#6: Behind the Bima - Special Guests: Our Moms

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Brodie we're not we're almost a few that's all you need to know fine 2920 all right we are live on Facebook this is good here we go ladies and gentlemen welcome to behind the Bema episode number what episode are we up to gentlemen only four is this for I think it's five I think this is episode 5 I'm going let me tell you this is a very exciting night we have so much to talk about so much to share tonight but we're going to begin as we do every week by first saying behind to life moderately responsibly only if you're right age only if you can handle it but you know what you deserve it be going through a tough time and if you're blessed to have bracha in your life right now then you want to say 'la hi welcome to life brought our dinner hold on for a period i'm ainlina melech ha'olam chef call me every bro I am drinking tonight a delicious glass of sheilo privilege and I'm doing it not as a coincidence I'm doing because we give an incredible event coming up rabbi mascius you want to talk about it for a moment yeah we are partner thing with ami Kai Laurie from the Sheela winery in Israel one of my favorite brands of wine and I happen to be a big fan of ami hi he's a real exotic a very good person and we reached out to him and said would it be great if we did a virtual wine tasting how much fun would that be if I make I got up at 4 o'clock in the morning in Israel time and was able to do a tasting with us explain to us how to sip wine how to open wine how to preserve wine and I is so excited and it's gonna be a fantastic event unbelievable amaze everybody sign up cuz these slots are filling up quickly but the truth of Sheila is not our sponsor for tonight we have an amazing a sponsor for tonight let's see if I could find him when we can welcome and mine if not we'll just introduce his incredible product is he called in on the on the zoom I don't see him here but let me tell you about it our good friend Mark Bleckner is an amazing guy mas coats you know him for a long time you could talk about him in a room in his household but he's got a beautiful product called Shabbos light and I want to tell you all of us we could talk about the Shabbos huh good job Brody the Shabbos life it's an amazing program we're not just talking about them as if they're just a sponsor we are all it's like the Hair Club for Men we are not at least I we're not just highways like it we're gonna do a whole separate show we're not just the president we're also a user the Shabbos clock is incredible what makes the Shabbos clock different than ordinary shamans box well first of all we got a few models over here it's got rabbinic supervision rabbinic approval the Shabbos is unbelievable there's a clip-on version and then there's the desktop version that I have right here this desktop version you're not gonna believe it first of all you've got a thing that slides over the power button so you your wife the kid is crawling on your head in the middle of the night nobody could turn it off by accident you've got a dimmer on top so that when your wife says I'm trying to sleep I can't see and you're like I can't fall asleep I want to read you could find exactly the right setting it's got adjustable here's the best part it's got a USB port you could charge your phone once you plug this light in and it's even comes with look at this unbelievable I don't even know what you'd call this a case okay it's got an adapter to plug it in in Israel in America please God well I'll be going back to Israel soon the Shabbos light Shabbos light calm those live in Boca you can go on the you can go to our local store to Grove Grove has them unbelievable you can go on Shabbos like calm you can go on Amazon it's an amazing product more fleckner's an amazing guy but here's the thing Mother's Day Shh this Sunday's Mother's Day Mother's Day present few have it thanks mark if you don't have a Mother's Day present yet go to the Grove go on Amazon there's still time it's got a shutter dimmer flexible gooseneck adjustable white light shine the light where you want it USB port use around the world what an incredible product now I don't know about you I need this product cuz here's the deal and I don't wanna start getting personal I didn't have enough wine yet for that but I will say this one comment and then I'll ask you what you think of your Shabbos Lights my one common is this you know today it's normal in the shittaka world to put out a resume and the resume says like would you go to seminary what's your dress size some photoshop pictures attached you know anyone in your family ever on any medication did they observe the guidelines during the virus who knows what the resumes are going to say as you go forward but none of that really relates to real life you know what a resume should say can she sleep with the light on does the light have to be off can there be a light on within a five-mile vicinity does the air-conditioned you have to be just right that's what it really should say well Mark Buckner is a show um biased man he made a dimmer on this thing everyone could be happy she could sleep he can read what an amazing Shabbos Sholem bias for everybody it's a beautiful beautiful thing mark Buckner thank you for this creation Robin Moskowitz any comments I'll tell you how good it is that we have two of them I have the portable one right here the clip-on one right here in the box is the is this the tabletop one so good is it that we actually fought about it in our house the Shabbos who could use the Shabbos light so my daughter got the clip-on one because she likes it on her bed I took this one from my bedroom and it's a total game changer as you said when you go to sleep at night my wife let's just say we're not always on the same has schedules and it was perfect she'll unbias you got to dim the light first of all a tremendous amount of light when it's on it is really bright and then you can just with a flip of a hand you can turn it off it's an amazing product I was so happy to use it the Shabbos it's a game-changer in our house apparently I said o'clock cause I'm getting a lot of things telling me that it's a light not a clock so thanks for correcting me guys I can always rely on you to really have my back it is a Shabbos light grove Amazon Shabbos light com Mother's Day present if your home doesn't have like five of these you're really missing out mark thank you and we look forward to talking more about this little bit later but let's go on to our first topic rabbi Brody how you got dressed for tonight I got to rest this is a whole new me I got a microphone Thank You rabbi kill Stein and we've got something special we're gonna talk about the hats right getting special special specially dressed up tonight yeah we'll talk about the hats later but you know Brody any comments you know you may notice tonight that we've got three professional microphones we're wearing air pods headphones I was wearing fancy you know like pilot headphones before and I was told by my greatest critics ie my children get those off and put in the air pods Brody why we're wearing the air pods the mics what are we up in our game for do I have a meeting talk about the meeting we had earlier today people have no idea what's about to happen you know what we were told is that there's some very very big big shows out there big podcast getting millions of views but we actually have a chance of meeting them we were told today in a meeting we had up and I think was in Baltimore where they have already heard that the show is taking over the over the country everyone's listening to the show and now we're gonna be in your home in your car on so many different platforms what I just hold on hold on I just turned tun face but yeah go ahead sorry sorry technology yeah until we go up our game go ahead talk yeah listen we're all we're all learning and that's why we've all these new fancy microphones and this is only the first step to something even bigger where we're planning even for next week so there's a whole lot happening I mean I can't even imagine what's uh what's about to happen behind the Bema is going is going big-time and you know what the best part about it is Robyn Moskowitz it's controversy free we're not chauvinistic or we're not misogynistic and we just we just talk about car events what's going on in life Robbie Brody you were involved a little bit of a controversy earlier this week when it was actually yes you know when you were seeing another podcast forward we made the front page of a national newspaper this week on another podcast not for such a great reason obviously everything was taken out of context like it usually is but at the same time you know the reason why they're obviously after me they're after up by Goldberg after a big Moskowitz they want Lenny one blame in the media bro do you blame a fake news out there no can I just tell you both you know when you've actually made it to a really great program when you start wearing your wife's makeup I can tell you don't worry about their shirt I'm wearing this week my face the truth is that other show is put out by our dear friends they're amazing they got a raw deal it was actually a manufactured crisis they love men women children they love everybody all Jews and so do we but this is a controversy free we got big stuff planned behind the Bema you're gonna be seeing out again we're not investing a lot of time that's the beautiful thing we just get together now even that's no friends I don't think people fully appreciate this is this is as unscripted as it gets right we're not sitting around we're mapping out the time this just a bunch of friends rabbis colleague is getting together shooting the breeze talking about some contemporary issues although I'll be honest with you sometimes you have to prove to people that you didn't really put in a lot of time I'm pretty sure by now people figured that out and they that we're that we're really just getting together and figuring it out so I want to start with this somebody contacted one of our great listeners this week and they said to me over the last previous weeks we've been talking about some of the heroes in the frontline some of the people who are doing amazing things we talked about medical people we've talked about fire department the police department we've talked about elected officials we talked about a whole array of people on the front lines but you know what there was some that we left out we want to acknowledge them tonight and among them we have the members of the hewa hadisha ever get this was not simple I can tell you that I've been in touch with really the the Guru of the fabric edition of South Florida a hero at the front lines who's done amazing things you're from Kopelman one of my dear friends one of my heroes a man who's either playing the drums at a simcha or who was the funeral director and the head of Africa disha he's either at a simcha or Lavanya he's dedicated his life to Chloe's role and it's not just him it's all the members of the FEV room it's not easy these days you know there's protocols have been updated we've been learning about this virus as we go and and do you do normal fabric at Harrow do not do Tahara how do you prepare what are the precautions that you take Boca ratone synagogue is the cover Kadesh it's made up of pure volunteers Mitzvah Guerrero Smits for one-minutes for leads to another the money that comes in from Tahara goes entirely to Tonka Shabbos every penny of it our volunteers don't take one penny through the front lines and we salute them I heard Budweiser put out their ad again the washout bad for coronavirus yeah so that's somewhere so members of the show we should make our own ad we salute you I'll tell you who else we salute is you know a lot of people are hungry these days and people are tired of cooking at home you know we're living in my 11 people breakfast lunch dinner it gets tiring it's hard and there's still restaurants that are open curbside pickup only takeout but you know there are mush give them the mark you come we're leaving their family and they're washing their hands a hundred times a day and taking precautions much give him our restaurant owners and proprietors they're enabling us to be able to have food and we're grateful to our local restaurants the o RB de Mesquita m-- we salute you thank you for all that you're doing I want to thank you and in a future show we'll talk about one another one of my heroes are by Pesach White's their head of the RB is very high ring and deserves a huge tribute Mabel Mabel will bring him on he's a great LED sterile and a great man and we'll bring him on in the future so here's my question for you tonight because we're gonna be joined soon bye you guys I don't know if I'm I don't know if I can handle that are you nervous not nervous I'm a little nervous I'm a little nervous my mom's she's got a lot of dirt on me who knows what's gonna come out yeah okay well my mom is extremely proud right now she's like you're on the radio you're on a TV show with one of the biggest rabbis in the country unbelievable it's exciting I'll tell you I spoke to my mom this afternoon she had hair and makeup over I'm just joking she does not have hair and makeup over but she was excited but you can spend today we'll say that how do you zoom I will also say there's a little bit of controversy that the mothers were invited on and not the mother-in-law's that's right I'll throw in a little extra controversy the mothers and not the why respect our show is not old enough and mature enough yet to be able to to deal with that but I'm excited for our moms the truth is I hope they're not listening yet but if they actually can figure out how to get on that in itself will be a miracle and exciting some of them will just say have been coming on and off all night how to be on so it's excited I will tell you again this is a little bit of a foreshadow my mom is my hero right if you asked me who my hero in the world is it's my mom I'm very excited to share this platform with her to have her be a part of my rabbinic life so I'm super excited that's really beautiful that's such a sweet nice thing to put it Brody what would you say about your mom I just hope she can get on tonight I'm just praying I told her to call me during the show if she's having a problem connecting yeah I was thinking about actually sending over my children with some distancing and gloves and masks but I'm confident they could do it they'll make it happen she's actually intimidated by your mom's really yeah interesting yeah I'll tell you this especially Phil's mom I'll taste Wow okay I'll tell you something that that hour I'll tell you something our listeners probably don't know they may not know and our wives would would testify to is I think the three of us probably could be characterized as Mama's boys I know they'll give us it we're really close with our moms we love them they take good care of us and I don't think it's an exaggeration to describe the three of us rabbis as Mama's boys I'll tell you a great story when I was working out why you so colleague of mine went some like flea market he came back with a bowl and in the insides his mama's boy and he brought it to me as a way to make fun of me meanwhile I kept that bowl ever since cuz you know what I wear it with pride I'm a mama's boy and I'm proud of it I I agree I agree we have a lot to be proud of this Sunday's Mother's Day and and we're honoring and celebrating our moms by bringing them on soon of course I want to emphasize as we do every year that there are people who long and who crave and they give anything in the world to experience what it means to be a mom or a dad and and though we find that balance between celebrating this day but doing it sensitively and and not hurting people not throwing it in their face or we're not making them feel bad or pouring salt and wounds so it's a day that we're grateful for the blessing in our lives but we pray for those who want to be moms and that they can realize that dream and that's the balance that we're gonna strike tonight so you know in this couple minutes before they come on Robbie brewery what do you think makes a great mom what's the definition of a great mom great mom is someone that's always thinking about everything like there's nothing that just goes you know like dinners and making sure everything's in the food and clothes and she's just always there she's always thinking about everyone's well-being and then it goes beyond the the kids it goes goes through the whole community I don't know how they do it I just say one thing I just thinking about this as you were talking one of the kids teachers sent so much this I think this is the difference between moms and dads one of the kids teachers sent home in assignments and said hey dad's you know Mother's Day is coming up here's on a great activity you can do with your kids get ready for Mother's Day the next day the same teacher sent home an email to the moms saying listen I didn't want to spoil the surprise but I'm pretty convinced most of the dads are not even reading my emails just make sure they read their emails they have something prepared for Mother's Day and moms right what do you mean mom asked what everything no again we're three men discussing what makes a great mom but you know what we can because we each have more children so as children we could talk about what makes our mom great moms I don't think I think they'd be embarrassed if we talked about that in front of them so Robyn Moskowitz what makes a great mom to you um she would do anything for me she would take a bullet for me she's been there for me my entire life I'll tell you something you might not be expecting a great mom is someone who keeps the family together right with families and relationships and cousins and distant cousins and siblings and there's always you know challenges along the way a great mom is someone who's able to get their children to look past the day-to-day trivial details and to focus on the big picture of family yeah that's a great description your mom's always got your back exactly and she's always making peace listen that that maternal instinct that mama bear the one who wants you to be happy selflessly just cares and is devoted to you and and again with sensitivity to those who are longed to be moms that maternal instinct or that paternal instinct can be expressed by caring for others and and molding and shaping the world and we continue to address this topic and in a sensitive way but I agree with you and I think that's what makes us probably such momma's boys' towards our moms is how much they've they've taken care of us and they continue to care about us and they take a bullet for us and the loyalty their mama bears to us and we also happen to have three amazing wives three great Rebbetzin z' what they do and what they mean to our children they're doing a great job they're raising great children and I'll tell you I think it's also fair to say and I hope you both forgive me for this but I think all three of us married up I think we did pretty well in terms of marrying women who are outstanding mothers for our children so it's it's a great weekend and we'll celebrate in our own private modest way without flaunting or or being insensitive but it's a great week to celebrate I'm to present this today is nurse appreciation day national nurse appreciation day and so I would like to give a shout out to all the nurses out there that's right actually the nurse that I am privileged to share my life with and nurses don't always get all the fanfare that doctors get but in in many ways they are the ones who are running the show back there and I want to thank a nurse that supported you know she's a great fan on the video show yesterday we did that video show we'll get to that in one second but I will I would just say this because I've seen her by Moscow it's when he's been under the weather and not feeling well even dealing with difficult illness and let me say this about about nurse Moskowitz there's probably not a harder patient in the world nurse - what was my nickname what they called me the big baby nurse Moskowitz his level of patience and sensitivity and care I've seen her in some trying moments and nurse Moskowitz that's uh we salute you we saw that we do see that nurses they are they are amazing Brody as where our moms are gonna join us any minute so very quickly you were all over all over the media yesterday because it was giving Tuesday not for the Brody family directly but for givingtuesday for the Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach County am I wrong am I am I wrong to say that you almost single-handedly were able to bring in over $400,000 for Jewish Federation of South Palm Beach counties accurate well if Matt and Marla are not listening right now of course I was the only one responsible for that hopefully that's what I'm just kidding there's a team of about 20 professionals you had about 50 volunteers making phone calls yet and every dollar there was raised benefits local synagogues million dollars in tuition assistance to our local day school so it was a great day we still have a long way to go but that's a great day I'll tell you 400 grains when do you get what are you gonna do that for book ratone synagogue Brody rabbi Brody when do you want to start we can do it right now what's the phone number it is pretty amazing and it's a tribute to you and to your your staying power that you just you basically were we got to get on there's very few people that get cut him off in the middle of a sentence that's correct I just I all of a sudden like I got filled with this feeling like am I in trouble did I do wrong you are in trouble by the way you know I'm for graduation we should we should bring on our high school principals that would be an interesting conversation all right we've got and we're just waiting mrs. Brody's not you know this is truly incredible this is really really amazing I want to first of all take a moment to thank Mark Buckner again he is on we're gonna bring him on a little bit later but thank you again the Shabbos light mom's do you have Shabbos lamps you have Shabbos lights I do look there's an old friend of mine from way way back oh man he just ruined my Mother's Day gift for you it's amazing um Shabbos light calm you can get it on Amazon you can go to the Grove it's really mom I know you love to read you love to [ __ ] my mom we got 3-month [ __ ] bruh we've got my mom loves to read my mom's got piles of newspapers magazines tourist sources she loves to read all night long so ma the Shabbos light dad yes you get mommy present yet okay amazing so check that out that's fantastic but as we welcome to moms we also just want to momentarily throw a bone to next week's sponsor because it's gonna be the Mother's Day and that is who's your jeweler want to recognize Devorah and you saw a Feder from Jay Fedor jewelers who's your jeweler Shabbos light good gift amazing gift practical gift you can complement it to sit right on the base of the Shabbos light lamp with a little piece of jewelry so you can go to Jay Feder calm Jay Feder calm check out their incredible array or you could see Devorah Feder on Instagram you'll see pictures of her holding up jewelry against every backdrop on the planet Jay Feder jewelers will talk more about them next week but they make a great Mother's Day moms welcome to behind the Bema welcome on oh man I want you know Rabbi Goldberg you and I speak in front of hundreds if not thousands of people I might be more nervous now than I am on Yom Kippur I'm going to say butterflies well let's first introduce the moms our audience they know us as public personalities and they don't necessarily know our our moms so mrs. Brodie let's start with the alphabet here mrs. Brodie our community of course knows you your beloved member of our shul a pillar of our community the head of our empty-nesters just that ball of energy everybody knows where Josh where a Bye Birdie comes from when they meet you but mrs. Brody tell us uh in a sentence or two about about your background about where you're from when you came to Boca ma we can't hear you lips are moving but we can't hear you that was nothing now I come from Elizabeth New Jersey and whoo yes whoa shout out for Elizabeth and we have other lives with people here right you know good open Elizabeth and spend some time in 12 years in South Africa with my late husband Peter mrs. mrs. Brodie tell us something about yourself that our listeners don't not by Brodey tell us thing about your mom that people don't necessarily appreciate her no she taught in the Elizabeth downtown Elizabeth public school system or otherwise no one I think as the Sam a buff public school system is that correct yeah one of the buildings is that's right what are your mom's hobbies tell us something about your mom that the audience doesn't know I think our hobby is just being proud of me I think that's good that's good it's supposed to be something I put it through many many years we hope that hobby can Lance remembers mom Goldberg mom Goldberg right alphabetical order is at the alphabetical order okay G right G M F G H I J yeah so mom you're next mom Goldberg welcome to behind the Bema oh wait we've got oh we've got Simon Simon is one of our moms here let's get rid of Simon 18-game yeah mom well combine the Bema we you know before you came on we were talking about what makes a great mom and how the truth is all three of us are really Mama's boys and how much we we love our moms I mean not only would I not be here without your mom which is somewhat obvious but you continue to be a big advisor of mine and your mold and shape Who I am and mom tell us all word or two about you and your background well I too am from Elizabeth New Jersey born and bred but after getting married we lived in Teaneck New Jersey for many many many years and we move permanently to both Boca and Israel five years ago so we spend and most of the year in Boca and part of the year in Israel beautiful it's so amazing and I'll tell you something about my mom people maybe don't know and in in the Boca part of her life is that when we were growing up my mom was a Holocaust teacher she really has a deep understanding of it and taught it in many different places including in Berea in in Elizabeth a lot of a lot of graduates of Berea had my mom as a teacher but the part they don't know is also she was a kosher kitchen designer which designing a kosher kitchen is different than designing an ordinary kitchen and once appear in the New York Times they did a story about kosher kitchen design and mentioned my mom and for that and so much more mom were so proud of you mrs. Moskowitz your son was so nervous about we're gonna say he actually dropped out we thought he wasn't something third from yeah we weren't sure but I think my wife cut my life I she was a little nervous she was even more nervous Oh mr. Moskowitz tell us a little bit about about your background tell us something about you I grew up in Providence Rhode Island I'm a hick and we lived in New York for a few years while my husband was in medical school and then we moved to Boston the Boston area 44 years ago and I've lived here ever since I love I love Boston it's great it's a great season now do you really like the Red Sox and Patriots or do you just do that for Philip oh no no no where do you think he got it from oh no I've been I'm a Red Sox Patriot and Patriots fan let me tell you how much of a sports fan my mom is one night I guess I was in high school I was finishing up high school I come into the living room and the Red Sox had gone now they had lost the last game of the season they were out and I see my mom sitting and in front of the TV screaming at the TV kicking the TV how thick people you're not winning you guys are right that's the type of fan my mom is unbelievable amazing rubber Mouse was telling about your mom that people may not know tell us does she have a hobby and interest is something about her people don't appreciate first of all my mom is an editor at the New England Journal of Medicine a very prestigious medical journal so I'm pretty proud of her for that make comes very much in handy should review your Josh's she does I don't think I've ever given ad Russia that my mom is not reviewed that's part of me boy and another interesting fact my mom plays the cello played the cello since for a long time you could play are you I have a question I have a question for you that I'm a little nervous about it's a debate I've had for several years now with our fact checker who shall remain nameless but as an editor at such a prestigious journal and I wanted to say this is like when you ask a lot of question is if a lowing your pisaq or conclusion but here it is you ready I'm space one space or two after a period we do one space only no you're wrong it's to doing two space I grew up doing two spaces but in the journal we use one space probably for space reasons you know furred and it's just to contract the space but we use only one that's New England you're cheating the people out of the other space our fact checker I think just you know got very excited just now that's correct mrs. Brodie let's come back to you and we're gonna go through the alphabet again here mrs. Brody when your son was growing up when when young Josh was was was growing up and you know he reached his maximum height at a young age but one rabbi Brody was growing up at what point did you he could be a rabbi did you ever think that he'd be doing what he's doing today and having the impact that he's having today but I never ever ever thought in here my - you want the truth you said you'd run off with some rock band when he went off to near Jake if you had to bet whether there are greater odds that he'd be a rabbi or that he'd need a rabbi to mimic aria of him back which would you have put them on the on a better rabbi or need somebody to bring him back to Judaism which which would you have bet you should you should you should be so proud he's doing really very proud we love him Wow look at this I'm on I'm on a TV show with the biggest rabbis in the country right now I'm serious mom Goldberg did I tell you how pretty you look tonight that red sweater looks so pretty thank you thank you you're welcome you're welcome mom at the risk of embarrassing myself was there any point in my childhood that you would have thought I was gonna be a rabbi what did you what did you think I was going to become let me put it this way you were probably my most mischievous and rambunctious child and as you grew up you were extremely witty and funny I might even say a little crazy a little zany and these were never never characteristics that I associated with the rabbinate I didn't know any rabbis who were like this but furthermore as you got older I saw in you something a tremendous resource fulness getting things done figuring out problems jumping to take command really a tremendous amount of leadership and I always said when you were growing up that if I was ever stuck on a desert island the one person I would want to be with me was you because you would find me food like Tom and castaway you would find a doctor you would get the job done and you would also keep me laughing the whole time we were there when Danielle Judah shall be born she said the same thing being the rabbi good I'm sorry I'm first of all your Simon he's on hold on aldana Simon mirskiy Zhong cui please get a Tom Hanks rabbi Goldberg a little picture going on for the end of the show tonight no way but that was the longest beard standing up yeah that's what I say I just want to say the truth is I would shave my beard trim but my mom's like just keep growing it longer and longer and longer and keep it off aim what could I do that's right mrs. Moskowitz yes tell us tell us when young guv reopen cos when young Philip was in Maimonides when he was growing up what did you ever believe he'd be a rabbi did you believe he gives sermons did you believe that he published an article on the Internet today he's the featured post on why you toreador --g the cover story he's shot after I want you know mrs. mosque words you don't know and I'll say this right now publicly I am regularly having to wrestle search committees from around the country they call me about her by Moskowitz and I say he's a thief drunkard pedophile you don't want him because I have to keep my book but I say I have to say whatever whatever I have to because I got to keep him in Boca so mrs. Moskowitz did you ever believe that he was going to be a rabbi that was the most definitive out of all the answers no he was actually he well he also was mischievous I guess there's something about rabbis needing to be a little mischievous when they're young but he was also by far the most mischievous of my children he was also the one who drew people toward him all the time people just how wanted to follow him and be near him so in that sense I guess he had the makings of it he we all thought he was going into going to go into finance make a lot of money and support the rest of us for the rest of our lives so along the way but it all worked out for the best support be supported it's just a few extra letters what's the difference um there's no question listen he's amazing we're so proud of him also and he's doing incredible things we have the greatest team we're so we're so blessed here so mrs. Moskowitz while we have you tell us something about about Philips childhood that people don't know is there an episode a story that stands out is there like what is the legacy of Philip in the greater Moskowitz family my wife is cutting out again I think he Philip actually might not know but Philip mentioned that I played the cello he played the clarinet for several years my mom a question hold on hold on like I was a I was a 13 year old boy there was the guitar there was the saxophone there was the piano the drums what what were you thinking when you allowed me to play the clarinet I played just relax your blessings classical music and I'm not crazy about guitar classical music so I think I gave you the choice of the violin or the viola or something like that and you wanted something more I don't know it was something yes yeah no manly so he went with the clarinet clarinet right we're gonna have two chairs Moskowitz whether you know during these difficult times and trying to get through the day when no one's around whether rabbi Philip takes out the old clarinet just too housed the old clarinet is in my house he gave it up many years ago mrs. Goldberg what did Rabbi Goldberg play that he's so uh that he's so embarrassed about he actually took up the violin first it was my reject instrument first of all this says it all right here yeah Brody grew up on the drums and I was the violin master put up with those drums the truth is fill our mom's really loved us they wanted to make sure that the girls would stay away from us and we wouldn't get into trouble in our youth so they had us play those instruments to take care of that thank you so much mom anything for you no actually mrs. Brody let's go back to mrs. Goldberg mrs. Goldberg what um tell us about Sonny Robert Goldberg growing up people know him we know his writings we know his classes we know his sermons he's a very public figure tell us something that would surprise our audience about the great one and only rabbi Efrem Graham well first of all he was a tremendous sports enthusiast loved sports followed Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls was yeah tell him what the room looked like all over these rooms from there wasn't a an inch of regular wool wallpaper paint showing because every inch of the I'm being reminded that there were Michael Jordan posters on the ceilings as well so that was one thing he was a big Yankees fan continues to be Yankees fan that you know he played baseball he was a catcher in for Little League as a lefty which is not very common by the way that's catchers where they put the people who play the violin oh boy you know something I knew your dad I knew you were gonna say that I think I still hold the record for throwing the most men out at second base picking people off first because I was a left decided great angle to first base but anyway please mom before you so I don't know how many of you know that and a story which is in our family that we don't talk about too often is that your rabbi used to cut school in order to go play golf my mom my kids are watching is because I have a very close friend who taught at the same high school that he was attending and so she was very well aware of the fact that he was supposed to be in school but then she saw his name on the absence list and I enough of it what we didn't know what the hell was that playing golf during the time he was supposed to be in school was actually his rabbinic training that's correct no no no no I'm not with your mom yet one last question cuz all of America wants to know this the name Ephraim right most eighteen ninety-nine point nine percent are a frien you chose to name your son Ephraim can you explain that yes I can explain it let's start off with the fact that I have a name that's a very difficult name which is unrecognizable in America and I have to tell somebody my name about four or five times before they even begin to catch on so naming our children with Hebrew names was very very important to us it was really paramount we wanted to give each of our children one name only the same name Hebrew in English even though what might be pronounced a little bit differently in English and it had to be a Hebrew name and therefore we thought very long and hard about this at the same time I wanted the name not to be a difficult name and to be something that was recognizable so Ephram was the name that came from the name Ephram and we thought it was extremely close and that would be something that somebody could read and pronounce correctly and hear and absorb correctly and that wow I never knew that and to this day I get confused for Efrem Zimbalist jr. on a regular basis so anyway that must be the violin also mrs. Brodie I've met your daughter several times Josh's sister and it's really hard to think of people with such different personalities as Josh and his sister but there you know there's some of the same family same parents same upbringing same community same school system Josh's personality is craziness [Music] yeah please tell us yeah yeah for sure tell us he's actually three things he was in South Africa and on December 25th and back then in Cape Town you weren't born a woman gave birth in what they called a nursing home which is like a birthing hospital it wasn't a big Hospital and babies and the one that my doctor was affiliated when was it can click hospital or nursing home so Josh was born around 6:30 at 9:00 and then on Christmas Day and around seven o'clock the nuns with your habits the black the white came into the room to wish me a cracking on congratulations and they said mrs. Brodie you've got the only Christmas baby this year and we have a major set up cleaned out wise man there you can put your baby in the manger anyway okay where was his room on top of my room in the Attic so every time you played the drums and the boom-boom my husband and I thought his drums and Josh are going to come down in our bed and the house was built in 1924 Tom short widow so Josh besides being born playing the drums he also was like a Jewish carpenter he knew how to do and he learned this on his during the summer jobs but whatever he built himself a soundproof room in the basement to move his drum set in tonight anyway he built this room played the drum you have to avoid 128th of stroke Jesus played the drums thank you for all that mom's mom mom Brody mom Goldberg mom Moskowitz we want to thank you for joining us tonight coming on board we wanna wish you a Happy Mother's Day and again with sensitivity those who are longing to be moms we hope that that dream is realized for dobbing that everybody who wants to should healthy happy children show and by it's not fast but we want to thank you for everything you've done before we let you go we're gonna throw you a curve ball this was not in the questions I sent you but you ready I'm gonna be in big trouble for this I'm gonna ask each of you in one word to say what is your daughter-in-laws most outstanding quality what word comes to mind that makes you so proud to be the mother mother-in-law of your daughters-in-law that makes you love them I'm gonna just buy you some time right now what word makes you so proud yeah you know not only are we Mama's boys you're not only close with each of us but we're also blessed that there's beautiful relationships between our wives and which is how you understand one word in how you understand one word you should have been a rabbi mom Goldberg one word for your 71 word I think if I have to choose one word and it's not easy to choose only one I would have to say address in the reaching out to people the calling people who are alone calling people who are ill calling people who have struggles inviting people people coming to Houston baking for people cooking for people visiting them in hospitals and doing it all the time with tremendous strain a tremendous amount of pain and that smile are you saying she's a keeper MA I think so she's a keeper mrs. Moskowitz to give us one word about nurse Moskowitz okay so I'm gonna cheat and give you two words okay and patient both both attributes which have endeared her to me forever she's the absolutely without question the best gift Phillip has ever given me in his entire life Wow that is big that's amazing well mom's thank you so much for being with us tonight it's really amazing having you and I was so grateful that you you guys love you mom love you happy mother's day to you and don't take it personally when I get rid of you right now kick you happy Mother's Day there we go all right guys how do you how would you say that that went it was I was fine got a lot of people are saying this is best show we've ever done I'll just say this I'm getting texts from people who thought I was cool asking me more about the violin I know seriously that that totally come on your mom's a classic let's see resend okay sorry I just had to take care of some technical there okay we are back so let's let's move right along our moms are great but our listeners may not decide I care only about our moms I see Marla's join so Marla just so you know Brody took come responsibility for raising the entire Federation campaign earlier last night and $400,000 single hand he's the man we're so good for I want to pose the following question to you guys so there I was gonna share a screen but you know it's getting late another technology this poll came out and I want to read it to you and I want to hear your reaction to it Americans percent Brody listen carefully follows Morley's text to me right now Marla's texting you right yeah all right good ask her what her pledges ask her get her money percent of US adults who say that as a result of corona virus outbreak their own religious faith has become stronger weaker or hasn't changed much you got it they polled people this is a formal official credible poll they polled people and they said as a result of this coronavirus has it strengthened in your faith or weak in your faith or not changed your faith okay so are you listening okay Christians if he's about to ask us the question 35 percent well you got it I shared it with you Christians 35 percent of Christians say that this virus has made their faith stronger 58 percent hasn't changed much and then it's broken down evangelical and so on Catholics 27 percent made their faith stronger and 63 percent it hasn't changed much you ready for the Jewish faith you ready you know what did it say only seven percent David's made their faith stronger and it's nearly 70 percent say that hasn't changed much so I want to ask you what do you make of that what do you make of the fact that the Jewish people of all the religions say that this whole episode has had the least impact on their faith and it hasn't changed much how do you interpret that isn't that the story the Jewish people right isn't that the story the Jewish people the challenge that we have to constantly see God's hand in our lives right isn't that the challenge that whether it was the splitting of the sea or the ten plagues or Matan Torah you read any story in Tanakh certainly in the later you know parts of Tanakh isn't that the entire story is that the naveen lament the fact that Hashem is in our lives he's doing amazing things his hand is guiding the world we're sleeping at the wheel and we're oblivious so I don't know how true that is I don't know who they polled I don't know which denominations of Judaism they polled but at its core that is the challenge of every Jew the challenge of a Jew is to see world events through the context and through the prism of relationship with Hashem yeah but I guess first of all I shouldn't of showing you the question in advance because you clearly gave it a lot of thought but now I really know my point you cheated my point is the what do you expect from a high place I mean boy these faces definitely two spaces you agree right two spaces in Russia shorten two spaces faces faces yeah I guess my question bro rabbi brody is the following what I really mean to ask is this the fact that Jewish people seventy percent feel their faith is unchanged by this episode the question is this is that in fact an indictment that we've not lived through this and and we're having greater faith or maybe it's a compliment maybe our faith level was so high was so strong that the fact that this curveball that's been thrown our way hasn't changed our faith is not in fact a criticism but really is a reflection of how strong faith and resiliency has been we've been through a lot of things oppression persecutions exterminations explosions we've been through a whole lot so what do you think I think in the scheme of things it doesn't really seem like such a big deal obviously people are dying and it's obviously serious young people die every year from many different things but at the end of the day this is not a you know an attack on the Jews it's not directed to the Jews like some of the other attacks are so I know that's it's obviously not uniquely Jewish at the same time I don't think I think the faith question is going to be something which we're gonna be battling for years to come I don't know that I don't know that that we're done with this yet I don't think that this this episode is even we I don't think anyone understands what's gonna happen after this is over I think we're gonna meet a whole new world here we don't understand this right now yeah it's a good question - out of loss yeah I got a few comments that have come in first of all we got a comment as Abba the sass is out of control you need to be nicer to help me Moskowitz signed your girls so I agree I want to thank my daughters who are always ready and willing and able to offer feedback in real time to me whenever they think I need it so thank you for that we also have a question around by Brodey asking what's with the hat tell us about where's that hat from so lately I've been wearing hats yesterday I was wearing a bandana of sorts it was a big day and you were in front of the camera a lot and I mentioned last week that I just had some it's almost something equivalent to the chemotherapy cream I know that sounds pretty intense but it actually was burned my whole Ford you can't really see it now I intentionally put the cap over it but the end of the day we came forward with some great sponsors so besides serving a practical purpose for me personally right now having a hat on I get to wear something which is great I know we're not talking about this right now I think we're getting to you said next week right but it is certainly a great gift for another big thank you to mark blocker and Shabbos light comm you could order it on Amazon you can go to you can go to the Grove it's really a great gift for Mother's Day if you're looking for some jewelry you can go to Jay Feder comm Jay Feder jewelers and we're so grateful to our sponsors we can happen we have we have a few minutes left and let me bring up another topic we really we talked about moms and moms Mother's Day we talked about our parents who exposed and revealed a lot of things for us that we wish maybe they never live down that we will never that we will never live down but let me let me bring up another topic and as soon as I remember what it is I'll pose it exactly to you what was the topic I was gonna bring up I was gonna ask you right now so I think last week we fixed our by Brody's Wi-Fi next week we got red phones first of all wait till you see what we have in the mail it it's supposed to come today didn't didn't show up so how to make make do I'd ask a Hooven say hey listen can I borrow your headphones like why like just trust me just don't make any noise what did you discuss what did you guys discover about yourself during this time before we went into coronavirus did you think you were an extrovert or an introvert and has that changed now that you've been living essentially hibernating for two months go film someone how would you have characterized yourself before this big you how what would your what would recycle school what would our yellow said about it I don't think it's chained I don't think it's changed I think I'm an ambivert which if you if you google it sits in between an extrovert and introvert in other words there are parts of me that are are enormous ly extroverted I love being with people I love interacting with people I love being in a big show with tons of action but there's definitely an introverted part of me that enjoys you know coming back to the privacy in my own home I need time by myself I value the time by myself I mean you guys know that for me is running it's just it's my time no one's around me I do my best thinking then so I'm definitely in between I always was and I don't think that's changed dramatically during coronavirus I mean I think there are times where I crave that human interaction I'll be texting with people and calling people and then there are times where I'll just go out back and listen to the breeze and say to myself I love peace and quiet what about you Rabbi Goldberg so one second so in the end of the day so you're somewhere in between basically you're hedging ambivert I'm not make that word up no it doesn't word yeah and and and I've always thought that I'm not hedging at all I think okay when I talk about this they're parts of of us that love being you know blood being with people and love interacting with people and then there are times where you just need to go and do a little is bow to this and be by yourself with your Creator right that's fair that's fair so I think that that's actually a remarkable level of self-awareness you thought about this you know who you are you know what you need at different times and that's a great I admire that it's a lot of self-awareness the girls and I being nice to him now is that good rabbi Brody I'm just you know it's funny I'm not extrovert introvert yeah I'm not at a middle kind of guy I'm telling you I am all introvert total introvert I love you're both thinking I don't know the definition of the word you thinking I'm getting mixed up the answer is no I'm actually actually know what it means and I love being alone when I'm I love it I love this you know we're getting Brody hold that Robby Braganza oh look who's joined us we were getting several comments and first of all Michelle Donald says if we'd use if we'd use one space we'd save hours a year but I'm not even sure it's worth it I gotta tell you the eyes what Michelle doesn't appreciate is when you're when you have ADD Russia and you're glancing quickly down in it you need space we're getting some feedback here Simon I can't hack my machine what's he got going on he's got something in the back we're basically getting some bombs but we're getting zoom bombed by one of our own friends but yeah not Michelle it's a fair point maybe save time not sure it's worth it but Brody yeah bye Brody coming back to you anyone who knows he's on Facebook live all day out there balla energy March the living on stage grabbing the mic wanting the mic in the spotlight we would never believe you're an introvert but if anyone's been at a Shabbos meal where all the sudden he disappears you would believe he's an introvert so tell us about you I go Berg what about you Brody where did what how do you need to be alone I'm telling you I just love being alone there are times during the meal I don't know there I'm gonna get into the detail which band does this but there's a desert there's a big band tours around Stadium tours in between even like during the guitar solo of every every song he just goes and he looks off the stage every time so like during Shabbos meals it Simone knows every 20-25 minutes I just I got to get up and I gotta leave for a few minutes I just need some time but you put on headphones you put on your music you go in on Shabbos obviously well I have my Shabbos light you know my shop is light which bright shines so bright on my oracle business card that's right where can anyone get the Shabbos light you get it right at around on the Grove yeah that's right we want to thank Oracle was our first sponsor really really got rolling Sal Abadi and Sal Abadie both of them we want to thank them from Oracle any home health care needs they need to be able to see in the night on Shabbos they can get a Shabbos light and if they want to buy some jewelry for the8 who's taking care of you're a parent then you can go to Jay Feder juice Simon you continue to bomb us so we might as well you're gonna bring us out of our program tonight yeah apparently there goes my you got to give your answer revert I'm still working through my answer you know so I'm gonna tell you I probably other than your wife I probably know you better than anyone in the role and by the way include I might include your parents with that right now I probably spend more time with you than anyone other than your wife and maybe even more than your wife you are the most extroverted person I've ever met really yes I've never met someone who relaxes specifically by enjoying the company about people you know it's interesting you say that but I actually I discovered the reason I thought of this question is I discovered a lot about myself during this whole time and I want to be very clear I miss our community I miss seeing people and miss the hugs I miss the energy I miss the face-to-face I thrive off of those connections in that time and being together and I really miss it but on the other hand I've really also enjoyed a lot of being able to retreat and and go inside and spend time and and and I think I really discovered about myself that maybe I'm an introvert then I thought I was and and I'm with Brody on this set with Rabbi Brody that you know people can confuse that that in some ways you connect with others externally draw energy but also just to sometimes recharge you need to just be you need to just exist just do your thing and and you know so I'm not sure it's a good question we did have our faculty our hands of Hertz you are an ambivert like I am yeah we do have a definition our fact checker has submitted although I don't know credibility he has since he believes it should be one space not two but an ambivert is someone who's normal overall behavior is between introversion and extroversion and an omnivore is someone who can either can be either at different times so I might be an omnivore I'm the verb so I'm people who play the violin are oftentimes omnivores yeah I hear that flute boy but listen truth is the the truth is that I guess the point that we're bringing up is that as much as we're going through a crisis right now we're also learning about ourselves oh yeah if you take if you take the time some self-awareness take the time for some self-awareness ask questions about yourself and learn from the people around you it's really a time of learning and of growing and of learning about ourselves so our dear friend Simon the winner of our talent show was going to come back on for a couple minutes spot at the end here but you know there's actually a figure out when our mom's figure it out well there's a big lesson or what happened tonight is that you know there's a mission in querque of us that if you try to do something for everything it has its time don't try to don't try to do something or do something before it's time and Simon tried to join a little early tonight we removed him and then that went there went the link he wasn't able to rejoin and so a person has their their moment and you have to go with the moment Hashem gives you in the time that he gives it to us and you can't advance it you can't make it happen earlier or later that it's meant to be you got to embrace it the time it's meant to come so um there's a lesson to be learned we want to thank Simon but tonight let's just hope his jokes can be used again next week I hope so I hope so rabbi Brodie rabbi Moskowitz I think this is a wrap on episode father showed us this was a fun one and trust me everybody if you like this one wait till you see what's coming next week yeah we're really just getting started and and we're just getting into our groove and we keep thinking our sponsors they mean the world to us so we want to thank Sal again getting started with Oracle we want to thank Shabbos later different mark blacker it's done a great job a great product and and I'm not just saying it it's it's we've used it my kids use it and and we have them all over our house you can't lock I'd like to use it also if you happen to have it they're really they're affordable they're practical and there's 30 you're not gonna have to replace it and Jay Feder jewelers wait till you see the bling around rabbi Brody's neck next week jewelry by the way I just give you a little heads-up on Jay Feder first of all the guy I went to yeshiva you know back in the day there you out with his straw yeah there you straw with you stroll and I just went recently before the the wedding I wanted to get some oh she won't I wanted to get some I wanted to get it you know something reset you know since you know 23 years so we walk in and he's you know I'm walking over and he's like yeah let me bring you to the section where did say you have something for everybody yeah there you go in some stores when they take you to the back it's where they have the really expensive stuff when they took you to the back it's because you know here's the lose your jeweler he's he's got something every price range he's gonna I don't I don't know if Marla still listening but Brody now that you have that 400 K it's time to get back to Jay Feder jewelers and get something a little uh there goes my fort for Turkey of us okay ready to take us out of tonight's episode we welcome back the winner of the Boca Raton synagogue talent show on the inaugural winner the Waterloo extraordinaire the inimitable the one in a treehouse and I kept putting myself back in so I want to understand something my there can you see me no yes we need to you just before I start I just want a review you played clarinet you played was it flute violin and what could I play oh yeah slide guitar and a wicked blues heart okay cool I just I needed to remind myself listen last week before I left you remember you asked me to tell you something about improv yes well do you remember about 17 years ago my troupe actually performed the show yes I did I think that was the night that you ended your career at improv wasn't it no well I had been part of that troupe for a while and you hired our troupe to play there and I didn't play I didn't join in with them that night everybody knows you don't make a shariats are where you make hum Otzi okay so here we go I won is my new segment and that is Simon I remember how much you remember how much time we allocated you right yeah well how much time as much as mrs. Brodie yeah what happened to the waste won't work I was gonna wait patiently in the green room and we're not we need a little bit more sponsorship to get a green room we're not there yet oh then I'm gonna sponsor I a sponsor I'm gonna thank Joey Blasco for lending me his sous-vide cooker I made the most incredible brisket tonight unbelievable Joey Lascaux thank you very much it's like butter really fantastic all right so let's hear a bit yeah I'd like to sew letters mailbag this is the behind the Bema mailbag okay and I don't know where I have my phone in my computer on where do you see me you see me here don't know we're good we're good do your thing anyway so I have a letter from anonymous which I know you like you love anonymous letters and it says dear rabbis I've been a fan of your shows since the very beginning you know before it got better from the first episode I found it to be lively informative and very entertaining this surprised me as the title behind the Bema led me to believe that it was actually going to be a gritty and hard-hitting expose today on abuse within the rabbinate if I were to make a light-hearted documentary about exhausted birthday clowns taking a nap in their cars in between hired events delighting children with animal balloons I wouldn't call it vaccine birthday clowns when the laughter stops nevertheless I will continue to watch your show but may I suggest that if you decide to keep this name you post a disclaimer that viewer discretion is not necessary and that it is in fact family friendly despite its ominous title there's more I'd like to say but it's my daughter's birthday today and there's a very well-rested or looking birthday clown knocking at my door Thank You anonymous well that wasn't the only feature also picked a show for blowing yeah yeah no no no listen that was a real letter and this show is called the Bema you think what you like also being a viewer of your you know with like the congregation I'm watching your show but now that I'm a regularly featured cast member I got to be determined yeah I'll have usek next week I want it to be a liaison of sorts and allow the community to access your collective wisdom so I encourage them to submit to me any questions that they have about Judaism about Torah about being a rabbi and there was a tremendous response I got a bag of mail and I just I want to read the first tonight with Simon Simon can you first of all make clear that none of us have seen this and are we gonna be okay with it my children are watching okay and we're and remember we're in the wrapping up segment are there any Malaysians in the audience come on Simon you'll be okay okay so anyway this is the first question and to kick it off it's for all three of you I want you to listen I want you to think about it and whoever wants to answer first can you know you just jump right in here it is rabbis how much would you say you pull it a year after taxes I want say we want to thanks for coming on tonight Simon you were great as always thank you so much for being with us we love you we'll see you please God sometime in the future ladies and gentlemen thank you so much for being here mark are you there can he hear us mark I gotta unmute him mark Buckner are you there I meet yourself mark you there I'm here mark thanks for your sponsorship tonight we love that Boston accent mark of yours not only the show but the three of you at least the two of you I don't know about Brody the two of you excuse me rabbi Moskowitz knows that who we are at Debbie and I were alone this Pesach except for all the photographs of all our grandchildren on the MTA cheers from the dining room and one of our sons went with Rabbi Moskowitz to school and he was also born on Christmas also named when I came down from the yeah but was he placed at a major to go to the nursery they greeted me with little baby Josh named obviously with a Santa Claus hat all wrapped up and they said that the channel 7 TV was ready to interview me as the first father of the first Christmas baby I was the president of the Young Israel of Brookline that year and I had to decline Wow mark thanks for coming on thanks for your sponsors of great products Shabbos light calm everyone should get one amazing Sheila wineries support our brothers and sisters in Israel during this hard-hit time we have a great event you can sign up spaces getting filled up Thursday May 21st 9:00 p.m. we have amici Lorie of Sheila wineries gonna teach us everything we need to know about kosher wines rabbi Brody rabbi Moskowitz that's a wrap on another episode around tonight issuing the moms happy Mother's Day and making moms moms have your dreams realized my friends this is rabbi Brody rabbi Moskowitz a new rabbi Goldberg telling you stay healthy stay happy stay holy have a great night see you next time