♪♪ -I'm sure that everybody has seen "Fiddler."

And you see the welcoming of the Sabbath, and you clean the house and everything is very special.

♪♪ Am I religious?

No.

I'm traditional.

I observe the traditional holidays.

I can't imagine being anything but Jewish.

I can go into a synagogue, and I can hear music or something with a lilt of melody, and I just feel that I belong.

I make my bed every day because I feel if you don't do it, you start losing what you're supposed to do.

Important thing in life -- making beds, putting up bedspreads.

My dog eats nothing but the best canned chicken.

Manzie, come on, boy.

[ Whistles ] Goodbye.

[ Telephone beeps ] All right, I'm gonna go take a shower, ladies and gentlemen.

Cut.

♪♪ Shabbat is the celebration of the beginning of our Sabbath.

Traditionally, you celebrate Shabbat -- you light candles, we say prayers over wine and challah, which is the bread.

You're together with family.

It's a day of rest.

That's what Shabbat is.

One of my friends said to me, "Come on, we're gonna go to Wendy's for Shabbat."

I said, "Wendy's, Shabbat?"

I couldn't believe this.

-I think I kind of started it.

We were sitting around the pool on a Friday night with nothing to do and nowhere to go, and we're not fancy people, so we figured, "Let's go down to Wendy's."

And we thought about having Shabbat there, and the guys were so embarrassed and all against it.

"You can't do that.

You can't do that."

And I went up and asked the manager, and she said, "Yes, you certainly can."

The Shabbat at Wendy's has probably been going on for four, five, six years.

I'm not sure.

It really wasn't an idea.

It just kind of happened.

You know, we just invited people and they came, and we said prayers, and people liked it.

♪♪ [ Dogs barking ] -Stop.

Stop that screaming.

-Pee-pee.

-Lowers your blood pressure.

-What does?

-Having a dog on your lap.

-Oh, yeah.

-Yes.

-We have a retired rabbi.

I don't even know if he's really retired.

-I'm probably the oldest practicing rabbi in the United States today.

-There's one guy now, Lou Silberman, who is really very helpful and has kind of taken charge.

-Okay, about 3:00 on Friday afternoons, I call Wendy's.

They know me.

I say, "It's Lou Silberman calling for the table setup," and when we get there, the tables are already set up in a row because these youngsters at Wendy's are very fond of us, generally, and they work hard for us.

-It reminds me of my grandparents 'cause that's how they are when we go out to eat.

Like, they order specifically.

Like, that's how my grandparents -- like, they want their stuff.

They want their things in a certain way.

-For $4, you get a hamburger, you get French fry, you get a drink, and then you get chicken nuggets.

-I either have a Son of Baconator... and some well-done French fries.

-Usually people have baked potatoes, some have salads.

Hardly anybody has the hamburger there.

-A hamburger, or they'll get a chicken wrap.

-Can schmooze for up to an hour or two hours, and it's just a great -- It's a hoot.

-You don't want to know about how I met your grandfather, how I met Jack.

I was right out of finishing school.

Yeah, I went to finishing school.

And then when I got finished with there, there was a bunch of girls that I had met.

They used to all congregate in this one office where all the single fellas used to meet.

So, that's how I went up there, and I met my husband.

I met Jack.

♪♪ He was funny.

He was -- I don't know.

We just -- Very...

I can't put that into words.

I just don't know.

I mean, we just clicked right away.

Remember, I was 19, and Jack was 27.

And I went out with him.

We were engaged in five weeks.

I met him in September, we got married in April, and that lasted 57 years.

My mother said it would never last, but 57 years was a lifetime.

Was too short.

It was too short.

♪♪ Okay, we're all done.

Did you eat?

Did you eat your dinner?

Did you eat, huh?

You're a good ol' boy.

For 13 1/2, you're doing okay.

Living by yourself and having a group, like, going to Wendy's, it gives you a feeling of belonging.

Going there and know you're gonna see -- Oh, you're gonna see all your friends.

♪♪ All these people, and they're all senior citizens.

Most of them live here in Sun City.

And it's a crack-up.

They're just so funny.

You got all these seniors, and you're -- Sometimes you're listening to all the gossip, and it's a panic.

-Okay.

-Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the table.

Ready.

[ All singing in Jewish ] In Judaism, ritual is what keeps the people together.

[ Singing continues ] ♪♪ Sabbath is a unique day because it's supposed to transform you from the ordinary to the extraordinary.

-It is a family gathering 60 to 70 years later.

Bunch of oldies but goodies.

And they're remembering their religion.

♪♪ -You cannot go to the doctor without telling everybody at Wendy's Shabbat.

You went to the doctor, this is what he said, and this is your prospects of getting better, and so on and so forth.

-The people that I met at Wendy's, they have become a family.

My husband passed away nine years ago, and it's been very hard.

It gives you a warm feeling to believe in something or to be involved.

It's a feeling within that you need something.

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