God?

SPEAKER_04 15:07

I I don't know what to say because for a lot of people, they ask, like, you believe in God? Like it's it's like a gotcha kind of question. And I'm like, yeah, but like how I believe in God is not how you believe in God or how you conceptualize God.

SPEAKER_03 15:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 15:19

And I think like not the deep voice in the clouds. Yeah. And I think also when you think about sort of this age of sort of internet atheists, or these career atheists, like the Richard Dawkins of the world, who've made an entire career trying to debunk God, but they're debunking a really like Christian either A, a Christian understanding of God, because that's where they're coming from, from like a Christian upbringing, or B like their understanding of God is an atheist's understanding of God. Like it's not, you know what I mean? Anyway. That's what I think.

SPEAKER_01 15:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 15:52

Love God, love that guy.

The Mishkan And The Golden Calf

SPEAKER_01 15:54

This question is what was the Mishkan?

SPEAKER_04 15:56

Oh, the Mishkan is the tabernacle. Still don't know what either of those things are. I love the word tabernacle because usually, if I if you ask me what this means, and it's a Jewish word, I give you a direct translation. A tish is a table, right? A menorah is a candelabra, right? English words that make sense. There are two Hebrew words that when you give the translation, it still makes no sense. Those words are a Mishkan is a tabernacle. The fuck is a tabernacle? And to fill in the little block black boxes, right, that a chabad man will ask you to wear. What the hell is a phylactery? Do you know what a phylactery is?

SPEAKER_01 16:41

Do I look like someone who knows a phylactery?

SPEAKER_04 16:44

Anyway, the Mishkan is the tabernacle. The tabernacle or the Mishkan was given to the Jewish people in the desert after Har Sinai or the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai. They go through this little blip of an episode called the Golden Calf. God's like, I have some rules. I have a top ten rules. Number one, I am your only God. Number two, don't worship idols. Okay, top two. What's the first thing these bloody Israelites do? When Moshe is a little bit late by their own calculations.

SPEAKER_01 17:22

They build a golden idol.

SPEAKER_04 17:24

They build an idol. They're like, you know what, we need idol. So they build an idol. It's bad. God kills a bunch of them. Um, God then condemns them to wander the desert for 40 years rather than go straight into the land of Israel, right? Classic, classic God. Um and then God gives them the tabernacle. That's like the next thing that happens. But what's really interesting is You still haven't said what that is. I know I will in a second. What's really interesting is that um God. So the story happens. We have the story of the receiving of the Torah, and then it cuts to the instructions for the tabernacle, and then it cuts to the story of the golden calf, even though chronologically it happens sort of the other way around. The Jews sin with the golden calf.

SPEAKER_01 18:10

The Jews what?

SPEAKER_04 18:11

They sin with the golden calf. Yep. And then I think this is what happens, which is that God says they did the wrong thing, but clearly they are a they're an experience-based people. They need like physical objects in order to understand the world around them and understand worship. So then God gives them the instructions on how to build the Mishgan. The Mishgan is a portable temple.

SPEAKER_01 18:37

Is it their first?

SPEAKER_04 18:38

Their first temple, yeah. And so it's made out of like wood. So the outside, it's all these wooden pieces, and there's gold and silver, and then there's a menorah in the Mishgan. There's the the Aaron, right? The Ark of the Covenant with the two little cherubs on top. That's in the Mishgan. You've got different altars for sacrifice, for animal sacrifice and like incense and smell sacrifice. You've got a table that holds 12 loaves of bread. You've got like an urn to wash your hands with. Anyway, so it's this portable Mishkan, this temple that sits in the center of the Israelite camp as they wander through the desert. And then when they have to change camping spots, you can pack it all up like it's Lego, right? Like it's little set, and you just carry it with you. And then you reset it up when you get to the next spot. And that's the tabernacle of the Mishgan. And then when they enter the land of Israel, it stays for a really long time. They set it up in a permanent spot. I'm in a city called Shiloh. And then it's that's it until they build the Bethhamigdash, which is like the permanent temple in Jerusalem. Um, so it's like the first one. But the thought is that all of the um the big items that they got, like the menorah and the ark, the ones that were in the desert are the ones that are also in the the permanent temple. There's like that carry-through.

SPEAKER_01 19:55

First of all, well done, God, for seeing their mistake and turning it around.

SPEAKER_04 20:02

Okay, so that's my interpretation of the story because again, chronologically, it's interesting, right? Where it like they get the Torah and it's this whole like lights show, and they're all like freaking out, and there's the lights and the sounds and the booms and whatever, and the voice of God, and then they die, and then they come back to life. It's a whole thing. Then they sin, and then immediately after sinning, they they get a way to serve God again, right? God's like, okay, I'll give you another way to do it, because clearly this first thing freaked you out a little bit. Um, and then the text also makes the connection because the text goes from receiving the Torah, the instructions of the Mishkan, and then the the golden calf right after. Like there, they seem to be, at least to me, like, and I think other rabbis talk about it. Other rabbis, I'm not a rabbi. I don't know what to say. I think I think rabbis and other people talk about it, but they are like sort of linked in that way.

SPEAKER_01 20:54

Any idea why there were 12 loaves of bread in there?

What A Chazan Actually Does

SPEAKER_04 20:57

Uh represents the 12 tribes, probably. Okay. Um, yeah. Let's move on. Next. Right, next one. How many questions do we have left? Two. Two. Okay. Number one question. What does a chazan do besides sing? That's a great question. Let me take a sip of water though. Pardon me.

SPEAKER_01 21:19

Do you want me to cut that out or do you want to keep my coffee in? That's fine. Okay. Humanize.

SPEAKER_04 21:24

Let them hear my coughing. Um a chazan sets the tone for the shul service. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 21:34

The first thing that springs to mind is the hazan.

SPEAKER_04 21:39

Tone.

SPEAKER_01 21:40

The first thing that springs to mind, uh-huh, because remember there are people who listen to this who are not Jewish. So the first, I guess, the most overt thing that a chazan will do in a synagogue is they're the singers. They lead the prayers. They lead the prayers. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 21:56

Um A Chazan is in in English is a can. Mentor. Right. It's a person who sings, but but it's a really big job to like set the tone. Like I made that a joke, but like to set the tone for what the prayers are like. And it's knowing the specific tunes. It's going at a pace that is good enough for the synagogue. Right? Someone who is a messenger on behalf of the community standing before God and delivering their prayers, which is a really important role. And then it has a whole description of what a Shale Achsibor needs to be, like a pious person and like a really learned, serious kind of guy. Or gal. Or gal. Back in the day it was mostly just only guys. And then in America, what's really interesting is that Chazanim were or Chazans were considered clergy before rabbis were. They were seen as integral to a community in a way that a rabbi wasn't, because you have so many lay-led communities that don't have a rabbi as a head figure, but they would the Jews would go, they would try to find someone who could sing the tunes for them. And so in early American sort of communities organizations, in the eyes of the government, the cantors were performing weddings. Right? They were like signing on the dot lines for religious weddings and stuff like that. I also found because I was like, what do they do? I looked up a curriculum for hazans and like what they learn when they go to cantorial school. They learn Hebrew, so they learn modern biblical, which is like the Torah Hebrew and liturgical Hebrew, which is from a Siddur or a prayer book. They learn Nusach, which means like the specific tradition. Like so if you're Sefadi, it might sound different too, if you're Ashkenazi. And then again, depending where in Europe you're from, it'll sound different if you're Polish or German, right? Those are all different things. They learn the laws and traditions pertaining to Jewish prayer service. They learn the history and content of the Sidorah, the prayer book. They learn music theory and sight reading. So they also get like some actual music skills. Playing an instrument, usually guitar or piano, singing technique, cantillation, which is what the um the Torah has certain notes that teaches you how to sing it. Um choral conducting, they learn Jewish history, they learn Tanakh, they learn Jewish musical history, which I think is fascinating. They learn pastoral care and counseling and theology. There you go. So they actually they they learn quite a bit in order to be able to get to the place that like to lead it.

SPEAKER_01 24:29

Okay, so if you have a synagogue, the synagogue has to pay the salary of a rabbi and the chazan, the cantor. Is that why for smaller synagogues, some of them don't have a cantor, the rabbi does everything?

SPEAKER_04 24:41

Sometimes the rabbi does everything, but then also you'll have communities where like the rabbi isn't the chazan, and it's just the person who leads governing is a guy with a nice voice in the crown. Yeah, 100%.

SPEAKER_03 24:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 24:51

And a lot of layled communities, but they w they're not gonna pay a salary to, like you said, they're not gonna pay a salary, so it falls on community members. And sometimes communities don't have people who are learned enough to lead tefilla, so the rabbi will step in and do it all the time. Could be that they have a nice voice, whatever it is.

SPEAKER_01 25:09

Yeah, or they'll just get some guy from the crowd. Do you have to have a good voice to be a rabbi?

SPEAKER_04 25:14

No, but it makes it like not to be a rabbi, but for someone who's leading tefilla, you're standing up there and you're singing a lot. Yeah. So it's nice to like to sound good.

SPEAKER_01 25:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 25:23

And then you have like, so one of the shoals I go to is called Or Kadash. So they'll have during weekly services, it'll be just, you know, whichever guys volunteer to do it, um, and who are like sort of good at doing it, right? And then for things like Rosh Hashanah Yom Kippur, sometimes they'll fly in a chusin specifically for that to lead, you know, the big services. Right. Yeah. It's a special treat. Special treat, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:49

Okay.

Mashiach Teaser And Cliffhanger

SPEAKER_04 25:50

One last question.

SPEAKER_01 25:51

One last question.

SPEAKER_04 25:52

I can't believe this is the last question. It's a big one, and we only had two minutes.

SPEAKER_01 25:58

Mashiach.

SPEAKER_04 25:59

Who that diva?

SPEAKER_01 26:01

Oh my god. We need more than two minutes.

SPEAKER_04 26:03

What do Jews believe around the Messiah? Do you want a longer episode? You just want to keep it finished.

SPEAKER_01 26:09

No, I think we should keep it. I think this is a cliffhanger.

SPEAKER_04 26:13

We can do like a probably like a half episode on Mashiach.

SPEAKER_01 26:17

Yeah. All right.

SPEAKER_04 26:18

Not a full episode, just because like I don't want to talk about Mashiach for that long.

SPEAKER_01 26:20

A whole that you don't?

SPEAKER_04 26:21

Yeah, just like a half episode.

SPEAKER_01 26:23

Alright. So, viewers and listeners.

SPEAKER_04 26:25

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 26:26

If you want to. Cliffhanger.

SPEAKER_04 26:29

That's crazy, man.

SPEAKER_01 26:31

Join us next week.

SPEAKER_04 26:33

Oh, next week? Alright. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 26:34

I don't know when on the schedule we'll. Maybe not next week.

SPEAKER_04 26:37

Maybe you'll just have to keep listening until we talk about Mashiach again.

SPEAKER_01 26:39

But the episode is coming.

SPEAKER_04 26:41

Yeah, like Mashiach.

Baby Greer And Listener Banter

SPEAKER_01 26:43

You see, I that's what I yeah. Thanks. I was quite proud of that one. Wow. That was right, but that was a lot to get through in the time we have. Alright, so we've got our final segment. Final segment. And then that's it.

SPEAKER_04 26:56

I love this segment. You I sent you this one. You did. This one's not even from a group. This is just an ad I got on Facebook.

SPEAKER_01 27:05

It's just an ad. Yeah. Okay. Um, I'm gonna describe it. You can you describe it.

SPEAKER_04 27:13

Oh no, it wasn't a group. Sorry, I lied. It's in a group, but I also then saw the same little baby pop up in a different ad.

SPEAKER_01 27:20

Alright. It's just a picture of a baby poking out of a suitcase. And the caption reads for visitors from overseas with an infant, can anyone recommend a baby equipment hire company? Saw one, but would love to hear if anyone has one they've used.

SPEAKER_04 27:39

So yeah, so the picture of the baby in the suitcases, because that's like the the link from the web.

SPEAKER_01 27:45

Oh, okay, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 27:46

Um, the website is about renting baby gif in Israel. But it says rent in Israel, baby greer for rent. Because it's some Israeli side and they haven't done it properly, or it's like been translated weirdly. So they've spelt baby B-A-B-A-Y, and they've spelt gear G-R-E-A-R. And so after I saw this, I went around for like two weeks just saying baby greer every so often.

SPEAKER_02 28:15

Bebe greer. It was like a vocal stem, like baby greer.

SPEAKER_04 28:20

Sounds like an actress.

SPEAKER_02 28:22

Bebe grier.

SPEAKER_01 28:24

I can't believe I even allowed this into this episode. To me, it's such a non-event.

SPEAKER_02 28:30

It really moved you. I love baby girl. You don't like babé grier? I think poster. Can you like photo like superimpose the photo of Babé Grier here? Yes. Because Babé Grier is funnier by like the old-timey yellow suitcase that has a baby inside it. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 28:50

So you're not shaming the person who wanted to verify if this was a real website. Actually, if I came across the website and they couldn't even spell the name of what they were offering properly, I would have my my reservations.

SPEAKER_02 29:05

I just think babagir is really funny. I don't know what to tell you.

SPEAKER_01 29:08

Is it a worm? Babegrew.

SPEAKER_04 29:13

If you think babagrier is funny, leave a comment in the in down below. And if you don't think it's funny, also leave a comment. Let us know either way. We love all thoughts, Babegir.

SPEAKER_01 29:25

Let us know. Okay, you're turning me. Kind of like you turned me. You got me into God. You're getting me into Babegre. You're making me see why it was worth putting in this episode.

SPEAKER_02 29:38

Baby.

Outro And How To Support

SPEAKER_01 29:40

It's time for our outro.

SPEAKER_04 29:42

That's it for today's show.

SPEAKER_02 29:48

You can't find it, can you? You don't know your lines.

SPEAKER_01 29:50

I don't. There we go.

SPEAKER_02 29:52

Can we do it again?

SPEAKER_01 29:53

Yeah. That's it for today's show. You've been watching or listening to Asham to Admit with me, Tammy Sussman, and her, Shoshana Gottlieb Becker.

SPEAKER_04 30:05

This episode was brought to you by The Jewish Independent. Or let's say it all together, everyone. One, two, three, the J Independent with Aliway Productions, the vocalist in our theme song is Sarry L.

SPEAKER_01 30:17

And if you enjoyed this episode, unlock your phone, open your laptop, and give us a positive review. Yeah. Then forward this episode to your favorite WhatsApp group.

SPEAKER_04 30:31

Yeah, by sell swaps. Send it to everyone.

SPEAKER_01 30:35

I've got half an episode of this show. Would anyone like it?

SPEAKER_04 30:40

Yeah, half a listen to the first half of this and have questions. Has anyone heard of this before? It'd be great.

SPEAKER_02 30:48

Thank you so much. And see you next week. Babegru.