My former landlords were two married men. They told me over dinner how at their wedding they heard one elderly Jewish aunt fretting "This marriage shouldn't happen, God does not want this marriage..." They felt worried and got a little closer to her, and then they heard - "One of them is Sephardic, they other one's Ashkenazi - this can never work!" And instant relief.
When my Ashkenazic grandmother and Sephardic grandfather intended to be betrothed, it was considered so scandalous that there is an apocryphal story that one of my great-grandfathers offered to the other to go into the bathroom and compare their circumcision scars.
My elderly neighbors in Florida were Jewish and I loved them like my parents (I’m Catholic). We had so much fun with them. She told me that when they lived in New York every year they always had the biggest Christmas party on the block! Invited everyone. I miss them so much, their laughter. They’re both together now laughing in heaven.
That’s beautiful! I find that, despite our very problematic history, Catholic and Jewish are like peanut butter and chocolate: Two great tastes that taste great together.
@Karen.Marie.24 you know if that is true or not, I think it’s more important to be a good person than one ceremony determining damnation. Jews don’t believe in hell, and if we did that wouldn’t be the reason someone was sent there.
@dreamervanroom Yes, some of the Jews in Rome never came from Spain, but some did. The term, which is derived from the Hebrew Sepharad (lit. 'Iberia'), can also refer to the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa, who were also heavily influenced by Sephardic law and customs. Many Iberian Jewish exiled families also later sought refuge in those Jewish communities, resulting in ethnic and cultural integration with those communities over the span of many centuries.
🤣🤣🤣 “marrying a sefardi means your kids will come with only one eyebrow” that kills me because I am sefardi and my husband is askenazi and half of our children have just one eyebrow
Same here. Not Jewish but know many people who are, including some childhood friends. This guy is FUNNY!!!! I didn't understand ALL the references but I git enough of them! His timing is great.
Yeah, I read the history and the Jews came back with a vengeance and started to kidnap Spanish and Portuguese from trade ships and maybe some navy ships and sell them to slavery to the Ottoman Empire.
There is no such thing as a "secular Jew", just as there is no such thing as a "secular Christian"... unless your contention is that Jews are a _race_ , and in that case only those who resemble _Palestinians_ (i.e., "Semites") can lay claim to that.
Apparently Hindus aren't the only dumb ones claiming to be Secular. Secular is what the state does. You can only be irreligious, non observant or atheist. Nothing like "Secular" individual.
Sometimes despite the rituals we don't observe, the shabbos we don't keep and the 613 commandments we don't do being with our people is comforting and reminds us that being Jewish and appreciating how we were raised is among life's most important gifts.
I’m neither, but I really enjoyed the set. I wanna learn Hebrew. I’m adopted on my dad’s side and they are Italian with maybe a splash of jewish. My great uncle was jewish, but he’s married in. I loved him so much.
A coworker of mine with Yemenite background did the test, he was a devoted Muslim , and the test to his horror revealed he was about 50% Jewish 😂, later it turned out that his grandparents were adopted in their childhood
Yemen passed a law long ago that forced Jewish orphans to be adopted by Muslim families in Yemen, as dhimmis, rather than taken in by other Jewish family. That’s why.
He he he or ja ja ja, in my native Spanish. By my own account, I am 75% Basque. By the way, two of my sixteen surnames are meant to be convert sefardic jew, Vicario and Torre.
I am from Texas. A “Mexican”…. Or “Texican”…but did Ancestry and found out I am Sephardi AND Ashkenazi. So eat rice and beans, have passion but no unibrow😂
Love the bit about phones listening to you. Just last weekend, my friend was explaining to me the difference between Ashkenazi and Sephardic jews, and now I have this video in my algorithm.
As an Italian with Ashkenazi blood, I can say that the only Jews are the Semitic ones, the others are a caste that passes down its power through the mother's side, nothing to do with the real Jews, who have paid for sins that were not theirs.
Me too I'm Portuguese. I was told I had a jew from in school. People always assume I'm Jewish and they refuse ro believe I'm not untill I say I'm Portuguese and show them my ancestry. I even printed my ancestry results out on sticker on back of my ID to show people incase things get bad.
Try having a German last name, olive skin tone, dark hair, brown eyes, and a slightly large nose. Oh, and live in the NYC area. EVERYONE automatically assumed I was Jewish. One year, after coming back from a 2-week vacation in Brazil (during January - so I was well tanned while everyone else at work was winter white), I had to meet one of my company's sales managers, in person, for the first time. As soon as we're introduced, the sales manager says "Oh, you're Sephardic!" No "hello". No "Nice to meet you", etc. Just "Oh, you're Sephardic". -btw, that Sales Manager was Jewish (Ashkenazi)
When I was a teenager, I (an ashkenazi with a small nose) went with my Italian American friend (a big nose and dark curly hair) to a carnival, and the carnie points to him and says with a thick southern accent, "look it's a jew".
@AnilKumar-vo7mr fan of the Indian PM, get a life dude. That guy is one of the most disgusting murderer who run his authoritative regime through religious hatred divisive vote bank
@EugenssonWhen Americans take them it gives us the vaguest results sometimes. It went from Finnish, to Russian, and then just gave up and said Eastern European. It's getting better about specific communities.
My spouse and I are both Sephardic with very cosmopolitan grandparents from Turkey and Greece. The Sephardim from the Ottoman Empire didn’t eat rice and beans during Passover.
Trippy how religion affects people and their backgrounds and clothing and more. I pulled up to this video after seeing someone be antisemitic, I don't really care but I do think there is value in Jewish comedy like Ari Shaffir is one of my favorite Jewish Celebrities, lots of crazy actions and explicit modern ideas yet he still reigns the wild side back in to give his audience regular speeches too.
I'm only here because my DNA origin test came back saying I was 28% sephardic jewish. Which was a bit coming from left field for a blonde Dutch guy who assumed it would be Viking.
I’m an old Mexican - Native American lady and did my DNA and found I’m part Ashkenazi. Very small percentage but what a surprise. Now to figure out where that came from and what it is. This is my first introduction. 😆
Found you by chance and subscribed. It’s New Year’s day and I pray that religion, ALL religions unite us rather than divide us. This amazing comedian has shed light on differences within a religion that speaks more to cultural practices and temperaments than the religion itself! As a southern Italian, I know I could feel right at home with a Sephardic jew, not because of what he believes, but how he practices. May these kind of people shed light on the fact that the bottom line is we are more alike as human beings than different due to religious beliefs. Let’s correct the wrongs stop the atrocities being committed and continue to inhabit this earth in peace with each other. There IS space for everyone!
I worked for a Jewish company for 6 years (loved every minute/wonderful guys) but learned more in this video about the Jewish people than I did the entire time with them.
There's jewish comics and then there's JEWISH comics. Love this guy. Reminds me of a lady I used to work w/. I'd laugh just listening to her talk to herself looking for a pen and a sticky note. And she had no filter and she said some stuff about some people, but it was so funny and true you couldn't get mad at her.
I'm part of the tribe. Yehudi Tahor. I'm half Ashkenazi/half Sephardi. And my name is Haim. Just to be technically correct, there is actually 7 different categories or types of Jews. At the end of the day. we are all Jewish in Hashem's eyes, and a Yemenite Jew could be in the same tribe as an Ashkenazi Jew. Here are the seven types of Jews - Ashkenazi, Ethiopian, Mizrachi, Sephardic, Syrian, Yemenite, and Converts. Chassidim are Ashkenazi and they are quite passionate and animated.
My dad's side of the family was Sephardic. I can remember very long Passover seders. My uncle who led s was very Orthodox led the prayers and then we sat at the other end of the table with my dad who was middle of the road and my other Uncle who was kind of a little bit loose with the jokes. He would make jokes when my Orthodox Uncle kept elongating and say, "Do you think God would have put us through the desert if you didn't want us to eat already?" 😂
And Sephardic and Ashkenazi jews cannot understand each other’s Hebrew. Or write different or … I just know growing up, it took so long to get to the matzo ball soup on passover because I’m 99.99% Jewish but my mom has moles and blonde hair, blue eyes, 5’ tall. Wears zinc against the sun in winter. My dad gets nut brown in the summer and his sister my aunt people used to think was native american. So it was like two Hebrews. Also, other people maybe do it differently, but with the naming thing, as far as I know, you just use a first letter. I’m named after a Julius but that is not my first name.
@chasidahL It sounds like his synagogue is doubly blessed! We "only" get the jokes - but I'd love to hear him singing Hazan music (if that's the right term). That is a fine instrument.
Gotta show this to my Jewish father in law who did his DNA test and confirmed again that he is 99.9 percent Ashkenazi Jewish. The rest keeps changing on 23 and me every so often😂
NO ONE is 99,9% genetic anything except maybe Amazon tribes. Especially since the Ashkenazi clusters used are retroactively assigned based on religious groups and not based on actual genetic tracking. To put it differently: There is no such thing as singular Jewish gene groups. The people the Jewish group lived among IS the gene group. That's why you have Germans and Danes with alleged 15-30% "Ashkenazi Genes". It's a scam.
My mom was adopted and for the longest time believed she was Jewish due to a name she had gotten, so I studied up on Judaism. Did the DNA thing. The result? Not a drop of Jewish blood. Italian, Sicilian, specifically.
Many non-Jews have Jewish names without even realizing that their names are Jewish in origin. Practically any name that ends with 'el' is Jewish. Daniel? Means God is my judge. Raphael? God has healed. Azriel? God is my help. Gabrielle? God is my strength. Uriel? God is my light. (if you haven't made the connection, 'el' is short/singular for Elohim, which means God, even though the word itself suggests that God is plural. It's a whole thing.) Whats you mother's name?
I think the most Jewish thing about your comment was that you made the important distinction that you're a Jew, but not really. Lol. I'm of course kidding, I am completely unqualified to determine anyone's ethnic or religious identity. You just happened to remind me of how funny it seemed to me that someone's status as a Jew depended onbtheir mother in Rabbinic Judaism. Lol)
My family isn't jewish, but my dad got 10% ashkenazi on his DNA test and he said "you know, I always thought I got something extra out of Woody Allen movies."
A sefardi friend once asked me: "What's the difference between an Askenazi and a Sefardi? Both will sell their mother-in-law but the Askenazi will give you free delivery" Rest in peace my friend. You are missed!
It’s not even cute how 100% TRUE the rice eating on Passover statement is. I’m Ashkenazi (from Ukraine) and that’s literally what Ive heard growing up… “if you marry a Sephardic, you’ll be able to eat rice on Pesach”!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 boy, are we predictable. But gotta love us. PS… I also got 99.8% Ashkenazi. It was 100% initially - but I guess they updated over time. Omgosh and the challah “surgery” cutting is so true… and the no speaking allowed…. While the Sephards just break the challah with their hands.
Mine was 99.8 Ashkenazi and .01 % Ashkenazi from Caucus Region. As in Ashkenazi who migrated to the Caucus Mountain countries lol so it's pretty much Gelda Cohen Cohen.
Me too!! A long secret brought to life. 30.2 %Ashkenazi. What was really interesting is that I took studies for becoming a Jew. My blood kept calling me. We are from Kentucky. Not a Synagogue in sight.
I always saw my grandfather breaking the challah with his hands and I didn't see anything strange about it. I thought it was the traditional way in Judaism in general, not because of the tradition from Morocco.
Love it! We're Ashkenazi speak-ONLY-Yiddish-at-home types - our Seders last 'til 2, 3 am because we're former Soviets and... just four cups of wine? Feh, MANY, MANY more. And our passion is to hurl the misdeeds of our family at each other "YOUR grandfather turned MY grandfather in to the Okhrana in 1905!" "Well, YOUR mother's aunt Ziske didn't invite my great-aunt Mirjam to her wedding, so GOOD" lol My oldest son married a Ladino-speaking Greek Jewess which has REALLY been interesting. In the K'suveh they mandate my grandkids will speak Yiddish and Ladino as their first languages, THEN Hebrew (but with Ashkenzi pronunciation... yes even in Israel, people still do this) - they also have it MANDATED that they don't it Kitniyes during Passover. That still causes loud arguments, but my son's as stubborn as I am, so no rice, no beans. Almost fell off my chair when Modi said "You should've married a Mexican" lol And best for last - my roommie is from Slovenia, BUT... from the only Ashkenazi family in their neighbourhood lol The stories they tell...
That's a pretty nice comparison tbh. The ashkenazis are mainly European (western, northern, eastern). And sephardis are southern eauropean, middle eastern, Latinos, Africans, and Asians.
@HannanelVaaknin That's not quite correct, both Ashkenazi and Sephardim are virtually the same originally (I mean as of their ethnogenesis as Ash/Sepha Jews). They're both approximately half southern European and half Levantine. Some Sephardim have extra Iberian ancestry from mixing with locals. Some Ashkenazi have extra either Slavic or Germanic ancestry but that's beyond the Ashkenazi or Sephardim ethnic profile if you get what I'm saying. Now when Sephardim from Iberia were expelled they moved to places like Northern Africa, Italy or the ottoman empire. From which they absorbed some local ancestry.
I didn’t take a DNA test but I was very surprised to find tons of official documentation on Ancestry that clearly told the “big family secret.” 😂 Definitely was not expecting to learn part of my heritage was Jewish but I embrace it and am glad to be in such lovely company lol 😊
@StoneAgeDudemanGaming not quite. "Sephardic" literally means "Iberian" or "Spanish" and "Ashkenazi" means "german". Those are two branches of European Jews that spread from Italy (they are descendants of the people Romans brought from the Levant). However there're a lot of Jews whose ancestors never went to Europe, most of those are the Mizrahi. However there are actually more than three types of Jews. There are also Beta Israel and divisions within Mizrahim, like Bukharim or Juhurim. But also there are non-rabbinic Jews like Karaites.
Not Sephardic, Persian Jews!! And if you're really Persian, then its which part are you from? Are you a Tehrani? Ishfahani? Shirazi? or Mashadi? That's the big deal.
My parents have a restaurant in France My father is arab from Tunis, we have so much jew sSafardi friends. I remember that they comes in the restaurant, they was young and skin, no money. They take the cheapest pizza always, but ask for an extra olive, then, another one because the first was small... Then just a couple of anchovea, then a bit of mushroom and a pince of extra mozzarella on top because "it is the best in town", etc etc etc... At the end they got the most expensive pizza, custom made, not even on the menu. But we was all laughing and they was always welcome... God bless people from all different cultures living together
Sounds like my grandparents neighbors who lived next to them in Tunis. We are Muslims, they are Jews, but lived like one family. They were just as passionate and lively. My family would tease them to enter the fold of Islam but they would jokingly refer to the Quran's verse: 'For You is Your Religion; For Me is My Religion.' They sounded like such good folk. They migrated to Palestine in the 60s or so. Sad how people separated despite leading great lives in Tunisia. They didn't need to go anywhere else. Many stayed and never left in Djerba.
@ThePunisher014 I know it's a joke but to me telling someone to join your religion especially if they're a religious minority seems disrespectful to me but it sounds like they didn't seem disrespected by it
@bnbcraft6666 in Islam, the invitation to join is into a brotherhood. It is a family of equals. I'm a confirmed Catholic and I would not find that invitation impolite or rude. It's literally them inviting them to more companionship and a bigger community they can access. No harm intended.
@bnbcraft6666 I can't obviously tell you what people feel in their hearts let alone people i never got to know 60 years ago But i can shed some light on how Tunisian society is. we talk about things here, religion is not a taboo, i emphazise this because in the west, everything can be offensive, everything can be a 'how dare you' situation. Life especially back then was simple and its currency was based on respect. If you live as and speak in Tunisian, you're not a minority, you are a Tunisian. regardless of your difference in phenotype or faith. This is beside the point, but important, Islam is not supposed to be the religion of the arabs, of the berbers or of the turks, the only reason why it exists in the first place is to be taught and shared with the world. If somebody tells you about Islam, he's not doing it as somebody asking you to become a fan of his favorite football club. It's the upmost form of love and showcases how much they care about you. As they were Tunisians, they knew that and would deduce they weren't 'offended' :)
6:34 that’s very accurate the challah cutting. In my house my dad’s the only one who cuts challah. The rest of my family rip challah like non boring people
I never saw challah until I lived in a group home for about three years when I was 19. The housemother was German, Holocaust survivor, she did the challah and the prayer and the candle. As the Home was run by a Jewish organization it was the first time I was exposed to keeping Kosher and separate dishes. I wasn’t brought up that way and most of the other young adults weren’t Jewish. We did Passover for about four years with another family growing up, we lit the Menorah at home like twice. My brother was confirmed I wasn’t.
😂😂😂 exact The reason for the L’Chaim is that when the Sanhedrin was going to pass judgment they would say Sabri maranan (we have formed an opinion) and the people answered L’Chaim(give them life). Asking the judges to pass life sentence. (Edit because of Questions/comments: Life sentence meaning free them not incarceration Judaism really doesn’t have incarceration rules).
It is from Midrash Tanchuma, Parshat Pekudei (Siman 2). It is discussing the procedure of interrogating and potentially executing someone accused of a capital crime. "After they return from the investigation, one says to them 'savri maranan (have the gentlemen formed an opinion)?' And they say, if to life lechayim - to life, and if to death, lemavet - to death." And if he is sentenced to stoning, they bring him strong good wine to drink, and have him drink it, so he won't suffer during the stoning. " After this vivid picture associating wine with capital punishment, one can understand how there would be a need to put a more positive spin on wine. And so we see the continuation of the midrash: "And so also the Shaliach Tsibur (cantor) when he has a cup of kiddush or havdala in his hand and he says 'savri maranan', and the congregation says lechayim - to life, as to say that the cup will be to life." Source: balashon
I am an Israeli Jew, half Mizrahi, half Ashkenazi, and every Friday night is on the Mizrahi side, and honestly, until now I didn't know there was a difference in blessing and why it happens , haha. Thank you.
@Big.dragon00 no, that's middle-eastern jews. Sephardic jews come from Spain and got kicked out of here by Isabelle The Catholic, so they went to Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco etc.
I love this guy, I can't get enough of watching his video... No too much joking joking for expensive price... L'chaim L'chaim... Wait something is on fire I have to go to the kitchen... Wait I can't put out the fire it's still shabbos... Let's hope the house doesn't burn down... No time for being quiet during amoitze L'chaim L'chaim
Sephardic jews are originally from Iberian Peninsula (Portugal and Spain, which are part of Europe - not Africa), and that's it. Sadly, they were either forced to convert to Catholicism or to leave the Peninsula, in the 15th and 16th centuries, so until this day you very rarely meet a jew in Portugal. To my knowledge, I've never met any.
My former landlords were two married men. They told me over dinner how at their wedding they heard one elderly Jewish aunt fretting "This marriage shouldn't happen, God does not want this marriage..." They felt worried and got a little closer to her, and then they heard - "One of them is Sephardic, they other one's Ashkenazi - this can never work!"
And instant relief.
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Sounds about right😂
When my Ashkenazic grandmother and Sephardic grandfather intended to be betrothed, it was considered so scandalous that there is an apocryphal story that one of my great-grandfathers offered to the other to go into the bathroom and compare their circumcision scars.
Ashkenazi(s) and Sephardic(s) don't like each other.....
White meat, dark meat … I’m dying 😂😂😂 Ya gooD
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My elderly neighbors in Florida were Jewish and I loved them like my parents (I’m Catholic). We had so much fun with them. She told me that when they lived in New York every year they always had the biggest Christmas party on the block! Invited everyone. I miss them so much, their laughter. They’re both together now laughing in heaven.
That’s beautiful!
I find that, despite our very problematic history, Catholic and Jewish are like peanut butter and chocolate:
Two great tastes that taste great together.
They aren’t in heaven. They rejected the divinity of Christ, which is the only way to enter His Kingdom.
@Karen.Marie.24Have to deal with Christian ignorance layed with arrogance...sigh. They are a disgrace to G-d.
@Karen.Marie.24 you know if that is true or not, I think it’s more important to be a good person than one ceremony determining damnation. Jews don’t believe in hell, and if we did that wouldn’t be the reason someone was sent there.
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‘Nazis and Kanye are my health risks’ 😂😂
I grew up among Sephardic jews: I was born in Rome, Italy.
I grew up among Sephardic Jews in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
So strange.. i always thought the opposite: that Sephardim lived among the locals.
I heard that Jews lived in Rome who never came from Spain. Then are they Sephardic?
(The word Sephardic means Spanish.)
@dreamervanroom Yes, some of the Jews in Rome never came from Spain, but some did. The term, which is derived from the Hebrew Sepharad (lit. 'Iberia'), can also refer to the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa, who were also heavily influenced by Sephardic law and customs. Many Iberian Jewish exiled families also later sought refuge in those Jewish communities, resulting in ethnic and cultural integration with those communities over the span of many centuries.
. Jews lived in Rome in 180 BC. Directly from Israel courtesy of Roman Empire. Their descendants remain.
I am Catholic, my wife is Jewish. That makes our kids half Catholic half Jewish or…Cashews.
Cashews. That was great!
Why didn’t you marry a Christian
You're nuts.
When you say CASHEW, I want to respond, "Gesundheit!"
Nah
According to the torah and judaism in general your kids are fully jewish
🤣🤣🤣 “marrying a sefardi means your kids will come with only one eyebrow” that kills me because I am sefardi and my husband is askenazi and half of our children have just one eyebrow
Really?
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Lolol i am Ashkenazi and always had one eyebrow. My father’s fault lol. He was the darker of my parents
@scania1982has to be a joke
That's better than one of your children having half an eyebrow
I’m not Jewish and I don’t understand all this but the way the guy talks about this is freaking hilarious I love you guys
Come back after a bit - the comments just get better...
i will tell you this much: the more you know about jews and judaism the funnier this video gets...
Same here. The man’s hilarious.
@crustybomb115 ohh so true
Same here. Not Jewish but know many people who are, including some childhood friends. This guy is FUNNY!!!! I didn't understand ALL the references but I git enough of them! His timing is great.
My ancestors on my mom’s side were Sephardic Jews , they were expelled from Spain / Portugal in 1492 ✡️
In case you are interested, you're entitled to Spanish nationalty (Spain recognises double nationalities), therefore European Union passport.
@joangg I heard about it, not really interested tho
@MrSpadeofAcewhy would any Jew come back to Spain especially with all the anti Jewish venom masquerading as "muh criticism of Israel"
Fuck spain.
Yeah, I read the history and the Jews came back with a vengeance and started to kidnap Spanish and Portuguese from trade ships and maybe some navy ships and sell them to slavery to the Ottoman Empire.
@MathewCO720bullshit stop lying
I'm from both, but secular. I don't speak Hebrew, but I just loved this set. It was wonderful to be again with my people.
There is no such thing as a "secular Jew", just as there is no such thing as a "secular Christian"... unless your contention is that Jews are a _race_ , and in that case only those who resemble _Palestinians_ (i.e., "Semites") can lay claim to that.
You should learn Hebrew: I'm not even Jewish but I'm learning Modern Hebrew. It's a beautiful language.
Apparently Hindus aren't the only dumb ones claiming to be Secular. Secular is what the state does. You can only be irreligious, non observant or atheist. Nothing like "Secular" individual.
Sometimes despite the rituals we don't observe, the shabbos we don't keep and the 613 commandments we don't do being with our people is comforting and reminds us that being Jewish and appreciating how we were raised is among life's most important gifts.
I’m neither, but I really enjoyed the set. I wanna learn Hebrew. I’m adopted on my dad’s side and they are Italian with maybe a splash of jewish. My great uncle was jewish, but he’s married in. I loved him so much.
A coworker of mine with Yemenite background did the test, he was a devoted Muslim , and the test to his horror revealed he was about 50% Jewish 😂, later it turned out that his grandparents were adopted in their childhood
במת? מגניב👍
Like it or not, They were probably forced to convert.
Yemen passed a law long ago that forced Jewish orphans to be adopted by Muslim families in Yemen, as dhimmis, rather than taken in by other Jewish family. That’s why.
He he he or ja ja ja, in my native Spanish. By my own account, I am 75% Basque. By the way, two of my sixteen surnames are meant to be convert sefardic jew, Vicario and Torre.
That sounds almost like the Omid Djalili film "The Infidel" 😂😂😂
I am from Texas. A “Mexican”…. Or “Texican”…but did Ancestry and found out I am Sephardi AND Ashkenazi. So eat rice and beans, have passion but no unibrow😂
Torres te invito a nuestro sefardí tribe
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Seguro tu familia tiene origen en Nuevo León, allí llegaron muchos judíos durante la colonia .
OMG your 9 hour Sephardi bracha, I was dying. But also the Ashkenazi guy "doing surgery," that was literally my FIL
I'm Sephardic and I have two eyebrows, my husband of blessed memory though was Mizrahi and his whole face was an eyebrow 🥰
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Religion is not genetic, only a club anyone can join or leave.
@jgarbo3541 that may be true for your religion, but not for mine.
Love the bit about phones listening to you. Just last weekend, my friend was explaining to me the difference between Ashkenazi and Sephardic jews, and now I have this video in my algorithm.
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As an Italian American who is always asked if he’s Jewish whenever I’m in a Jewish neighborhood, I thank you for this. So hilarious.
I am Italian Jewish. The perfect combination.
As an Italian with Ashkenazi blood, I can say that the only Jews are the Semitic ones, the others are a caste that passes down its power through the mother's side, nothing to do with the real Jews, who have paid for sins that were not theirs.
Me too I'm Portuguese. I was told I had a jew from in school. People always assume I'm Jewish and they refuse ro believe I'm not untill I say I'm Portuguese and show them my ancestry. I even printed my ancestry results out on sticker on back of my ID to show people incase things get bad.
Try having a German last name, olive skin tone, dark hair, brown eyes, and a slightly large nose. Oh, and live in the NYC area. EVERYONE automatically assumed I was Jewish. One year, after coming back from a 2-week vacation in Brazil (during January - so I was well tanned while everyone else at work was winter white), I had to meet one of my company's sales managers, in person, for the first time. As soon as we're introduced, the sales manager says "Oh, you're Sephardic!" No "hello". No "Nice to meet you", etc. Just "Oh, you're Sephardic".
-btw, that Sales Manager was Jewish (Ashkenazi)
When I was a teenager, I (an ashkenazi with a small nose) went with my Italian American friend (a big nose and dark curly hair) to a carnival, and the carnie points to him and says with a thick southern accent, "look it's a jew".
We are Spanish in ancestry, and my grandfather, after a particularly opulent meal, would declare: "Well! We ate like Sephardites!"
Mexicano norteño?
@CaliAstrosMy grandfather was from Torreon and was Sephardic but nobody in my family knew.
@Tina-qp7pylook up shavei Israel and return home
Well Christopher Columbus apparently was Sephardic so he was a Jew too 😅
@vavan_vilgrant8210 Columbus was Italian. Hired by the Spanish court, but 100% Italian nonetheless.
Pretty good voice lol. Definitely captured the North African vibe on the Sephardic prayer over the bread.
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Pie chart, results in Yiddish. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm part Sephardic Jew.
We love Good food, Good Music 🎶 and Family.
"Humanity needs to outgrow religion if it's to survive." Carl Sagan
@Bootmahoy88 birds with the same feathers 🪶 flock together. There is always something common.
No doubt, you are spaniards ❤.
@franciscojimenez6906 claro que si,
I'm part Spaniards and multi mixes.
Yeah.. As an Ashkenazi, our contribution to modern Israeli music is way too little 😂
I’m definitely not Jewish but this guy is hilarious! Much love to all the beautiful Jewish people! ❤
yes, they've done such beautiful things to this world.
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Absolutely love this guy! Laughter is the best medicine and Modi is hilarious 😂
חכם מודי
Dude is named after the India-Indian leader?!? I’m really confused
Yes I am fan of Indian PM clicked the clip. Seems even this guy is too good.
@AnilKumar-vo7mr fan of the Indian PM, get a life dude. That guy is one of the most disgusting murderer who run his authoritative regime through religious hatred divisive vote bank
@CorePathway
His full name is "Mordechi".
Oh, that was awesome!!!
Everyone around me tells me I'm Jewish, took 23 and me, I'm 99% Slavic 😆🤣😂
Hey...but is that 1% Jewish?
Ashkenazi
I am 90% eastern euro as they put it, with the name slavic mentioned, mostly Polish, 100% european, and 1.2 % Ashkenazim 😸
I am Russian. Expectation 80% Slavic, 10% Ashkenazi, 10% Turkic. Tests come in: Balkan, Baltic, Finnish.
@EugenssonWhen Americans take them it gives us the vaguest results sometimes. It went from Finnish, to Russian, and then just gave up and said Eastern European. It's getting better about specific communities.
Brilliantly funny....and absolutely true! 😃 I'm Sephardi, my wife is Ashkenazi, it's Passover and we just had rice & beans with our dinner!!
My spouse and I are both Sephardic with very cosmopolitan grandparents from Turkey and Greece.
The Sephardim from the Ottoman Empire didn’t eat rice and beans during Passover.
You know what Sepharadic Jews call Ashkenazis : the best friends of the Jews. 😂
Lol
Khazars.
@404Mattyuooooo seeee
@404Matt you went there, Jews women were very promiscuous
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I' am born again christian and found this hysterical. Humor is an awesome way to connect to others!
I'm hearing some Yiddish in his speech
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Trippy how religion affects people and their backgrounds and clothing and more. I pulled up to this video after seeing someone be antisemitic, I don't really care but I do think there is value in Jewish comedy like Ari Shaffir is one of my favorite Jewish Celebrities, lots of crazy actions and explicit modern ideas yet he still reigns the wild side back in to give his audience regular speeches too.
My great-grandfather was a prisoner in Siberia too. Came back home on foot, took him two years.
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"the pie chart was a matza ball with a toothpick in it. Health risks: nazis and kanye" 1:21-2:14 is gold!
"Kids that don't have earlobes" is such an unbelievably deep cut 😂
“When’s the last time you whoo’d” took me out. My Zedye never whoo’d a day in his life 😂😂
I'm only here because my DNA origin test came back saying I was 28% sephardic jewish. Which was a bit coming from left field for a blonde Dutch guy who assumed it would be Viking.
Lot of surprises in DNA
😂That is truly weird and wonderful my friend. Or not that strange…
Almost everyone in Europe has some Jewish blood. Micing did happen…
Welcome to the club!
Many Jews from Spain settled in Amsterdam after the Inquisition. 28% is the equivalent of 1 grandparent.
I’m an old Mexican - Native American lady and did my DNA and found I’m part Ashkenazi. Very small percentage but what a surprise. Now to figure out where that came from and what it is. This is my first introduction. 😆
Spanish ancestry... I'm mexican and also have it.
You can't be Native American then . Sorry because Native American 's Has Q Hablogroup but jews has H hablogroup.
Do you have roots in the San Luis Valley?
Most mexicans seem to descend from sephardic jews. It is probably sephardic being misreported as ashkenazi.
There were quite a few Jews who made their way to Mexico and often hid their heritage.
Found you by chance and subscribed. It’s New Year’s day and I pray that religion, ALL religions unite us rather than divide us. This amazing comedian has shed light on differences within a religion that speaks more to cultural practices and temperaments than the religion itself! As a southern Italian, I know I could feel right at home with a Sephardic jew, not because of what he believes, but how he practices. May these kind of people shed light on the fact that the bottom line is we are more alike as human beings than different due to religious beliefs.
Let’s correct the wrongs stop the atrocities being committed and continue to inhabit this earth in peace with each other. There IS space for everyone!
I am Sephardic and feel so at home with Italians, especially those from the south ❤
Me: Let me guess, his results are gonna be "99.9% Ashkenazi Jewish."
Him: "99.8%..."
He looks Sephardi tho
He is very good 👍✨✨✨
I'm North African Muslim and yes Sefardi Jews are passionate and generous, it is a North African quality no matter your religion.
Im Traditional Catholic however I have North African Sephardic ancestry via my mother.
Yep via my dad, he was born in Jalisco, MX
Well said
Yeah definitely a North African thing, a lot of Jews aren’t historically generous as we all have seen in the past year
True
i'm sephardic and live in mexico. that's the joke. still don't know how to cross borders without raising some eyebrows.
"Sir, up front. When was the last time you whoo'd" lol 😆
I'm 74, and this is easily one of the funniest comedians....EVER.....well, maybe Flip Wilson.
Flip Wilson! RIP
Ah, you remember him too!
Or Rodney Dangerfield
Modi, you are amazing❤ I laughed so much. I am not Jewish but I had Jewish friends who invited me to their house.
I worked for a Jewish company for 6 years (loved every minute/wonderful guys) but learned more in this video about the Jewish people than I did the entire time with them.
12:33 Less joke better price 😂😂😂😂😂
True comedy does not need to be raunchy! Love it! 😂
But raunchy can be true comedy, to.
@steveherje4025 too
There's jewish comics and then there's JEWISH comics. Love this guy. Reminds me of a lady I used to work w/. I'd laugh just listening to her talk to herself looking for a pen and a sticky note. And she had no filter and she said some stuff about some people, but it was so funny and true you couldn't get mad at her.
The Sephardic guy turning into a cantor with a 9 hour blessing 🤣
I'm part of the tribe. Yehudi Tahor. I'm half Ashkenazi/half Sephardi. And my name is Haim. Just to be technically correct, there is actually 7 different categories or types of Jews. At the end of the day. we are all Jewish in Hashem's eyes, and a Yemenite Jew could be in the same tribe as an Ashkenazi Jew. Here are the seven types of Jews - Ashkenazi, Ethiopian, Mizrachi, Sephardic, Syrian, Yemenite, and Converts. Chassidim are Ashkenazi and they are quite passionate and animated.
Chassidim but I don't believe 'em
There are a couple more in smaller size, Bukharim, Italkim, Romaniote, Kaifeng, Cochin & Madras Jews.
So after you convert your genes change?
you forgot Babylonian and Roman. and if we keep talking to each other, there might be others we do not know about, Isn't life wonderful
My dad's side of the family was Sephardic. I can remember very long Passover seders. My uncle who led s was very Orthodox led the prayers and then we sat at the other end of the table with my dad who was middle of the road and my other Uncle who was kind of a little bit loose with the jokes. He would make jokes when my Orthodox Uncle kept elongating and say, "Do you think God would have put us through the desert if you didn't want us to eat already?" 😂
Lmaoooo
Hahaha hilarious
Maybe he is "sone"...
Maybe he is "a
Smone" ...
And Sephardic and Ashkenazi jews cannot understand each other’s Hebrew. Or write different or … I just know growing up, it took so long to get to the matzo ball soup on passover because I’m 99.99% Jewish but my mom has moles and blonde hair, blue eyes, 5’ tall. Wears zinc against the sun in winter. My dad gets nut brown in the summer and his sister my aunt people used to think was native american. So it was like two Hebrews. Also, other people maybe do it differently, but with the naming thing, as far as I know, you just use a first letter. I’m named after a Julius but that is not my first name.
Should’a been a cantor
Great voice
He actually is
I said the exact same thing to my husband.
He is, in fact, a cantor at the synagogue where he prays!
@chasidahL It sounds like his synagogue is doubly blessed! We "only" get the jokes - but I'd love to hear him singing Hazan music (if that's the right term). That is a fine instrument.
@yaacobchayo70Woow, how did I know! Excellent! ❤
He managed 2 minutes without mentioning Nazis
love it❤. I am an Irish Catholic & love jewish humour, so special, so Irish 😂😂
Gotta show this to my Jewish father in law who did his DNA test and confirmed again that he is 99.9 percent Ashkenazi Jewish. The rest keeps changing on 23 and me every so often😂
NO ONE is 99,9% genetic anything except maybe Amazon tribes.
Especially since the Ashkenazi clusters used are retroactively assigned based on religious groups and not based on actual genetic tracking.
To put it differently:
There is no such thing as singular Jewish gene groups. The people the Jewish group lived among IS the gene group. That's why you have Germans and Danes with alleged 15-30% "Ashkenazi Genes".
It's a scam.
Yeah Ask the Nazi... 😂😂😂😂DNA confirmed 😮😮😮
He's a 24 carat Ashkenazi
Yeah 23 n me isn't the most trustworthy
My mom was adopted and for the longest time believed she was Jewish due to a name she had gotten, so I studied up on Judaism. Did the DNA thing. The result? Not a drop of Jewish blood. Italian, Sicilian, specifically.
Jews and Italians are pretty much the same people. Same corporation, different divisions.
My as "Sicilian" got the results of being 11% Ashkenazi. 😊
Sicilian dad: Italian Greek No African, Sephardic Jew. Last name Saia, from Isaiah.
Many Jews and Italians look similar.
Many non-Jews have Jewish names without even realizing that their names are Jewish in origin.
Practically any name that ends with 'el' is Jewish.
Daniel? Means God is my judge.
Raphael? God has healed.
Azriel? God is my help.
Gabrielle? God is my strength.
Uriel? God is my light.
(if you haven't made the connection, 'el' is short/singular for Elohim, which means God, even though the word itself suggests that God is plural. It's a whole thing.)
Whats you mother's name?
I'm a Patrilineal Jew with 32% Ashkenazi heritage and I love this!
I think the most Jewish thing about your comment was that you made the important distinction that you're a Jew, but not really. Lol. I'm of course kidding, I am completely unqualified to determine anyone's ethnic or religious identity. You just happened to remind me of how funny it seemed to me that someone's status as a Jew depended onbtheir mother in Rabbinic Judaism. Lol)
Chromosome-aly, you're Jewish. You get a set from your mom and a set from your dad. It used to be based an patrilineal descent
Results came back in Yiddish 😂😂😂😂
Tears in my eyes of laughter, you absolutely nailed it 200%, we love you!
since its 2024, I can confess finally in public, I'm trans-Jewish. I'm Sephardic, but I identify as Ashkenazi 😂
I am the opposite :-)
😂😂😂😂😂
Trans siberian oblast 🏳️🌈
Is ur flag Romanian or Venezuelan?
What you just said equates to "I'm trans American. I'm Cherokee but I identify as English"
Imagine my surprise when, after decades of being a fan of pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy, it turned out what the specific meaning of his name was!
I got a headache from laughing so I went for a nap but then my brother wasn't able to laugh quite
Oh so funny! So great people can laugh at themselves and still be so proud of who they are. Blessed are the comedians who make all people laugh!! 🇮🇱
My family isn't jewish, but my dad got 10% ashkenazi on his DNA test and he said "you know, I always thought I got something extra out of Woody Allen movies."
Thats a great comment
That's the thing Jewish is an ethnicity not just a religion 😊
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Bahahahaha
A sefardi friend once asked me:
"What's the difference between an Askenazi and a Sefardi?
Both will sell their mother-in-law but the Askenazi will give you free delivery"
Rest in peace my friend. You are missed!
Hahaha 😂
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Part Sephardic here: will pay for you to take my M.I.L.
It’s not even cute how 100% TRUE the rice eating on Passover statement is. I’m Ashkenazi (from Ukraine) and that’s literally what Ive heard growing up… “if you marry a Sephardic, you’ll be able to eat rice on Pesach”!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 boy, are we predictable. But gotta love us. PS… I also got 99.8% Ashkenazi. It was 100% initially - but I guess they updated over time. Omgosh and the challah “surgery” cutting is so true… and the no speaking allowed…. While the Sephards just break the challah with their hands.
Mine was 99.8 Ashkenazi and .01 % Ashkenazi from Caucus Region. As in Ashkenazi who migrated to the Caucus Mountain countries lol so it's pretty much Gelda Cohen Cohen.
I rip the challah with my hands, but it's mainly because I love bread and end up eating the whole thing by myself anyways.
Me too!! A long secret brought to life. 30.2 %Ashkenazi.
What was really interesting is that I took studies for becoming a Jew. My blood kept calling me. We are from Kentucky. Not a Synagogue in sight.
I always saw my grandfather breaking the challah with his hands and I didn't see anything strange about it. I thought it was the traditional way in Judaism in general, not because of the tradition from Morocco.
What race group in Europe makes up an Ashkenazi?
Why is the last 4 letters Nazi in Ashkenazi?
Love it! We're Ashkenazi speak-ONLY-Yiddish-at-home types - our Seders last 'til 2, 3 am because we're former Soviets and... just four cups of wine? Feh, MANY, MANY more. And our passion is to hurl the misdeeds of our family at each other "YOUR grandfather turned MY grandfather in to the Okhrana in 1905!" "Well, YOUR mother's aunt Ziske didn't invite my great-aunt Mirjam to her wedding, so GOOD" lol My oldest son married a Ladino-speaking Greek Jewess which has REALLY been interesting. In the K'suveh they mandate my grandkids will speak Yiddish and Ladino as their first languages, THEN Hebrew (but with Ashkenzi pronunciation... yes even in Israel, people still do this) - they also have it MANDATED that they don't it Kitniyes during Passover. That still causes loud arguments, but my son's as stubborn as I am, so no rice, no beans. Almost fell off my chair when Modi said "You should've married a Mexican" lol And best for last - my roommie is from Slovenia, BUT... from the only Ashkenazi family in their neighbourhood lol The stories they tell...
Thumbs up for the singing alone! 😄
This sounds to me like northern/southern Italians differences 🤣 such a good set, thanks for the great insights in Jewish culture!
That's a pretty nice comparison tbh. The ashkenazis are mainly European (western, northern, eastern). And sephardis are southern eauropean, middle eastern, Latinos, Africans, and Asians.
@HannanelVaaknin That's not quite correct, both Ashkenazi and Sephardim are virtually the same originally (I mean as of their ethnogenesis as Ash/Sepha Jews).
They're both approximately half southern European and half Levantine.
Some Sephardim have extra Iberian ancestry from mixing with locals.
Some Ashkenazi have extra either Slavic or Germanic ancestry but that's beyond the Ashkenazi or Sephardim ethnic profile if you get what I'm saying.
Now when Sephardim from Iberia were expelled they moved to places like Northern Africa, Italy or the ottoman empire. From which they absorbed some local ancestry.
I didn’t take a DNA test but I was very surprised to find tons of official documentation on Ancestry that clearly told the “big family secret.” 😂 Definitely was not expecting to learn part of my heritage was Jewish but I embrace it and am glad to be in such lovely company lol 😊
I'm Ashkenazi and my middle name, which is my Hebrew name, is after a cousin who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.
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May their memory be a blessing. My ancestors were murdered at Dachau….
Lies
@dddlong113 Lies what?
🎯100% Ashkenazi Jew here, raised in Havanah, Cuba... hilariously true 🤣
Y a donde te fuiste Judith? Miami?
@Zelielz1 no...fuimos a Indiana!
There are THREE types. Ashkenazi, Sephardic, and Mizrahi.
My understanding is the Mizrahi was a rebranding in the 50s
@StoneAgeDudemanGaming not quite. "Sephardic" literally means "Iberian" or "Spanish" and "Ashkenazi" means "german". Those are two branches of European Jews that spread from Italy (they are descendants of the people Romans brought from the Levant). However there're a lot of Jews whose ancestors never went to Europe, most of those are the Mizrahi. However there are actually more than three types of Jews. There are also Beta Israel and divisions within Mizrahim, like Bukharim or Juhurim. But also there are non-rabbinic Jews like Karaites.
What about Ethiopian, Chinese, etc?
"THREE Types"
Italkim
Juhurim
Bukharians
Mizrahim
Beta Israelites
Judeo-Indians: ARE WE JOKES TO YOU?
I'm from Iran and my dad's family must be Saphardic Jews. The way he describes negotiations sounds like my Dad. 😂
Not Sephardic, Persian Jews!! And if you're really Persian, then its which part are you from? Are you a Tehrani? Ishfahani? Shirazi? or Mashadi? That's the big deal.
Wow, who are you?
That was hilarious.
5am In los angels, i couldn't stop laughing. i woke up all my family.
Thank you very much.
LMAO
I am a regular old American Christian and I found this fella quite hilarious I'm not even Jewish and I understood all the jokes
My parents have a restaurant in France
My father is arab from Tunis, we have so much jew sSafardi friends. I remember that they comes in the restaurant, they was young and skin, no money. They take the cheapest pizza always, but ask for an extra olive, then, another one because the first was small... Then just a couple of anchovea, then a bit of mushroom and a pince of extra mozzarella on top because "it is the best in town", etc etc etc...
At the end they got the most expensive pizza, custom made, not even on the menu. But we was all laughing and they was always welcome...
God bless people from all different cultures living together
Sounds like my grandparents neighbors who lived next to them in Tunis. We are Muslims, they are Jews, but lived like one family. They were just as passionate and lively. My family would tease them to enter the fold of Islam but they would jokingly refer to the Quran's verse: 'For You is Your Religion; For Me is My Religion.' They sounded like such good folk. They migrated to Palestine in the 60s or so.
Sad how people separated despite leading great lives in Tunisia. They didn't need to go anywhere else. Many stayed and never left in Djerba.
@ThePunisher014 I know it's a joke but to me telling someone to join your religion especially if they're a religious minority seems disrespectful to me but it sounds like they didn't seem disrespected by it
@bnbcraft6666 in Islam, the invitation to join is into a brotherhood. It is a family of equals. I'm a confirmed Catholic and I would not find that invitation impolite or rude. It's literally them inviting them to more companionship and a bigger community they can access. No harm intended.
@bnbcraft6666 I can't obviously tell you what people feel in their hearts let alone people i never got to know 60 years ago But i can shed some light on how Tunisian society is. we talk about things here, religion is not a taboo, i emphazise this because in the west, everything can be offensive, everything can be a 'how dare you' situation. Life especially back then was simple and its currency was based on respect. If you live as and speak in Tunisian, you're not a minority, you are a Tunisian. regardless of your difference in phenotype or faith.
This is beside the point, but important, Islam is not supposed to be the religion of the arabs, of the berbers or of the turks, the only reason why it exists in the first place is to be taught and shared with the world. If somebody tells you about Islam, he's not doing it as somebody asking you to become a fan of his favorite football club. It's the upmost form of love and showcases how much they care about you. As they were Tunisians, they knew that and would deduce they weren't 'offended' :)
Ha! I am Jewish & everyone thinks I am Italian, even in the Italian neighborhood
As a Persian (non Jewish), hearing the warmth of the Sephardics literally sounds like every mehmooni ever lol
I live in a community with many Persian Jews and worked with a Persian nonjew. They were so similar
As a persian I can confirm ❤
"The results came back in yiddish"
In my case, ancestry sent back a shamrock and a case of Guinness
This is one of the purest, truly funny sets I’ve seen in a decade😂
I remember my first sephardic pesach - it was wild compared to my family's Ashkenazi pesach. They literally shouted out the ten plagues
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😂😂😂😂😂😂. I am both and he is right!!! I am also Italki, Yemeni and Beta Israel. We are all different, but the same too. I love us. This was hilarious.
I’m Sephardic and I bless this special 😄
Did my DNA. 70%Ashkenazi. 16% Italian, also Greek, North African (Sephardic grandma from Egypt), Turkey, and more. I love it!!
Literally my shul, a doctor doing surgery on the challah. Complete with gloves and a mask
6:34 that’s very accurate the challah cutting. In my house my dad’s the only one who cuts challah. The rest of my family rip challah like non boring people
According to baking and cooking experts, challah does taste better when it breaks naturally.
Challah should never be cut because knives are not welcome on the Shabbat table.
Beautiful singing! And great comedy!
Oye....the Sephardic way is the most blessed....omg it's so wonderful 😂
I am a Muslim and I find him hilarious 😂😂😂
I am not surprised. We are cousins 😊
Same here
@barryw2659❤
I’m…well…Buddhist, by choice. I missed the inside jokes but yes, funny AF
As a Jew thank you.
Your Sephardic kid's might come out with one eyebrow but, you have good odds of having a son taller than 5'9 are a LOT greater
Shorter people live longer?
I went to a Sephardic Synagogue and it takes forever.
I completely lost it at
עלינו ועל בנינו ואלג'זירה ואלקאעידה
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I picked that up, pretty funn y
I never saw challah until I lived in a group home for about three years when I was 19. The housemother was German, Holocaust survivor, she did the challah and the prayer and the candle. As the Home was run by a Jewish organization it was the first time I was exposed to keeping Kosher and separate dishes. I wasn’t brought up that way and most of the other young adults weren’t Jewish. We did Passover for about four years with another family growing up, we lit the Menorah at home like twice. My brother was confirmed I wasn’t.
😂😂😂 exact
The reason for the L’Chaim is that when the Sanhedrin was going to pass judgment they would say Sabri maranan (we have formed an opinion) and the people answered L’Chaim(give them life). Asking the judges to pass life sentence. (Edit because of Questions/comments: Life sentence meaning free them not incarceration Judaism really doesn’t have incarceration rules).
Or death ☠️? So even the meaning of L'Chaim is fake. I should have known.
TIL, thanks!
It is from Midrash Tanchuma, Parshat Pekudei (Siman 2). It is discussing the procedure of interrogating and potentially executing someone accused of a capital crime.
"After they return from the investigation, one says to them 'savri maranan (have the gentlemen formed an opinion)?' And they say, if to life lechayim - to life, and if to death, lemavet - to death." And if he is sentenced to stoning, they bring him strong good wine to drink, and have him drink it, so he won't suffer during the stoning. "
After this vivid picture associating wine with capital punishment, one can understand how there would be a need to put a more positive spin on wine. And so we see the continuation of the midrash:
"And so also the Shaliach Tsibur (cantor) when he has a cup of kiddush or havdala in his hand and he says 'savri maranan', and the congregation says lechayim - to life, as to say that the cup will be to life."
Source: balashon
To my understanding l'chaim meant innocent and not life sentence.
If the judges found the defendant innocent, they would say “l’chayim.”
I am an Israeli Jew, half Mizrahi, half Ashkenazi, and every Friday night is on the Mizrahi side, and honestly, until now I didn't know there was a difference in blessing and why it happens , haha. Thank you.
I'm a french guy born into a sephardic jewish family from both sides (Tunisian jews) and you nailed it ! Especially the throwing of the hala haha
i thought North African jews are Mizrahi….
@Big.dragon00 no, that's middle-eastern jews. Sephardic jews come from Spain and got kicked out of here by Isabelle The Catholic, so they went to Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco etc.
@Big.dragon00but Mizrahim are oftentimes classified as a branch of Sfaradim, which is technically correct as well
@aas11476ng only for north african jews. Doesnt work for middle east and west asian jews.
@Big.dragon00 Magrehbi Jews.
Hats off to Modi. Incredible voice😊
I love this guy, I can't get enough of watching his video... No too much joking joking for expensive price... L'chaim L'chaim... Wait something is on fire I have to go to the kitchen... Wait I can't put out the fire it's still shabbos... Let's hope the house doesn't burn down... No time for being quiet during amoitze L'chaim L'chaim
למרות ששמעתי את הקטע הזה לפחות 5 פעמים- מתפוצצת מצחוק!! 🤣🤣💙
I've known about him for a few years, surprised that he's not better known. So, so funny, can be outrageous, but decent and clean.
Saying Ashkenazis are from Europe is like saying African Americans are from Europe.
I could see this act over and over. So funny;so smart and so Jewish.😊
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Sephardic is essentially spanish jew. I have some of that dna.
Península ibérica. España y Portugal
Sephardics are from Spain and Portugal, and maybe north African (that went there from Iberia). The Middle Eastern Jews get another name
10:54 That was my last family wedding getting introduced to the groom's family. My family had more dreadful stories. Great success.
Sephardic jews are originally from Iberian Peninsula (Portugal and Spain, which are part of Europe - not Africa), and that's it. Sadly, they were either forced to convert to Catholicism or to leave the Peninsula, in the 15th and 16th centuries, so until this day you very rarely meet a jew in Portugal. To my knowledge, I've never met any.
Haven't laughed this hard at stand up in ages. Not even Jewish, dude just great at the craft!!