The Differences Between Ashkenazi & Sephardic Jews | Modi Stand Up Comedy

[@anamariaguadayol2335]

I'm Sephardic and I have two eyebrows, my husband of blessed memory though was Mizrahi and his whole face was an eyebrow 🥰

[@TheOdieD3]

Hahahahahahahahahaha Glorious hahahahahahaha

[@daniaa.oliva-pena7338]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@karphin1]

😂😂😂😂

[@jgarbo3541]

Religion is not genetic, only a club anyone can join or leave.

[@anamariaguadayol2335]

@jgarbo3541 that may be true for your religion, but not for mine.

[@ronbarnabei8226]

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.

[@sofiastellaabitbol3658]

I am Italian Jewish. The perfect combination.

[@lucatintor4896]

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.

[@AckzaTV]

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.

[@billsager5634]

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)

[@hughhughes4488]

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".

[@Tamarsapz]

🤣🤣🤣 “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

[@scania1982]

Really?

[@mariannastarr4518]

😂😂😂😂

[@SugarandSkinSpa]

Lolol i am Ashkenazi and always had one eyebrow. My father’s fault lol. He was the darker of my parents

[@lanagrossman489]

@@scania1982has to be a joke

[@grasmereguy5116]

That's better than one of your children having half an eyebrow

[@LaLaOhyah-co4wi]

I'm part Sephardic Jew. We love Good food, Good Music 🎶 and Family.

[@Bootmahoy88]

"Humanity needs to outgrow religion if it's to survive." Carl Sagan

[@LaLaOhyah-co4wi]

@Bootmahoy88 birds with the same feathers 🪶 flock together. There is always something common.

[@franciscojimenez6906]

No doubt, you are spaniards ❤.

[@LaLaOhyah-co4wi]

@franciscojimenez6906 claro que si, I'm part Spaniards and multi mixes.

[@aas11476ng]

Yeah.. As an Ashkenazi, our contribution to modern Israeli music is way too little 😂

[@revivalgardening438]

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

[@dreamervanroom]

Come back after a bit - the comments just get better...

[@crustybomb115]

i will tell you this much: the more you know about jews and judaism the funnier this video gets...

[@suegordon6805]

Same here. The man’s hilarious.

[@clarephillips8552]

Absolutely love this guy! Laughter is the best medicine and Modi is hilarious 😂

[@senatornoam7313]

חכם מודי

[@CorePathway]

Dude is named after the India-Indian leader?!? I’m really confused

[@Susan-kz8dd]

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?" 😂

[@doomguy9049]

Lmaoooo

[@egyptianusify2043]

Hahaha hilarious

[@compassion-t9y]

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.

[@monicadabney8471]

Im Traditional Catholic however I have North African Sephardic ancestry via my mother.

[@Nativeraiin]

Yep via my dad, he was born in Jalisco, MX

[@TheGrandy123]

Well said

[@Salooherz]

Yeah definitely a North African thing, a lot of Jews aren’t historically generous as we all have seen in the past year

[@MaghrebProductions]

True

[@qs1066]

OMG your 9 hour Sephardi bracha, I was dying. But also the Ashkenazi guy "doing surgery," that was literally my FIL

[@Ely-e1d]

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.

[@kentuckybowl-o-sticks]

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.

[@DieFlabbergast]

You should learn Hebrew: I'm not even Jewish but I'm learning Modern Hebrew. It's a beautiful language.

[@preshant91]

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.

[@alvarofernandez5118]

We are Spanish in ancestry, and my grandfather, after a particularly opulent meal, would declare: "Well! We ate like Sephardites!"

[@CalixtoSalinas]

Mexicano norteño?

[@Tina-qp7py]

​@@CalixtoSalinasMy grandfather was from Torreon and was Sephardic but nobody in my family knew.

[@screamtoasigh9984]

​@@Tina-qp7pylook up shavei Israel and return home

[@vavan_vilgrant8210]

Well Christopher Columbus apparently was Sephardic so he was a Jew too 😅

[@DimitriMoreira]

​@@vavan_vilgrant8210 Columbus was Italian. Hired by the Spanish court, but 100% Italian nonetheless.

[@sageoftruth]

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.

[@PuzzleVibesAndFeathers]

😂😂

[@60Airflyte]

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. 😆

[@evangmmmmmmmmmmm268]

Spanish ancestry... I'm mexican and also have it.

[@faius1990]

You can't be Native American then . Sorry because Native American 's Has Q Hablogroup but jews has H hablogroup.

[@wendylitman3121]

Do you have roots in the San Luis Valley?

[@qbasicmichael]

Most mexicans seem to descend from sephardic jews. It is probably sephardic being misreported as ashkenazi.

[@micheledesoer1975]

There were quite a few Jews who made their way to Mexico and often hid their heritage.

[@hagegesamuel]

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

[@Big.dragon00]

i thought North African jews are Mizrahi….

[@hagegesamuel]

@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.

[@aas11476ng]

@@Big.dragon00but Mizrahim are oftentimes classified as a branch of Sfaradim, which is technically correct as well

[@Nurichiri]

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.

[@Meirstein]

Jews and Italians are pretty much the same people. Same corporation, different divisions.

[@beach.6812]

My as "Sicilian" got the results of being 11% Ashkenazi. 😊

[@carolsaia7401]

Sicilian dad: Italian Greek No African, Sephardic Jew. Last name Saia, from Isaiah.

[@stephenfisher3721]

Many Jews and Italians look similar.

[@Thenoobestgirl]

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?

[@JiubeiKibagami]

Tears in my eyes of laughter, you absolutely nailed it 200%, we love you!

[@michaelmisczuk1188]

Pie chart, results in Yiddish. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@wawaron1407]

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

[@ThePunisher014]

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.

[@bnbcraft6666]

​@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

[@tinachristine4573]

​@@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.

[@ThePunisher014]

@@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' :)

[@jamberstone1]

Ha! I am Jewish & everyone thinks I am Italian, even in the Italian neighborhood

[@Spaceshewarrior]

I grew up among Sephardic jews: I was born in Rome, Italy.

[@sonjak8265]

I grew up among Sephardic Jews in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

[@PlanetIscandar]

So strange.. i always thought the opposite: that Sephardim lived among the locals.

[@dreamervanroom]

I heard that Jews lived in Rome who never came from Spain. Then are they Sephardic? (The word Sephardic means Spanish.)

[@sonjak8265]

@@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.

[@thehonestguitarist6543]

​. Jews lived in Rome in 180 BC. Directly from Israel courtesy of Roman Empire. Their descendants remain.

[@izzynelken8125]

נהדר. ממש נפלא. גם ה 23 and me שלי נראה כמו matzah ball with a toothpick

[@jjw56]

White meat, dark meat … I’m dying 😂😂😂 Ya gooD

[@alexyoussoupoff888]

Lol

[@fazekaslaszlo]

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

[@דם-נמר]

במת? מגניב👍

[@bkanoid]

Like it or not, They were probably forced to convert.

[@petticoatjunction3628]

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.

[@penelope8712]

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.

[@smhorse]

That sounds almost like the Omid Djalili film "The Infidel" 😂😂😂

[@spontinimalky]

You know what Sepharadic Jews call Ashkenazis : the best friends of the Jews. 😂

[@alexyoussoupoff888]

Lol

[@404Matt]

Khazars.

[@whatyouknowboutme]

@@404Mattyuooooo seeee

[@amenselah]

​@@404Matt you went there, Jews women were very promiscuous

[@NewsStripper]

@@404Matt don’t believe everything you hear.

[@nancyhalstead916]

Should’a been a cantor Great voice

[@EmetSheker]

Yeah I was pretty shocked at his cantillation abilities.

[@yaacobchayo70]

He actually is

[@l33t007]

I said the exact same thing to my husband.

[@marialuciavalentini9448]

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!

[@Ramon51650]

I'm 74, and this is easily one of the funniest comedians....EVER.....well, maybe Flip Wilson.

[@LMarkWeeks]

Flip Wilson! RIP

[@irefi64]

Ah, you remember him too!

[@hannagg9365]

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.

[@InkaPley]

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.

[@Meirstein]

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.

[@moniqueengleman873]

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.

[@Eldar-tv3xm]

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.

[@clivewatson8038]

What race group in Europe makes up an Ashkenazi? Why is the last 4 letters Nazi in Ashkenazi?

[@horgelsinfelgrass7164]

I' am born again christian and found this hysterical. Humor is an awesome way to connect to others!

[@philipmccrackeniii4575]

I'm hearing some Yiddish in his speech

[@VagoniusThicket]

🤦🏻‍♂️

[@ZakVinni]

Oh, that was awesome!!! Everyone around me tells me I'm Jewish, took 23 and me, I'm 99% Slavic 😆🤣😂

[@bobeczek01]

Hey...but is that 1% Jewish?

[@ZakVinni]

Ashkenazi

[@sugarsnap7883]

I am 90% eastern euro as they put it, with the name slavic mentioned, mostly Polish, 100% european, and 1.2 % Ashkenazim 😸

[@Eugensson]

I am Russian. Expectation 80% Slavic, 10% Ashkenazi, 10% Turkic. Tests come in: Balkan, Baltic, Finnish.

[@devinthierault]

​@@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.

[@private464]

"the pie chart was a matza ball with a toothpick in it. Health risks: nazis and kanye" 1:21-2:14 is gold!

[@live_free_or_perish]

I remember my first sephardic pesach - it was wild compared to my family's Ashkenazi pesach. They literally shouted out the ten plagues

[@BC25citizen]

😂

[@Forjatuvida]

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.

[@lucycadell3575]

Lot of surprises in DNA

[@ruisilva8222]

😂That is truly weird and wonderful my friend. Or not that strange…

[@DixieLane304]

Almost everyone in Europe has some Jewish blood. Micing did happen…

[@AmethystEyes]

Welcome to the club!

[@batya7]

Many Jews from Spain settled in Amsterdam after the Inquisition. 28% is the equivalent of 1 grandparent.

[@danhiggins3002]

I am Catholic, my wife is Jewish. That makes our kids half Catholic half Jewish or…Cashews.

[@Donna-cc1kt]

Cashews. That was great!

[@c.f.okonta8815]

Why didn’t you marry a Christian

[@rhapsag]

You're nuts.

[@kototube346]

This sounds to me like northern/southern Italians differences 🤣 such a good set, thanks for the great insights in Jewish culture!

[@HannanelVaaknin]

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.

[@ChrisOnez718]

since its 2024, I can confess finally in public, I'm trans-Jewish. I'm Sephardic, but I identify as Ashkenazi 😂

[@zedwart8534]

I am the opposite :-)

[@REKaiser85]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@AckzaTV]

Trans siberian oblast 🏳️‍🌈

[@AckzaTV]

Is ur flag Romanian or Venezuelan?

[@purdysanchez]

What you just said equates to "I'm trans American. I'm Cherokee but I identify as English"

[@LS-dp2gs]

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😂

[@Emanon...]

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.

[@roshanmathew9443]

Yeah Ask the Nazi... 😂😂😂😂DNA confirmed 😮😮😮

[@Galatzo]

He's a 24 carat Ashkenazi

[@taylorreilly8428]

"Sir, up front. When was the last time you whoo'd" lol 😆

[@HaleyMary]

I'm a Patrilineal Jew with 32% Ashkenazi heritage and I love this!

[@bufordhighwater9872]

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)

[@ehudamami5779]

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.

[@OurFreeSociety]

LMAO

[@gloryakiepper7918]

I could see this act over and over. So funny;so smart and so Jewish.😊

[@InkaPley]

❤😂

[@JosesRants]

😂😂😂 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).

[@aragregorian6039]

Or death ☠️? So even the meaning of L'Chaim is fake. I should have known.

[@AntonAdelson]

TIL, thanks!

[@stephenfisher3721]

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

[@stephenfisher3721]

To my understanding l'chaim meant innocent and not life sentence. If the judges found the defendant innocent, they would say “l’chayim.”

[@Eldar-tv3xm]

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.

[@TheBlackToedOne]

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.

[@Yabroproductions33]

This is one of the purest, truly funny sets I’ve seen in a decade😂

[@daisybuchanan8205]

I a Muslim and I find him hilarious 😂😂😂

[@barryw2659]

I am not surprised. We are cousins 😊

[@moatazmattar4714]

Same here

[@oza8578]

​@@barryw2659❤

[@CorePathway]

I’m…well…Buddhist, by choice. I missed the inside jokes but yes, funny AF

[@xydoit2024]

As a Jew thank you.

[@WanderingPassports]

Last time I checked Spain was in Europe, Sephardic is Mediterranean not Northern Europe.

[@rachelmilloy7640]

Beautiful singing! And great comedy!

[@melissamiller7826]

True comedy does not need to be raunchy! Love it! 😂

[@ruthtarragano]

למרות ששמעתי את הקטע הזה לפחות 5 פעמים- מתפוצצת מצחוק!! 🤣🤣💙

[@michaelmisczuk1188]

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.

[@74357175]

Thumbs up for the singing alone! 😄

[@jillefeldme9452]

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.

[@IkisDragonFist]

I completely lost it at עלינו ועל בנינו ואלג'זירה ואלקאעידה 🤣

[@LoT-r4s]

I picked that up, pretty funn y

[@BigGuyBoleslaw]

There's a Yiddish theater comedy song about selecting a cantor for the high holidays, usually performed now mostly in English, that Modi could do very well. That'd be fun to hear him do.

[@patrickdgarez86]

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.

[@retromom5421]

I am Ashkenazi. When I was surprised that a blue eyed redhead was sephardic, he joked, "Yes. I have it easier than you." 😀

[@marcelocouto213]

I'm a Brazilian catholic, my DNA test came in with 18% Sephardic Jewish ancestry. Watching this was truly entertaining and educating at the same time!

[@bnbcraft6666]

I'm an American Christian (Jehovah's Witness but ancestors were mostly methodist) and I got a whole 0.6% Ashkanazi 😂

[@emmapeel8163]

cuz you're Portuguese ancestry

[@pokegan52]

As a Persian (non Jewish), hearing the warmth of the Sephardics literally sounds like every mehmooni ever lol

[@BK-bs2eb]

I live in a community with many Persian Jews and worked with a Persian nonjew. They were so similar

[@ehudshapira2745]

"Kids that don't have earlobes" is such an unbelievably deep cut 😂

[@AlwaysFedUp]

There’s more than 2 types of Jews, but this is still funny

[@lindarieker1555]

Secular, conservative, orthodox, ultra orthodox, Messianic, reformed orthodox, reformed, mustn’t forget Jew envy.

[@judithgrossman3168]

🎯100% Ashkenazi Jew here, raised in Havanah, Cuba... hilariously true 🤣

[@JohnTorres-e8b]

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😂

[@LinneaSanchez]

My husband and I are both ethically Mexican. Did our dna and He’s Ashkenazi and I’m Sephardic. Our children are both 🩷

[@warfarenotwarfair5655]

Mexican would be your nationality.

[@LinneaSanchez]

@ I’m American, I was born in America. I’m ethnically Mexican, but it’s not my nationality.

[@jonatanaguilar9961]

It's important to be ethically Mexican 😂, many unethical Mexicans out there

[@MariaMunoz-rz1nz]

Ethnically Mexican 😊

[@LinneaSanchez]

@@MariaMunoz-rz1nz 🙃🙂

[@jabreakitjubawtit4748]

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

[@brendanrayment8416]

love it❤. I am an Irish Catholic & love jewish humour, so special, so Irish 😂😂

[@sherrihaight2724]

Super askenazi family here. I was once told, "you can't be Jewish, you have blonde hair and blue eyes"

[@nadinehart8624]

I’ve also heard we can’t be German and Jewish…idiots

[@sydneyfairbairn3773]

My half Sephardic boyfriend said that to one of my Ashkenazi girlfriends. He saw her star of David necklace and was so confused.

[@rebeccahicks2392]

Me: Let me guess, his results are gonna be "99.9% Ashkenazi Jewish." Him: "99.8%..."

[@thehilaryglow]

He looks Sephardi tho

[@nosubs2858]

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

[@albertngene7402]

Hilariously instructive. James Michener taught me so much about the Jews in The Source.

[@matthewwinn4006]

Love James Michener books!

[@lamaistul]

My great-grandfather was a prisoner in Siberia too. Came back home on foot, took him two years.

[@claudiaboelte4037]

Sephardic Jews must be related to the Scots. I have Scottish ancestry, among others. Once I learned that the God personna of the people of Scotland is that they are PASSIONATE about everything. God loves alllll His children. God bless.

[@RCMEElle]

I’m Scottish Irish Norwegian & Jewish 😅

[@DuveyJacobs-o1h]

I got a headache from laughing so I went for a nap but then my brother wasn't able to laugh quite

[@mayaluna11]

The Sephardic guy turning into a cantor with a 9 hour blessing 🤣

[@blancarosabeltranvelazquez4176]

Loved it!. Thanks for sharing this video!. ❤

[@aclaylambisabirdman6324]

I’m Sephardic and I bless this special 😄

[@cassandrabrowne-schneider4951]

Oye....the Sephardic way is the most blessed....omg it's so wonderful 😂

[@marionkapp9577]

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!! 🇮🇱

[@alexv259]

OMG! Modi! You are really something else! Thanks to KZbin algorithm I was able to watch your video. As a man who is always searching for great comedians with true sense of humor without resorting to F words or similar language. I shall follow you!

[@Donna-cc1kt]

Amen brother.

[@pameladee]

Yes! I just found him tonight. Thank you algorithmic karma

[@ElleMonzon]

They also never mentioned that there are a few Sephardim who don’t eat rice and beans on Pesach. That is my lot. North Africa.

[@AntonAdelson]

Oh!

[@AntonAdelson]

Are you sure about that! I married someone with Moroccan and Tunisian descent. They just followed Mizrahi minhagim. Can you tell me more please?

[@stephenfisher3721]

Yes, but you (if a man) can have more than one wife as it is permitted to Sephardic Jews who live in a country where it is allowed by the laws of that country. The ban by Rabbenu Gershom applies only to Ashkenazim.

[@user61696]

Samee Potatoes all week

[@ziadesa]

Love it when I can learn Jewish culture as well

[@DixieLane304]

Remember, this is comedy. Not a lecture on Jewish culture

[@sonjak8265]

@@DixieLane304 In every joke, there is some truth. That is why jokes are funny.

[@diogenebladi4469]

​@@DixieLane304comedy is also part of culture 😊

[@amirthehammer240]

I'm from Iran and my dad's family must be Saphardic Jews. The way he describes negotiations sounds like my Dad. 😂

[@lindafox1679]

Loved it!!! Thank you for so many laughs❣️ 😂

[@Jasmine_breeze]

I am half Ashkenazi and half Polish. It's so funny because it's true 😅 Yes, I divide food into equal portions and I have a ruler in my eye. And, of course, I see the world in black colors, so what? But I have to admit that Poles have raised the art of complaining to an even higher level! No one will tell you right off the bat that everything is ok. What is it, it's not! The cat is sick, Grandma is sick and he is also not feeling well, high prices, low prices, too cold, too warm... 😅

[@BY-yw4ts]

Absolutely hilarious. I live in a small close-knit community where we all know one another and go to all of the synagogues. I can now really appreciate the comedic differences between us Ashkenazim and the Sephardic Jews. Pretty spot on! Love us all.

[@numeristatech]

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!

[@sandragostanian8878]

Just saw you on Frieda Videl’s website and up came your channel. You are hilarious (Jewish or NOT, in my case). You have a wonderful voice! Loved hearing you singing! ❤

[@stephengibbs8342]

so hilarious! And what a singing voice! this was wonderful

[@karphin1]

I’m reading a novel right now, about Sephardic Jews living in England in the 17th century. And there are some Ashkenazi in the story too. So it’s cool that I’m watching this, so synchronous!

[@sydneyfairbairn3773]

My DNA updated itself and found 2% Ashkenazi from my Great Britain side of the family. I am also part Hawaiian and all I have to show for it is my height.

[@adminimer5176]

I am German American, but I grew up spending alot of time with my Aunt whose friends were Jewish, and I loved them, they would talk about Israel and about being Jewish. They nearly killed me with laughter, just like you brother! God bless! Liked & Subscribe!

[@kristiewilson8112]

😂😂😂😂😂😂. 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.

[@midnightcraving]

Ha ha ha - what a great segment! Soooo true! ❤❤❤😂😂😂😂

[@nicolechatel7714]

This is too funny!! 😂😂😂 I'm learning so much from this guy!! Who knew!!

[@leonardodalongisland]

Funny stuff...So my maternal grandfather came from some part of Russia (Ashkenazi) and my grandmother came from what is now Israel but I don't know if she was Ashkenazi or Sephardic (But I think I've heard, "Sephardic" in conversations)......anyway, one of my customers (here in the States) is from the Middle Eastern (not a Jew) and every time I give him a price for a job, he says/sounds exactly the same way your Sephardic guy does! In the sand, not so much the DNA!!!

[@BGTuyau]

Proof that ethnic humor still works with the right audience. Makes me wanna challah!

[@yogachick1955]

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

[@Cyberchic2]

Shorter people live longer?

[@maryusa8526]

Thank you for this hilarious performance. 🙂 I would never last on Shabat if I had to wait through a long blessing session in order to eat.

[@mysticmagicsmurfdarklord6844]

“Two types of Jews” Correct me if I’m wrong , but aren’t there also Mizrahi Jews? And Samaritans?

[@zimriel]

Mizrahi is a catch-all for the nonMediterranean Jews, mostly Iraq and Yemen. I don't think they have much in common besides both having the dubious distinction of dhimmitude. Samaritans are literally not of Judah at all (but they are of Israel, long story). And also Ethiopia had the Beta Israel, who aren't rabbinic but are Jews. They have their own tradition. Also kept the books of Enoch and Jubilees, or a form of them anyway, which otherwise are Dead Sea Scrolls.

[@rejvaik00]

There's also Bukhari which are like a subset of Mizrahi but some Bukhari consider themselves separate from the Mizrahi distinction Really all these names didn't really used to mean anything among the Jewish community and diaspora until very recently like the last 150 years Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Bukhari, Mizrahi were just the Jewish names they gave to the place of the world that they lived in at the time it didn't refer to anything ethnic or nationality because those concepts were not well defined 150 years ago

[@MoneyDawgHavingShit360]

I think he ment Sephardic and mizrahi as one .. why he said from Spain and all the way under and around wich is North Africa and Middle East .. some consider all middle eastern Jews Sephardic also so it’s either Ashkenazi or Sephardic .. some Ashkenazi Sephardic and mizrahi and ofcourse Bukhari in Central Asia and Jews in India or Greece or china

[@tobiMelka]

Sweet Moses, Jesus and Mohamed... you're hilarious... and your singing is beautiful ❤... It reminds me more of the orthodox Moslims praying rather than Jewish one 😅 I'm a Roman Catholic from Eastern Europe and there are also Greek Catholics, here... (they are not to be confused with the Orthodox Christians☝️). And there are the exact same differences between us as the ones you mention between the Ashkenazi and the Sephardic Jews 😆😂👌

[@Bizhead3]

Oh my I only found out a few years ago (adopted) that I’m 30% Ashkenazi.. and this is funny, so hilarious and healing too!

[@MariaMedina-lj4kt]

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.

[@jonathanbornstein3799]

Very astute observations. And very funny. Shkoach @Modi.

[@lisanidog8178]

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.