Hanele Page #2

- Stop. I want to get down.

I would have traveled with someone

of another creed, but...

I'm afraid to travel with a man of no

faith - he is capable of anything.

Yes. A person like that is

capable of anything.

- You know that the world is round?

- Round?

Round like a ball.

Lejb Abrahamovich said so.

- Where did he get it from?

- Students in Mukachevo told him

when he was a cobbler there.

And the world turns according to Lejb.

- The world is round, lojme.

- And it turns.

The Fux girls are showing off

in front of the house. What happened?

- Dad...

- He lost.

He lost the most costly trial with Fux.

There can be no more appeals.

Everything will be all right.

Shut up!

Four people like the living dead:

Poor, blind, leprous and childless.

Won't I have died twice?

Who'll have me without a dowry?

With a tavern where no-one drinks,

a shop where there's nothing to buy,

and a debt burden for a house?

Dad became a poor wretch

in an empty house.

And I was left with all the chores.

Let me go, lojme! Stop!

I've got to get on with my work!

I need to buy some matches

and a bit of soap.

Lejb Abrahamovich was talking

nonsense at the river again.

What people discovered and

stuff like that.

Won't you come to the river tonight?

- No.

- Please!

Go and feed the chickens, Hanele.

I'll serve lojme myself.

- Soap and matches, was it?

- Yes.

Yeah, matches! He keeps hanging

round Hanele.

Oh, please!

lojme is quite nicely turned out.

Why wouldn't he be? His dad goes to

Brno or Bratislava in the summer

and begs in the marketplace. Ugh!

- So, what does that make us?

We don't beg.

Let us praise the name of the Lord.

lojme Kac? Haven't we had

enough misfortune already?

The son of a parasite, a beggar,

and the daughter of Abram afar!

You've got to keep your eye on her.

You have to go everywhere with her.

Unhappy nation of Israel!

Again there is heresy in your midst.

A new golden calf.

A new idol, a false science.

Mark my words, man came from animals.

Lejb Abrahamovich told us that the world

was older than our epoch.

It was all Lejb's fault. In Mukachevo

they unhinged him for good.

Every 100 years they find something

new. Tomorrow it'll be another story.

Lejb's not alone. There are plenty

of skeptics here.

- There's supposed to be something in it.

- Unbelieving nations!

You use science to vainly seek what was

revealed to us thousands of years ago!

- Science is for infidels.

- May the Almighty liberate us.

You forget that the Lord scattered nations

much greater than ours like sand.

Where are the Babylonians? Where

are the Romans?

But we live because we observe

the Commandments of the Highest.

Rate this script:0.0 / 0 votes