Rear Pew Mirror

Whether we realize it or not, Jews pray multiple times every day for zombies to rise up. It's true. Listen to find out exactly where. And how it relates to tea.

After completing Rosh Hashanah, and looking ahead to Yom Tzom Kippur, one wonders how can someone be sealed in The Book of Life if they're a zombie, and if a zombie eating human brains violates the fast on Yom Kippur. These and many other questions won't be answered in this exciting episode, but a few will.

Rear Pew Mirror is the longtime humor column in Southern Jewish Life magazine (sjlmag.com), the first thing Hebrew readers look at since it's the back page feature.

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The home magazine for the column on which this podcast is based – Southern Jewish Life – is vastly expanding its coverage region, from East Texas to the Carolinas. In honor of that, this episode explores the surprising similarities between The South (American) and The Southern Kingdom (ancient Israel).

Grab your Moon Pies and Golden Flake, and find out what they and many other Southernisms have in common with the southern Kingdom of Judah from 2500 years ago. You're gonna be surprised.

Rear Pew Mirror is the longtime humor column in Southern Jewish Life magazine (sjlmag.com), the first thing Hebrew readers look at since it's the back page feature.

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What if the raiders of the lost ark weren't pursuing the Ark of the Covenant, rather a different Ark of biblical proportions?

Wonder no more, as you can hear here just how similar the story might have been!

Rear Pew Mirror is the longtime humor column in Southern Jewish Life magazine (sjlmag.com), the first thing read by Hebrew readers since it's the back page feature.

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Once again, we've got an episode based not on the Rear Pew Mirror humor column, but on an actual yes-they-let-him sermon. Once again, lightning didn't strike the sanctuary, but listen at your own risk.

The Torah reading on June 17, 2023 was primarily about the twelve spies sent into the Promised Land by M(oses), with only two spies giving optimistic reports (including Joshua, which much like James Bond, wasn't his real name) and the remaining minyan of minions reporting out of fear rather than faith. But you should have faith, not fear, that you'll hear three actual, legitimate, brief rabbinic commentaries as well as how all this relates to the San Francisco Giants, James Bond, Star Trek III, Bobby Zimmerman, and the Almighty Himself, George Burns.

Confused? You won't be after this episode of the Rear Pew Mirror podcast.

Rear Pew Mirror is the longtime humor column in Southern Jewish Life magazine (sjlmag.com), though you can't hold it against them, by contract. Unless your contractions are fewer than two minutes apart.

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This episode is loaded, as it unloads on the phenomenon of mass shootings. Fresh from the recently discovered biblical book of Donteronomy comes a familiar-sounding story which helps illustrate the line between sense and nonsense, and the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of staying not dead, and its ever-increasing mitigation – the right to bear arms.

When there's no right time to discuss a subject that merits discussion, any time becomes the right time – otherwise it happens at no time.

Trigger warning: This episode is not for the faint of human heart. Actually, that's who it's for the most of all.

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This year, Passover's First Seder and Star Trek's First Contact Day fall on the same day. Of course, there are special ways to celebrate.

First Contact Day is exactly forty years away, much like the Promised Land was for the Israelites leaving Egypt before the bakeries opened. Nevertheless, the Vulcans have had a presence on Earth for generations in the form of the world's largest cast-iron statue.

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The biblical prohibition against mixing wool and linen is called Shatnez. Fortunately, there’s no Shatnez for bartenders mixing shots of these all-new Israel-inspired cocktails. From a Jerusalemoncello to a Chocolatinetivot, there's something for everyone (who drinks) no matter what their favorite part of the Promised Land proves to be.

Please listen responsibly. Don't drink and daven.

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Bo Jackson knows football and baseball, but does Bo know Diddley about the portion of the book of Exodus that's in Hebrew called Bo?

Either way, here's a recently uncovered biblical chapter that recounts one of the greatest turnabouts to ever occur on a field of battle. Known by some as "Wrong Way Bo," these 21 verses reveal the divine source that recaps this rousing Roll Tide victory in the 1984 Iron Bowl.

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Rav Kook was the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi during the British mandate period in the early Twentieth Century before the modern state of Israel was founded and changed the name to Twentieth Century Fox.

Nobody (including him) realizes that, as his name suggests, Rav Kook was also a gourmet. Maimonides wrote his Guide for the Perplexed, and Rav Kook provided his never-before-seen (even now) Guide to Simcha Dining.

He emphasized unusual food choices – often for occasions that usually aren't associated with food at all. Not that he would suggest to eat on a fast day, but listen here to hear how he'd cater to catering the meals surrounding Yom Kippur, the Tenth of Tevet, and other days where menus usually aren't on the menu.

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It's the Year of the Rabbit in that other lunar calendar. Due to a contractual typo, this episode's planned Ask the Rabbi feature is instead a chance to Ask the Rabbit.

Hear the world's greatest Rabbitic authority providing answers to actual Judaic questions in Amazon Alexa – many of which the moderators found too good to include, so you can hear them only here. For those who read the column, you can hear several bonus answers to questions that might not seem Judaically related, but are.

Amazon is not directly responsible for any of this, nor is it pre-endorsed by any particularly tall women.

Rear Pew Mirror is the longtime humor column in Southern Jewish Life magazine (sjlmag.com), though by contractual stipulation you can't hold it against them.

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