A Price Above Rubies Page #3

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living room, the kitchen is the kitchen.

You're cooking all day.

You're exhausted.

You walk out of the kitchen and presto,

is like you're in another world.

One of us here is completely insane

and I think is you.

But you're gonna have company real soon

if I have to listen...

to one more word of this meshugas.

- Aunt Sonia, I think the baby's hungry.

- Come here, sweetheart.

Shh, shh.

Shh, shh.

Shh, shh.

Listen to me.

Sit down!

Are you all right?

I know it can hurt sometimes.

It doesn't hurt.

Here. Is too, um...

Mendel?

Didn't you pray already?

I wasn't praying.

I was learning a little Mishnah.

- Anything good?

- Yes, is all good.

- Can't we leave it on? Just for a while?

- Sonia.

Enough, Sonia.

Enough!

Sonia, enough!

- Enough what?

- Just enough.

- Is indecent.

- Making love to your wife is indecent?

Making love to your wife

like that is.

We're not alone, Sonia.

We're under the eyes of God.

The Talmud teaches a man to love

his wife, and I try. God knows I try.

But for a man is supposed

to be different. Is supposed

to be a mitzvah, a holy act.

And I'm supposed to think exalted

thoughts in order to sanctify it.

And I'm supposed to enjoy this,

I'm supposed to enjoy myself knowing...

you're up there thinking about Abraham

and Isaac and the Rebbe while...

God forbid! God forbid you talk

that way about the Rebbe!

Sonia, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry I raised my voice to you.

I'm sorry.

Can I play a little?

Of course.

A little's okay.

Amen.

You don't have to eat it. Just put it

in your mouth and chew a little.

- He's not hungry.

- Are you his mother? No.

So how do you know

he's not hungry?

So God spared the Moabites.

The reason being...

- Mendel.

- That Ruth's family

was living among them.

Wait. He's giving a dvar Torah.

Is nice. Please listen.

- Is just a story.

- Is still a dvar Torah.

Why didn't God allow Ruth's

family to survive an attack?

He coulve done that.

The answer to the question is

of course God coulve done it.

But a young girl needs a mother.

And a mother needs a husband.

- And a family needs a house.

- What else?

Maybe a VCR and a video recorder?

And they need someone

to make their clothes.

Why don't you shush everyone up

so your son can finish?

- He's a man. He can make himself heard.

- But nobody's listening.

- He won't eat.

- Who are you to tell me what to do?

- He's not gonna eat.

- Obviously you're

a better mother than I am.

It shows us how family is

so important, even the evil

Moabites were spared by God...

because they were needed

in order to bring up Ruth.

- Yasher.

- Yasher coach.

Yasher coach.

Keep it up and you'll be a great scholar

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