How My Rabbi Husband Became a Restaurant Chef (1-Minute Video)
My husband, Joshua, has been a rabbi and educator for the past 2 decades. But a few months ago our dear friend, David Ehrlich, asked Josh if he would like to work this July as a breakfast chef at his popular bookstore cafe, Tmol Shilshom. Josh agreed, and here’s a cute video about Josh’s first morning on the job.
Here’s a translation of the video….
FRIDAY MORNING
My name is Joshua, first of all, most important, I’m the father of 8 children.
And I live in Kiryat Moshe. And teach Torah. Most of my work is as a rabbi at a midrasha and a yeshiva.
I am a friend of David (the restaurant’s owner) for around 23 years and he came to our home for a Shabbat meal, and was really excited about the food, so I told him, “I’ll cook for you at Tmol Shilshom.” It was kind of a joke, but he accepted the offer.
This has been a dream for several years, and this year it happened, every Friday in July.
I insisted that I buy all the ingredients, that I prepare everything, that I’ll do all of it. I like delicious things, in small portions. Everything is home-made, made personally, there are no recipes. I made 13 flavors of arak, do you want to see? This one is pineapple and chili peppers, it bites back.
It’s a dream, to see that people are eating your food. It’s like teaching a gemara class, but of a bit of a different style…
BREAKFASTS BY JOSHUA
Wow! Didnt imagine your husband like that! Food looks delicious will you have to cook anymore??
since we’ve been married, josh has always made the salads for shabbat, and I cook the rest.
I thought your husband was Canadian? You dont hear an accent at all when he speaks hebrew??
he is canadian. he is very good with languages
so nice! everything looked so good!
it is! this is what we eat every shabbat for our salad course
Recipes? I know he said there are no recipes. But something for us?
I’ll ask him if he can provide some– a JewishMOM.com exclusive:)
very pleased to meet your husband
What an interesting looking place! I am sure that the customers are enjoying his food. It must be surprising to find the food different from other times. I am curious if there is any pressure there due to time.
Josh has all his food ready ahead of time, but he told me this past friday that there was a rush time when a lot of people were ordering his meal.