¶ Understanding the Role of Rebbetzins
Welcome to , and here's Modi . Hi everybody , welcome back to , and here is Modi . Part two , with Rabbi Gavriel Bellino in the studio . I was going to discuss . You know what I want to talk about ? What Rebbetzins , oh goodbbetsons , oh good lord what is that ? What is that ? This is what is that it's not refreshing , isn't that refreshing ?
It's a blank slate you never know what's gonna set her off or what's gonna , she's not gonna know . The other day we had someone on the show and they were discussing Dina in the Bible .
Yeah .
And like the story of what happened with her and she's like wait , wait , what happened with Dina ?
Oh my God , spoiler alert . I can't , I can't .
I can't go into all of it . What ?
happened to her . It was like someone came up and I forgot how it came up in the I was waiting .
All she wanted to talk about was Matisse Bifat with me . It's unbelievable . It's a reasonable thing to discuss .
I don't have the craft to discuss that .
You brought it up , I didn't bring it up .
I can't , I can't , I can't . I didn't say anything . Fun , easy , you said it Fun easy you started it Go ahead . Our listeners told me that I love you because it's fun and easy and no one's got big opinions and no , and we're not doing any of that . Rebbiton , rebbiton , a rebbiton okay I want to .
I want to discuss rebbitons .
Okay , I have theories . A rebbiton is somebody who is one of the titles , is the the , the wife of the rabbi a rebbiton . Now there's different types of Now there's different types of Rebetzins . There's different types of Rebetzins . Some of them are , first of all , it's a title . It's not rabbi's wife . Rabbi's wife is a description . Rebetzin is a title .
It's like Her Royal Highness Kate , princess of Wales . It's she married and she got that title . Okay , period , that's a Rebetzin . Now there are Rebetzins who are . They run the whole thing , they run the entire show .
When you get to a Chabad house for an event or you get to a Chabad center , there's a guy comes out hi , I'm Rabbi Zalman and uh , this , and that they're very fair .
And then behind him comes hi , I'm Rabbi Tzanchani , and you know that this who , this is who you have to deal with for sound lights events everything she runs the show period , everything from A to Z , the . She runs the , the , the , the kids school , the , the elderly program , everything . She is hi , I'm rabbits and honey . That's like the introduction .
Then then there's the ones that are like I don't like to be called a rabbits inetzin , I'm not a Rebbetzin . My name is Stacy Eskowitz and I'm married to the rabbi . I'm just married to the rabbi , I'm not a Rebbetzin . There's those , right , those are usually the biggest Rebbetzins because they keep an eye on him .
They keep an eye on the rabbi just to make sure the people that come into his life that run the rest of the stuff , even though on the rabbi , just to make sure the people that come into his life that run the rest of the stuff she's , even though she's like I'm , I'm , I'm a physical therapist and I'm not a rebbiton , I'm , I'm okay .
So that that's one of the different types of . And then there's rebbitons that you don't have to marry a rabbi to become a rebbiton what are those ? dina or have Shalom is a Rebbitin without any . This is a woman who has some kind of look because she's a rabbi-ish but she inherited . But she inherited too , but it's also she's a Rebbitin .
She helps people , she does things . Her husband's a lawyer and she's running a million . She's a Rebbitin . She's a Rebbitin , she's helping , she's teaching , she's . She got that title .
She said well , she said I say she inherited it , but she , she takes her family tradition very seriously .
She's also blessed with a little bit . That's Dina . I'm talking about all the women . She's amazing . You know they're Rebetsons , so that's like the different types of Rebetsons . I just was thinking . I don't know why I was . I know why I was thinking about that .
I had a little weed and was jogging on the treadmill and that's what was going through my head that's where that came into my head .
I was thinking about Rebbetzins while I'm on the treadmill , a little stoned so it's like if you marry a rabbi , that means you become a Rebbetzin and some people really rise to the occasion , it sounds like , and takes that yes , like you can take that very seriously and I mean it's a strange thing , because a leadership position that you don't , that , that that
you get by virtue of sleeping with a rabbi , is like a strange thing .
You don't necessarily .
Why does he sleep and can't just be married to the rabbi ?
Okay , that they should look you had to go like to the next . That's what makes a Rebetzin , that's what seals the deal .
She becomes a Rebetzin in the chuppah , where before she slept with the rabbi . Well , they had to consummate , okay , but still and now she's a Rebetzin . But she was still because she married him . So that's okay , that's lovely . How does this ? All I try to do is keep this a clean podcast .
That's all I try to do , and my rabbit comes on and schmutzes it immediately and you I never know when your next thing is going to come out .
I am so much cleaner than he is . No , you're not , I've read your books .
I haven't read your books .
I haven't read your books .
Oh my God , I have a turban . She's like the cover of it .
I can't even Brown paper bag .
I might be a little bit of a Robinson , you are , you are .
When you do all of your philanthropic work , like when anything happens in this whole world . In Ukraine she's .
There's t-shirts and sweatshirts and people are meeting in synagogues and she's , there's t-shirts and sweatshirts . And people are meeting in synagogues and she's running sitting around a challah bulky . She's giving out sweatshirts . She's no , she's the tags also .
That's that's rabbits in , e that's rabbits in e that's rabbits in e I feel like I've become more rabbits in e since I met you yes and not you he does that , I'm just kidding Okay .
Okay .
No , you're my favorite rabbi , you know that .
You know how low the bar is .
No , that's not true .
No no , how horrible everybody is .
No , you keep saying that that might be true , but I feel like you guys have given me a different lens through which to view Judaism .
Yes , people that listen to our podcast , or people , people , some of them , who are completely reforming conservative jews and just like this is so much fun and they're listening to , like listening to what's happening in the orthodox world , too , or in the reform worlds , and they're so this passover we just had , I mean , it's eight days of not eating bread and but
like being certain , but like to people who reform Jews and conservative Jews , which are Jews , they are Jews and they're just not going crazy .
Okay , we're not going to eat bread and pizza , but I'm not going to go nuts and clean the hole and this and do that Again , the choosing people , not the chosen people , and they get to hear this podcast and they hear all the other views of what's happening in the Jewish world and in the world in general .
One .
And , by the way , you said , don't talk about your Rebetzin . I will tell you , his Rebetzin is the only person smarter than him . She's so smart . How upset is he right now ?
Furious .
Furious . You're furious right now
¶ Estate Lawyer and Motorcycle Project
. She's first of all also looking for the punchline always , and she's an amazing estate lawyer . She's our estate lawyer and makes it so easy . Worst job ever . Everything begins with God forbid a truck hits you . That's literally . It should say on her degree , on her diploma . She's a what's it ? Esquire . She's a lawyer of . God forbid a bus hits you .
That's literally every sentence she begins with . So God forbid a bus hits you . Do you want Leo to be able to take all ? of your things or distribute your things . Distribute If the bus hits you on a Thursday , do you want to have your burial by Friday ? The whole thing . She makes it easy and fun .
It's like the will All of the estate I need to talk to her , she's the best .
No , don't tell me . You and Guy don't have any Nothing .
Nothing , nothing .
Are you crazy ? Not a thing you have to do your estate planning . By the way , and by the way I only did my estate planning because after I got married , like the week later , leah goes . Who's our estate lawyer ? How are we ? Wow ? Yeah , leo makes sure things are done , yeah , and who's the estate lawyer ?
He waited , he waited , he waited , he waited .
He waited , he waited , he waited , he waited .
He waited , he waited , he waited , he waited . Who's the estate lawyer ? The rabbi's ?
wife yeah , no , that's perfect , she's so smart .
Where'd she go to school ? She went to Cardozo . That's my joke . What's your joke ? That's my , that's my joke you just did . You've heard me do that joke . I , when people asked me I was gonna go to harvard , but I , I , I didn't go .
I , after I had my meeting with them , I said I'm not going to harvard because what they say to you in the meetings we don't want you . So I said I'm not going here that's the joke and you just start to hop .
I usually when I do the podcast with Noam , the comedy seller , and like all of like the smartest journalists in the world .
Yeah , yeah , yeah .
And they'll be , oh and so it'll come up like school and I went to Harvard and everybody's like you did . No , no , no .
No , all right , did you see me on that ? Did we talk about me being on MSNBC with ?
Ari Melber , melber , ari Melber .
They put me on this little thing and it was me , Ali Versace the journalist , and this guy who was the secretary . They kept calling him secretary . Okay , Mr Secretary . Mr Secretary , You'll be sitting here . The secretary Okay , Mr Secretary , you'll be sitting here . Mr Secretary , you'll be sitting here . Was he the secretary Under Obama ?
He was the secretary of energy . This man was in charge of nuclear energy under eight years of Obama .
Okay .
Next level , oppenheimer and me . I mean I'm trying to get jokes in between these two things and he's talking about through thermal molecule and I'm like thermal , is that like so funny ? But since then I've told Leo that whenever we go to a restaurant or something , when he walks in , say , the secretary is here and he'd like to be seated earlier .
That's hysterical I want to be secretary the secretary Once you're secretary of state or secretary of transportation you're secretary for life . I like that . It was so funny and I'm not doing that .
Like to make a reservation for the secretary ? Yes , but you can get in anywhere , anywhere .
Secretary of what Of shtos ? No , I'm secretary of simcha . Remember I was at the secretary of simcha .
Oh , I love that I had that character .
I was the Hasidic guy .
secretary of simcha , that's so good it was so good , oh , I that's so good it was so good I miss him . Who is that ?
No Secretary of Simcha Yoili . Yeah .
Oh Yoili , Everybody loves Yoili .
It's just hard for me when I do the Hasidic character of Yoili . I'm in the apartment dressed like a Hasid and Leo's like I don't need this right now . Leo's like I can't right now . I'm walking around the house with the pyres , the hat and I'm in full count . I'm speaking to Leo in Yiddish .
Like Leo , walked into V&H photo Really .
We should do the podcast with Yoily once he could guest host .
Guest host . Oh , my God , it was . Oh , love Yoily Anyway .
Listen , I've been getting . I get like a lot of like tangential fan mail Could you not use an SAT word and tell me what tangential .
Tangent like off to the side Is that the new trans he's going to keep his genitals but not his penis . And then he's going to and that's tangential , not his penis . And then he's going to and that's tangential he's . Yes , he's transitioning Into a she , but he will be keeping . I don't know what tangential means .
It's all the messages that you guys don't respond to I get Okay Like people's DMs .
You mean all of them , literally all of them . I'm showing you the unhinged . It's unbelievable . I'm showing you ?
Who can look at these crazy ? Things Do you know , where they send them . They send them to me , yeah , good .
Good , good .
That's what they should be sending to one unhinged person , sending to another unhinged person , but one of the nice things is I've gotten messages about these motorcycle that we talked about with Ellie Beer .
Yes , as producer of this podcast , that is your project to make sure that that happens ?
Do I have clearance on that ?
Clearance Modi cycle Only , if you can roll in Fonzie , it's so hot . Tell him to do it by June 16th .
He wants to .
So that's your job as producer Leo does not have as much we need to control Leo's interaction . He's busy booking the shows . He cannot handle motorcycle .
I am fully on board to be in charge of producing this project .
A hundred percent . This is those of you who are wondering we're talking about . Elie Bier is on the podcast .
It was such a good podcast , amazing podcast .
It was so amazing he is massive Moshiach energy .
Elie Bier is on the podcast . Elie Bier is United Hatzalah . They respond in seconds in emergencies with motorcycles that are packed full of medical response 90 seconds or less 90 seconds or less .
they get to and he wants to do a and if you want to sponsor a motorcycle , you can make a donation to United Hutzela for the Modi cycle .
You have to put down that it's for the Modi cycle .
Yeah , you have to write that it's for the Modi cycle .
And we are going to get motorcycles made Beacon Show . For anybody that does over $10,000 . I will give them a ticket to the shows at the Beacon Theater . Yes , $10,000 . You only need three and a half thousand , 36 , three and a half . Wow , you see that . Yeah , that was need .
I'm like I'm thinking three tickets you have a whiteboard all you need is three dollars and 50 cents .
We're gonna get a motorcycle I'm , so could you imagine I'm out to function society if you make a three dollar donation . How much money do we need ? $36,000 .
For one , motorcycle For one motorcycle , but we want to get a fleet ?
No , yeah , okay Fleet , but we'll start with one I want to see my name on this thing with Leo , and that's it . This motorcycle was donated as a motorcycle to whatever . Will there be merch ? Will there be leather Merch ? By the way , ellie Beer gave me that jacket , sick . It was this sick jacket the United Hutsala , israeli flag .
Here my father walks into my Passover Seder . I hand it to him . I may as well have given him Balenciaga . Nothing my father loved more than free merch .
Mine too .
Free merch , my father closet . We used to have Armani suits , we used to buy for him Costco . Hey , look at this , it says the workers of Costco . Anyway , so motorcycle , it's your project . Leo can't handle it , it's too much .
I want to go to Israel for . June 16th Do it .
Oh , I'll put you up . Oh , my God , I'll give you five . I'll give you more than five minutes . I'll give you more than five minutes .
If I can pull off this motorcycle , I can earn my minutes . No , no .
Come in yes .
What if I get you a chopper ? What do I get if I get you a chopper ?
No , he has everything Submarines , submarines , submarines . Wait , first of all he is amazing .
I love Elie Bier so much . That episode was so amazing . He is so amazing and I just can't wait to hop on the back of one of those motorcycles on the highway .
It's amazing . Yes , so that's it .
So I've been getting messages and you can keep messaging me and I'm passing everything along to Ellie and we're going to make it happen .
Yes , yes , you are going to make this happen .
And about your show in Jerusalem . I bought tickets for somebody for that show already .
Did you ? Who'd you buy tickets for the people ? I bought the for somebody for that show already , did you ?
Who'd you buy tickets for the people I bought the house from ?
Oh , that's right , that was your negotiation .
That was my um . I offered maybe backstage .
You bought tickets .
I bought tickets .
Wow . Do you know how much that says about somebody ? That's really nice . Do you know how much that says about somebody ? Friends pay . If anybody could say I need two tickets to the show , it would be her . She's the co-host of our podcast . But instead of fordreng Leo again , I think the goal from that is how much can we just let off of ?
Leo of running everything .
Yes . So she just said I'm not looking to send Leo or put me on a guest list . She bought two tickets . That is so amazing . I learned that a long time ago . Never ask for tickets Buy . That is so amazing , I learned that a long time ago .
Never ask for tickets , buy , buy tickets , friends pay , friends pay . Yep , I mean to be clear . They're not for me , no , but they're for you .
No , I'm just kidding , they're for the house , no , well you .
There aren't so many perks here . That could have been a perk .
You come June 16 . You'll do the show , do the whole . We'll do the whole LE podcast . We'll drive the thing on the stage . Amazing , yeah , mashiach Energy , jump the shark . What jump the shark ? What's jump the shark ?
is that a Fonzie thing ?
I don't know whatever oh , when you go , yeah yeah have you ever seen with those ? It's like it's a moped motorcycly thing thing with this big thing on the back where they can start cardiothoracic anything on the floor . They can bring you right to life , right there , they get to you it's incredible , it's an incredible thing . It's incredible um what ?
What else do we ? What ?
I had got . We had a conversation at your birthday party oh and I said to gov , you're not like a normal rabbi . I think you're the best rabbi I've ever met , and I'm not religious . You are an orthodox rabbi . Yeah , we're all a mixed bag .
Well , I think that I don't know , maybe we are , but you and I said , I think you're um , you're right , you're sad .
I'm not . This is not Okay , he's not .
Tzadik .
You both are . Can I have an opinion ? He has Tzadik qualities .
I have certain things that I'm into . He has Tzadik qualities . I have my things .
But to throw Tzadik around like that .
I'm not . First of all , have you ever heard me say Not me just calling you not a T .
That's the best , that's fine , that's fine Is that the everybody else is like this rabbi's a tzaddik .
This is literally Ashkenazi but I do Him A tzaddik Are you out of your mind ?
Are you out of your mind ? No , Are you ? That is hysterical . Have we met ?
She calls you a tzaddik and I go is a righteous person . Those of you who don't know ?
Not this guy , and there's only 36 on earth at the time . What do you mean 36 ?
Yeah , the 36 . I mean , that's not theology Is that true . Who's perfect ? No one's perfect .
She's already upset , she's already ready to go , she's ready to get angry about something in Judaism she's like and how many of the 36 are women . Are there any women ?
Are there . She's already . Look at her . She's on guard , she's already ready to pounce on us .
Oh , a new philosophy I haven't learned in Judaism .
I have a 37 .
How angry are they going to make me ? Yes , at any given moment there's 36 righteous .
What if it's a conjoined twin ? Is it one or two ?
No , oh shut up , oh shut up , oh , my God , leave us alone . Just enjoy it 36 people are on earth at any given time that bring their energy and they're hidden , and they're hidden . You don't know who they are . What are they under the fucking couch ?
What do you ?
mean .
They're not in hiding , they're hidden .
You had to throw F in there .
I said that both of you are sadi and you're telling me now no , it's not true , you can't be , you have your moments of your tzaddik .
When you do your fundraising , for whatever causes you do it . You're a little tzaddik in you . When I'm trying to get people to laugh , and you have a little tzaddik in you To be a full-blown tzaddik , this is another level and he's a tzaddik . This is another level and he's a tzaddik . He runs a synagogue . Everybody feels welcome .
But why are you telling me there are only 36 ? Go ahead .
Here , you know what I'm done . Go ahead , go , go , go .
By the way , I don't even know the history .
I don't even know , I don't even know the history . You are lying . No , I don't even know the history of this .
You are lying .
No , I don't know the history of it . I know we talk about it in like Hasidic storytelling , that there are 36 holy tzaddikim that are hidden . And you know you don't necessarily it's , by the way . It's a way of getting you to treat people that seem horrible like better right , because it's always like the worst guy .
It's always the worst person in the room , yep person in the room , that's the hidden sodic , that's right . So if you treat everybody horrible as if they're actually a hidden sodic , so maybe the world will be in a better place . That's probably what's going on there , but one of the traditions is that there are 36 holy , 36 righteous people .
By the way , I say there's zero righteous people .
No .
Zero . Everyone is fallible , everyone makes mistakes .
Everyone is a human , but sometimes , sometimes mistakes are made with something that's learned from it and something that's amazing from it . Oh halavai . But everyone makes mistakes .
Everyone loses their temper , everyone has their moments of being off , so there is no righteous . There are people that try to do good , but we don't know who they are .
We don't know who they are . Maybe they're in Alaska . You haven't met them .
I'm not going to .
Alaska . I'm just saying but they're there , it's a nice thing . That's what we teach , that's what we .
I've started my own religion look at you in Modi-ism no , it's a nice way to think that the energy of these people are controlling the world from completely falling apart that's one of the ways of looking at it and they cause a ripple effect of good enough to cover the bad .
So why are they the ones Dr ?
Wayne Dyer speaks about this a lot and he's not Jewish and doesn't speak of it Siddiquim . There's people who have energy in the world that keep the world from falling apart . You can't just have all negative energy .
But why is it the person who's usually you think is horrible ?
So that's part of the storytelling . It's not necessarily part of it .
So tell the story no , but that is a trope in storytelling .
So when you're dealing with somebody who's horrible , but it brought something good in you out of it or whatever it is . That person caused that and it's not going to be a tzaddik .
Oh , it's a rabbi with a white beard and uh and uh and and teaches Torah , and it doesn't have to be that I mean there's a , there's a whole there's a whole intellectual history to it .
It really like starts actually in the Zohar , where it's always the that wisdom comes from this unexpected place . It's always like the kid wandering around in the field that tells you the supernal secrets of the world , then , like in the storytelling of Chabad , actually becomes a thing under the Friedrich Rebbe . Yes , that , it's like that .
It's the hidden tzaddikim , that the people you would think are the worst guy in shul turns out to be the holiest most righteous and then it has life . Karbach has lots of stories that are like , based on the Friedricher retelling of that Zohar the Friedricher , the Rebbe , who was the Rebbe before the Rebbe , that so that's where that's where it's coming from .
As theology , I have no idea , but that's a nice thing to say . 36 holy , by the way . I wish there were 36 holy like righteous people ?
I hope so , otherwise the world would be completely falling apart . It is falling apart , but not completely . Fine , you're welcome . That's it . We discussed this . What do people say ? We're gonna disagree to disagree . We're gonna agree to disagree , yeah let's agree .
No , I like , let's agree . I hate people saying just disagree , let's agree to agree oh , agree to agree .
What do you mean ? We're going to disagree to disagree .
We're going to disagree , to disagree .
Disagree to disagree . What does that even mean ? I love that . Can you believe they hand me microphones ?
It's unbelievable , it is insane .
It's so good , we're going to disagree , to disagree . We're going to disagree , to disagree .
Oh my God , that's our new . I disagree .
What else ?
You look like you're in really excellent shape . By the way , have you been like eating just protein shakes and cans of tuna fish ?
Yeah , what's your practice ?
I mean , you always look like you're in good shape . Kills at the gym .
I'm old school . I am an old school gay . I've been going to Equinox forever . They have kills there . I put it all over gay . I've been going to Equinox forever . They have keels there . I put it all over my face , on my body . It keeps you toned .
And I will tell you right now there's no secret Exercise Get addicted to exercising Rabbi here is insane , by the way .
I've taken a break . I've taken a break . I've taken a break .
There was an accident . Weight've taken a break . I've taken a break . You've taken a break . I've taken a break .
There was an accident , that weight falling on your face .
There was an accident and , yeah , I'm going to go back . You're always boxing . No , I don't box , he's boxing , kickboxing , ice plunging and all at 4 am Ice plunging 4 am .
He's like crazy . No , I love , by the way , waking up when your enemies are sleeping the best , ooh , I like that , it's absolutely the best . I know that I'm going there , I'm hoping , whatever I assume they're sleeping your inner enemies , that also .
Oh , oh . Your inner enemies are sleeping . Yes , my inner at 4am when I can't sleep . My inner enemies are still sleeping . I'm having , I'm alone , I'm alone , yeah , yeah , yeah , and then going and exercising at 4 in the morning are you guys exercising at 4 in the morning ? Not me late in the afternoon , leo answers a few emails and we go to the gym .
I go to underground training at 4 in the morning , leo answers a few emails and we go to the gym . I go to underground training at 4 in the morning it's the best . I often open it up and I have a routine and I try to keep nutrition in check . It's not getting easier . You often open it up . I open up the gym . I'm like the shaman , I'm the shaman .
Whenever you have in every synagogue in every eulogy and he was the one that came to synagogue first and he opened the synagogue . By the way , my father opens it . My father has the synagogue . He gets there Saturday an hour before anybody opens it up . My father loves that . Loves that , your father . So now you're the one opening the gym .
Yeah , that's so funny , it's so good .
Why do you have a key to the gym ?
First of all , it's a combination . Perrielle Number two , I'm a very responsible person .
It's not one of these spa gyms that Leo and I go to . It's some like bro-y . So what ? We're not so bro-y .
I can be bro-y , it depends who's there . It's a CrossFit gym . It's great , it's the best .
Okay , I just don't understand why you have a key .
But you ask you exercise whatever you can do , also wait .
Walk . I'm not going to be able to put writing on this , because you guys are talking over each other , nothing happens .
Nothing happens at four in the morning . There are no distractions , there are no emergencies . Usually there are no bizarre texts . There's nothing I have to deal with . I know that I can work out at four o'clock in the morning and then I know that I got it in .
And if I did it later , when I did it later , when I do it later , always something comes up , or I feel tired or of course you're tired .
You're waking up at 3 in the morning you get into the rhythm , you learn it .
It's the best it works for him whatever works for you , 4am works for him , me in afternoon in a Celsius a Celsius drink I have , so I drink that also in the morning and if there's no show at night . A little hit of weed and I'm in heaven . That's the trick . But you have to find some kind of exercise that you enjoy .
If you don't enjoy it , don't do it .
It has to be , whatever it is .
¶ Weightlifting Mishap and Travel Plans
The secret is don't drop weights on your face . That's the thing . I dropped a weight on my face . I'm sorry to hear that . It was okay , it was a little scary . It was scary . It was had a big black eye , I had a b , I was , I had still , I had you still do . I still do a little bit . When I the the surgeon he was , he was stitching me up .
I asked him how many stitches ? He said well , how many do you think ? I said I think I counted 18 .
He said oh , you're way under what kind of doctor did I know riddles ? I said how many do you think you have ? I said how many I would slap his face .
How many he says I lost . Count myself . Yeah , it was like way over .
I don't like that answer . Was it the ?
plastic surgeon , yeah , you didn't hire some guy .
The money maker ? Are you nuts , the ?
money maker Hilarious .
I don't like that answer .
When you're in the ER they ask you would you like , would you you know ? Yeah , yeah yeah , do you want to suture ? It up by somebody who's going to make it look , I picture a PA with Parkinson's coming in . Yeah , some guy , I'm a physician's assistant . They might be the one . They bring in the boa . They bring in the boa .
I almost made that joke , but I was trying to not be dirty Nice . You're so good . What about the ice plunging ?
Do you do that ? Are you into that If it's around ? I do . I did it in one of the resorts in Paso . Really , it's the best thing in the world , really .
Also a little bit of a mikveh .
Yeah , it's very good .
Do you know that I've never been to a mikveh ?
Oh wow , You've never been to a mikvah Unbelievable .
Could you imagine I can't imagine that You're pure soul .
I mean , come on , are you ? Why would you set that up ? You could have just gone to . I've never been to a mikvah , can you believe ?
it .
Can you believe ?
it . Can you believe it ? I can't believe it .
We're both going to sit here in awe . I hear have you been in the ocean ? That's a mikvah . That's a mikvah , but you put a little consciousness into it . I'm purifying my soul , go in the ocean .
I don't know . I'll think about it .
I have a lot of she's going to come out of Reptitson . Yeah , well , okay .
I don't know about the mikvah . We can save that for another episode . What else ? What else is Australia ?
Could you believe that it's so far ? It's so far . How are you going to do that ? We're not even thinking about it . I can't think about that .
You're going for a couple of weeks , though , right ?
No , we're not going for a couple of weeks , we're going for a little bit more than a week . Okay , we luckily have shows all over the place Are ?
you flying from California .
No , yes , there's a high-class travel . There's a Hasidic organization . They are amazing , yossi is insane , and they're flying us . They're flying us . They took us .
Yoili the pilot seat .
Hello , hello , I'm going to take you there . Hello , hi , this is Yoili here up at the front . I want to tell you having a little delay it's nothing to do with us . There's something by the gate . They can't get the machine to bring the thing over , so no , but they got us , amazing , through our points . We're flying down there , but through New Zealand .
We we're flying down there , but through New Zealand . We're going straight to New Zealand and from New Zealand to Melbourne Great . And so it's a 15-hour flight and then whatever to get to Melbourne . And then it's five days before you left . You get there and it's circus .
It's literally it's like , and then we have these sold out shows , which is going to be the most lit energy . Australia , to me , is the market that COVID created . Covid made Australia . Australians said , hey , we can do these Zoom shows with Modi all the way in New York and we built a whole thing out there and Australia is going to be so insanely lit .
It's incredible His five sold out shows in .
Australia Almost sold out . But yeah , there's still tickets available . Well , hopefully by now there isn't . But yeah , they're selling out and they're in August . August , yeah , august , in August they're in .
August , august , yeah , august In August .
They're in August . They're in August . How fun .
How great is that , incredible , really .
Arba kanfo ta'aretz To the four corners of the earth . It's so far , isn't that great ? Yeah , unbelievable .
Yes , australians are the best . They're really the best .
Do you have a ? No , I refuse to do that accent . Oh , you can't . Or do any joke about koala bears . No , no .
I don't do any of that .
None of that , none of that .
Boomerang jokes .
There'll be none of that Crocodile .
None of that .
Crocodile Moody . No , none of that , none of that Australia period . They don't want to hear their own accent . Good job , dude mate . Could you imagine having to listen to that all day long ? Those accents , I must tell you , I must tell you , just tell me .
My roommates in Yeshiva were Australian and they were the best . They taught me how to drink . One of them was like a hypochondriac alcoholic , so he would wake me up and be like Gav , my liver hurts Middle of the Nuts . What did you say ? I said go to sleep . Your liver doesn't have nerve endings . It can't hurt . Go to sleep .
Not you being a nephrologist . Oh , I didn't think .
I had that in me . I don't know , maybe it could hurt , I don't know . That's what I said . I was 17 years old .
I might be completely wrong . I have no idea what a nephrologist is . I'm so stupid . Could you believe how dumb You're going to get some really weird hits .
The confidence with which I said that I'm so .
You're going to get some tangential emails from the nephrology community .
The nephrology community .
They're really mean .
They're really really .
Oh , my God A passionate bunch .
So that , and the Jerusalem show too , which is going to be Liddy . How long are you in Jerusalem for ? Well , we're staying there for a wedding . I'm staying there for we're going down there and it's so fun that the show and then the family event , so the show's going to be sitting on my head .
Then I have the wedding of our family over there and it's going to be I'm officiating Great . Oh my God , I love that yeah yeah , yeah , I mean they're doing whatever they have to do with the- .
Yeah , rabbi Ben-Yur , it's a whole thing out there . I got married in Israel . I didn't do anything with Rabbi Ben-Yur , of course you didn't ?
Who's surprised ? But your license is in America .
No , I hired a professor like a rabbi professor , but not that like you , I don't need like a get if I want to get divorced .
They're going to come after her . They're going to come after her right now .
I'm not a cow Like . I don't need permission to get divorced and if you get married by the rabbinical whatever , we always go there . How could I not go there ?
I have no idea how you got there . You are married . You are married with a license . You're licensed to your husband , Guy .
From 7-Eleven .
Zechut Sadek , this guy , this guy who just knows how to turn off . I love him . He stares at her like this Modi . He's the best Modi .
It was a fun hang with him . He was a fun hang with him .
He's a fun hang yeah . You guys are married under . He does not listen to this podcast .
He might . He might , because he wants to hear me talk more when I'm not in the house . Right , that's what he wants .
That's what he's going to do Put her on in his ear . When he's driving , in his ear he's going to put Put her on in his ear when he's driving In his ear Can you imagine he's going to put on . It's the one hour I have to not hear her voice . I'm going to plug my thing with iPads and have her drill into my brain . He's going to literally .
But you guys are married with a New York State license , right , okay , so that's it , whatever you did in married with a New York State license , right , okay , so that's it , whatever you did in Israel was a ceremony , but your license is here in America .
How long are you married ? 14 years .
But for him it's like two minutes underwater Hello folks , is this on ? A guy listens to probably , I would say , percent of what I say . Literally that's my joke . Always , always , listen to your wife . You don't have to hear what she said , but listen . Just just look and he listens . He looks at you and he's , he hears you .
No , he's so great I could be mid-sentence and he just walks into the other room .
He's so great , he's such a good person .
He walks out on you in the middle of the sentence and you just keep going . Right , you don't stop , you just go , you just keep going .
Period .
Where did you meet ?
In Israel . Yeah , at a wedding , at my cousin's wedding .
Yeah , yeah , yeah .
It's supposed to be a one night stand .
Yeah , okay .
It's true , I was just looking for a really hot Israeli guy . He fell in love with me .
Ring card doesn't bother him . No , he loves her , he loves her , he loves her . Yes , yes , and she loves him , and , and so much so that she embraces his family . So she's , she's , uh , it's love I'm like an angel are you the ? The in-laws are such a thing , the in-laws are such a oh my , my , my , my parents , they , they , they love leo who does ?
You cannot love Leo , though , and then you have your parents .
So just let me just set this up for you in your head you live in Tenafly .
Yeah , Teaneck .
Teaneck same thing . Teaneck , is it the same thing ? Yeah it's close . He lives in Teaneck with his wife and his children . And they go to school there and the kids are geniuses and brilliant , and his parents live in Manhattan and they have an apartment that he lives
¶ Parental Lessons and LGBTQ+ Importance
next door . Have you ever seen the show Everybody Loves Ray ? Yeah , his parents think he is like the… Tzadik Kochav Tzadik Hashamayim , the star of… they did . Notav Tzadik Hashemayim , the star of the whole . They did not Hilarious , they did not . He doesn't even mean it . Hayzak was a very long holiday Modi ?
I don't think so .
Okay , you're an only child .
Yeah .
Yes , yeah . Who could believe Me too , yeah .
So and then they there next door , it's literally everyone loves Raymond on 15th Street .
Yeah , that's a great analogy . I like to say I think of it like a French farce , like a door will slam and then someone will come back with a pie .
No , I've seen your mother stare at your wife like this Literally the way Ray's mom used to look at here . Let me show you how to clean that . I'll show you Now . That's a good way to start . Let me show you how to clean that now . Literally , that's funny .
Yeah yeah , my mother-in-law hates me .
Really .
Oh .
My mother-in-law hates me . That should be your next book .
Of course she does . I stole her baby from her .
You let her visit . You gave her a grandchild .
Yeah , but I took him out of the Holy Land I brought him to this evil country .
Not that I should speak about Leo's family , but the same thing . His mother took his mother's from Ireland , his father's from Ireland , his father's from Spain and the mother . He moved to America and left Spain for her , and I guess that would piss any parent off .
Yeah , I mean , why would anybody want to leave Bat Yam Nice ?
Why would anybody want to leave Bat Yam ? That's amazing .
A memoir Wow A memoir .
Why would anyone want to leave Bat Yam ? I can imagine , can imagine .
We took my mother-in-law to one of my best friend from college's houses and she lives in really like a mansion on a private lake in the most gorgeous . It looks like a villa somewhere in Europe and my mother-in-law walks in and she goes . It's nice . I mean I would never want to live here .
Nobody's inviting you to live here , okay , yes , yeah , that's , that's , that's true .
No my parents also . My mom also says what she's thinking right away Off and ling , off and sing , which teaches you not to do that . It teaches you not to do that . That's it . That's all it does .
Interesting .
That's all . Parents are there to where their midos their best qualities learn . That and you see how it works . And whatever the qualities you don't like , just don't do them , that's it . They show you that . I love that . Yeah , that's what parents are for .
Is that what you're supposed to learn from your ?
parents A hundred percent . What else do you want to learn from your parents ?
No , no no , it's a very interesting perspective , okay .
That's it . Yeah .
What can you offer your children ?
Hopefully more than that . I want you to think about your child . And he sees you and he sees you yapping and your husband walks out of the room in his mind , oh , that's an option . If my wife is ever yapping at me , I'm going to walk out of the room . Period . You're .
That's a lesson , your son , that's just no , that's , you're really teaching them well yes I think , I think , yes , yeah yes , no .
the lesson to that is that , like that's actually really rude , you don't walk out mid-sentence .
Rude is telling you shut up . I don't agree with anything you have . Shut is the mid-sentence .
No , that's not rude . That would be rude . You would never walk out , leo mid-sentence . You would never do that .
No , but the sentences are quick and fast and we get to the point . Leo and I , we're soulmates , we're thinking already in the same head . So just two words can be not till later . And then boom , I need to pop , pop , ting , tang , tang , tang , boom , boom . In two words , you understand each other and what needs to be done .
And that's because you know we live together , we work together , everything's work together . We're everything's already , we're already in the same head might be a gay thing maybe a gay thing .
I think it might be a gay man thing . I'm telling you , I have a couple of you're not my only gays that have been together for like 20 , I mean long , long . It's different .
I've met your other gays . I've met your other gays . You can always judge the quality of a woman by the gaze she keeps . Oh , that's so awesome .
You haven't met all my other gays .
Yes , but is that not true ? You can judge the quality of a woman by the gaze she keeps .
Yes .
If they're high quality gays , not just needy and taking gays . They're gays that help you move along and they're like almost not just your therapist , they're friends and they give you another perspective of what's happening in your world .
That's right .
That's it . Then there's women who have no gays in their lives .
Big big , you got to have gays yeah .
Yeah , you got to have gays in their lives . Big big you gotta have gays .
Yeah , you gotta have gays in your life , otherwise it's not that pretty that's right yeah you have to have , you have to have like a team really it's a part of the team .
They're part of the teams . These are the gays on the team . These are my gays . This is my accountant . These are this is my accountant . These are the gays . That's the team .
Yeah , the people who are in charge of major things . I've tried to make sure many of them are gays throughout the course of my life . When I was younger , I realized that that was the smart thing , yeah .
Absolutely . What are the gays in your lives ? Me , oh my God , do you have a team .
First of all , I prefer them . I certainly prefer them . I have a whole team .
I have lots of friends , of course , we're going to vet that , vet the list .
We're going to vet the list . I mean it's a good list , it's a great list .
It's a great list . It's a great list . It's a great list . Yes , one of them took my daughter and me to Olivia Rodrigo the other night .
Oh , you're the best dad . That's a good gay , that's a good gay .
That's a very good gay . That's a good gay . A hundred percent , yes .
¶ Generations and Driving Habits
But kids , I think , do what they see their parents do . You know your child's going to realize that you had patience for the mother-in-law . Yeah , I hope so they see that , so they're going to have . I see that as someone who doesn't have kids . You see things differently . You guys are too immersed in we have kids when someone from outside .
I'm at a Pesach program with thousands of children running around , you see , it's so funny to be at these Passover programs it's the entire family . So you have the father who's in the , the father or the grandfather , depending who you are in their 80s .
Then you have his sons and they kind of all look the same and they look a little bit like , and then you see their sons and it's so crazy that you see the same face . It's like four of these , three of these , four of these , it's weird that we're still surprised by genetics . It's genetics .
No , I'm just , I'm like , yeah , but to see it like that , and you see the , the generations of it and gregor mendel over here I , I once told leo . I once said , leo , you know , you always see these , these fathers and and sons that look exactly the same and talk the same and they and they act the same and like like I'm not , you'd never know me .
And my father , my leo , goes . Are you kidding ? me nuts when I met your father , I go oh , this is modi . He goes . Oh my god . When I met you , I knew he said this is what leo said . When I met your father , I knew what I was getting into oh my , my God , that's so funny . And chose to stay with it . Yeah , that's how great my father is .
Oh , yeah , yeah yeah .
No , that's like part of our maturation is we like to think that we're different from our parents , but we're probably the same .
We're the same but we try to differ . Yeah , to be in a better way , we're not the same I've met your parents we're not the same .
You're not the same as your parents either we're probably more alike than we like to think sometimes it .
When you say the same , it's , it's I don't mean the same everything it's , it's your own identity . But I was once driving . I was just driving my , I was driving and my niece , liron , was in the car and she's watching me . She goes . Oh my god , you drive like saba oh , that's so cute , she goes you drive like saba .
You do everything like it's like I know I pat the wheel , I do this and that I'm always looking in the mirrors . My father was a driving teacher in israel . He taught me how to drive . I was the only one I drive . He taught me how to drive period and like good you know , look here , look there , I'm always in the mirrors .
Leo's in shock at how much I'm in the mirrors . He's in shock . So I am like my father .
I drive like my father Driving teacher in Israel is a joke in and of itself .
It's such a poof . It says so much about somebody . Yeah , it says so much about somebody . Yeah , it says so much about somebody . The freedom of their work . They're not in an office .
Yeah , and also you have to like be like so sharp , because everybody there drives like a lunatic .
No , but I think he had the car that had on his side gas and brakes . Oh my God .
Yes , oh my .
God . Yes , my father had the Mercedes that he taught the driving in , and I think he had the brakes and the gas on his side too .
Oh my God , I didn't even know that existed .
You never saw like the teacher's car .
No , who taught you how to drive my driver's ed teacher .
And that didn't have the dual control .
I don't remember it at least had a brake . I don't . I really don't remember . You don't see it , mr Kozlonski or something . He had a cute son , oh my .
God , okay , I got my permit . I got my permit . I love driving . I love driving to today . I love to drive , I just love it . I don't know why I love to drive . When I was getting , all I wanted to do was drive when I was 16 .
So in New York you get your permit at 16 , right , and they give you this permit You've applied and I told my parents my parents aren't going to read what the hell it says and I go , my mom and I go , I can drive with you now I can drive . You have to be like whatever . I was like no , no , I can drive now , I can drive now with you .
And my father's like okay , my father didn't drive with any of my sisters . So he gets in the car . He starts to tell me how to this that that we pull up to a ? I'm just driving , my first time driving , Do you understand this ? And it was in my uncle's Wagoneer , for some reason . My father had my uncle's wagon here at that time .
And I'm driving , I get to the red light , no , I get to a stop sign and I see the other car coming , the other car and I go to them like this you go and you go . My father starts screaming at me You're not a traffic cop , you don't drive , you let them . If he does this and he hits him , it's your fault . Don't , don't be , don't direct traffic .
You know I was like that was my first , that was my first minute of driving period , and then my father just taught me how to drive . So it's yeah , oh . But oh , my God . When I did take driver's ed again now I get to drive this guy's car I was so excited .
I'm sitting in the wheel and the driver teacher's here and his window's open , and some other teacher from the school went over to say hi to him . I just pulled out . I'm like I don't know . I pulled out , he made me , he let me , he told me to pull over and to get in the back and I didn't drive that I pull out .
He made me , he let me , he told me to pull over and to get in the back and I didn't drive that .
It was so funny , I pulled out like a maniac .
I'm here , I just said here , and the guy was talking to him . He was so upset , that's so funny . But my permit year I sat and waited for my mother to come home every day and I drove her to the dry cleaners , to the supermarket , to the butcher , to whatever she had to go to . I was always driving , driving , love it , even until today .
I just love to drive . Leo doesn't get to drive . Leo hates driving and he used to drive a lot . He lived in Georgia and Miami they drive , he drove , he even had a truck license . But in New York he's like there's no lanes , there's no lanes , there's no lanes . People have to make up their own lanes here . First of all , it's exhilarating . It's exhilarating .
Every road in New York is ripped up and there's no lines . He's used to Florida and Georgia where here's the line that's going to turn , here's the line that's not going to turn , and in New York it's like you figure out where you're turning from .
Were you with Leo when you were driving the smart car ? Yeah , the smart car , oh my God he said that that was .
He called that a beige flag .
A red flag First of all , the first time I got in the car with the two of them .
I said who's driving ?
and they just both looked at me and started cracking up leo , I will tell you one thing while while I am driving , he's running the world , I've seen him launch shows like links , going live , and this and that , while like , literally like this , but off of his phone and like the agent , the , the manager , the , this , the that .
Your car . I have been in like borderline , like road trips with them in that car . It's not a car , it's like an office on wheels .
Like you guys are .
They are running everything now just from the car .
No , it's just Leo's running and the phone calls are coming in . She's just been in the car when the phone calls come in . You know that's , that's not running the world . Just I'm driving when I drive , when you drive , drive when you drive . Drive , don't text , don't bj . Drive , don't drink and eat . Let's agree to drive , let's agree .
Let's disagree to disagree . Um , okay , do you know that , like only recently in europe , they made like cup holders in the european cars ? The european cars didn't have cup holders because when you're driving you shouldn't be drinking the fat americans , but fat americans have the gulp and um and that all right . Oh , oh , pulling away from that driving teacher .
Those that is so funny so funny , I'm so okay um that was very funny .
The first episode was more serious than the second episode and second episode is yeah , very funny although I do think the second episode might be airing first .
No , no , you can't , because with the because , with the motorcycle thing , are we done we can be yeah we it's 40 , 49 minutes .
How many ?
uh , oh , that's enough for anybody to listen to our voices . 50 oh , let me shut up enough good enough , good nog , oh , those of you listening to my voice , thank you I hope , I hope you had a good time . I hope you enjoyed it . Um oh , oh , my God , I didn't plug the special .
What the hell is wrong with me .
Am I . This is what happens . Okay , my comedy special is out . It's called Know your Audience and it's available on YouTube . It's just a way for you to send laughs to your friends . A way for you to send laughs to your friends . Share the link with anybody that you think needs a good laugh .
In the Jewish community , outside the Jewish community , any millennials , gen Zs or people who are computer savvy . This is your opportunity to go to your grandmother , grandfather , zaydi , bubby , saba Safda , who don't know how to make that happen on their television . Sit with them and watch it with them . That is my favorite story . The people tell me .
I went to my grandmother's and we were in wherever she is , whatever home she's in , and we put it up and we both laughed . And that's what that comedy special is there for Know your audience . It's for everybody . I know my audience and it's know your audience . It's for everybody . I know my audience and it's all for you . It's on YouTube .
Watch it , enjoy it and let us know what you think . And , of course , like it . And the shows Jerusalem , jerusalem Wow , I'm saying that you can't just pass over that . Jerusalem , jerusalem , westhampton , atlantic City many other shows coming up , all on modilivecom . Find a show near you , send it to your friend .
Be the friend that brings the friends to the comedy show . Buy a few tickets , don't just buy two tickets . Buy a few tickets and by the time the show comes you'll have someone begging you to come . And in Australia , and all of that , modilivecom . Just give a kick . Look inside where shows are and find one near you . Find one near your friends and send
¶ Rabbi as Friend and Blessing
it to them .
Rabbi Gal Bellino , I cannot thank you enough for coming , thanks for having me , you're the best . You're the best .
What a treat in life to have your rabbi as a friend too , not just like , like you know , he's the rabbi , but it's a friend . Punch lines , jokes sending to each other , laughing , working , going . Just I'm blessed , blessed , blessed and periel , available at periel ashton brand or whatever .
However you say her last name um sooner to mcveneer , you sooner to me you say her last name sooner than Mick Vanier . Goodnight everybody , goodnight everybody , thank you .