A Price Above Rubies Page #4

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like your Uncle Mendel.

Please, I'm not so great just yet.

Modesty is becoming

unless is false.

All I hear at the yeshiva these days is

"Mendel said this, Mendel said that."

Like the Rambam came

to learn by them.

While we're on the subject

of the yeshiva...

the other day a young boy,

one of my students...

asked me a question

I couldn't really answer.

His father says is okay to steal

as long as you steal from Goyim.

His teacher tells him

stealing from anyone is a sin.

So if he agrees with his teacher,

he's disrespecting his father.

But if he agrees with his father,

he's honoring a thief...

and in danger

of becoming one himself.

- Is a tough question.

Only because you're a scholar.

If is just an opinion and the boy

disagrees with it, thas all right.

You can respect those

you disagree with.

But if his father

really is a thief...

then the boy should keep

his nose in his own business...

so he doesn't have to judge

what he doesn't know about.

Hey, those little fingers

are gonna get chopped off...

if they wander

where they don't belong.

Tsipi, please take care

of your brother.

- Here.

- Oh, please, Sonia,

tonight you don't need to work.

- You should be inside

with Mendel and the baby.

- No, is okay, is okay.

Is such a wonderful meal.

I have to do something.

And you have such a beautiful home.

Thank you.

Baruch haShem. The kids are healthy,

they have what to eat.

Thas whas important.

Here.

Do you have a second?

Relax.

Is not for you.

I just want your opinion.

My principal buyer

came across it.

Is an antique brooch from Paris,

circa 1880, from Querelle.

Thas an eight-carat emerald

set in gold.

My wife's birthday is coming up,

so I thought I'd surprise her.

- Is beautiful!

- Five thousand bucks!

What a bargain, huh?

Yeah.

- You did great.

- Bullshit.

I understand your father,

may his memory be a blessing...

was the finest gemologist

in the state.

I also understand you picked up

a thing or two from him.

Querelle never designed

a base like this.

I can't tell you what the date on it is,

but it is not 1880.

I also think if you check on this stone,

you'll find is just a composite...

a layer of emerald fused with

glass and then backed by foil

to give it all that brilliance.

Is excellent work.

But I wouldn't price it

at a dime over 800 bucks.

Why didn't you go

into the business?

Because my parents didn't want me

mixing with unsavory characters.

They wanted me to marry

a great scholar, and live

a decent, spiritual Jewish life.

Did you?

Did you marry a great scholar?

Well, that I'm not qualified

to answer.

But I know I married a tzaddik.

A holy man? Don't you think our Mendel's

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