Yentl is a 1983 musical directed by and starring Barbra Streisand.
Poland, 1904. Yentl is a young Jewish girl who lives in a shtetl, a rural village. Left alone with her father, a bookseller and rabbi, she has a strong interest in Jewish sacred texts, knowing every passage. She feels no predisposition for the preconceived role of wife, mother and submissive housewife, nor attraction to any man in the neighborhood, probably because no one is up to her standards.
Left alone after her parent's death, unable to escape the psychological pressure of the villagers, she disguises herself as a boy and runs away, uncertain about her future but determined to study the sacred texts, forbidden to women at the time. Chance takes her to a yeshiva, a Jewish religious school, where she introduces herself as Anshel, using the name of her deceased little brother. Inside the school, she strikes up a strong friendship with her classmate Avigdor, but soon realizes she loves him.
When he despairs at being rejected by his future in-laws, who force him to break off his engagement to the beautiful Hadass, Yentl, forced by events and her love for him, agrees to cover up the scandal by marrying his fiancée. Thus begins a strange situation in which everyone loves the other and everyone is unhappy: Yentl has more and more difficulty justifying the unconsummated marriage and pines for Avigdor, his young wife Hadass turns out to be much less naive than expected, Avigdor cannot bear to see his ex-fiancée slowly fall in love with her husband. Pressured by Hadass, sad for her beloved Avigdor, Yentl gives in and reveals to her friend that she is a woman and that she loves him deeply. At first the young man has a reaction of rejection, even violent. Then he softens and seems to reciprocate her love by declaring his willingness to run away and marry her. Yentl, however, turns out to be wiser and more far-sighted. The irreplaceable friend, the enlightened mind that attracted her so much, has a narrow, conventional mentality towards women. The esteem he feels for the non-existent boy Anshel, for the woman Yentl would vanish in a short time, drowned in the need for a "real" woman: wife, mother, cook, an ignorant companion incapable of independent thoughts. So Yentl leaves Poland and embarks for the United States of America, where women are freer, leaving Avigdor free to marry Hadass and return happily to his destiny.
Poland, 1904. Yentl is a young Jewish girl who lives in a shtetl, a rural village. Left alone with her father, a bookseller and rabbi, she has a strong interest in Jewish sacred texts, knowing every passage. She feels no predisposition for the preconceived role of wife, mother and submissive housewife, nor attraction to any man in the neighborhood, probably because no one is up to her standards.
Left alone after her parent's death, unable to escape the psychological pressure of the villagers, she disguises herself as a boy and runs away, uncertain about her future but determined to study the sacred texts, forbidden to women at the time. Chance takes her to a yeshiva, a Jewish religious school, where she introduces herself as Anshel, using the name of her deceased little brother. Inside the school, she strikes up a strong friendship with her classmate Avigdor, but soon realizes she loves him.
When he despairs at being rejected by his future in-laws, who force him to break off his engagement to the beautiful Hadass, Yentl, forced by events and her love for him, agrees to cover up the scandal by marrying his fiancée. Thus begins a strange situation in which everyone loves the other and everyone is unhappy: Yentl has more and more difficulty justifying the unconsummated marriage and pines for Avigdor, his young wife Hadass turns out to be much less naive than expected, Avigdor cannot bear to see his ex-fiancée slowly fall in love with her husband. Pressured by Hadass, sad for her beloved Avigdor, Yentl gives in and reveals to her friend that she is a woman and that she loves him deeply. At first the young man has a reaction of rejection, even violent. Then he softens and seems to reciprocate her love by declaring his willingness to run away and marry her. Yentl, however, turns out to be wiser and more far-sighted. The irreplaceable friend, the enlightened mind that attracted her so much, has a narrow, conventional mentality towards women. The esteem he feels for the non-existent boy Anshel, for the woman Yentl would vanish in a short time, drowned in the need for a "real" woman: wife, mother, cook, an ignorant companion incapable of independent thoughts. So Yentl leaves Poland and embarks for the United States of America, where women are freer, leaving Avigdor free to marry Hadass and return happily to his destiny.
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00:02:19Fish! Fish!
00:02:22Look at this. Look at this, ladies. Look at this.
00:02:25Our beautiful silver carp.
00:02:27Delicious. See the difference?
00:02:30The skin should be tight, firm, and the scales shiny like diamonds.
00:02:35How's Papa?
00:02:36Oh, he's much better. Thank you.
00:02:38It bounces back, and then there's the smell.
00:02:41Lovely picture books for women, sacred books for men.
00:02:45Story books for women, sacred books for men.
00:02:48Gentle. Gentle. What would you like, darling?
00:02:51Uh, gentle.
00:02:53Uh, a pike or a carp?
00:02:55A nice carp.
00:02:56Goggles for women, sacred books for men.
00:02:59Picture books for men.
00:03:00Gentle.
00:03:01What's this I hear? You finally got engaged.
00:03:04I don't know.
00:03:05What do you mean you don't know? Did you or didn't you?
00:03:07What, hear about it or do it?
00:03:09If she can make jokes about finding a husband at her age, I should worry.
00:03:14There you are, darling. So beautiful. It'll cook itself.
00:03:17And what's so funny? What are you laughing about?
00:03:19Are you going to buy my fish today or what?
00:03:20I'll eat chicken.
00:03:22Story books for women, sacred books for men.
00:03:25Gentle. Did you hear about Hannah Shiffman?
00:03:27I haven't got time today.
00:03:28You never do.
00:03:31There she goes.
00:03:36Novels for women, sacred books for men.
00:03:38Lovely picture books for women.
00:03:41In the second part, he relates the mysticism of creation to the mysticism of language.
00:03:46There are things in here we shouldn't even be reading.
00:03:48Can we afford it?
00:03:49No, but we can read it.
00:03:51There's one in the rabbi's study.
00:03:53Come on.
00:04:02What a nice girl.
00:04:03There's your change.
00:04:07You're in the wrong place, miss.
00:04:09What?
00:04:10Books for women are over here.
00:04:12Novels, very romantic.
00:04:14I'd like to buy this one, please.
00:04:15Sacred books are for men.
00:04:17Why?
00:04:18It's a law, that's why.
00:04:19Where is it written?
00:04:20Never mind where. It's a law.
00:04:21Well, if it's a law, it must be written somewhere.
00:04:23Maybe in here. I'll take it.
00:04:24Miss, do me a favor.
00:04:26Do yourself a favor.
00:04:28Here.
00:04:30Buy a nice picture book.
00:04:32Girls like picture books.
00:04:34What if I told you it's for my father?
00:04:36Why didn't you say?
00:04:39And if you want to know where that's written,
00:04:41it's inside the cover.
00:04:42Thank you.
00:04:47Good. And who's wise?
00:04:50He who knows of...
00:04:51Now try again. Who's wise?
00:04:54He who...
00:04:55He who learns from all men.
00:04:56He who learns from all men.
00:04:58Good. And who's rich?
00:05:00Oh, I know that one.
00:05:02He who has a full heart.
00:05:04Yentl, is dinner almost ready?
00:05:07Yes, he who has a full heart,
00:05:09and also he who is content with what he has.
00:05:11But, Redman, without the one question,
00:05:13you have two answers.
00:05:15Ah, David.
00:05:17Sometimes there are many answers to the same question.
00:05:20Now, the last one.
00:05:22Who is strong?
00:05:25Strong?
00:05:26No, no, no, no. Who is strong?
00:05:27He who controls his passions.
00:05:29Concentrate, David.
00:05:31Controls his passions.
00:05:32Try, David.
00:05:33I'm trying.
00:05:34He who...
00:05:35He who controls his passions.
00:05:40Yentl knows Talmud?
00:05:43I think that's enough for today.
00:05:45My father says that a woman who studies Talmud is a demon.
00:05:49She's not a demon. She just has big ears.
00:05:52So you don't have to mention this to your father.
00:05:54Goodbye, Redman.
00:05:55Goodbye, goodbye.
00:05:57Bye, David.
00:05:59Goodbye.
00:06:01Now you'll have the whole village talking about us.
00:06:03You shouldn't be smoking.
00:06:04You think the angel of death will be frightened away by cough medicine.
00:06:10In the first place, you don't have to drown him in it.
00:06:12Again.
00:06:13And in the second place, I think he's beginning to like it.
00:06:15Oh, you want some more?
00:06:16Yentl.
00:06:27You know something?
00:06:30Baked apple is good, you little bunny.
00:06:34Sorry, Papa.
00:06:35No, no, no. I mean it.
00:06:36I like it this way.
00:06:38Really?
00:06:39Oh, yes.
00:06:42Go on, you're home.
00:06:45Papa?
00:06:46Mm-hmm?
00:06:48Why is it that every book I buy, every bookseller who comes, the same old argument?
00:06:51You know why.
00:06:54I envy them.
00:06:55The booksellers?
00:06:56No, not the booksellers. The students.
00:06:58Talking about life, the mysteries of the universe,
00:07:00and I'm learning how to tell a herring from a carp.
00:07:02Yentl for the thousandth time, men and women...
00:07:05Have different obligations, I know, but...
00:07:07And don't ask why.
00:07:12Go on, get the books.
00:07:16Get the books.
00:07:18Thank you, Papa.
00:07:19Thank you, Papa.
00:07:20Thank you.
00:07:21Thank you, Papa.
00:07:23The shutter's downing.
00:07:25The shutter's...
00:07:26The shutter's...
00:07:27If you don't have to hide my studying from God, then why from the neighbors?
00:07:31Why? Because I trust God will understand.
00:07:33I'm not so sure about the neighbors.
00:07:35Questions, questions.
00:07:37Even when you were little.
00:07:38Does a goat have a soul?
00:07:40Does it?
00:07:41What was before the universe?
00:07:42That's what we'd like to know.
00:07:43Yes.
00:07:44So, where were we?
00:07:47We were up to Hillel's argument.
00:07:50Hillel's argument that knowledge...
00:07:54Papa?
00:07:57Papa?
00:08:00Papa, I'm...
00:08:02I'm a little tired tonight.
00:08:05Do you mind?
00:08:06But we'll study tomorrow.
00:08:11Tomorrow.
00:08:18You're such a comfort to me.
00:08:20But you should have a young man to take care of you.
00:08:22Preferably one who doesn't like to eat.
00:08:26Good night.
00:08:27Good night.
00:08:30Are you all right?
00:08:31Yes, I'm fine, fine, fine.
00:08:56Good night.
00:09:24God.
00:09:27A merciful father.
00:09:30Unwrapped in a robe of light.
00:09:34Clothed in your glory.
00:09:37That spreads its wings over my soul.
00:09:43May I be worthy.
00:09:47Amen.
00:09:57There's not a morning I begin without a thousand questions running through my mind.
00:10:08That I don't try to find the reason and the logic in the world that God designed.
00:10:16The reason why a bird was given wings.
00:10:23If not to fly and praise the sky with every song it sings.
00:10:34What's right or wrong.
00:10:37Where I belong.
00:10:40Within the scheme of things.
00:10:53And why have eyes that see and arms that reach unless you're meant to know there's something more.
00:11:07If not to hunger for the meaning of it all then tell me what a soul is for.
00:11:14Why have the wings unless you're meant to fly.
00:11:21And tell me please why have a mind if not to question why.
00:11:32And tell me where, where is it written what it is I'm meant to be.
00:11:41That I can dare to have the chance to pick the fruit of every tree.
00:11:49Or have my share of every sweet imagined possibility.
00:11:59Just tell me where.
00:12:04Tell me where.
00:12:09If I were only meant to tend the nest then why does my imagination sail.
00:12:20Across the mountains and the seas beyond the make-believe of any fairy tale.
00:12:27Why have the thirst if not to drink the wine.
00:12:32And what a waste to have a taste of things that can't be mine.
00:12:43And tell me where, where is it written what it is I'm meant to be.
00:12:51That I can dare to find the meanings in the mornings that I see.
00:12:59Or have my share of every sweet imagined possibility.
00:13:10Just tell me where.
00:13:14Where is it written.
00:13:18Tell me where.
00:13:22Or if it's written anywhere.
00:13:41Did you hear what I heard?
00:13:42Gertrude's learning to howl.
00:13:43Learning to howl?
00:13:44That's impossible.
00:13:45David's mother told me he was there.
00:13:47Can't be.
00:13:48Better she should learn how to get a husband.
00:13:51I came all the way from Riga to see you.
00:13:54So why, Yentl, why won't you at least meet him?
00:13:57What for?
00:13:58What for?
00:13:59I want to dance at your wedding.
00:14:00I want to see you happy.
00:14:01I'm happy with you, Papa.
00:14:03I don't want to get married now.
00:14:04I know this.
00:14:05I don't want to just bear children and don my husband's socks.
00:14:07What is it you want?
00:14:08A husband who will don your socks?
00:14:10Sounds interesting.
00:14:11Aha.
00:14:12And bear your children.
00:14:13Go on, turn the world upside down and inside out.
00:14:16You won't have a moment's peace.
00:14:17I didn't say I never wanted to get married.
00:14:19It's more important than the Talmud.
00:14:21Without children to pass it on to,
00:14:23the learning, the studying, the Talmud
00:14:25dies with old men when they die.
00:14:30Sorry.
00:14:31I'm the one who's sorry.
00:14:33You're a woman, but I didn't teach you how to be one.
00:14:37You taught me everything I know.
00:14:39Too much you know.
00:14:41You know too much, but not enough.
00:14:44And it's my fault.
00:14:45Papa, please, don't say that.
00:14:47Learning is my whole life.
00:14:49Please don't be sorry.
00:14:50I'm not.
00:14:59What is it?
00:15:00That tree.
00:15:04That tree was this high when your brother Anshel died.
00:15:07May he rest in peace.
00:15:10You're only a baby.
00:15:11You could hardly talk, let alone ask why.
00:15:14And now look, look how it's grown.
00:15:20Too late to tell you to play with dolls, huh?
00:15:25I love you, Papa.
00:15:32Hear me, oh Lord, master of the universe.
00:15:35Thou hast given me a daughter
00:15:38who brings me great pride and pleasure.
00:15:45And for this kindness, I thank thee forever and ever.
00:15:53Much to become of you, Yentl.
00:16:15Come, Yentl.
00:16:17You must tear it over your heart.
00:16:35I will.
00:16:37It has to be a man, Yentl.
00:16:39A male will do.
00:16:44May God forgive her.
00:16:46May God forgive her.
00:16:58Listen, my house is hers as long as she wants.
00:17:00So she'll help a little in the store,
00:17:02look after the children, maybe do a little cooking.
00:17:04The anthel.
00:17:06Eat.
00:17:08It's enough.
00:17:10We mourn for seven days only.
00:17:12Then life goes on.
00:17:22I think maybe we come back later.
00:17:28Get your things together.
00:17:30I'll come back for you later.
00:17:32Believe me, I'll keep you so busy,
00:17:34you won't have time to think.
00:17:42I love you.
00:18:12I love you.
00:18:42Forgive me, Papa.
00:19:12Wait!
00:19:14Wait! Stop!
00:19:16Please!
00:19:18What do you want, boy?
00:19:20Could you give me a ride to the next town, please?
00:19:22You got money?
00:19:24Uh, a little.
00:19:28Get your bag.
00:19:30Thank you.
00:19:32Yay!
00:19:34Hey, what are you doing?
00:19:36What are you doing?
00:19:38What are you doing?
00:19:40Yay!
00:19:42Hey, where do you think you're going?
00:19:44Get off of here!
00:19:46Wait!
00:19:48Please wait!
00:20:10God.
00:20:18Our Heavenly Father.
00:20:22Oh, God.
00:20:28And my Father,
00:20:30who's also in Heaven.
00:20:34May the light
00:20:36of this flickering candle
00:20:40illuminate the night
00:20:42the way your Spirit
00:20:44illuminates my soul.
00:20:58Papa?
00:21:00Can you hear me?
00:21:04Papa, can you see me?
00:21:06Papa, can you see me?
00:21:10Papa, can you find me
00:21:12in the night?
00:21:18Papa, are you near me?
00:21:20Papa, can you hear me?
00:21:22Papa, can you help me
00:21:24not be frightened?
00:21:30Looking at the skies,
00:21:32I seem to see a million eyes.
00:21:34Where are you now
00:21:36that yesterday
00:21:38has waved goodbye
00:21:40and closed its doors?
00:21:42The night
00:21:44is so much darker.
00:21:46The wind
00:21:48is so much colder.
00:21:50The world I see
00:21:52is so much bigger
00:21:54now that I'm alone.
00:21:58Papa, please forgive me.
00:22:00Try to understand
00:22:02me.
00:22:04Papa, don't you know
00:22:06I had no choice?
00:22:08Can you hear me
00:22:10praying?
00:22:12Anything I'm saying?
00:22:14Even though the night
00:22:16is filled with
00:22:18voices,
00:22:20I remember
00:22:22everything you taught me,
00:22:24every book I've ever read.
00:22:26Can all the words
00:22:28in all the books
00:22:30help me to face
00:22:32what lies ahead?
00:22:34The trees
00:22:36are so much taller
00:22:38and I feel
00:22:40so much smaller.
00:22:42The moon
00:22:44is twice as lonely
00:22:46and the stars
00:22:48are half as bright.
00:22:56Papa,
00:22:58how I love you.
00:23:00Papa,
00:23:02how I need
00:23:04you.
00:23:06Papa, how I
00:23:08miss you.
00:23:10Kissing
00:23:12me
00:23:14good
00:23:16night.
00:23:26Kissing me
00:23:28good night.
00:23:46If I am not for myself,
00:23:48who will be for me?
00:23:50Who will be for me?
00:23:52Who will
00:23:54be for me?
00:23:56If I am for myself alone, who am I?
00:23:58Who am I?
00:24:00If not now,
00:24:04when?
00:24:08Wait!
00:24:24I can't travel.
00:24:26Please.
00:24:28I can't travel.
00:24:30Papa!
00:24:52Papa!
00:25:00Papa!
00:25:08Innkeeper, more soup!
00:25:10And some bread!
00:25:16Doña, did you hear that?
00:25:18I hear, I hear.
00:25:22Who's throwing that?
00:25:24Manny's supporters!
00:25:26Don't throw that!
00:25:28I told you not to throw that.
00:25:30Watch out! Lithuania, Poland,
00:25:32all yeshivas are the same.
00:25:34I mean, it's only the rabbis
00:25:36that are different. I mean, the girls
00:25:38are different.
00:25:40Why would the Talmud
00:25:42repeat itself? Why?
00:25:44Because it's an improper translation.
00:25:46Even if they contradict each other? Avigdor, what do you think?
00:25:48The Talmud
00:25:50recognizes life is filled with contradiction.
00:25:52You see, he agrees with me.
00:25:54Your move.
00:25:56I hear you.
00:25:58I only have two hands.
00:26:00Ah!
00:26:02I'm sorry.
00:26:04Go on.
00:26:06Well, it's just that
00:26:08if you move your castle
00:26:10to Queen Seven,
00:26:12tonight is
00:26:14spent, that's all.
00:26:16You don't know what you're talking about.
00:26:18Sorry.
00:26:20Manny, hurry up!
00:26:22Stop yelling at me, Papa.
00:26:24I'm not yelling, I'm not yelling.
00:26:34A long diagonal.
00:26:36You should have listened to him.
00:26:38Pay up.
00:26:40Catch!
00:26:42You want a bite?
00:26:44No, thank you.
00:26:46Don't play.
00:26:48You, you, sit down.
00:26:50Why?
00:26:52Because I said so.
00:26:56Five kopecks if you win,
00:26:58you pay me one if you lose.
00:27:00What do I have to do?
00:27:02Whoever forces the other's hand
00:27:04to the table wins. Oh, no, thanks.
00:27:06Ready? Go.
00:27:10Wasn't it Rabbi Akiva who said
00:27:12the true strength of a man...
00:27:14One kopeck.
00:27:16Lies in his ability
00:27:18to stretch even the narrowest mind.
00:27:20Thank you. You're welcome.
00:27:22Now you can stretch my mind again.
00:27:24Go.
00:27:26Well, I think Rabbi Akiva
00:27:28also said...
00:27:30Two kopecks.
00:27:32I thought it was one.
00:27:34But I beat you twice.
00:27:38Give him back his money.
00:27:42Why? Because I said so.
00:27:44Because you said so.
00:27:46I'll see you later
00:27:48when your beard starts to grow.
00:27:50Mama's boy.
00:27:54No, it wasn't since you asked.
00:27:56Hmm? Rabbi Akiva.
00:27:58Narrowest mind.
00:28:00Oh.
00:28:02Was it Rabbi Eliezer?
00:28:04No, it was Rabbi Israel Salanter.
00:28:06Rabbi Israel Salanter.
00:28:08By the way, my brother didn't have one either.
00:28:10What?
00:28:12You hungry?
00:28:14A little.
00:28:16Yes, please. Help yourself.
00:28:18Which yeshiva are you going to?
00:28:20I, uh...
00:28:22I haven't decided.
00:28:24Someplace quiet.
00:28:26Quiet yeshiva?
00:28:28Well, the nearest.
00:28:30That's what we study.
00:28:32Everybody else studies.
00:28:34Me, I just count the days till I go home again.
00:28:36And his parents count the days till they can send him back again.
00:28:38Our rabbi's a genius. Rabbi Zalman.
00:28:40Maybe you've heard of him?
00:28:42I think so.
00:28:44He settles ten questions.
00:28:46My father had ten questions for every answer.
00:28:48Had?
00:28:50He died eight days ago.
00:28:52May he rest in peace.
00:28:54You're in mourning, too.
00:28:56My brother.
00:28:58Almost a month now.
00:29:02May he rest in peace.
00:29:04I'm Shimla, by the way.
00:29:08Oh.
00:29:10Hello.
00:29:12What?
00:29:14What's your name?
00:29:18My name?
00:29:20Name.
00:29:22Um...
00:29:24Anshul.
00:29:26That's it.
00:29:28That's my name. My name is Anshul.
00:29:30Good.
00:29:32You know your own name.
00:29:34You're as good a scholar as I am.
00:29:36This is Abigdor.
00:29:38I know.
00:29:40Ladies!
00:29:42Wagons to the dock and rest!
00:29:44Leaning now!
00:29:46Goodbye.
00:29:48Bye, Anshul.
00:30:04Anshul!
00:30:06Hey, you deaf? Anshul!
00:30:08Anshul.
00:30:10Yes?
00:30:12There's a spare seat in the wagon if you're still undecided.
00:30:14I just decided.
00:30:30Where are you from, Anshul?
00:30:32Um...
00:30:34A little village you've probably never heard of.
00:30:36I have relatives in Yaniv.
00:30:38A third cousin.
00:30:40We moved.
00:30:42What?
00:30:44Years ago.
00:30:46You have relatives in Riga?
00:30:48Riga?
00:30:50Yes.
00:30:52Now we live in Riga.
00:31:00Were you close?
00:31:02He was my father and my teacher.
00:31:04What about your brother?
00:31:06We were brothers.
00:31:08Older? Younger?
00:31:10Younger. About your age.
00:31:12What happened?
00:31:14Pneumonia.
00:31:16Sorry.
00:31:18Would you, um...
00:31:20Like to discuss a page of Talmud?
00:31:22Oh, no, not Talmud.
00:31:24Which?
00:31:26Whatever you're reading.
00:31:28I'll state the premise you disputed.
00:31:30You know it by heart?
00:31:35When does day become night?
00:31:37Uh, sundown.
00:31:39Sundown is when you can see the first three stars in the sky.
00:31:41That's not precise enough.
00:31:43Why?
00:31:45Dusk is when the light is no longer blue.
00:31:47Twilight is when all objects are silhouettes.
00:31:49Will you be quiet for five minutes?
00:31:51They're not even in the yeshiva yet.
00:31:53They're session!
00:31:55We're home!
00:31:57We're back!
00:32:03How do I get into this yeshiva?
00:32:05Rabbi Zalman tests you on what you know
00:32:07or what you think you know.
00:32:09I'll arrange a meeting tomorrow.
00:32:11Will I be able to live at this yeshiva?
00:32:13Not at this one. Don't worry.
00:32:15You'll find lodgings.
00:32:17There may be a room where I stay.
00:32:19We'll ask.
00:32:23Wait for me!
00:32:25You're walking too fast.
00:32:27The synagogue's down the street to the left.
00:32:29The yeshiva's straight ahead.
00:32:31I live right around this corner.
00:32:33Who is it?
00:32:35It's me!
00:32:37Ah, Victor!
00:32:39How many other boyfriends do you have?
00:32:41I'm so glad you're back.
00:32:43Are you all right?
00:32:45Yes, yes, of course.
00:32:47Well, as soon as you see Hadassia, you'll feel better.
00:32:49Who wants other girls when I've got you?
00:32:51Oh, shoo, shoo, Fasheva. Wicked talk.
00:32:53A friend of mine, Anshel.
00:32:55Anshel, Mrs. Jacobs.
00:32:57Good evening, Mrs. Jacobs.
00:32:59Anshel?
00:33:01I told him that you'd have a room for him.
00:33:03Oh, I'm sorry, dear, not tonight.
00:33:05My niece is here from Latvia,
00:33:07but she leaves tomorrow.
00:33:09It's all right. For one night, he can share my bed.
00:33:11No, I can't.
00:33:13Why not?
00:33:15I don't want to impose.
00:33:17Don't be silly.
00:33:19Anyway, I'm a restless sleeper.
00:33:21Come on.
00:33:27Yum!
00:33:35Anshel,
00:33:37will you put out the lamp?
00:33:39I can't.
00:33:41I'm being tested by the rabbi tomorrow.
00:33:43So?
00:33:45You're going to learn the entire Talmud by heart overnight?
00:33:47All 2,555 pages?
00:33:49You're tired. You sleep.
00:33:51I'm not tired. I'm exhausted.
00:33:53I've been bouncing around in a wagon all day long.
00:33:55All I want to do is sleep.
00:33:57Get in bed.
00:33:59Would you like to talk a little before bed?
00:34:01Why don't I just put the lamp...
00:34:03Get in bed.
00:34:19So, uh...
00:34:21who's the das?
00:34:23Mm.
00:34:25Mrs. Jacobs
00:34:27mentioned somebody named, uh...
00:34:29For God's sake.
00:34:31Sorry. I'm sorry. It doesn't matter.
00:34:33Go back to sleep.
00:34:35The girl I'm engaged to.
00:34:37Oh.
00:34:39Sorry.
00:34:41Oh, it's your suitcase.
00:34:49Is she, uh...
00:34:51pretty, this hadass?
00:34:53No.
00:34:55Beautiful.
00:34:57Oh.
00:35:01What kind of hair does she have?
00:35:03Look, I have dinner
00:35:05at her house every Tuesday. I'll take you.
00:35:09Thank you.
00:35:11Oh.
00:35:13Red.
00:35:15Hmm?
00:35:17Red, huh?
00:35:19Now, will you get in the bed?
00:35:21Sure.
00:35:41You'll fall off the edge.
00:35:43I always sleep like this.
00:35:45Why?
00:35:47Why?
00:35:49I think it's written.
00:35:53What is?
00:35:55Two bachelors in the same bed must lie back to back.
00:35:59Really?
00:36:01Really. So turn over, please.
00:36:13Why'd you have to talk about hadass?
00:36:15Now I'll never get to sleep.
00:36:17Why not?
00:36:19Don't you ever think sinful thoughts?
00:36:21No.
00:36:23No?
00:36:25Yes!
00:36:27Don't be so nervous.
00:36:29Why should I be nervous?
00:36:31You're being tested by the rabbi tomorrow.
00:36:33Mm.
00:36:35Mm.
00:36:37Mm.
00:36:39Mm.
00:36:41Good night.
00:36:45Good night.
00:36:47No, it must be the body.
00:36:49No, you're wrong.
00:36:51No, you're wrong.
00:36:53Because it lays eggs.
00:36:55Have you ever seen a mouse lay eggs?
00:37:01No, I'm sure.
00:37:03The whole point of study
00:37:05is to teach us how to live, not only to study.
00:37:07Why?
00:37:09Again, why?
00:37:11No, I mean, excuse me, but my father used to quote Hillel,
00:37:13who said, may I?
00:37:15Hillel said, may I?
00:37:17No, I mean, may I quote Hillel?
00:37:19Quote, quote.
00:37:21Well, Hillel said, he that increases wisdom increases life.
00:37:23Exactly.
00:37:25Meaning that wisdom is the most important thing.
00:37:27Only as the means to an end.
00:37:29Wisdom is the means. Living is the end.
00:37:31Well, in that case, may I ask you another question?
00:37:33Ask.
00:37:35Well, if Hillel said,
00:37:37he that increases wisdom increases life, then...
00:37:41No, that's not it.
00:37:43You can do it.
00:37:47Well?
00:37:49I don't know. He just said to me...
00:37:53He asks a lot of questions, this one.
00:37:55I'm sorry. I've been told that before.
00:37:57It is by their questions that we choose our students,
00:37:59not only by their answers.
00:38:03Your father taught you well, Anshu.
00:38:05Welcome to our yeshiva.
00:38:07I'm accepted.
00:38:11I'm a student.
00:38:13Mazel tov.
00:38:15I'm a student.
00:38:17And now a study partner for him.
00:38:23There are moments
00:38:25you remember all your life.
00:38:29Mazel tov, Anshu. It's wonderful.
00:38:31There are moments you wait for
00:38:33and dream of
00:38:35all your life.
00:38:39This is
00:38:41one of those moments.
00:38:45I will always
00:38:47remember this chair,
00:38:49that window,
00:38:51the way
00:38:53the light
00:38:55streams in.
00:38:57He's too advanced for them.
00:38:59The clothes I'm wearing,
00:39:01the words
00:39:03I'm hearing,
00:39:05the face I'm seeing,
00:39:07the feeling
00:39:09I'm feeling.
00:39:11Me?
00:39:13You? My chickens
00:39:15are too advanced for you.
00:39:17Thank you.
00:39:21Aviktor?
00:39:23There's only me
00:39:25who's too advanced for him.
00:39:27As long as I
00:39:29live.
00:39:33We'll see.
00:39:35I can travel
00:39:37the past and take what I
00:39:39need to see me through
00:39:41the years. What my
00:39:43father learned and his father
00:39:45before him will be there for my
00:39:47eyes and ears. I can
00:39:49walk through the forest of the trees
00:39:51of knowledge and listen to the lesson
00:39:53of the leaves. I can
00:39:55enter rooms where there are rooms
00:39:57within rooms wrapped in a shawl
00:39:59that learning weaves. I remember
00:40:01Papa,
00:40:03everything you've taught me.
00:40:05What you gave
00:40:07me, Papa,
00:40:09look at what it's brought me.
00:40:11There are
00:40:13certain things that once you have
00:40:15no man can take
00:40:17away. No wave
00:40:19can wash away.
00:40:21No wind can blow
00:40:23away. And now
00:40:25they're about to
00:40:27be mine.
00:40:29No tide can
00:40:31turn away. No
00:40:33fire can burn away.
00:40:35No time
00:40:37can wear away.
00:40:51I can open doors,
00:40:53take from the shelves all the
00:40:55books I've longed to hold.
00:40:57I can ask all the questions
00:40:59the wise and the wares as the
00:41:01mysteries of life unfold.
00:41:03Like a link in a chain
00:41:05from the past to the future joins
00:41:07me with the children yet to be.
00:41:09I can now be a part of the
00:41:11ongoing stream that has always
00:41:13been a part
00:41:15of me.
00:41:17There are certain
00:41:19things that once you have
00:41:21no man can take away.
00:41:23No wave can
00:41:25wash away.
00:41:27No wind can blow away.
00:41:29No tide
00:41:31can turn away.
00:41:33No fire can
00:41:35burn away. No time
00:41:37can wear away.
00:41:39And now they're
00:41:41about to be
00:41:43mine.
00:41:45Back to
00:41:47be mine.
00:41:57Forgive me, it's Baba Kama, but
00:41:59it's 31 B.
00:42:01And Shelley's right.
00:42:03You remember all your life.
00:42:07There are moments
00:42:09you wait for and dream
00:42:11of all your life.
00:42:15This
00:42:17is one of
00:42:19those
00:42:21moments.
00:42:45Mind the carpet.
00:43:15Perfect.
00:43:21Beautiful.
00:43:25So
00:43:27congratulations, Anshul, accepted
00:43:29in a fine yeshiva.
00:43:31Your father would be proud.
00:43:33I hope so.
00:43:35I understand he was a scholar too.
00:43:37Yes, yes he was.
00:43:39Now his son after him.
00:43:41May your father rest in peace.
00:43:43I'll make this brother too.
00:43:45He told you.
00:43:47Yes, he did.
00:43:49Consumption, terrible thing.
00:43:51Esther!
00:43:53At our table, two scholars
00:43:55waiting. I'm coming.
00:43:57Going to have a toast
00:43:59to the new yeshiva boy.
00:44:01Makhlai.
00:44:03Such an honor.
00:44:05How was the fish, boys?
00:44:07Delicious. Adas made it
00:44:09herself. It's our favourite.
00:44:11I hope so. We get it every Tuesday.
00:44:13I mean,
00:44:15it's very good. It's good fish.
00:44:17You have a
00:44:19lovely home, Mrs. Viskauer.
00:44:21Such
00:44:23beautiful things. The silver,
00:44:25the dishes, the tablecloth.
00:44:27Thank you, Anshul.
00:44:29It's nice of you to notice.
00:44:31I'm sorry.
00:44:33It's all right.
00:44:37You come from
00:44:39a big family? No.
00:44:41No brothers or sisters?
00:44:43No. And your father never remarried?
00:44:45No. Esther.
00:44:47I'm just curious. I mean,
00:44:49who took care of him? If I knew
00:44:51Talmud the way my wife knows everybody's
00:44:53business, God bless her.
00:44:55The sage of all sages.
00:44:57Don't you pay any attention
00:44:59to him.
00:45:01No wonder
00:45:03he loves her.
00:45:05No wonder
00:45:07at all.
00:45:09Avigdor, what volume are you learning?
00:45:11The moment she
00:45:13sees him, her
00:45:15thought is to
00:45:17please him.
00:45:19Before he even
00:45:21knows that he's hungry, she's already there with
00:45:23a slate. Before his
00:45:25glass is even empty, she's filling it up.
00:45:27God forbid he should wait.
00:45:29Before he has a chance to tell her
00:45:31he's chilly, she'll go put a
00:45:33log on the fire.
00:45:35Fulfilling his
00:45:37every desire.
00:45:39More bread, please. No trouble.
00:45:41Yes, more bread.
00:45:43No bother.
00:45:45No caris? No, thank you.
00:45:47No wonder
00:45:49she's pretty.
00:45:51What else
00:45:53should she be?
00:45:55Avigdor.
00:45:57She hasn't a
00:45:59worry.
00:46:01And why should
00:46:03she worry?
00:46:05When she gets up, her biggest
00:46:07decision is figuring out what to wear.
00:46:09To pick a blouse, a skirt, and
00:46:11then there's the problem of what should she do with her
00:46:13hair. And later as she stands
00:46:15and studies a chicken, the question's
00:46:17to roast or to not
00:46:19roast. Or better
00:46:21yet, maybe a pot
00:46:23roast. Tomatoes
00:46:25now.
00:46:27Potatoes.
00:46:29No
00:46:31wonder
00:46:33he likes it.
00:46:35It's perfect this
00:46:37way.
00:46:39Who wouldn't want someone who fusses
00:46:41and flatters? Who makes you
00:46:43feel that you're all that matters?
00:46:45Whose only aim in life is
00:46:47to serve you and make
00:46:49you think she doesn't
00:46:51deserve
00:46:53you.
00:46:55No wonder.
00:46:57He loves her.
00:46:59It happens.
00:47:01All the time.
00:47:25She makes the best almond cakes, doesn't
00:47:27she?
00:47:29I thought it was pneumonia.
00:47:31Hm? Your brother.
00:47:33It was.
00:47:35Fishcarrow said consumption.
00:47:37Did he?
00:47:39They were very impressed with you
00:47:41in there. Beautiful dishes.
00:47:43Beautiful home.
00:47:45I didn't
00:47:47open my mouth the first two months I went except to eat.
00:47:51Is she always that nervous?
00:47:53She's a girl.
00:47:55And love.
00:47:57What do you expect?
00:47:59She doesn't say very much, does she?
00:48:01What does she have to say?
00:48:05Don't you ever wonder what she's thinking?
00:48:07No.
00:48:09What could she be thinking?
00:48:11Anyway,
00:48:13I don't need her to think.
00:48:15I can do that with you.
00:48:17You're wrong, Avogdor. It's a mistranslation.
00:48:19The Hebrew word for rib never meant rib. It meant side.
00:48:21Rib. Side. What's the difference?
00:48:23There's no difference in the world since Adam was created
00:48:25both male and female. Where's that written?
00:48:27Genesis 5, verse 2. And if God took one side
00:48:29of Adam and not his rib and created women,
00:48:31that means they're the same. We all are.
00:48:33Everybody is. Don't you see? What I see is you've never
00:48:35been with a woman. What I mean is that they
00:48:37share masculine and feminine qualities since
00:48:39they come from the same source. Look.
00:48:41Can you do that? What?
00:48:43Create life. Give birth to sons.
00:48:45When you can do that, then you tell me
00:48:47we're the same. Another interpretation. Give me back my book.
00:48:49The true story of Adam and Eve. Genesis, Rabbah 18.
00:48:51Stop it. Stop it.
00:48:53Come on.
00:48:55Please.
00:48:57Must you talk with your hands?
00:48:59Stop it.
00:49:01No.
00:49:03No. Not the rib. Rib.
00:49:05Not the rib, ox head. Side. Rib.
00:49:07Side. Rib. Side. Rib.
00:49:09Rib.
00:49:11Admit it. Admit you're wrong.
00:49:13Admit it. Admit it.
00:49:15I will not. I'm not wrong.
00:49:17Admit it. Get off me.
00:49:19I can't breathe. I can't breathe.
00:49:21I can't breathe.
00:49:27Come on.
00:49:33Where are you going?
00:49:35Come on.
00:49:39Avigdor, wait.
00:49:43Avigdor.
00:49:49Avigdor.
00:49:53Avigdor, where are you?
00:49:55Over here.
00:49:59Come on in.
00:50:01Oh, my God.
00:50:03Did you do that swimming in here?
00:50:05Let me be the referee.
00:50:07I find something funny that I don't know.
00:50:11Get back in there.
00:50:13Come on in.
00:50:15No.
00:50:17There's a passage here that...
00:50:19Do you want to pull off?
00:50:21No. It's all right.
00:50:23I'll watch the clothes.
00:50:25Don't throw me in the water.
00:50:27Don't throw me in the water.
00:50:29Look at this fish I've got.
00:50:37Come on in.
00:50:39Cut it out. Cut it out.
00:50:47Hey, Avigdor, how's the water?
00:50:49It's good.
00:50:51Fun.
00:50:53Feels wonderful.
00:50:55You're only missing something.
00:50:57Am I?
00:50:59The water's perfect.
00:51:01Is it?
00:51:03Here. Your pants.
00:51:05Put on your pants.
00:51:07What a pleasure.
00:51:09It must be a sin.
00:51:11Couldn't be.
00:51:13Come on in.
00:51:15It's enough studying.
00:51:17No, no. It's too cold.
00:51:19The water's warm.
00:51:21No, I get cold easily.
00:51:23That's not the reason.
00:51:25Why didn't you tell me?
00:51:27I can't swim.
00:51:29I can't swim. That's right.
00:51:31I can't swim. I can't swim, Shimala.
00:51:33Neither can I.
00:51:35That's why I stay where it's shallow.
00:51:37I'll teach you.
00:51:39Don't be afraid.
00:51:41I don't like swimming.
00:51:43I told you to take your clothes off.
00:51:45You're gonna get all wet.
00:51:47Stop it.
00:51:49I don't want to.
00:51:51All right, all right.
00:51:53If you're that scared...
00:51:59I'm not gonna force you.
00:52:01Next time.
00:52:03Sure.
00:52:05When you're ready.
00:52:14There's no chill
00:52:16And yet
00:52:18I shiver
00:52:20There's no flame
00:52:22And yet I burn
00:52:25I'm not sure
00:52:27What I'm
00:52:29Afraid of
00:52:30And yet
00:52:32I'm
00:52:34Trembling
00:52:38There's no storm
00:52:40Yet I hear thunder
00:52:42And I'm breathless
00:52:44Why, I wonder
00:52:46Weak one moment
00:52:48Then the next I'm fine
00:52:53I feel as if I'm falling
00:52:55Every time I close my eyes
00:52:58And flowing through my body
00:53:00Is a river of surprise
00:53:03Feelings are awakening
00:53:05I hardly recognize
00:53:09As mine
00:53:19What are all these new sensations?
00:53:24What's the secret they reveal?
00:53:29I'm not sure I understand
00:53:34But I like
00:53:37The way I feel
00:54:08Oh, why is it that
00:54:10Every time I close my eyes
00:54:12He's there
00:54:13The water shining on his skin
00:54:16The sunlight in his hair
00:54:18And all the while
00:54:19I'm thinking things
00:54:21That I can never share
00:54:25With him
00:54:30I'm not sure
00:54:32What I'm
00:54:34Afraid of
00:54:36Him
00:54:44I'm a bundle of
00:54:46Confusion
00:54:49Yet it has a strange appeal
00:54:55Did it all begin
00:54:59With him
00:55:01I like the way he makes me
00:55:07Fear
00:55:19I like the way
00:55:22He makes me
00:55:29Fear
00:56:00Which is the greater crime?
00:56:02Stealing by day or by night?
00:56:04Um, by day
00:56:05By night?
00:56:06By night
00:56:07Well, the thief not only receives
00:56:09A sleeping victim
00:56:10He receives a sleeping corpse
00:56:12The point being
00:56:13That he's got nothing
00:56:15What's wrong?
00:56:16That's what I want to know
00:56:18Every morning by the time we reach you
00:56:20You've exhausted the five books of Moses
00:56:22The six orders of the Mishnah
00:56:23The seven wonders of the world
00:56:25And the entire mystery of the universe
00:56:27This morning
00:56:28Not a word
00:56:29What's wrong?
00:56:30Nothing
00:56:31Just like my brother
00:56:33In a little world of your own half the time
00:56:35Not saying what's on your mind?
00:56:36Moody?
00:56:37Who's Moody?
00:56:38Worried about something?
00:56:39No
00:56:40Studies?
00:56:41Nothing, Arthur
00:56:42I'm your study partner
00:56:43You should tell me if you are
00:56:44I'm not
00:56:45Me sitting next to you
00:56:46What have you got to worry about?
00:56:47Please
00:56:48I know what's wrong
00:56:49Come on, I'll take you to the matchmaker
00:56:50It'll put you in a better mood
00:56:51I'm not going to any matchmaker
00:56:52I'll give you something soft
00:56:53Please
00:56:54Excuse me, gentlemen
00:56:57Thank you, Sophie
00:56:59Victor, please
00:57:03My future father-in-law would like to see me
00:57:05Well, we're reading there tonight
00:57:06He wants to see me now
00:57:07What for?
00:57:08Dowry, wedding ceremony
00:57:10The wedding night
00:57:12Why do you keep grabbing me?
00:57:14What?
00:57:16You're always grabbing me
00:57:19I'm not
00:57:20Yes, you are
00:57:23So, everything has to have a reason
00:57:26Come on
00:57:29Wedding night!
00:57:32Excuse me, Sophie
00:57:56Hello, Sophie
00:57:57Hello
00:57:58Is Avondale here?
00:57:59Um
00:58:00She, uh
00:58:02Excuse me
00:58:19What's wrong?
00:58:21I don't know
00:58:23What's, what's wrong?
00:58:27What's the matter?
00:58:28I'm sorry
00:58:30You're still welcome here
00:58:31No matter what's happening
00:58:33Sophie, I'll get you something to eat
00:58:36Where's Avidor?
00:58:38Excuse me, Rebalto, but what?
00:58:42Just, sweetheart, try to understand
00:58:46Avidor
00:58:48I just came from
00:58:52What happened?
00:58:54The wedding's off
00:58:57Why?
00:58:59He says I have the evil eye
00:59:01He says a streak of melancholy runs in our blood
00:59:03What are you saying?
00:59:05No man can let his daughter marry into a family like that
00:59:08It's forbidden
00:59:10I don't understand
00:59:12They found out
00:59:14What?
00:59:15About my brother
00:59:16What about your brother?
00:59:18He didn't die of pneumonia or consumption
00:59:20I lied
00:59:21He committed suicide
00:59:26So, no wedding
00:59:28No sons
00:59:31What's all this for?
00:59:36I don't know
00:59:38I don't know
00:59:41Did you talk to Hadass?
00:59:43What for?
00:59:44She loves you, Avidor
00:59:46She'll still marry you
00:59:47What if her parents say no?
00:59:48Yes, she can
00:59:49If she thinks her parents are wrong
00:59:50She can't
00:59:51You think it's so easy
00:59:52She's a woman
00:59:53She can't think for herself
00:59:54That's nonsense
00:59:55Please, Axel
00:59:56This isn't a time for a philosophical argument
00:59:58I've lost the one girl that I've ever loved
01:00:00That I'll ever love
01:00:01You want to sit here and argue?
01:00:11You'll fall in love again
01:00:17No
01:00:19Das is a nice girl, but
01:00:22Don't make her into more than she is
01:00:24I'm not
01:00:26She was exactly what I wanted
01:00:40Please stop
01:00:48I'm sorry
01:00:50Is this really happening, Axel?
01:00:55Maybe
01:00:57Someone else will turn up for you
01:01:03Maybe not
01:01:06Quite as pretty, maybe
01:01:08The brown hair
01:01:12I wouldn't notice her if she did
01:01:35I love you
01:02:05I love you
01:02:35Why do you punish him for something his brother did?
01:02:38Ancho, please
01:02:40But Das should be proud to be his wife
01:02:42He should be proud to be his father-in-law
01:02:44Ancho
01:02:45They love each other
01:02:46That's all that matters
01:02:47No, that's not all
01:02:48There are other things
01:02:49Don't talk old wives' tales
01:02:51Talk the law
01:02:52I'll talk more than the law
01:02:53I'll talk life
01:02:55What do you want me to do?
01:02:57What do you want me to do?
01:02:58I want you to marry me
01:03:00I want you to marry me
01:03:02I want you to marry me
01:03:05What matters is a man's children
01:03:07It's his children that your law exists for
01:03:10Her children
01:03:11That's her only dowry
01:03:13And my obligation as her father
01:03:15I have one daughter
01:03:17I want the best for her
01:03:20Avigdor is the best
01:03:22The best scholar may be the best friend
01:03:25But not the best choice
01:03:28We want someone from a good family
01:03:32We want someone with no secrets to hide
01:03:37Someone like...
01:03:45Someone else
01:03:55Ancho
01:03:58A little more
01:04:03A little more
01:04:14In the middle of the night he goes to school
01:04:17What did you have for dinner?
01:04:19What did I have for dinner?
01:04:22Very little
01:04:24And Adas?
01:04:27She's still in love, what do you expect?
01:04:29How did she look?
01:04:32Not as bad as you do
01:04:37You didn't miss anything
01:04:39It was like a madhouse
01:04:41The whole family's going crazy
01:04:43What do you mean?
01:04:47Well, it's just that...
01:04:49I'm sure Rebolter...
01:04:52I mean to save face
01:04:54They're gonna try to marry her off as soon as...
01:04:55After a broken engagement
01:04:56They have to, it's usual
01:04:58Did I mention someone?
01:05:00No, no
01:05:02But you should have seen the way they were looking at me
01:05:05You?
01:05:08Can you imagine?
01:05:10It shows you how desperate they are
01:05:16Human, I mean...
01:05:21What's the matter?
01:05:22You
01:05:23What?
01:05:24Of course
01:05:25Avigdor?
01:05:27What's the matter?
01:05:28That's a sin!
01:05:29What are you doing?
01:05:31Avigdor, please!
01:05:32Just tell me what's happening!
01:05:34What?
01:05:35What?
01:05:37What are you doing?
01:05:38Where is it?
01:05:39What are you looking for?
01:05:40Oh, here it is
01:05:42What's the matter, please?
01:05:44Sit down
01:05:49Avigdor, just...
01:05:51Anshel, I'm going to make you the happiest man in the world
01:05:55Yes?
01:05:56Anshel, it is the law
01:05:57And it's written
01:05:58And you like everything written
01:06:00What's written, Avigdor?
01:06:02It's the perfect solution
01:06:06We are like brothers
01:06:07If one dies, it is the other's obligation to marry his widow
01:06:12Who's died? No one's died
01:06:13I want you to marry Hadass
01:06:17Oh, no
01:06:18Yes
01:06:19Never, Avigdor
01:06:20I couldn't, never
01:06:21Why not?
01:06:22Why not?
01:06:23She loves you, that's why not
01:06:25Anyway, you're not dead
01:06:26Hadass isn't a widow and I'm not your brother
01:06:28In my eyes, you are
01:06:29In my eyes, you're crazy
01:06:30I don't want to marry her
01:06:31I don't want to marry anyone
01:06:32I don't love her, I can't
01:06:33I know, that's good
01:06:34Good? What are you talking about?
01:06:35Will you listen?
01:06:36No, I don't want to listen
01:06:37Don't you see? It's fate, it's meant to be
01:06:38Nothing is meant to be
01:06:39We make what's meant to be
01:06:40I know, the thought of her with another man is driving me crazy
01:06:42Aren't I another man?
01:06:43Yes, but not a total stranger
01:06:44You marrying her would be the nearest thing to me, Mary
01:06:46I don't want to discuss it any further
01:06:47Think of her for a moment
01:06:48They may marry her off to someone she doesn't even know, let alone love
01:06:50She could never love me
01:06:51So she could never love you
01:06:52She likes you, she's comfortable with you
01:06:53I could see her
01:06:54I could visit you both, the three of us could be together
01:06:55Avigdor, you're talking like a madman
01:06:57But someone may take her away from me
01:06:58I'll never see her again
01:06:59Wait!
01:07:00Think of you then
01:07:01I am, I am
01:07:02She'll take care of you
01:07:03No
01:07:04A wealthy family, a beautiful girl
01:07:05No
01:07:06Why do you always have to be different?
01:07:07Leave, it's enough
01:07:08You're always downstairs
01:07:09Oh, what's the matter with you?
01:07:11Any other man would
01:07:15I should
01:07:17Time will go by
01:07:20Temper's cool, things change
01:07:23Who knows?
01:07:25Perhaps even her father
01:07:28Your marriage could be dissolved
01:07:29Hadassah and I could be
01:07:30She means
01:07:31She means that much to you?
01:07:35Who better will you find?
01:07:38Who better will she find?
01:07:41Do it
01:07:43For all I know
01:07:44I can't, it's impossible
01:07:45Nothing's impossible
01:07:50Just think about it
01:07:53I've thought
01:07:55It's out of the question
01:07:56The answer's no
01:08:11Another question
01:08:14Do you feel anything for me?
01:08:17What?
01:08:18Do you?
01:08:22Of course I do
01:08:26Then think again
01:08:48I love you
01:09:19How do you know?
01:09:21You told me last week at dinner
01:09:24I don't remember
01:09:27I do
01:09:33It's a little chilly in here
01:09:37I thought it was rather warm myself
01:09:39Yes, it is warm
01:09:41For this time of year
01:09:43No wonder
01:09:45She suits him
01:09:47She never
01:09:49Disputes him
01:09:51Last year it was also warm
01:09:53The conversation's not too exciting
01:09:55But oh, what a change it must be
01:09:57To spend an evening
01:09:58Where there's no conversation
01:10:00Must be a relief after me
01:10:02I'll get dessert
01:10:03And though there's nothing much
01:10:04To challenge your mind
01:10:06Who cares when the food's so delicious?
01:10:09Not to mention
01:10:10These beautiful dishes
01:10:13A match set
01:10:16From France yet
01:10:21You look pensive
01:10:23No, I was just thinking
01:10:27About me?
01:10:31As a matter of fact, I was
01:10:35Good thoughts, I hope
01:10:40Something smells good
01:10:42What is it?
01:10:43It must be the cinnamon
01:10:44In the baked apple
01:10:46You bake apples, too
01:10:49No wonder he loves her
01:10:53No wonder to me
01:10:57A cushion?
01:10:58Why not?
01:10:59With ribbons and laces
01:11:02In all the right places
01:11:06Milk or lemon?
01:11:07Yes, please
01:11:08I must admit, it's all very pleasant
01:11:10And this is a comfortable room
01:11:11Which?
01:11:12Which what?
01:11:13And if he likes the smell
01:11:14Of lilacs and roses
01:11:15Then maybe he likes her perfume
01:11:17Lemon or milk?
01:11:18And though her silky hair
01:11:20And milky complexion are nice
01:11:22Still they're not that distracting
01:11:24Angel?
01:11:25Milky
01:11:26What?
01:11:27Milk! Milk!
01:11:28Milk!
01:11:29So what accounts for the way
01:11:30He's been acting?
01:11:32Honey?
01:11:33Her softness
01:11:35No honey
01:11:36Her sweetness
01:11:38Sugar?
01:11:40How could he?
01:11:44An almond cookie?
01:11:48How'd you get them all the same size?
01:11:54You notice everything
01:11:57The china
01:11:59Cookies
01:12:04That's really wonderful
01:12:05That's really wonderful
01:12:12Where are your parents, Adas?
01:12:14Maybe they'd like some tea
01:12:16They're in the study
01:12:17Having tea with a guest
01:12:19This one's from Zimash
01:12:21Yesterday there were two from Tomashev
01:12:22Even older
01:12:23Well, I really have to be going
01:12:25I may have to leave, Bashev
01:12:27If they don't find someone for me here
01:12:29I'm sure they'll find someone
01:12:30I mean, who wouldn't want you?
01:12:32I mean, don't you ever think about
01:12:33I mean, don't you ever think about marriage?
01:12:35No, no, no, I just think about my studies
01:12:37I admire that in a man
01:12:38That's very good
01:12:39Well, uh
01:12:41Good night
01:12:44Good night
01:13:00He's not there, Anshel
01:13:04He's gone
01:13:06He took his things and left
01:13:12Harry!
01:13:14I'm absolutely promise leaving now
01:13:17I'm absolutely promise leaving now
01:13:20I'm absolutely promise leaving now
01:13:21Robin, do not leave, please
01:13:22I was wrong
01:13:23You?
01:13:25Fight for her, she's worth fighting for
01:13:26It's no use
01:13:27Talk to Bishkauer
01:13:28I tried, he won't listen
01:13:29Well, let's go see the Rabbi
01:13:30Maybe there's a law
01:13:31There are no laws, Anshel
01:13:32Not for this
01:13:33Maybe if you took your nose out of books once in a while
01:13:34Maybe if you took your nose out of books once in a while
01:13:35You'd know more about life
01:13:36About men and women
01:13:37About love
01:13:40How could I expect you to understand?
01:13:42You've never felt
01:13:48Let's go, beloved province
01:13:51Open the door
01:13:56Oh my God
01:13:57Can I carry your suitcase, sir?
01:14:03Bye, Anshel
01:14:06I'm sorry
01:14:07About everything
01:14:08Asking what I did
01:14:09It was my only way of staying
01:14:10And it was wrong
01:14:11No, it's not wrong
01:14:12I think so
01:14:13It's understandable
01:14:14You're in love
01:14:15It was sinful, unnatural
01:14:16Who knows what's natural?
01:14:17I was asking the impossible
01:14:18Don't go, Arvid
01:14:19Everything loaded?
01:14:20Everyone aboard?
01:14:22Don't go!
01:14:25I'll come with you
01:14:33Wait!
01:14:35Arvid, don't
01:14:36Nothing's impossible
01:14:42Nothing
01:14:54It's impossible
01:14:55It's all wrong
01:14:56What do you think it is?
01:14:57I don't know
01:14:58I don't know
01:14:59I don't know
01:15:00It's impossible
01:15:01It's all wrong
01:15:02What do you think, Zellie?
01:15:03I never had such a hard time fitting anybody
01:15:05The shoulders
01:15:06Never mind the shoulders
01:15:07Look how tight it is around the chest
01:15:08It fits
01:15:09This is the way you cut, Zellie
01:15:10Maybe it's a tape measure
01:15:11Look, it's all right
01:15:12All right?
01:15:13For Alta Vishkar's son-in-law
01:15:14We have to do our best work
01:15:15Well, it's my coat
01:15:16And I like it this way
01:15:18He likes it this way
01:15:22Look at him
01:15:23Look at me
01:15:26I must be absolutely crazy
01:15:29How did I ever let it get this far?
01:15:31Take off the coat
01:15:33I'm getting deeper into trouble
01:15:36Am I a woman or a man?
01:15:37Am I a devil or a demon?
01:15:39You got a problem with the pants?
01:15:40What's wrong with the pants?
01:15:41Compared to the pants, even the coat looks good
01:15:42Take them off
01:15:43Why?
01:15:44Why?
01:15:45Papa was right
01:15:47I asked too many questions
01:15:48He said a soul can get perplexed
01:15:50I can't believe what happens next
01:15:51Papa was right
01:15:53We're in trouble with the crotch
01:15:54What's wrong with the crotch?
01:15:55You'll find out when you go
01:15:56Excuse me to relieve yourself
01:15:57It seems this little game I play
01:15:58Becomes more risky every day
01:16:00The pants, please
01:16:01All right, I'll take them off
01:16:03But you'll have to leave the room first
01:16:05He's ashamed in front of his tailor
01:16:06A tailor's like a doctor
01:16:07Wants to be ashamed
01:16:08Real man
01:16:09What do you think, Zaylie?
01:16:10Rip, what are you talking?
01:16:11Rip me sugar
01:16:12Are you crazy?
01:16:13The wedding's tomorrow night
01:16:14Bring the shoulder pads
01:16:16Move
01:16:18Tomorrow night
01:16:20Tomorrow night
01:16:23Tomorrow night
01:16:25Tomorrow night
01:16:26Tomorrow night
01:16:29Under the canopy
01:16:30I'll stand with her
01:16:32Tomorrow night
01:16:35And place a ring upon her hand
01:16:37With her all dressed in white
01:16:41Tomorrow night
01:16:43I don't know how this came about
01:16:44But I'll be wed without a doubt
01:16:45Oh, my God, I've got to get out
01:16:48What did you say?
01:16:50I've got to get out of my clothes
01:16:52Get back out here
01:16:55Look at this
01:16:57Come on, move
01:16:59The way one lie begets another
01:17:02Somebody wake me up and say it's all a dream
01:17:04Ouch!
01:17:06Look at this
01:17:07Look how easily I fool them
01:17:09They may have eyes but they don't see
01:17:11They never really look at me
01:17:12People are blind
01:17:15How else would everyone believe me?
01:17:17It might be interesting to know
01:17:19Just how much further I can go
01:17:21Well, are you blind, Zaylie?
01:17:22Look, the right sleeve is longer than the left
01:17:24This will never work
01:17:25Well, make it work
01:17:27At least the hat fits
01:17:29Tomorrow night
01:17:31Tomorrow night
01:17:34I can't believe what I presume to be
01:17:37Tomorrow night
01:17:40I'm not the bride but I'm the groom
01:17:42To be tomorrow night
01:17:46And that's a monumental trick
01:17:47I better figure something quick
01:17:49Oh, my God, I'm feeling sick
01:17:51It's just the usual nerves before the wedding
01:17:54I think I'd better rest
01:17:55Rest, rest
01:17:56You'll need all the rest you can get, right, Zaylie?
01:17:58I could run away
01:18:01I could leave without a trace
01:18:03Go anywhere or anyplace
01:18:05Where no one knows my face
01:18:08As a woman or a man
01:18:10I don't know, just so I can run away
01:18:15Run away
01:18:18I'd be free
01:18:19I'd be rid of all of this
01:18:22But there's someone I would miss
01:18:28And being near him is what this is all about
01:18:36So running away is out
01:18:40Do you think he'll get away with it?
01:18:41Do you think we'll get away with it?
01:18:43Papa dear
01:18:45You dreamed of dancing at my wedding
01:18:49But something tells me that I'm right
01:18:51You wouldn't want to dance tonight
01:18:57Take off the clothes
01:18:59All right, all right
01:19:00We'll leave the room first
01:19:01Come, Zaylie, we have a lot of work to do
01:19:03Oh, with God's help
01:19:04Amen
01:19:06Isn't this
01:19:08A strangely logical solution?
01:19:11Things may not be as they appear
01:19:13But the advantages are clear
01:19:17He loves her, she loves him
01:19:19He likes me, I like her
01:19:21And I've reason to think she likes me
01:19:23She keeps him, he keeps her
01:19:25I keep things as they were
01:19:27It's a perfect arrangement for three
01:19:29Who'd have ever predicted the moment would come
01:19:32When I find myself grateful they've kept women dumb
01:19:35She's an innocent maiden, but then so am I
01:19:38That's why it's possible I could get by
01:19:40Look, I've seen the impossible happen before
01:19:44Maybe God will, it'll happen once more
01:19:46For I feel like a train on a perilous track
01:19:49No way to stop, no way to go back
01:19:51A snowball that's gathering speed down a hill
01:19:53Going faster and faster and faster until
01:19:56Tomorrow night, tomorrow night
01:20:02Even if someone would pray for me tomorrow night
01:20:08There's not a prayer that they could say for me
01:20:11Tomorrow night, tomorrow night
01:20:16Tomorrow night, tomorrow night
01:20:18Is now tonight
01:20:42The handkerchiefs, then
01:20:50Excuse me
01:20:51Where are you going?
01:20:53Look, look at the shoulders
01:20:59You're not leaving, are you?
01:21:01I have a wedding present for you
01:21:03For both of you
01:21:04Thank you
01:21:05Rachmaninoff, the Holy Letter
01:21:07He wrote it over 500 years ago
01:21:09Converse with her to put her mind at ease
01:21:12Speak words which arouse her to love, desire, and passion
01:21:18And words of reverence for God
01:21:23Never force her
01:21:25Her mood must be as yours
01:21:28Win her with graciousness and seductiveness
01:21:33Be patient until her passion is aroused
01:21:38Begin with love
01:21:41And when her mood is ready
01:21:43Let her desire be satisfied first
01:21:47Her delight is what matters
01:21:50You have a good son-in-law
01:21:52Beautiful
01:21:54Give him a hug
01:21:56Beautiful babies
01:22:00I don't think I can
01:22:02I'll let the
01:22:03I'll show him
01:22:04Come on, let's go
01:22:05Are you sure?
01:22:08I'm sure
01:22:09I have to talk to you
01:22:11And your obligation
01:22:12Yes, sir
01:22:13So, as I said, you must leave here
01:22:16See, Eve was made from Adam's rib to obey his wishes, his demands
01:22:20And so must you
01:22:21So, you see, there's nothing to be nervous about
01:22:24No, Mother
01:22:25Yes, Mother
01:22:26You've protected her
01:22:27She knows nothing
01:22:28But you're the scholar
01:22:29So I don't have to tell you
01:22:31Be fruitful and multiply
01:22:32Thank you, sir
01:22:33I know the law
01:22:34May your wedding night be as joyful as ours
01:22:37Wise
01:22:39And please guard her grandson
01:22:41Nine months from now
01:23:06This is a wonderful wedding
01:23:09Yes, this is a wonderful wedding
01:23:23Oh
01:23:25Don't you think I'm beautiful?
01:23:36Yes
01:23:54Are you too warm?
01:23:56No
01:23:59Shall I open a window?
01:24:00No
01:24:01Unless you want to
01:24:04You're the man
01:24:06That's true
01:24:10You don't have to be frightened, Hadassah
01:24:12I'm not
01:24:13You're not
01:24:14Yes, I am
01:24:16Good
01:24:17What?
01:24:18I mean, it's only natural
01:24:22But you don't have to do anything you don't want to, Hadassah
01:24:25Anything
01:24:26But I do
01:24:27You're my husband, Aunt
01:24:28Should I have to do whatever you demand?
01:24:29No, that's not so
01:24:30It's not?
01:24:31No
01:24:32According to the Talmud, a woman has the right to refuse her husband
01:24:35Do you know that?
01:24:36No, my mother said
01:24:37Too many women don't know the law
01:24:39So if you want to refuse
01:24:40I didn't say
01:24:41Then naturally I respect your wishes
01:24:44You're a very considerate man, Aunt Shaw
01:24:48Only because I know you're thinking of someone else
01:24:51Who?
01:24:53I'm not at all of anyone
01:24:55You mustn't be angry with him
01:24:56What?
01:24:58Well, any woman would be, wouldn't she?
01:25:00I mean, who was close to her
01:25:03You're very understanding
01:25:06It's only natural that you wish he were here instead of me
01:25:09Don't you?
01:25:10But you're my husband, Aunt Shaw
01:25:12So the thing is, the thing is, Hadassah
01:25:14Because you're still thinking of Avigdor
01:25:17I can't let you commit any unnecessary sin
01:25:20Sin?
01:25:21Yes, it's very clearly written that a woman cannot give herself to one man while she's still thinking of another
01:25:25You didn't know that?
01:25:26No, I
01:25:27It's a terrible sin, believe me
01:25:28So tonight we'll do what you want, which is nothing, I understand
01:25:31I don't know what I want
01:25:33Well, when you do, you must let me know
01:25:38You're, you're very hard to resist, Hadassah
01:25:42But I'm not going to force myself on you
01:25:45I'll, I'll just have to be patient
01:25:51Good
01:25:53Good
01:25:54Good
01:25:59Uh, a drop more wine?
01:26:04It's our secret, no one needs to know
01:26:07Our secret
01:26:10And our friendship
01:26:12Husband and wife can be friends
01:26:14Oh, yeah
01:26:15Hmm, only one problem
01:26:18Help me
01:26:19Um, in the morning when they come in, they'll think we've, uh
01:26:23But we haven't
01:26:25Shh, secret
01:26:26Shh
01:26:32What, what, what, no, just one bed
01:26:42You silly goose
01:26:44Good night
01:26:51Good night
01:27:03You tell me
01:27:08Juice, juice
01:27:14Oh, God
01:27:23Hmm
01:27:27Banshee
01:27:32I think I'm going to like being married to you
01:27:40Good night, Hadassah
01:27:42Good night
01:27:44Good night
01:27:54So, uh, what was it like?
01:27:57Oh, the usual, music, dancing, lots of...
01:27:59I was there
01:28:00Oh
01:28:02Hadassah and I talked, laughed a little, well, a lot
01:28:06And then, um, she went to sleep
01:28:09Banshee, I'm a grown man, you can tell me the truth
01:28:11Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
01:28:13What did you do to her?
01:28:14Nothing
01:28:15Come on, tell me, please
01:28:16What do you think I did to her?
01:28:17I don't know, you kissed her, you caressed her, you held her
01:28:19All right, all right
01:28:20What?
01:28:21That, that, I did everything, just like you said
01:28:23What else do you want to know?
01:28:24Did she make sounds? Did she scream?
01:28:26She did a little screaming, then she went to sleep
01:28:28Went to sleep?
01:28:31Banshee
01:28:32And she talked a little
01:28:33Talked in her sleep? What did she say?
01:28:36Things like, Avigdor, I love you
01:28:38I love you
01:28:40Go on
01:28:45I adore you, Avigdor
01:28:47She said
01:28:51That's the truth?
01:28:54Yes, my friend
01:28:57That's the truth
01:29:10I love you
01:29:22Raspberry tea is very good for headaches
01:29:28Thank you
01:29:30Am I disturbing you?
01:29:32No
01:29:34It's almost sundown
01:29:36Sabbath
01:29:38Yes
01:29:41My mother says it's a special blessing on the Sabbath
01:29:46Going to synagogue?
01:29:47Going to bed
01:29:52Unless you're tired
01:29:53What?
01:29:57Drink your tea, it's getting cold
01:30:00When Avigdor used to call it, I sometimes spilled things
01:30:03I don't know if you ever noticed
01:30:04No, never
01:30:06It's because he made me tremble
01:30:09Inside
01:30:12That's love, Adas
01:30:15But you don't make me tremble
01:30:20I don't know
01:30:23I don't know
01:30:26I don't know
01:30:29You make me peaceful
01:30:34Well, yes, that's the friendship I was telling you about
01:30:37You see, in the Talmud, a wife...
01:30:39So will you teach me?
01:30:42Teach you?
01:30:46Please
01:30:49Talmud?
01:30:50Talmud
01:30:52Talmud
01:30:53Not the Talmud
01:30:55Talmud, Talmud, why not?
01:30:56Why not, Adas?
01:30:57Why not, Adas?
01:30:58It's the least a husband can do for his wife
01:30:59The most, maybe even...
01:31:00I could never learn Talmud, I meant...
01:31:02Nonsense, if I can do it, you can do it
01:31:04Lock the door
01:31:05But isn't it a sin?
01:31:06I thought women were forbidden
01:31:07Sin, sin, it's not a sin
01:31:08Then why are you closing the curtains and me locking the door?
01:31:11Why? Because I trust God will understand
01:31:13I'm not so sure about the neighbors
01:31:14Come, sit
01:31:17What's funny?
01:31:18You, I've never seen you so excited
01:31:21Now, pay attention, Adas
01:31:23First, there's the Bible
01:31:24The five books of Moses, which God handed down on Mount Sinai
01:31:26Wait a minute, I'll be right back
01:31:27Where are you going?
01:31:28Until I have the soup on the stove, then I have to glaze the...
01:31:30Let your mother do it, please
01:31:33The Talmud, on the other hand, is a series of commentaries interpreting the...
01:31:36What are you doing?
01:31:38I was just pulling a thread from my head
01:31:40Well, don't, we're studying
01:31:41Yes, I was
01:31:42Now where was I?
01:31:43A series of commentaries interpreting the Bible
01:31:46Yes
01:31:48The first of these commentaries is called the Mishnah, our code of law
01:31:52Glad your headache's better
01:31:56What is so incredible, Adas, is that it's a masterpiece of literature, folklore and philosophy
01:32:01It deals with astronomy, architecture, medicine
01:32:03Everything from making love to planting Egyptian beans
01:32:06Making love?
01:32:09To planting Egyptian beans
01:32:12I thought you said something
01:32:14Then there's the Midrash, legends, stories, dealing with legal issues
01:32:19For example, two men are disputing the ownership of a mule or a flock of chickens
01:32:22Let's say a flock of chickens
01:32:23Anshul, while your books argue about chickens, I've had to pluck them
01:32:28It's Friday, I've been up since dawn
01:32:31I'm too tired to be a scholar on Fridays, Anshul
01:32:36I'm sorry
01:32:39I'm the one who's sorry, Adas
01:32:43I'm too tired for the special Sabbath blessing
01:32:47Even if maybe you were going to demand it
01:32:52Demand it?
01:32:54Maybe
01:33:12Next Tuesday, 8 o'clock
01:33:16What about her parents?
01:33:17What about her parents? I'll just tell them
01:33:19The traffickers coming to dinner, that's that
01:33:21Anyway, they're away next Tuesday
01:33:24Are you two agreeing or disagreeing?
01:33:26Disagreeing
01:33:27Agreeing
01:33:28Disagreeing
01:33:31He's one second late
01:33:33Hmm?
01:33:36Oh, yes
01:33:44Want something?
01:33:45Do you have...
01:33:50Thank you, Sophie
01:33:53Hello
01:34:02Oh, this is the one I was telling you about
01:34:04The one I brought from home
01:34:06The first part's about the ancient mystics
01:34:09It's all a bit elementary, but...
01:34:16Welcome home
01:34:18Welcome, Arvidor
01:34:22Tell me more
01:34:23I've told you everything
01:34:25It was a very interesting discussion
01:34:28And then what happened?
01:34:31Well, Arvidor was there too, he'll tell you
01:34:36And was Rabbi Zalman angry or did he laugh?
01:34:39He laughed, didn't he, Arvidor?
01:34:43Did you laugh?
01:34:44Yeah
01:34:47We both did
01:34:49I can just see you
01:35:00I'll do that
01:35:01No, it's all right
01:35:03Shouldn't we have a guest?
01:35:05So have you
01:35:15Marriage agrees with you
01:35:18You're more beautiful than ever
01:35:21Thank you
01:35:23Arvidor, I'm concerned about Anjou
01:35:26What are you talking about?
01:35:28Do you think Anjou is...
01:35:34Why don't we have tea in the parlor?
01:35:41Milk or...
01:35:42Milk or...
01:35:44Lemon
01:35:46Fine
01:35:55Sorry
01:36:04We left off with Maimonides' Code of the Golden Rule
01:36:13Let's read chapter 7 and 8 and then we can discuss them, is that all right?
01:36:18All right
01:36:21Don't stop, Adas
01:36:23It's pretty
01:36:42Will someone ever look at me that way
01:36:51Full of all the feelings and the soft unspoken words that lovers say
01:37:03I thought that I knew every single look and sweet expression on his face
01:37:10Yet this is one that I don't recognize
01:37:15Although I've sat and studied him for hours
01:37:21But now I see how love completely occupies a pair of eyes
01:37:31See the way they gaze at her like slaves
01:37:35They follow everywhere she goes
01:37:43Do my eyes forget themselves
01:37:46And do I ever look at him and smile in such a way
01:37:51That what I'm feeling shows
01:37:55Sometimes I have the feeling everybody knows
01:38:02And even though it's crazy
01:38:05Still I can't help wondering if I'll ever live to see the day
01:38:13When my soul
01:38:17Miracle of miracles
01:38:20He'll turn around and look at me
01:38:28That way
01:38:32It's no good
01:38:34I'm sorry
01:38:36Excuse me
01:38:37Avigdor!
01:38:38Avigdor, wait!
01:38:40Good night
01:38:46Good night
01:38:52Aunt Jo?
01:38:54Hmm?
01:38:56How many children do you want?
01:39:01The actual number?
01:39:05I don't think I've ever really...
01:39:07He didn't make me tremble tonight
01:39:10Hmm?
01:39:12You did though
01:39:14It's even nicer
01:39:16I made you tremble
01:39:18What?
01:39:20When he was leaving I put my hand on yours
01:39:23You were trembling
01:39:25Oh, well
01:39:27What are you doing with us?
01:39:29I want to look at you
01:39:30Well, I can't read without my glasses
01:39:32When you told me I had the right to refuse you
01:39:35You didn't tell me I also had the right to demand you
01:39:39Who told you that?
01:39:41The Talmud
01:39:44The Yivamot Tractate, I forget what page
01:39:4663 A.M.B.
01:39:47It's written, Aunt Jo
01:39:49You've been studying too hard
01:39:52You told me to tell you when I knew what I wanted
01:39:56But I do
01:39:58And it isn't Avigdor, so it's no longer a sin
01:40:01Adassa!
01:40:02Shh!
01:40:04It's been terrible for you, I know
01:40:07All this waiting
01:40:10But it's all right now
01:40:12You don't have to wait any longer
01:40:16Oh, God!
01:40:18Oh, God, I'm so sorry
01:40:21I'm so sorry, Adassa
01:40:22For what?
01:40:24For teaching me?
01:40:26For understanding me?
01:40:28For making me fall in love with you?
01:40:30No, I can't
01:40:32I can't
01:40:35I feel so certain that you love me
01:40:37Everything you do shows me you love me
01:40:41What is it, Aunt Jo?
01:40:43Look at how she looks at me
01:40:47I can never look at her that way
01:40:52Is it me?
01:40:54Am I so...
01:40:56Do you find me...
01:40:57I find you beautiful, Adassa, beautiful
01:41:00Then what?
01:41:01Then what?
01:41:03Full of all the feelings and the soft, unspoken words that lovers say
01:41:11There are so many things I wish I could explain to you
01:41:14Things I'd like to tell you
01:41:17I feel so...
01:41:19Maybe you'll feel better tomorrow
01:41:22I hope so
01:41:24In all the words, in all the books, I wish there were a way to say
01:41:28What she's taught me isn't written anywhere
01:41:33And I'm supposed to be the one who's wise
01:41:39One thing is certain, I can never be what she expects of me
01:41:59I've wanted the shadows
01:42:05I don't anymore
01:42:09No matter what happens
01:42:14I won't anymore
01:42:19I've run from the sunlight
01:42:23Afraid it's all too much
01:42:25The moon had the one light
01:42:30I bathed in, I walked in
01:42:35I held in my feelings
01:42:41And closed every door
01:42:45No matter what happens
01:42:49I can't anymore
01:42:53There's someone who must hear
01:42:58The words I've never spoken
01:43:02Tonight, if he were here
01:43:06My silence would be broken
01:43:10I need him to touch me
01:43:14To know the love that's in my heart
01:43:18The same love that tells me
01:43:22To see myself
01:43:24To free myself
01:43:26To be myself at last
01:43:32For too many mornings
01:43:37The curtains were drawn
01:43:41It's time they were opened
01:43:45To welcome the dawn
01:43:48A voice deep inside's getting stronger
01:43:52I can't keep it quiet any longer
01:43:57No matter what happens
01:44:02It can't be the same anymore
01:44:19I promise
01:44:23It won't be
01:44:27The same
01:44:31Anymore
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01:45:18It's a big city. Show them the books you bought.
01:45:24Oh, I baked almond cakes.
01:45:28You and Avogdo wouldn't last three days without my almond cakes.
01:45:32Thank you.
01:45:38Hurry home.
01:45:40Won't be the same here without you.
01:45:43It does.
01:45:45Do you remember what we studied last week?
01:45:48In the Talmud about patience.
01:45:50Tell me, what did we read?
01:45:53Patience yields many good things.
01:45:56That's right. And if you have patience, you'll have everything you want.
01:45:59Children, beautiful children, as many as you want.
01:46:03Trust me.
01:46:06I do trust you.
01:46:07I love you.
01:46:09I have to be going.
01:46:17I'll study while you're away.
01:46:20I want you to be proud of me.
01:46:24Oh, I am proud of you.
01:46:27You should be proud of yourself.
01:46:37I love you, Anshu.
01:46:42I love you, too.
01:47:07I love you, too.
01:47:38This trip was a good idea of yours, Anshu.
01:47:41I have a secret to tell you.
01:47:43Tell me.
01:47:45Not now.
01:47:47All right.
01:47:49So my crazy plan was crazy after all.
01:47:53What?
01:47:55She loves you now.
01:47:57She only thinks she does.
01:47:59What?
01:48:01Things aren't always what they seem.
01:48:03What are you talking about?
01:48:05You'll see.
01:48:09Now, what's the secret of yours?
01:48:14I'll tell you when we get to Lublin.
01:48:20Look, there's our friend again.
01:48:23I wonder if it ever gets tired.
01:48:26So when are you going to tell me?
01:48:29Not yet.
01:48:30Why not?
01:48:31I just can't.
01:48:32Ah, no.
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01:50:28So tell me.
01:50:39Well, uh ...
01:50:43We're friends. What can't you tell me?
01:50:48All right.
01:50:52What would you do if all you ever wanted in life was to study and it was forbidden?
01:50:57It isn't forbidden.
01:50:58But if it were?
01:50:59It isn't.
01:51:00What if there was some crazy law that said old men called Avedor,
01:51:04old men with brown eyes, were forbidden to study? What would you do?
01:51:07I'd study anyway.
01:51:08Secretly?
01:51:09If I had to, why?
01:51:11That would be difficult, wouldn't it? Always hiding, afraid of being discovered.
01:51:14Yes, what's your secret?
01:51:16Without town and without studying, you couldn't live. Is that right?
01:51:20That's right.
01:51:21But you don't...
01:51:22I couldn't live without it either.
01:51:23So?
01:51:24So I studied. Secretly.
01:51:27No, you didn't. What are you babbling about, Anjou?
01:51:34Arvind, um...
01:51:37My name isn't Anjou.
01:51:40That's your secret?
01:51:44Dear Arvind...
01:51:47I don't know how I'm going to tell you this.
01:51:49Well, don't. Don't guess. Let's see.
01:51:51I'm not a yeshiva boy.
01:51:53That's it. You're the chief rabbi of Lithuania. Am I wrong?
01:51:56I'm not any kind of boy.
01:51:59Not the chief rabbi. All right, all right.
01:52:02My name isn't Anjou.
01:52:05It's Yentl.
01:52:07Yentl?
01:52:10And...
01:52:16I'm a woman.
01:52:19A woman.
01:52:22A woman.
01:52:25Not my secret.
01:52:28I'm the czar of Russia.
01:52:29If you don't believe me, I'll prove it.
01:52:31Stop this, Anjou.
01:52:32I'm not Anjou.
01:52:34I'm Yentl.
01:52:37I'm not a man.
01:52:40I'm a woman.
01:52:41Stop it.
01:52:43I'm a woman, Arvind.
01:52:44Anjou, I don't like this.
01:52:46What kind of a game is this?
01:52:49It's not a game.
01:52:52Not anymore.
01:52:57What are you doing?
01:53:05What are you doing?
01:53:07Oh, my God.
01:53:10I've only shown you so you could testify to the rabbis.
01:53:13It can't be.
01:53:15It is.
01:53:19What have you done?
01:53:22Arvind, don't listen to me.
01:53:23Don't come near me.
01:53:24Please, just let me in.
01:53:25I'm sorry.
01:53:27I'm sorry.
01:53:29I'm sorry.
01:53:31I'm sorry.
01:53:33I'm sorry.
01:53:34Don't come near me.
01:53:35Please, just let me explain.
01:53:36Don't touch me.
01:53:38Arvind, don't be afraid of me.
01:53:39I'm not going to hurt you.
01:53:41No.
01:53:42No, I'm not.
01:53:43All I ever wanted to do in life was study.
01:53:45And they wouldn't let me.
01:53:46A woman shall not wear that which pertains to a man.
01:53:48Arvind, please, I had no choice.
01:53:49You're a devil.
01:53:50Just try to understand.
01:53:51I'm not a devil.
01:53:52Stop!
01:53:53Please!
01:53:54I'm not a devil.
01:53:55You're fucking broken every second, every day, every night.
01:53:56I'm not a devil.
01:53:57Stay away from me!
01:53:58Please!
01:54:00What are you, a demon?
01:54:01I'm not.
01:54:02You know this.
01:54:03I'm the Torah!
01:54:04I love the Torah!
01:54:05To spit on it!
01:54:06To spit on everything, on everyone, on nature itself!
01:54:09In God's face!
01:54:10In my face!
01:54:11In Hadassah's face!
01:54:12God, Hadassah!
01:54:13She knows nothing.
01:54:14She knows nothing.
01:54:15Nothing?
01:54:16No, she's innocent.
01:54:17Innocent?
01:54:18Married to a devil!
01:54:19You married a woman!
01:54:20How could you do such a thing?
01:54:21It was your idea!
01:54:22Why?
01:54:23This?
01:54:24Why do it?
01:54:25Yes!
01:54:26Why?
01:54:27Come on.
01:54:28You're a man.
01:54:29Come on, why?
01:54:30You're a man.
01:54:31Answer me like a man.
01:54:32You married a woman.
01:54:33I was afraid.
01:54:34Of what?
01:54:35Of this, of exactly this.
01:54:36So you lied to me!
01:54:37You lied to Hadassah!
01:54:38God, the things I told you, things I wouldn't even tell a wife!
01:54:41I'm glad you told me.
01:54:42What kind of a creature are you?
01:54:43Just a woman.
01:54:44That's not good enough.
01:54:45I want the answer.
01:54:46Tell me the answer.
01:54:47Why?
01:54:48Why?
01:54:49Why?
01:54:50I was afraid.
01:54:51Why?
01:54:52I wanted to be near you.
01:54:53Why?
01:54:54I didn't want to lose you.
01:54:55Why?
01:54:56I loved you.
01:55:02Why?
01:55:04I loved you too.
01:55:19I thought you didn't understand about love.
01:55:24I'm glad you didn't understand about love.
01:55:30No wonder.
01:55:33My God, no wonder.
01:55:37All the times I looked at you and I touched you and I couldn't understand why.
01:55:41I thought there was something wrong with me.
01:55:43There was nothing wrong with you.
01:55:46It was me.
01:55:54No.
01:56:01Skin.
01:56:04It's so...
01:56:08Your hair.
01:56:11Must have been beautiful.
01:56:13It didn't grow.
01:56:16Your hands.
01:56:19I always tried to hide them.
01:56:21Oh, no.
01:56:24No.
01:56:28I didn't...
01:56:34I didn't want to touch you.
01:56:39I was afraid to.
01:56:48Your mouth.
01:56:55Your hand.
01:57:00I loved you, too.
01:57:25I love you.
01:57:30Adios.
01:57:43It's not...
01:57:46difficult.
01:57:50Write a statement to the rabbis that...
01:57:54your marriage was never consummated and...
01:57:57you can take it back to Beshev.
01:57:59Give it to the rabbis.
01:58:01Rabbis witnessed it.
01:58:03Witness what?
01:58:05A marriage between two women?
01:58:06It's null and void.
01:58:08Nevertheless, according to divorce procedures in Ebenezer...
01:58:10No, you're wrong, Avigdor.
01:58:11According to God, it was...
01:58:14It was not a marriage.
01:58:15This is crazy.
01:58:16I'm arguing with a woman.
01:58:24It's not the first time.
01:58:38Go back to her, Avigdor.
01:58:43I don't think Hadass will listen to her parents anymore.
01:58:47Maybe there's something else we can do.
01:58:50There must be a law or something that...
01:58:52Avigdor, there's no book with this in it.
01:58:56Sometimes right can come from wrong.
01:59:01Virtue from sin.
01:59:03It's in the Talmud somewhere.
01:59:07We'll go to another town where no one knows us.
01:59:09We'll get married. We'll make a home.
01:59:11We'll have children. We'll...
01:59:13find a new yeshiva.
01:59:14For both of us?
01:59:17You still want to study?
01:59:20Avigdor, we've...
01:59:21We've argued the Bible straight back to Genesis.
01:59:23Chapter 1, verse 1.
01:59:24How could you still ask me that question?
01:59:26You don't need to anymore.
01:59:30I'll do the thinking. I'll take care of everything.
01:59:32No, I want to study with you, not down your socks.
01:59:35You're asking the impossible.
01:59:36Nothing's impossible.
01:59:37All right, all right.
01:59:38You can study at night when I come home.
01:59:40No one has to know.
01:59:41What are we going to do?
01:59:42Draw the curtains? Close the shutters?
01:59:43Don't you understand?
01:59:44I want you to be a real woman.
01:59:46I am a real woman.
01:59:47Then act like one.
01:59:49There's no gift from God that is more beautiful and more miraculous.
01:59:53You know everything without opening a single book.
01:59:56What more do you want?
02:00:02More.
02:00:19More.
02:00:41Your beard.
02:00:44I suppose it'll never grow in now.
02:00:50How could I have been so blind?
02:00:55Here's a statement for the rabbi and a note for Hadass.
02:01:00Would you give it to her for me, please?
02:01:04I'll miss you.
02:01:07I'll miss you too, Avatar.
02:01:19Bye.
02:01:35Bye, Angela.
02:01:38iento.
02:01:44Ento.
02:01:49Ento.
02:01:57There are moments
02:02:00You remember all your life
02:02:04There are moments you know
02:02:07Will be with you all your life
02:02:13His face
02:02:15Will be written on my mind
02:02:22Will be written in my heart
02:02:30As long as I live
02:02:38My dear Avatar.
02:02:40After many months, your letter finally reached me.
02:02:43I hope this one finds you.
02:02:46Since we said goodbye, I've prayed that despite all the pain I've caused,
02:02:51some happiness would come out of it.
02:02:55And now you tell me it has.
02:02:57As for me, I'm going to a new place where I hear things are different.
02:03:03Anyway, we'll see.
02:03:06Take care of yourself and Hadass.
02:03:09I hope she continues with her studies.
02:03:11She has great promise.
02:03:14And remember, I will love you both, always.
02:03:20Tell me where
02:03:27Where is it written what it is I'm meant to be?
02:03:42That I can't dare
02:03:53It all began
02:03:58The day I found
02:04:02That from my window I could only see
02:04:08A piece of sky
02:04:11I stepped outside
02:04:15And looked around
02:04:19I never dreamed it was so wide
02:04:23Or even half as high
02:04:27The time had come
02:04:29Papa, can you hear me?
02:04:31To try my wings
02:04:33Papa, are you near me?
02:04:35And even though it seemed
02:04:37At any moment
02:04:40I could fall
02:04:42I felt the most
02:04:44Papa, can you see me?
02:04:46Amazing things
02:04:48Can you understand me?
02:04:50The things you can't imagine
02:04:53If you've never flown at all
02:04:57Though it's safer to stay on the ground
02:05:01Sometimes where danger lies
02:05:04There the sweetest of pleasures are found
02:05:08No matter where I go
02:05:12There'll be memories that tug at my sleeve
02:05:17But there will also be
02:05:20More to question yet more to believe
02:05:25Oh, tell me where
02:05:30Where is the someone
02:05:32Who will turn to look at me
02:05:35And want to share
02:05:40My every sweet imagined possibility
02:05:48The more I live
02:05:52The more I learn
02:05:56The more I learn
02:05:58The more I realize
02:06:01The less I know
02:06:04Each step I take
02:06:06Papa, I've a voice now
02:06:08Each page I turn
02:06:10Papa, I've a choice now
02:06:12Each mile I travel
02:06:14Only means the more I have to go
02:06:18What's wrong with wanting more
02:06:22If you can fly then so
02:06:26With all there is
02:06:30Why settle for
02:06:36Just a piece of sky
02:06:46Papa, I can hear you
02:06:49Papa, I can see you
02:06:52Papa, I can feel you
02:06:56Papa, watch me fly
02:07:26Papa, I can hear you
02:07:29Papa, watch me fly
02:07:56Papa, I can hear you
02:07:59Papa, watch me fly
02:08:06Papa, watch me fly
02:08:12Papa, watch me fly
02:08:24Papa, watch me fly
02:08:34Papa, watch me fly
02:08:44Papa, watch me fly
02:08:53Papa, watch me fly
02:09:24Papa, watch me fly
02:09:32Papa, watch me fly
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