Moshiach Now! Who or what is the Jewish Messiah?

Who or what is the Jewish Messiah (aka. Moshiach). In this episode, Shoshana & Tami unpack the concept and make contemporary suggestions. Plus, someone is Jewish Facebook group doesn't want to see their colorectal surgeon at school pick-up. 

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Transcript

Cold Open And Welcome

SPEAKER_05 0:00

A 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. Tammy and Shoshana are here for you. Ashamed to admit.

SPEAKER_02 0:30

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

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Hello everyone. Welcome back to Ashamed to Admit. I'm Tammy Sussman, and with me is my co-host, Shoshana Gottly Becca. Hi.

SPEAKER_02 0:44

Hey Tammy. That's my greeting. You've said I get to make up my own greeting. I'm keeping it simple. Shoshana. Hey.

SPEAKER_03 0:53

Here's my greeting. Do you know what my sister is? Wait, wait, here's my greeting. Wait, wait, sorry.

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How are you today, Tammy?

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How are you today? I am good. Shoshana, do you know what my sister who listens and and watches to this? Do you know what she loves the most?

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That I'm mean to you?

SPEAKER_03 1:07

Yes. No, she doesn't. She says, I love watching you laugh at Shoshana. Nice. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:12

Laughing with me, not at me. That's true. Um I like I'm being intentional with my jokes, so you can't laugh at me. Shoshana.

SPEAKER_03 1:19

I'm a youngest sibling, you can't laugh at me. That's true. It's time

Fill My Kitchen With Snacks

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to play FMK, which today stands for fill my kitchen. Fill my kitchen, FMK. Fill. Fill my kitchen with snacks and sit with me and eat the snacks while talking to me.

SPEAKER_02 1:37

What?

SPEAKER_03 1:37

That's what we're playing. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:40

Fill my kitchen with snacks.

SPEAKER_03 1:41

Yeah. Fill my kitchen with snacks and come and sit with me and eat the snacks while chatting with me.

SPEAKER_02 1:48

Is that just recording a podcast? So the game we're playing is record a podcast?

SPEAKER_03 1:52

No. So I'm gonna give you three people and you get to choose which one you would like to sit with you and eat snacks that are in your kitchen.

SPEAKER_02 2:05

I feel like what kind of snacks? Have you seen my kitchen? My kitchen's very small. Is it? My kitchen is shaped like this, like a triangle. And you can't fit like like two people can't be in there and like don't like work around each other.

SPEAKER_03 2:19

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 2:19

So maybe in someone else's kitchen. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 2:21

It's in like a studio style kitchen.

SPEAKER_02 2:24

Okay. A hypothetical large kitchen where there are tables and chairs to sit and snack.

SPEAKER_03 2:28

To sit around and stuff. What kind of snacks? I love that that's what you've asked first. Is the snack, the the snack of your choice? No, it's really different.

SPEAKER_02 2:37

Like sharing a bag of chips is different to like having noodle, cup of soup.

SPEAKER_03 2:43

No, you have a jar of that kosher for pesar Natella that you love. That's not a snack, and you get a spoon each and you eat it out of the jar.

SPEAKER_02 2:51

But that's a very intimate act.

SPEAKER_03 2:54

Yeah. Okay, so who would you choose?

SPEAKER_02 2:56

My wife. Next.

SPEAKER_03 2:58

She's not in this list. But she can be there. Barbara Streisand, Abby Jacobson, or Brad Falchuk?

SPEAKER_02 3:10

Brad Falchuk.

SPEAKER_03 3:11

Brad Falchuk, who co-created and is married. You love Glee. Is married to Gwendolyk. That is like wouldn't you want to chat to him about his career?

SPEAKER_02 3:26

So I'm actually like perplexed that you've just like brought Brad Falchuk to play. Why? Instead of Ryan Murphy or like Leah Michelle.

SPEAKER_03 3:38

Why have you done this to me?

SPEAKER_02 3:39

Barbara Streisand, Abby Jacobson, and I just have to choose one of them. Yeah. Okay, if it's the Nutella, Coshula Pesak Nutella, probably Abby Jacobson, because I wouldn't degrade Barbara Streisand with like sharing a spoonful of Nutella with me. You get your own. I'm inviting Barb I'm inviting Barbara for like a three-course meal, like a Shabbos dinner. Right. Not a fucking snack in my kitchen.

SPEAKER_03 4:03

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 4:03

No?

SPEAKER_03 4:04

No. That's disrespectful. Alright. So it's Abby Jacobson. Okay. Now, which one of those three people do you think would make the best kind of messiah?

SPEAKER_02 4:15

Barbara Stressand, because she already kind of is to some. Okay. I think she's a messianic, godlike figure to many a gay man.

What Moshiach Actually Means

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So if you've just joined us and you're not sure what a messiah or a moshiach is.

SPEAKER_02 4:31

Yeah.

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What is it? How would you describe a moshiach or a messiah? It's a big question. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 4:39

It's needed to stretch for a second. That's the whole game.

SPEAKER_03 4:42

No, the game's over. That was just a lead into talking about Moshiach.

SPEAKER_02 4:47

I thought there was gonna be like more trios you were gonna ask. No, just one.

SPEAKER_03 4:51

I only had the bandwidth, as you would say, to think of one.

SPEAKER_02 4:54

You love that I said one time bandwidth. Bandwidth. And you're just thrown that. I bring it up all the time. Every day.

SPEAKER_03 4:59

I'm ashamed to admit I don't know a lot about the concept of Moshiach or Messiah, other than he's coming. When he does come, we'll all have to pack up.

SPEAKER_01 5:10

You're real concerned with some guys come right now.

SPEAKER_03 5:16

Some guys come. When he does, we all have to pack up and go to Israel. And by we I mean the Jewish people. Apparently, there'll be no more war, crimes, or famine. And that dead people will come back to life. Is this true?

SPEAKER_02 5:34

You're asking some big questions.

SPEAKER_03 5:36

Okay, so firstly, what is Messiah Moshiach?

SPEAKER_02 5:40

Messiah Moshiach. Meshiach is Hebrew for Messiah. It's the anointed one. It's a person who will come back and redeem the Jewish people, like the final savior, like the final hero to bring us back and like usher in this utopic, utopian age of existence. World peace, um, Jewish sovereignty over the land, no more war, you know, all that stuff. The ideas, as far as I know, start because of like, you know how when we spoke about the Tanakh, there's like a bunch of books of prophecies. Remember those? Yes. So a bunch of those prophecies talk about like the Jews being driven out of the land and desolate and it's horrible and we're curse, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. But eventually, in this great amazing time, you'll be brought back. Right? There's someone will like bring us back, and God will bring us back into the land and he'll redeem all of the captives. So I think I have like allergies, which is why I keep rubbing my eyes.

SPEAKER_03 6:38

Oh really? Are they itchy?

SPEAKER_02 6:39

Yeah, it's okay. Um, God will like rebuild the temple, um, the Davidic line, so like that the line of kings that descend from David, they'll be reinstated, we'll have kingship again. Like you said, like the dead will be resurrected, all of the nations on earth will recognize like the Israelite God as true God. Anyway, so it's like there's whole all of these promises made in these prophecies. And then the Jews get exiled from the land. And you get spread out, and you're no longer like a sovereign, and it's really hard to live, and you start getting oppressed because you are a minority who's like living sort of amongst, you know, Christian societies and Muslim societies, all of this stuff. And so you've been exiled from the land like those prophets said you would be. So it makes sense that you're gonna be brought back to the land.

SPEAKER_03 7:29

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 7:29

And it makes sense to have something to believe in to spur you on when you're living through oppressive times. And so there's this idea of mashiach that like one day we'll be able to leave what we call gallus or exile, gallot. We'll be brought back to the we'll be redeemed and brought back to the land, the like to be redeemed. And like that's that's Messiah. And so some religious groups put way more emphasis on this idea of Meshiach than other groups. Um like modern Orthodox people like talk about it kind of, but it's like not it's not an everyday speaker.

Chabad, Zionism, And Temple Talk

SPEAKER_02 8:06

Yeah, but then you speak to like so like you you know what chabad is, right? Like Meshiach, huge in Chabad. Yeah. That like they are actively doing mitzvot, like deeds and commandments in order to usher in the coming of the Messiah. We believe that, like, or people believe that you bring about mashiach by doing what God wants. God will give us mashiach if we're good kids, if we follow the rules. And so you you usher in Moshiach through acts of mitzvot, but also like through kindness and good deeds and things like that.

SPEAKER_03 8:43

Are these the same people then who refuse to move to Israel because the mashiach hasn't come?

SPEAKER_02 8:51

Well, not exactly the same people, right? Um, I think you're thinking so so part of it is that you've got groups of ultra-orthodox Jews who you would consider to be anti-Zionist. Yes. Not in the sense that they don't believe that Jewish people should be in the land of Israel, but rather they don't think that Jews should have a sovereign nation state before the times of Meshiach.

SPEAKER_03 9:17

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 9:18

Right? Like our our relationship to that land and our sovereignty over it, over it is God given. It's not up to us to just go there, therefore we can't do it yet. Okay. A big part of it is also like the rebuilding of the temple. Um, so you've got like a lot of how do I not mince my words? What I would call kind of like the freaks and geeks of the world. Okay. Like you've got like real extremist groups who are like so like all in on Mashiach coming and are getting ready for it. That they've started creating, like, it's called the Temple Institute. They they have the the priestly vestment garb that will be worn in the third temple, and they've started making all of the different um like vessels to be used during that time because they're like, oh my god, any day now. Seriously. Any day now will have the third temple because Mashiach will come. So they're like super ready for it.

SPEAKER_03 10:11

These are like the equivalent of like the doomsdayers who like have their underground, like their bunkers.

SPEAKER_02 10:16

Doomsday is, but like if it's kind of like doomsdays, if there was like a hint of historic, like his like historic and cultural like meaning for everyone in that society.

SPEAKER_03 10:29

Okay. You know what I

Tanakh, Talmud, And Rambam’s Principles

SPEAKER_03 10:30

mean? So is this written in texts that the Messiah is coming? Who first thought of it?

SPEAKER_02 10:35

Again, so the prophet spoke a lot about these ideas of redemption and coming back to the land. So that's like in the Tanakh, and then you have different um bits and pieces in the Talmud, but then like a lot of these big ideas around like who the Mashiach is, how the Mashiach's gonna come. It's kind of like taken from those small mentions in the Talmud, and like people write a lot about it now. Um, Rumbam, you mentioned like that'll come back to life. So Rumbam, our good friend Maimonides, has this like list of 13 principles of faith. So in the Middle Ages, in order to be considered like Jewish, you had to believe, according to him, these 13 things. One of them is that Mashiach will come, and one of them is that the dead will be resurrected when Mashiach comes. And there's a few other ones as well. I think maybe that mentioned Mashiach, but like, yeah. So it's like it's a big, it's a big idea. And I I cannot stress enough how much like because I know a lot of people hear it, and they're very rational, they're like, that's so stupid, that makes no sense. I cannot emphasize how much it makes sense historically when people are yearning for their homeland, that a magical being will usher in an age of peace, so religious persecution will stop and pogroms will stop.

SPEAKER_03 11:56

You need something to hold on to.

SPEAKER_02 11:57

You need yeah, when you're being persecuted for literally who you are, you have to convince people why they should keep doing the thing that they're being persecuted for. And this really big prize at the end of times being like world peace, and everyone knows that you were right all along, and our God's the true God. That makes sense why that is a thing that people believe.

SPEAKER_03 12:19

Okay, I have some questions. Did you say rum bum had 13 principles? What was it called? 13 principles? Principles of faith. Do you think that that inspired Jordan Peterson's 12 rules for life?

SPEAKER_02 12:32

Uh yeah, sure.

SPEAKER_01 12:35

Do you reckon Jordan? I'm like too tired for bits, Tammy. I can't riff right now.

SPEAKER_03 12:40

I understand. And you're and your poor eyes, you keep rubbing them. Poor Shoshana. I have allergies. She has allergies. Shame. Okay.

Davidic Line, Gender, And Family Lore

SPEAKER_03 12:52

Do um do any of the rum bums or anyone talking about Moshiach, uh do they get specific about the gender of Moshiach?

SPEAKER_02 13:02

Man, but not just any man, descendant of David. Really? Yeah, so yeah. Because what part of the thing is that the Messianic Age will reinstitute um the the Davidic line. So, like, sorry, the kingship of the house of David. Um, Moshiach is a descendant of King David.

SPEAKER_03 13:21

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 13:22

Um, specifically a male descendant of King David. You want to hear a really funny story? Always. Um, so I was sitting with Skye's grandma, her Safta. She loves telling me stories about their family history because she knows like I'm super interested in it. She speaks very fast old lady Hebrew. I don't speak that much Hebrew, and so there's always like missing pieces, but like Sky's there to help translate most of the time, and like I could know enough that I can piece it together. She's telling me that one of her grandmothers had a specific last name, and that last name was Menai, I think, which means Minesha Yeshai from the lineage of Jesse.

SPEAKER_04 14:03

Right?

SPEAKER_02 14:03

It's like an acronym last name from the lineage of Jesse, which means Jesse is the father of David. It's like it's a it's an acronym last name that hints to the fact that like you're descended from King David. Like you're really important. Like they're Iraqi, they can trace it back. Anyway, so I said, you know what that means, right? She's like, What? Well, you have to know for this story is that Skye's family is super secular, and like her dad is the most secular, like anti-religious guy. I was like, it means that Eras, like Sky's, he's Mashiach because he comes because like he's from like he's Davidic. And she thought, like, Safta thought that was the funniest joke anyone's ever made. Like she laughed. I was so proud of that joke. Cause she was like, never seen an old lady laugh like that.

SPEAKER_03 14:53

Very good.

SPEAKER_02 14:54

I love it when old ladies laugh. It's like my favorite thing. Yeah. So I was like, so that's the thing. I might be the daughter-in-law of the Mashiach. Yeah. And then I told Eris, like my father, and I told him that story. And he's like, Sometimes I talk to God. He's like, he was like, No, I'm serious. He's like, I talked to God. God came to me when I was 13 and said, Do what you want. So I do what I want. And I was like, Oh my god, that's so funny. If Mashiach is this like really chill surfing guy, and God was like, I have a mission for you, you don't have to do it. And he's like, I'm gonna do it.

SPEAKER_03 15:30

I think that's like isn't that so funny? The storyline of like Shrek 2 or 3, where they basically tell someone he has to be king and he's like, I don't want to do it.

SPEAKER_02 15:38

Can I recommend a book?

SPEAKER_03 15:39

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 15:40

Um, The Yiddish Policeman's United Yiddish Policeman's Unit. No, Union.

SPEAKER_03 15:46

Union.

SPEAKER_02 15:46

Yeah. Have you have you read it's Michael Shabon? No, never read it. And the premise involves like the Mashiach kind of like ODing and dying because he's like this genius and he's involved in this mystery, and like the idea, the again, the idea of like the Mashiach being a fallible human.

SPEAKER_03 16:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:04

Is like really would be a lot of pressure. Really good book though.

SPEAKER_03 16:08

Okay. Question.

SPEAKER_02 16:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:11

Out of the Jewish community of Australia, what percentage? Because I know you love these types of questions, what percentage do you think consider Alex Rivchin as the Moshia?

SPEAKER_02 16:26

That's a great question. Like probably like, okay, demographically, men or women. Women. 98%. Straight women. 98% of straight Jewish women in Australia envision Alex Rivchin carrying them like fireman hold onto an LL flight and placing them in their seats and giving them a kiss on the forehead and sending them into utopian Israel in the times of Meshiach. Like 100%.

SPEAKER_03 17:05

That's excellent. Now, if you're a viewer or listener from overseas and you do not know who Alex Rivchin is, stop what you're doing.

SPEAKER_02 17:12

Google Alex Rivchin hot.

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Alex Rivchin shirtless pics.

SPEAKER_03 17:22

That's R Y V C H I N. It's a shame that they specified male because I happen to believe that Linda Ben Menache would be a candidate. Moshiach, who, for our overseas listeners, is the national coun the president of the National Council of Australian Women Australia.

unknown 17:51

Nice.

SPEAKER_03 17:52

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 17:52

You got there in the end. Um, it's a very long acronym to be fair. What I think is really interesting about like Moshiach and the Rebbe and like rabbis and the and the possibility of them being the Messiah is that in history there's been a lot of false messiahs.

False Messiahs And A Key Split

SPEAKER_02 18:09

Um I will also say, in case like no one's kind of made these connections, that the main difference between Judaism and Christianity is that like in Christianity the Messiah came and his name was Jesus Christ and will come back, right? Whereas in Judaism, the Messiah just hasn't come yet. He's not. Yeah. So like I like that's that that's the thing that's has sort of like fractured our religion. Um and like the early followers of Jesus were people who believed he was Mashiach. Yeah. Right. The same way that like we are waiting for Mashiach. They were just Jews who thought he Mashiach had come. Um, Rabia Kiva, our good friend from the Tamud, he thought that um potentially Mashiach was this guy named Bar Kochba who was who's who like held a rebellion against the Romans during Tamudic times. Um the most famous, I think, my favorite false messiah is a man by the name of Shabtizvi. What a name. What a name. So, and this is like, and I he's my favorite because he was so batshit crazy, but also because he like fundamentally shaped Judaism even though he wasn't actually the Messiah. Was he Jewish? Jewish. Okay. Just a false messiah.

SPEAKER_03 19:25

Yeah, what year is this?

SPEAKER_02 19:26

This is in like the 1600s.

SPEAKER_03 19:28

Okay. What country?

SPEAKER_02 19:30

Um, a bunch. He's born in Turkey, in Smyrna.

SPEAKER_03 19:32

Hang on, she?

SPEAKER_02 19:33

He.

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He.

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Yeah, he's born in Turkey.

SPEAKER_03 19:35

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02 19:36

Um, but then like gets excommunicated from his community because he's like got a lot of crazy ideas and thinks a lot of crazy things. So he moves around a lot. And everywhere he goes, he's brilliant, right? Charismatic, but also like not fully hinged. And right, today we might use language like he has like severe mental health issues and like some kind of mania. Mania and like these ups, these emotional ups and downs that get described. Um, but a brilliant mind and goes around and gets all of these followers because he's so charismatic and he's all about, you know, like this mysticism and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Thinks that he's the Mashiach because he makes a friend named Nathan of Gaza who tells him he's the he thinks he's Mashiach. So they, as like this trooper going around convincing everyone he's and he's like whipping up this fervor, like he's the mashiach. And again, people like have their bags packed, they're ready to go. Like the Mashiach is here. His name is Shaptai Tsuvi, but he's also super weird. One of his weirdest stories is that he's like, Everyone, I'm getting married. You're invited to my wedding, it's in the town square. Everyone comes to the wedding and he's under the khapa with a sefer Torah. He's like marrying the Torah. And at that point, that town, the rabbi's like, okay, this guy's corked, like, kick him out. Which keeps happening. Like the leadership realized he's crazy, and like, but he gains all these followers. People around the Jewish world think that the Mashiach is coming. Um next minute, he gets arrested by the Sultan because they think that he's gonna like overthrow, like they think that he's like bringing all of the people, like all of these Jews in, and like he's gonna take over. So he gets arrested, and they say, either you convert to Islam or we kill you. And if you're the Mashiach, God will save you. Oh, and so he converts to Islam and immediately like overnight breaks the hearts of like thousands and thousands of people. And he and it's so devastating to these people. A lot of people still follow him. A lot of people think, like, and like he's he's actually he's he's fake converted to Islam. He's actually like he's gonna come back and still save us. But the rabbis do this like blanket ban on mysticism because it's so dangerous. They've seen like how it can affect the average person. And so then for a long time after that, it's all about rational Judaism, rational. Thought it's by the book, it's an intellectual pursuit.

SPEAKER_03 22:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 22:02

Any whispers of Sabbateanism, like your like cut out kind of thing. Um, and so and it changes the way that Judaism is practiced in like these, like in the 17, 16, 100, 1700s. And then you see this the reversal, just to bring it back to like around, um, it's this long period of like sort of rational Judaism and Judy, like white tower Judaism. It's only learnt in yeshivas and it's for the elite. And then a man by the name of Balsemtov. Bless you!

SPEAKER_03 22:31

You've mentioned him before. I have Balshemtov.

SPEAKER_02 22:34

Balshemtov comes around and he's the one who creates Chasidis as a response to the rationality and like the sort of rigidity of Judaism that's informed by Shaptitzvi.

SPEAKER_03 22:45

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 22:46

So like that, and that, and then obviously we know that Balshemtov and Chasidis like completely blows the doors open and can fully changes Judaism again. But that all like kind of comes back from Shap Tite Tsvi.

SPEAKER_00 22:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:59

Anyway, and there are other um false messiahs who the like they get banned by the rabbis of the time because it's they're seen as um they're they're threats. They're threats to the to like cohesive Jewish society. Anyway.

The Moshiach Song And Tikkun Olam

SPEAKER_03 23:14

I don't think we can do an episode on Moshiach without mentioning the absolute banger of a song. Moshiach, Moshiach, Moshiach. Ay, ayay, ayah, yeah, yay. Like I went to a modern orthodox school. We didn't, we weren't really into Moshiach, the Messiah, but that song.

SPEAKER_02 23:36

Everywhere. You know who wrote the words to that? No. Rumbum. Really? The start of the song is like Anima Amin, but immoral shelema beyatha moshiach, anima amin. That's the thirteen, one of the thirteen principles of faith. I believe with perfect faith in the coming of the Messiah. And then Mordechai bin David turned it into a fucking banger.

SPEAKER_03 23:55

Who's Mordechai bin David?

SPEAKER_02 23:57

He's just a Jewish, like a Jewish singer.

SPEAKER_03 24:00

Around what time? Like the 90s. Like the 80s. Such a good song. Such a good song. But like it's the the lyrics are based in the rum bum. Okay. I don't think I'm gonna be able to get the rights to this song to put it into the episode, so you know what that means. We just have to sing it at the end of this episode. We're gonna have to sing it. Okay. Alright. I can do that. Um anything else you want to say about Mashiach, or can we move on to our favorite segment?

SPEAKER_02 24:28

Um, I think that I would draw a direct connection in my head. One of the questions you asked when I was doing research is like, does everyone believe in Mashiach the same way?

SPEAKER_03 24:41

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:42

Um, I would draw a direct line in my understanding from like Mashiach and making the world better for the coming of Mashiach to like reform Judaism's like tikkun olam and repairing the world. Because all like in tr like traditional texts, tikkun olam and the reparation of the world is like doing mitzvot to make the world a better place in order for Mashiach to come, as far as I understand. And so the reform movement kind of just takes this idea of tikkun olam and making the world a better place, but in my understanding, it seems to be divorced from this idea that on the other end of it mashiach is coming. Okay, you know? Yeah. I don't think I like genuinely officially, I think on paper reform doesn't believe in mashiach. Um yeah, I think reform doesn't believe in Mashiach is coming, you just make the world a better place. Whereas on paper the conservative movement is like you make the world a better place and like Mashiach will come because of that. Right. Yeah. But it's about like making the world better rather than like some like actual like observation of mitzvah.

SPEAKER_03 25:49

In the parenting world, it's kind of the equivalent of do you give your kids pocket money for doing their chores, or should you just like expect them to do their chores just because they should? You know? Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:01

But in this case, like the chores are I think that's more of an analogy for like do we get reward for doing mitzvah? Right? Like yeah. Okay. No, it's fine. It's a fine analogy. It's fine. I'll take it.

SPEAKER_03 26:16

She'll allow it. It's time for our favorite segment. You get to name it today.

SPEAKER_02 26:24

Okay, without spoilers, uh-huh. Shit in the shtetl.

unknown 26:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 26:29

So good. Yeah, okay. I was gonna say, I was gonna say, shame in the schwinkta. In the shwink. It's also good. Alright. Let us know down below which one you prefer.

SPEAKER_02 26:41

Am I reading or are you reading it?

SPEAKER_03 26:42

Um, you're reading it. It comes from a Jewish mum's group in a city, in a country somewhere, in the world. And Productive Tiger 8753 writes.

A Colonoscopy Confession From Mum Group

SPEAKER_02 26:56

I need to have a colonoscopy. The last doctor that did it for me was an amazing Jewish doctor, and the anaesthetist was a Jewish dad at my son's school, so felt very uncomfortable knowing I would bump into them and that they both had seen my bum. Can anyone recommend someone good that preferably isn't Jewish?

SPEAKER_03 27:12

You forgot the emojis.

SPEAKER_02 27:14

Uh you don't even need the emojis for this one. It's punctuated perfectly. Um, I thought this was so funny because it's taking the stereotype of all Jews are doctors, and it's being like, God damn, I can't find a single doctor I don't know socially to put a camera up my bum. Like, it's so funny. I love it. It's so funny. It's so funny, and it's a broad city episode, is what it is. Like, that's why it's funny.

SPEAKER_03 27:44

It's so good. And someone who I know, the commenter, do you know her too?

SPEAKER_02 27:49

I don't think so.

SPEAKER_03 27:50

Yeah, she's she's um part of the Dianu crew, she's hilarious. I'm not gonna name her though, but she says the weird thing is that without naming them, I know exactly who they are and maybe even who you are.

SPEAKER_02 28:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 28:08

So good.

SPEAKER_02 28:09

Um, so funny. Love it.

SPEAKER_03 28:12

I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_02 28:12

I love the you know I love the comment above, which is they don't really care. They see so many bums and body parts. It's just about making sure you're okay. And it's like, yeah, we know. We know that, like, I don't actually care they've seen my bum. I just when I'm in the line to pick up my kid at school, I just don't want to see my colonoscopy doctor. You know, like like church and state. You need the separation. Come on. Like, yeah, I know that they're helping me. I still don't need to see it.

Credits, Comments, And A Singalong

SPEAKER_02 28:45

That's all we have time for in today's show. You've been watching slash listening to, ashamed to admit, with me, Shoshana Gotly Becca. And this, Tammy Sosmoke.

SPEAKER_03 28:54

She does it again at this. This episode was brought to you by the Jewish Independent with Ali Way Productions, the vocalist in our theme song, is this Sarya L. More credits in the show notes.

SPEAKER_02 29:08

Hey. If you enjoyed today's episode, I'm gonna look at this camera right here. If you enjoyed today's episode, please let us know. Leave a comment. What else can they do? Send it to a friend. Did you look at this lady's bum? Is this about you? And then, even if you don't like this episode, comment and let us know. Because that also drives up the algorithm.

SPEAKER_03 29:30

Thank you so much and see you next week.

SPEAKER_00 29:34

Bye Anana Animamin Bemanasalema Babias Hamashiach Ananamin Nana Animamin Bemunasalema Babyas Hamashiach Ananana Masiach Masiach Massiach Ayay Messiach Masiach Messiach Ayay Is that enough here? Sky doesn't know the song. There go.