{"id":20125,"date":"2010-06-13T15:16:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T23:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=20125"},"modified":"2010-06-13T15:16:53","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T23:16:53","slug":"rabbi-rabbs-wont-water-down-the-torah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=20125","title":{"rendered":"Rabbi Rabbs Won&#8217;t Water Down The Torah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=19907\">The whole megillah<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rabbi: &#8220;Let&#8217;s just water down the Torah. That&#8217;s not even in my thinking. To me, the Torah is the truth and that&#8217;s it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have a <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.rabbs.com\/jokes.html\">joke book<\/a> out&#8230; I used to work a day job in computers and I just make jokes about it. Writing books is fun but publishing books is a pain. It&#8217;s not worth it. If you knew how little money is in it, you wouldn&#8217;t do it. So I&#8217;m not going to go through that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m suicidal, right? I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m going to make it the next 50 years. I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m going to make it the next 50 days. I may get so depressed after this interview that I&#8217;ll blow my head off tonight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Luke: &#8220;Can I film?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi: &#8220;That would be too weird.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Luke: &#8220;Maybe we can just do it on my live cam?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi: &#8220;Nah. I think that&#8217;s going to gross me out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I told my rabbi, when I go, publish it [book of essays]. After I&#8217;m dead, get this thing out there. And he said that he would do that. If I kill myself, he&#8217;ll publish it himself and put it on his website. I&#8217;ll become the frum Kurt Cobain. He&#8217;s more of an icon now. His legacy is after he killed himself. I&#8217;ll probably become more famous after I kill myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Luke: &#8220;Is there anything you won&#8217;t do in your comedy?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi: &#8220;I won&#8217;t go into my private life. I leave people out of it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Luke: &#8220;Do you wish you could say things but you won&#8217;t do it for whatever reason?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi: &#8220;Depends on the room. If the people are drinking and they are a bunch of goyim, I&#8217;ll say what I want. If there happen to be Jews in there, I&#8217;ll be extra careful. I don&#8217;t perform for Jewish audiences because they can&#8217;t handle me on stage. Then I have to watch everything I say because somebody is going to get offended that a rabbi is saying these things. So I can&#8217;t say certain things. If I talk about sex, I&#8217;m going to lose the audience. If I start making a dick joke, the audience is gone. They&#8217;re going to start screaming at me. If I do the same joke in a room full of Sephardic Jews, they&#8217;ll laugh their asses off. If I do the same joke in a room full of Catholics, I&#8217;ll blow them away. The roof will fly off the top. My ultimate wet dream is to play a room full of Catholic people and I&#8217;d call that room a church.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Luke: &#8220;Secular Ashkenazi Jews won&#8217;t care if you talk about sex.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi: &#8220;They&#8217;re still not going to be comfortable that a rabbi is saying it. Unfortunately, they put me on a pedastal. They think a rabbi is some kind of holy guy&#8230; They expect you to be like Jesus Christ, some perfect person. A rabbi is just a teacher. 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