Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life Page #3

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That's what they say.

You know what?

I'm a good girl, right?

True, I don't like

cooking and cleaning,

I'll study accounting, like you.

That way I'll be able

to support my family.

My husband can study.

Then...

I'll shave my head

and I'll spend my whole life

pregnant.

I'll give myself to Yakov

before the wedding,

Yossef will see that I'm not

a virgin and repudiate me.

You'll help me, won't you?

Tell me about it.

Tell me what it's like.

What does making love feel like?

Your wedding night with Meir.

Tell me.

You never told me about it.

On the night of the wedding

I found myself in this room.

He took off my dress,

then he took off his black coat.

We lay down on the bed,

he took off his black shoes.

He was wearing socks.

He took off his white shirt.

After he took off his shirt,

he hesitated...

before removing the tsitsit.

He didn't know the law

concerning them.

He finally removed them.

Then he took off his pants.

Then...

Around his hips, he wore that belt

which divides the spiritual

from the material world.

He undid it.

Then he turned off the light.

He honored me.

He entered me by the ways of love,

the ways of consent.

It was the first time.

It will be like that

for you too, Malka.

No, it won't.

"You always say it's so hard for you.

"The tears on your pillow

have long been dry.

"You sit at home doing nothing.

"You never come back to me.

"Why are you running from me?

"Why are you pushing me away?

"Take your time if you're scared.

"We'll meet again in another world.

"I'll find you in that other world."

Look how beautiful it is.

You'll make a beautiful bride.

A beautiful bride.

I'll try it on.

Rivka, hold this a second.

How are you feeling?

Better?

Meir worries me.

He's been distant lately.

He avoids my questions.

When I ask what's wrong,

he doesn't answer.

But I love him.

And at night?

He says we don't have the right.

I want to see you.

A man is obliged to satisfy his wife.

If he doesn't,

she has grounds for divorce.

I received a letter a few days ago.

It said that a woman

without a child

is no better than dead.

Who would send such a thing?

I don't know.

I asked Meir.

Sometimes I feel my problem

isn't sterility,

but shame.

It's in her eyes.

Mother is ashamed of me.

Even Meir is ashamed of me.

What did Meir say about the letter?

That is was copied from the Talmud.

The Talmud, the Talmud, Rivka.

Women don't study the Talmud.

Father said the Talmud contains

everything and its opposite.

No woman dares say it

but men don't want us to know.

That way they can do

what they like with us.

Iook at the laws of menstruation.

They're forbidden to touch us.

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