Keeping the Faith Page #3

if we had to.

Jake said we'd be like young cops

shaking up the force.

You know. The God Squad.

(UP-TEMPO SONG PLAYING)

Well, it's just like the ocean

under the moon

Well, that's the same as the emotion

that I get from you

You got the kind of loving

that can be so smooth, yeah

Give me your heart, make it real

Or else forget about it

I'll ring it.

Nice.

Oh!

Ben Lewis comes into my office

this morning, tells me he's retiring.

- Rabbi Lewis?

- Yeah.

- The end of an era.

- I know!

That's exciting. How long until

they give it over to you officially?

There are a few backward thinkers

on that board who don't get what I do.

Plus, there's the fact that I'm single.

- Single?

- Don't think that's not an issue.

Wait a minute. Are you serious?

If you don't find a nice Jewish girl soon,

you won't get the job?

I'm telling you, B'Nai Ezra

hasn't had a bachelor head rabbi

since the beginning of the synagogue.

Wow. I mean, you better start

getting out there more.

It's embarrassing.

Forget that.

You want to meet somebody, right?

I just want to meet somebody

in a spontaneous and casual manner.

- And it's impossible with me.

- Why?

- Because I'm a rabbi!

- Yes, yes. What's your point?

I don't know if a woman

goes out with me for me,

or because I'm Rabbi Jake, you know?

There's an expectation,

I can't go with my impulses...

Jews want rabbis to be the kind of

Jews they don't have the time to be.

And Catholics want priests

to have the discipline they don't have.

- We knew this.

- You're right.

Oh, no, man, check this out.

God Squad in the house!

- Hi, Shabazz.

- You gonna give it up, Rabbi?

Say your prayers,

because I am in no mood today.

Watch your ass, Shabazz!

(FAST-PACED MUSIC PLAYING)

Turn me loose

Let's turn it up

Power to the people y'all

Turn me loose

Hey!

Oh!

- Bye. See you guys.

- Tell your mother I said hi.

I've gotta quit playing the guys from

Jewish seminary, it lowers the bar.

- Can I just say oy?

- Amen to your oy.

- What happened to our youth?

- It ended at 30.

Speaking of our youth,

I forgot to tell you.

- This is big. Guess who called me?

- Who?

Who is the coolest woman

you and I have ever known, ever?

- That's easy. Anna Reilly, 8th grade.

- You got it.

- What? She called you?

- Yeah!

- Anna Reilly called you?

- Totally out of the blue.

Why?

She's coming to New York for work,

and she wants to get together.

Really? What is she doing now?

She's analyzing synergies

or synergizing analogies.

I couldn't follow it,

she's a very high-powered business...

- Woman?

- Yes, thank you.

- Wow. You told her about us?

- Yeah, she flipped.

She laughed for ten minutes,

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