Keeping the Faith Page #2

Guys, come on! Let's try again.

Shabbat shalom!

- Shabbat shalom!

- Thank you, Mom.

Ma'am, you in the back, come on!

God hates a solo artist, I promise you.

We're the Fugees, no Lauryn Hills.

My mom was the only person here

at the level of shabbat shalom-iness

that I think we can hit.

Sir, you're leaving. It's customary

to sneak out after the communion.

Give me something I can work with!

Shabbat shalom!

- ALL:
Shabbat shalom!

- All right! Now we can daven!

BRIAN:
I don 't want to brag, but word

got out there was a new act in town,

and soon we played to the packed

houses I knew were our destiny.

(LAUGHTER)

I know. I know!

Seriously, what is the story of Sodom

and Gomorrah really about?

- Anyone? Steve Posner.

- Sexual perversion.

Sexual perversion. Steve Posner's

watching too much Spice Channel.

The Seven Deadly Sins. Who can

name the Seven Deadly Sins?

People! It was a film with Brad Pitt.

You have the ultimate Cliff Note!

And Lot takes them in and he protects

them. What happens next?

Anybody? Greta Mussbaum,

before she pulls her rotator cuff.

- God spares Lot and his family.

- Bingo! Two-week cruise for Greta!

You're going to the Bahamas!

When you think about it,

God is a lot like Blanche Du Bois.

He's always relied

on the kindness of strangers.

(INAUDIBLE)

That's what the story's about,

us taking care of each other.

God relies on us

to take care of each other.

The truth is, I don't really learn about

your faith by asking such questions.

Those aren't questions about faith,

they're about religion.

It's important to understand

the difference between them,

because faith is not about

having the right answers.

Faith is a feeling, faith is a hunch.

It's a hunch that there is

something bigger, connecting it all.

Connecting us all together.

And that feeling, that hunch, is God.

Coming here on Sunday evening

to connect with that feeling,

that is an act of faith.

So all I have to do is look around

the room, at this packed church,

to know that we're doing pretty well

as a community.

Even if all of you failed

my pop quiz miserably.

Let us pray.

Jake and I wanted

to kick the dust off our faiths.

Bring them up to speed,

no more old routines.

Jake said, "We'll give them an

Old World God with a New Age spin."

(CHANTING)

Feel the prana!

We decided to turn

an abandoned disco

into a joint Catholic-Jewish

senior center/karaoke lounge.

A Fiddler on the Roof meets

Lord of the Dance

meets Buena Vista Social Club.

Not an easy idea to sell,

but we wanted to push the envelope.

We would bring our religions

into the 21 st century.

We were gonna shove them a little,

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