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Sep 17, 2026
Poh Si TengGUEST
He's so charismatic.
Poh Si TengGUEST
And within a week, two weeks, he introduces me to Dr. Theramad, the Palestinian-American doctor, and Dr. Feroz Sidwa, the Zoroastrian Parsi doctor.
speaker_5SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Mm-hmm.
Poh Si TengGUEST
And that's when I realized, whoa, it's almost like, Matt, it's like three doctors enter a bar.
Poh Si TengGUEST
One is Palestinian, doesn't drink, Muslim.
Poh Si TengGUEST
One is Jewish.
Poh Si TengGUEST
One is Parsi Zoroastrian.
Poh Si TengGUEST
And that bar, that bar happens to be Gaza.
Shefali TsabaryGUEST
Well, I think because the entire world is becoming more westernized, we all follow America.
Shefali TsabaryGUEST
But you're right, in more traditional societies, right, in many religious societies, you know, you have baptism, you have the bat mitzvah and the bar mitzvah, you have, you know, these other ceremonies in the Parsi, Persian cultures, you have, it's called Navjot, where you initiate.
Shefali TsabaryGUEST
But it's so lost its value because it's just a big party now.
Shefali TsabaryGUEST
You know, it's just so stupid.
Shana SayreNARRATOR
Last evening, we were invited to dine with the Ranee at the palace.
Shana SayreNARRATOR
A Parsi woman from Bombay was among the guests.
Shana SayreNARRATOR
The Ranee's apartments looked very light and pretty with the many brightly lighted lamps, and the little tables for each of us were well filled with all sorts of native food.
Shana SayreNARRATOR
All sat on the floor on mats or cushions, but I was honored with a stool.
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Shana SayreNARRATOR
He read it to some of his friends, and some parts of it he read to the raja.
Shana SayreNARRATOR
Everyone who has heard it seems to be favorably impressed.
Shana SayreNARRATOR
A Parsi gentleman to whom I lent it said that he liked it so much that he now wanted to read the life of Christ.
Shana SayreNARRATOR
He bought a Gospel of Matthew at a railway station and has read it with great interest.
Aaron HerzogHOST
Where do we find the remits? So Marsha says, because we know for these four people, they have multiple names.
Aaron HerzogHOST
And these names were given to them by a guy, by a Parsi.
Aaron HerzogHOST
Moshe Rabbeinu's name was given to a Persian.
Aaron HerzogHOST
So where do we see? And we know that every name has a Shaorish in the Torah.
Aaron HerzogHOST
Where do we see that even these names have a Shaorish in the Torah? After all, they were given by a Parsi, etc., So where do we see they were given? So Amalem de Chassiv de Pasek says, So Amalem de Chassiv de Pasek says, the thing is on the thing okay which is the psalm on the victorious it says and the target is so therefore it is the thing and they say like mordechai was the spitz was the tip of the Rosh of the Tzaddikim on Sheik's Knesset, the same murderer.
Aaron HerzogHOST
We learn the Mishne Be'ezu She'inim Zumu.
Aaron HerzogHOST
What's called Inim Zumu? Rabchi Rabshimen.
speaker_6VOICE_ACTOR
Mm-hmm.
speaker_6VOICE_ACTOR
Hindu or Parsee or something, I think, sir.
speaker_6VOICE_ACTOR
[phone rings]
Lionel WattVOICE_ACTOR
Oh.
Pamela MusicVOICE_ACTOR
Bachelor of medicine, University of Lucknow, sir.
Lionel WattVOICE_ACTOR
He's an Indian.
Pamela MusicVOICE_ACTOR
A Parsee, sir, whatever that is.
Pamela MusicVOICE_ACTOR
But he won't be back till quite late, so I'm not to take any appointments for him for the day.
David WalesNARRATOR
She must either put on gloves or use a small stick.
David WalesNARRATOR
The Parsi have a festival at which they serve a peculiar cake or bread called dreona, which is marked by scratches from the fingernails of the woman who has baked it.
David WalesNARRATOR
No stress has been laid upon the appearance in all parts of the world of back scratchers or scratch my backs made of ivory, bone, or wood, and which were used for toilet purposes to remove irritation from between the shoulder blades or along the spine where the hand itself could not reach.
David WalesNARRATOR
They are to the present day in use among the Chinese and Japanese, were once to be found among the Romans and other nations of Europe, and instances of their occasional employment until a very recent date might be supplied.
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David WalesNARRATOR
Unleavened Bread The unleavened bread of the earliest period of Jewish history has come down to our own times in the Feast of Unleavened Bread, still observed by the Hebrews in all parts of the world, in the bread used in the Eucharistic sacrifice by so large a portion of the Christian world, and apparently in some of the usages connected with the half-understood fast known as the Ember Days.
David WalesNARRATOR
Brand quotes from an old work in regard to the Ember Days, They were so called because that our elder fathers would on those days eat no bread but cakes made under ashes.
David WalesNARRATOR
The sacred cake or draona of the Parsi is a small round pancake or wafer of unleavened bread about the size of the palm of the hand.
David WalesNARRATOR
It is made of wheaten flour and water with a little clarified butter and is flexible.
Nicholas James BridgewaterNARRATOR
The Ba'albis affirm that Fatima returned to life in their own great heroine.
Nicholas James BridgewaterNARRATOR
There is yet another form of religion that I must not neglect, the Zoroastrian or Parsi faith.
Nicholas James BridgewaterNARRATOR
Far as this faith may have travelled from its original spirituality, it still preserved in the Ba'alb's time some elements of truth which were bound to become a beneficial leaven.
Nicholas James BridgewaterNARRATOR
This high and holy faith, as represented in the Gathas, was still the religion of the splendour or glory of God, still the champion of the good principle against the evil, and as if to show his respectful sympathy for an ancient and persecuted religion, the Ba'alb borrowed some minor points of detail from his Parsi neighbours.
Nicholas James BridgewaterNARRATOR
Not on these, however, would I venture to lay any great stress, but rather on the doctrines and beliefs in which a Parsi connection may plausibly be held.
Nicholas James BridgewaterNARRATOR
For instance, how can we help tracing a parallel between Ali and the Imams on the one hand, and Ahura Mazda or Mazd and his council of Amshaspans, Ameshaspentas, on the other? The founders of both religions conceived it to be implied in the doctrine of the divine omnipresence that God should be represented in every place by his celestial counsellors, who would counteract the machinations of the evil ones.
Nicholas James BridgewaterNARRATOR
For evil ones there are, so at least Islam holds.
Nicholas James BridgewaterNARRATOR
Their efforts are foredoomed to failure because their kingdom has no unity or cohesion.
Edmund BloxhamNARRATOR
The balls, after a thorough drying on wooden racks, are packed in chests and sent down to the auction.
Edmund BloxhamNARRATOR
The men who buy in the opium at these monthly auctions and afterwards dispose of it at the Chinese ports are a curious crowd of Parsis, Mohammedans, Hindus and Asiatic Jews.
Edmund BloxhamNARRATOR
Few British names appear in the opium trade today.
Edmund BloxhamNARRATOR
British
Julian BrettHOST
This is a fairly plotty exposition moment, but nonetheless a lot of fun.
Julian BrettHOST
We meet the Parsi man, who is of Persian heritage, I believe.
Julian BrettHOST
Bear that in mind and behave respectfully, please.
Julian BrettHOST
He's another one affected by the flooding.
Julian BrettHOST
This is an underrated gem, I think, if we're talking auditions.
Julian BrettHOST
Do go and have a listen.
Julian BrettHOST
The Parsi Man returns with The Parsi Cake Cakewalk.
Julian BrettHOST
He's singing about his baking.
Poh Si TengGUEST
One's Jewish.
Poh Si TengGUEST
One's Zoroastrian, which unless you're from the South Asian community, you may not know what that is, Parsi, Zoroastrian.
Poh Si TengGUEST
And in this case, the bar is Gaza.
Poh Si TengGUEST
So let the tape play.
Poh Si TengGUEST
One's Muslim, Palestinian, he doesn't drink.
Poh Si TengGUEST
One's Jewish.
Poh Si TengGUEST
One's Zoroastrian, which unless you're from the South Asian community, you may not know what that is, Parsi, Zoroastrian.
Poh Si TengGUEST
And in this case, the bar is Gaza.
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