"I have to go." " Just a second." "Let me fix you up a bit." " Leave it, it doesn't matter." "Good Sabbath, Bruriah." " Good Sabbath." "Thanks, Monika." "Bruriah!" "You forgot your newspaper." " I didn't forget it, but thanks." "I got a new date for rabbinical court, it's in two weeks." "With God's help you'll get your divorce." "It'll be okay, Monika." "Oh boy, what shall I do to them." "I won't leave without a divorce." "I'll stay there." "I'll pitch a tent." "I'll come with you." " Really?" " Yes." " Thank you so much." "The angels overcame the righteous The Ark of the Lord was captured" "The funeral of the saintly and righteous the renowned" "Rabbi Mendel Chaim Feierberg, may he rest in peace." ""Shmuel Halevi, excommunicated and ostracized."" "That's him." "Shame on you!" " Shame on you." " Tfu, tfu, tfu." "Tfu, tfu, tfu..." "Shame on you!" "The angels overcame the righteous The Ark of the Lord was captured" "The funeral of the saintly and righteous the renowned" "Rabbi Mendel Chaim Feierberg, may he rest in peace," "Head of Jerusalem's Hadas Yeshiva" "The funeral will leave at 4 o'clock From Zopnik square to the Mount of Olive" "And all the House of Israel will weep over the loss that God has caused us" "I'm afraid you'll catch cold." "Listen, Daddy, Yaakov will pick you up." "Before candle lighting time." "Did you hear me, Daddy?" "Oh, the medicines." " I heard." "They've been announcing it over the megaphone since 6 a.m." "Are you alright, Daddy?" "I'm sorry." "Schreiber?" "Excuse me?" "Reb Schreiber..." " Can't you see I'm working?" "Schreiber!" " With all due respect, madam..." "Wait a minute, you were here already." "Recently." " Yes." "For 3 days, the material was waiting for you here and you never showed up." "It was sitting right here for a week or two." "For a long time." "I'm a man of my word, I keep my promises." "It's not your fault." " It's still here." ""Rabbi Feierberg's men:" ""Shmuel Halevi's book is full of poison, heresy and apostasy."" "Yaakov, Feierberg is dead, we have to find the book." "Bruriah, they burnt everything." "The subject is closed." "There has to be another book." "We have a chance to find it now." "Please, help me." " I'm begging you, let's talk about it after Sabbath?" "What are you "sniffing" this morning?" ""Winnie the Pooh"?" ""Sweet Butterfly"? "Walt Disney"..." "Children's books." "When did you get in this morning?" "Five thirty, six..." "I told you not to come in outside working hours." "I have no insurance for you." "Bruriah!" "Oh, Bruriah..." "Look around you." "Over there you have philosophy, history, literature, theatre, cinema, geography, the Holy Scriptures." "Who arranged all of it on the shelves?" "You." "One book is missing." "That's your obsession." "What if your husband is right?" "What if everything was burnt?" "If there isn't a trace left?" "Maybe..." "Maybe I know someone who can..." "You don't even know the name of the book!" "Thank God." " Lunch break." "Thank you." "May I disturb you?" "You never disturb me." "You know how much I value your opinion." " Thank you." "We have a new "Jewish Philosophy" teacher in school." " Yes." "Since you have a free hour, I'd like you to observe his class and... give me your opinion." " Go ahead, I'll look over some of the papers," "I'll wait for you, of course." "It's okay, no problem." "You know that I think very highly of you too." "I'm waiting to hear from you in my office." "Okay." "To get into the rut!" "To get into..." "Switch." " I'm leading." "To get into the rut!" "To get into the rut!" "Switch." " I'm leading." " To get into the rut!" "Switch." " I'm leading." " To get into the rut!" "For many days the ox pulls the wagon from the farm to the field." "Day after day and every day the wagon wheels deepen the furrow they made the day before." "Until the furrows are so deep, that they determine the road the ox walks on." "And that's the meaning of the term:" ""To get into the rut"." "You didn't lead." "You weren't first, and you didn't decide where you would dance." "The road led you." "You thought you were leading, actually, you were being led." "Well, you're young, you're just starting out." "Keep it in mind." "That's the lesson approved by the assistant-principal?" "It was a spontaneous lesson." "Interesting." "Nice to meet you, Yaakov." " I know." "It's a pleasure, Yosef." "I thought I was sitting in on a Jewish philosophy class but I found myself in an English lesson." "That was a Jewish philosophy lesson." " Oh..." "An allegory?" " Exactly." "An allegory." "Well?" "What's the new teacher like?" "He's an excellent teacher." "It's your best acquisition for the school." "Sorry." "Thank you." "Can I help you?" "Yes, I'm looking for Emanuel." "Oh, Emanuel is inside." " Thank you." "Rashi, it's in Rashi's commentry on the book of Idolatry." "Page 18b." ""The incident of Bruriah," ""who mocked the sages for saying that women are light-minded"." "That women are light-minded, yes." "Yes, it's written in the book on Betrothal." ""Rabbi Meir, her husband, replied:" ""In the end you will admit the truth of their words."" "In other words, you'll admit they're right." ""Rabbi Meir..." the husband, "ordered one of his pupils" ""to try to seduce her to commit a sin."" "To have sex with her?" "With his wife?" ""His student pleaded with her for days until she gave in."" "In other words, they did it." "I never learnt this story." " It happened 1,900 years ago." "Too bad I wasn't there." " They've hidden it ever since, they don't want anyone to find out." "Except for the few lines that Rashi wrote about it." "But Rashi was a French winemaker." "Anyway, 30 years ago, Rabbi Shmuel Halevi wrote a whole book dedicated to the Bruriah incident." "Shmuel Halevi?" " Shmuel Halevi was a prodigy." "He was a young rabbi, about your age." "Naturally, he brought the first copy of his book to his rabbi, the great Rabbi..." "The one who just died." " Feierberg, of blessed memory." "Feierberg!" "Feierberg called Shmuel, and pleaded with him to retract everything he wrote, otherwise he would be excommunicated!" "And?" "He refused." "They burnt all the books, excommunicated him and his daughter and there isn't a trace of the book." "That's the book you want me to find?" " Yes." "What's the name of the book?" "I don't know." "Excuse me?" "I'm interested in other books on Degas or that period or style." "There's a complete art section." "Where?" " In the inner room." "Excuse me." "Do you work here?" " May I help you?" "Yes, I'm looking for a book..." "What a pity, we sold the last copy two days ago." "And another book." " We ran out of that too." "What do you have here?" "I'm here." "Can I take a peek?" " Without touching." " Of course." "David, finish your soup." " What's that?" " What, this?" "It's a salad Daddy made." "He's practicing, he'll succeed in the end." "What do women know about the kitchen?" "Dudu, have you finished?" "Ha, ha, very funny, Daddy." "Why do we have to be your guinea pigs?" "Did you hear, Mother?" " What?" "I'd like to make an earthshaking announcement that will change the history of the Jewish people for generations." "Nice." "Nice..." "Wait for me, I want to hear too." " David, ask her to do a trumpet." "Mommy, make like a trumpet." "Batya, the teacher, asked Na'ama..." "To recite the greeting at the ceremony completing the reading of the Book of Genesis with Rashi!" "Who would believe it, the Ben-Meir family is actually being accepted in the community." ""Dear parents, honored teachers." ""I would like to start by thanking you from the bottom of my heart" ""for coming to take part in the celebration of completing" ""the Book of Genesis with Rashi."" "Very nice, Na'ama." "Why don't you take part of a Torah chapter and start living it?" "How do you live a chapter?" "By trying to understand the characters, what's happening to them, what they want, why they do what they do?" "Imagine Adam roaming around... enjoying everything, every head of lettuce, every grain of rice, everything he sees." "The Tree of Knowledge sounds much more tempting." "What do you say, Na'ama?" "Is knowledge good or bad?" " It's good." "Michali..." " "And the Lord said to Adam..."" "Michali, the subject is closed." "You opened it, now you're closing it?" "Daddy, there are things you're just not willing to discuss." " Right!" "Really?" "For example." " Besides now?" "What if I go to the seminary for women next year?" "Go ahead, I don't object to your studying." "To become a rabbi!" "They're opening a new rabbinical department next year and they'll only choose 5 girls." "I'd like you to meet my daughter, Rabbi Michal." "She's a great scholar, an authority on Jewish law and a serious contender for the position of Chief Rabbi..." "Enough, Michali." "Shall we sing?" "I'll lie down for a while, I have a splitting headache." "Excuse me." "A song of ascents When the Lord returned us to Zion from exile We thought we were dreaming." "Our mouths were filled with laughter" "Our tongues sang for joy..." "I'm not hungry." "Thank you." "I'm sorry." "I shouldn't have spoken to Michal that way." "That's right." "Would you send someone to seduce your wife?" "What?" "No, really." "Would you be capable of sending someone to seduce me?" "Of course." "Not one, a lot." "You know, even when I see you talking to customers in the store," "I'm jealous." "That's what Rabbi Meir did to Bruriah." "Sorry, but my name is Yaakov." "Hello." " Hello." "Where are your registration forms?" " On the opposite shelf." "Mazal, where's the?" "Oh." "Ben-Meir, Michal?" " Yes." "Send warm regards to your mother, from Rachel." "What?" "You want to get a divorce with those clothes on?" "You told me not to wear pants." "Where should I put this?" "Do you have it?" "What are all these fish scales?" "Bruriah." " What?" " Take this!" "Grab this, I'm dying to pee." "Wait a minute, wait a minute." "Oh my, oh my..." "I'll just take my skirt off." " C'mon, Monika." " Just a minute." "Shit, how do you do this?" " Don't say that." "What did I say?" " What you just said." " I said "shit"?" " Yes." "Oh, shit..." "Don't say that when you're in there, okay?" " Okay, okay, okay..." "Those are snaps, just snap them closed." "If those bastards don't give me my divorce today," "I don't know what I'll do to them." "Talk nicely, okay?" " Yes." "I said "bastards"..." "How stupid." "Wow, you've got beautiful tits, you're so beautiful." "You're so feminine, you don't show it, you know?" "Monika, you have to go, okay?" " Do I look okay?" "Don't take your bag..." "if they see the leopard..." "Leopard?" "Just a second." "Let me get my..." "No!" "They only give ugly women a divorce?" " Yes." "How do I look?" " Great." "Thank you." " Good luck." "Will you wait for me here, or outside?" "I'll be right here, I'm not going anywhere." "What's the matter with you?" "See how pretty you look." "Good luck, good luck." "Bye." ""Litigation Hall Jerusalem Rabbinical Court"" "Come in." "Yaakov?" "I'm in the ladies room at the rabbinical court, in a T-shirt and mini-skirt." "I'm serious." "Wanna come?" "I'm with Monika at the rabbinate, Yaakov." "Nobody can see me." "And nobody will, really" "Did you think I'd walk out like this?" "That I'd go outside like this?" "Never mind, Yaakov." "Bye, I'll see you." "Bye!" "I don't understand it." "I don't understand it." "How could they do this to me?" "They have a house full of children." "What did I ask for?" "One child, one child before it's too late." "What do they want me to do?" "Have a bastard?" "Is that what they want me to do?" "I'll do it." "That's what I'll do." "Monika, let's get out of here." "Shit!" "Bruriah!" "The air isn't yours, the air isn't yours." "I'm sorry." " It's okay." "The air isn't yours, the air isn't yours..." "Are you still mad?" " I'm not mad!" "Stop running, please!" "David and Na'ama, a little quiet, please!" "A little quiet!" " The air isn't yours..." "Maybe I'm not sorry." "You should have seen their faces." "Bruriah, it's ridiculous!" "David and Naama, please, don't run bearfoot, okay?" "There's glass on the floor, please stay in the living room." "Don't run barefoot, don't run barefoot..." "Bruriah, what is happening to you?" "Let's draw a little." "I'd like you to draw a picture." "When you only want to see part of the picture, you're perfect." "I need both of you for a minute." " Michali, please, not now." "Mommy, tell him." "Mommy!" "It's urgent." " Michali, not now." "Wait okay?" "This isn't a good time." "It's never a good time with you." "Okay." "Silence!" "Michali wants to talk!" "Silence!" "I need your signatures." " Oh..." "I'll just finish breaking some dishes and I'll sign." "I'm registering for rabbinical studies." "Me too." " Me too." "No, it's only for girls." " A boy can't be a rabbi?" "Boys can be rabbis too." "Daddy, you have to sign for me." "Give me one reason why not?" "Because the Ben-Meir family has decided to forgo the great honor that befell it of being the first, in anything that has to do with changing Jewish tradition, which has quietly developed over the past 2000 years." "Because for once, for once, the Ben-Meir family has decided to live in modesty." " Enough, Yaakov!" "Outside the headlines." " Listen to her." "Daddy, what could happen?" "What could happen?" "I've thought about it and this is what I want." "What could happen?" "Nothing." "Everyone in the community will come to the synagogue to kiss my hands, all the matchmakers in Jerusalem will fight over finding a husband for our daughter, Rabbi Michal." "David and Na'ama will also benefit from it." "Every self-respecting religious school will open its gates to them." "Yaakov." "I don't want it." "And I won't allow any idea as noble or foolish as it may be, to ruin what we've built." "It's time you took responsibility for this family for once, too." "Excuse me?" "Aren't you from the bookstore?" "Can I help you in any way?" " Yes, I..." "I'm looking for a book." "Here?" "Yes." "Many years ago, about 30 years ago, they burnt a book." "Here." "Maybe you know somebody around here who knows something?" "Do you know what happened here 1900 years ago?" " On Hanina Hill?" "I think so." "There was a little girl, about 8 years old." "She hid among the bushes." "She watched the Romans leading her father to his death." "Tying twigs to his body, and lighting the fire." "Yes, and the hill was full of people." "They all came to watch the spectacle." "Yes." "And the little girl..." "The girl took a deep breath and started running." "From there, down this path, she paved her way through the crowd and reached the top, so she could see with her own eyes how her father goes up in flames, to sanctify the name of God." "You know the girl's name?" "Bruriah." "Yes, Bruriah." "I'm Yosef, it's a pleasure." "May I?" "Your pen?" "Sorry." "And the..." "This is my notebook." " For a minute." "Okay." "If you find out something, let me know." "After 30 years won't you at least tell me the name of the book?" "Stubborn." "Behold how good and pleasant it is when brethren dwell together in unity..." "Behold how good and pleasant it is when brethren dwell together in unity..." "I wish to thank Tahel Hendler, for playing the song so nicely." "We couldn't have chosen a more appropriate song for such a wonderful and exciting occasion as this." ""Behold how good and pleasant it is" ""when brethren dwell together in unity"" "And I know that everyone sitting here thanks God from the bottom of their heart for the good and pleasantness that our community has been blessed with." "Man has many life cycles, such as the seasons, family, work, synagogue, and most of all, the community." "I'm proud to invite our outstanding student," "Na'ama Ben-Meir." "Dear parents, honored guests, and madam supervisor." "I would like to start by thanking you from the bottom of my heart for coming to take part in the celebration of completing... in the celebration of completing the Book of Genesis with Rashi." "And I want to say something else." "On behalf of all the pupils, I wish to thank our wonderful teacher, who is also pregnant..." "May I tell?" "Congratulations." " Thank you." "And to say that we're very excited just thinking about the fascinating chapters we'll be learning this year." "May we bring joy to our teacher, our principal, our parents... and grow up to be exemplary girls and a credit to our school." "And may we ascend the steps to God." "And if there are no steps we'll take the elevator." "Finally, I would like to invite Yael, to play the song" ""The Torah from Thy Mouth"." "The Torah from Thy mouth is better for me" "Than thousands of gold or silver pieces." "The Torah from Thy mouth is better for me" "Than thousands of gold or silver pieces" "Yaakov." "May I disturb you for a moment?" " You never disturb me." "You know how much I value your opinion." " Yes." "I think it's wrong that they let the girls sing in front of men." "After all, "a woman's voice..."!" "I'll see you tomorrow." "Goodbye." " Goodbye." "Yes." "Oh!" "Good Sabbath, Yosef." "Meet Chemi." " Good Sabbath." "My study partner." " It's a pleasure." "This is Bruriah, my wife." " It's a pleasure." " Nice meeting you." "What are we studying?" " The chapter on slander, page..." "No, no, no." "We're going to study the book of Idolatry, page 18b." "Rashi." ""And some say"..." "Hillel, will you read?" "No." "I'm not wearing my glasses now." "Okay, I'll read it." ""And some say, because of the story of Bruriah" ""who once mocked the sages for saying" ""that women are light-minded." ""And he (her husband) said to her," ""in the end you will admit the truth of their words."" ""He ordered one of his pupils to try to seduce her." ""His student pleaded with her for days until she gave in."" "This happened during the 2nd century." "Rabbi Meir, the pupil of Elisha Ben Abuyah, is married to the smartest, wittiest, sharpest woman," "Bruriah." "She's attracted to the 'house of learning'." "While the pupils are learning she listens, corrects, refines, interprets, but Rabbi Meir claims, "You are clever but light-minded"." "But she laughed at him." "So he sends one of his pupils to seduce her." "She's smart and sensual... and she is seduced." "When she found out, she strangled herself." "What a story." "A story that shouldn't be taught or told." "It's terrible." "It's a disgrace." " Why?" "It has everything, adultery, death, God..." "Sex." "Death, God, sex, everything." "But I shouldn't be here." "Hillel, don't go." "Yaakov's wife baked your favorite cookies." "May Bruriah's husband continue?" "I'll help you." " Me too." " Sit down." "Sit, sit." "Open page 18b." "How does Rabbi Meir get into such a predicament?" "I didn't know that Yaakov is your husband." "Why didn't you tell him that we met already?" " Why didn't you?" "It's awful." " Would you think of sending someone to seduce your wife?" "My wife is a righteous woman, even I can't seduce her." "How about you?" "Would you send someone?" "Would you send me to seduce your wife?" "Answer him, Yaakov, you're only studying." "Excellent cookies, by the way." " Thank you." "If I did, would you be tempted?" "What do you think?" "Rabbi Meir did it." "Maybe out of love." "Out of jealousy." "Maybe out of fear?" "Maybe he doesn't know what his wife is doing behind his back." "Naturally." "After all, all women are tempted." "Even the most faithful are..." "Honestly, Chemi." "Maybe one of you men can explain what "light-minded" women are?" "Maybe you can explain the meaning of "light-minded" women, to us?" "Me?" "When I find out, I'll be glad to share it with all of you." "Why didn't Rabbi Meir prove it to her intellectually?" "Because he had no choice." "What is knowledge?" "How can a person know something?" ""And Adam knew his wife Eve"." "What, there's wisdom and there's impulse?" "Are they two separate things?" "Where does wisdom stop and impulse begin?" ""And Adam knew his wife Eve"." "A person without impulses can't know." "He can't touch anything." "That's what Rabbi Meir understood." "The tree of knowledge and the tree of sexual desire, they are branches of the same tree." "Who are you?" "Who are you, Bruriah?" "Who are you, Yaakov?" "What are you?" "Mind?" "Body?" "Are you your own fears?" "Your own stupidity?" "What are you?" "Your wife is telling you that she loves you." "Don't you believe her?" "Words." "They're just words." "How can I get inside her and know her?" "How can I know what she knows?" "How?" "Maybe that's why Rabbi Meir sent a pupil to seduce you." "Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai promised that the Torah would never be forgotten, as it is written in the words of our Sages, of blessed memory." "Who's stricter?" "Rabbi Akiva or Resh Lakish?" "Rabbi Akiva seems to be but it's just the opposite." "If we look again at the Talmud we see that Resh Lakish is stricter." "Yaakov?" "Hello, Rachel." "God, King of the Universe," "Creator of the lights of fire." " Amen." "Blessed are You, Lord our God, King of the Universe" "Who distinguishes between the sacred and ordinary, between light and darkness, between Israel and the other nations between the seventh day and the six days of labour" "Blessed are You our Lord Who distinguishes between the sacred and the ordinary." " Amen." "Grandpa, you said that you'd play with me." "Have a good week Have a good week" "Fear not my servant Jacob" "Fear not, God chose Jacob" "Fear not, Fear not my servant Jacob" "Fear not" "God redeemed Jacob Fear not" "Fear not my servant Jacob Fear not..." "Yaakov..." "What are all of you afraid of?" "What hidden secret does this story have?" "Why did they hide it for so many years?" "If Rabbi Meir succeeded in proving that women are "light-minded"," "shouldn't they have announced it in public?" "Your tents are goodly Jacob" "Fear not" "Fear not my servant Jacob Fear not" "They will teach your precepts to Jacob, Fear not" "Fear not my servant Jacob, Fear not" "When I wanted to marry your mother," "I went to the living room..." "My father wasn't asleep, he was studying." "I was a little older than you are." "He begged me, "Don't do this to me." ""Don't force me." ""If you marry Shmuel's daughter, our ways part."" "What are you telling me?" "Don't do it." "Enough, Michali, it's late." "Go to bed." "Tonight, Alex Levac, Israel Prize laureate for photography will receive an award of recognition for his life's work by the Ministry of Education and Culture." "The committee wrote that for years, Alex Levac has been documenting different aspects of reality in Israeli society and gives us a different, deep and poetic outlook on the day-to-day life of each and every one of us." "Hello." "Hi, sweetheart." "How are you?" "Yes." "Some photographers stage photographs, others work in studios..." "Sorry, I can't today." "How did I get it?" "Somebody called me..." "Although I'm not religious, I do have ultra religious friends who... call me once in a while and give me all sorts of tips," ""Go here, go there, take pictures, it's worthwhile."" "Lots of people call you, do you run to everyone that calls you?" "If I ran after every pain in the neck, I wouldn't take any pictures." "But in this case, I had an intuition..." "I would even call it "fate"." "Sometimes, once in a few years you suddenly feel excited... as a photographer, I mean" "You're standing somewhere and there's something there, and you know something else is about to happen." "And sometimes it does." "This was one of those moments." "The day he called me he said:" ""Be at this and this place, at a certain time."" "I started getting excited, I don't know why." "It was weird..." "After 30 years you remember every detail." "Yes, because..." "I'm telling you, these things happen..." "In my entire career I can remember only 3 or 4 incidents, of pictures that excited me so much, and..." "Look, Jews burning books." "Think about it, it's completely insane." "Our people suffered so much, they burned our books, they burned us alive, suddenly we're burning books?" "How can you forget such a thing?" "So I'm taking these photographs." " Just one thing..." "Use them only once and for the purpose we discussed, and I want them back, okay?" "Has anyone seen David?" "There he is, there he is." "No, that's not him." "He's not wearing his "Tzitzit"." "I think he jumped into the water, I have to save him." "David!" "David!" "Oh, look what I found." " The cutest monkey in the world." "Mommy, make like a monkey." "Mommy will make like a monkey after we see the elephants." "You could've had any wig-wearing woman in Jerusalem, and you picked me." "Why?" "Because... of your lips." "Because..." "Because of your eyes." "Mommy, you promised you'd make like a monkey." "Mommy, you promised you'd make like a monkey." "Just a second..." "Hello?" "I'll be right there." " What is it?" " I have to go." "Why?" "What happened?" " They found the missing newspaper photo." "There are schnitzels in the freezer and mashed potatoes in the fridge." "Mommy, but you promised to make like a monkey." "Daddy will, okay?" "Daddy, make like a monkey, make like a monkey..." "C'mon, let's go." "David, show me what a monkey does." "Like this?" "7... 8..." "10..." ""..." "Bruriah"" "Bruriah, don't..." "I have to speak to my husband." "Yaakov." "Look, Yaakov." "Look." "Look, 30 years." "We'll find the book, I know it." "What?" "Do you know where your light-mindedness is leading us?" "Is that Mom?" "Yes." "And here, behind the car, that's Dad." "Hi." ""Blessed art Thou, Lord our God..." ""who brings forth bread from the earth"." " Amen." ""Blessed art Thou, Lord our God, King of the Universe" ""Creator of the fruit of the trees"." " Amen." "I have a list of all the Yeshiva student who participated in the burning." "Really?" " Yes." "Rabbi Feierberg, of course." "Altschuler." "Do you know him?" "Wirtz..." "Wirtz..." " Wirtzburger?" " Wirtzburger, yes." "You know him?" "No." " No?" " No." "Yankalevitz?" "And..." "Ben-Meir." "Ben-Meir?" "Show me." "Could it be a member of Yaakov's family." "I don't know." "Could Yaakov's father have been there?" "Didn't you recognize him in the photos?" " Even if I saw him," "I wouldn't recognize him." "I've never seen him." "Really." "He wasn't even at our wedding." "Your husband's father?" "Yes." "Okay." "So, who can tell me who this Ben-Meir is?" "May I?" "My father." "He doesn't tell me anything, but you can try." "I've never met a woman like you." "Yosef." "The photographs." "Thank you." "Good luck." "I don't believe it." "I don't believe you didn't keep a copy." "Everything was burnt." " What's this?" "Charity, charity." " Who's there?" "Donations, donations." "Give him something." "May you be worthy of doing mitzvahs." ""There is no despair in the world"." "I feel as though I have to start everything all over again, to make amends." "Maybe that's what Rabbi Meir felt." "That he has to change the laws of the universe, to go back to the Garden of Eden." "Maybe that's what you wrote about, maybe that's why you're afraid." "No." " Yes!" "Yosef." " Hello." "What are you doing here?" " I'm looking for Rabbi..." "Shmuel Halevi." " Who's there?" " Donations, donations." "Give him something." " I will." "This." "This is what you wrote about." " No." " Yes." "This is what Rabbi Meir did." " No." " Don't lie to me." "This is what Rabbi Meir did." "He wanted to play God, to go back to the Garden of Eden, and reconstruct the whole story of the sin." "But in this story there is no Adam, no Eve, no apple." "There's Rabbi Meir, there's Bruriah and there is seduction." "You're playing God." "You're tired, Shmuel." "You should sleep." "How long have you known my wife?" "How many times have you met?" " 5 times, including today." "How was it?" "Exciting." "Isn't it crowded?" " It's okay." "Okay." "We met at the bookstore twice, on Hanina Hill, in a cafe, and at your house." "Shit!" "The bird shit on me." "Thanks." "I'll wash it." " It's okay." "Why don't you help her?" " How?" "Just help her." "Tell me..." "Isn't Rabbi Abraham Ben-Meir a relative of yours?" "Your father." "He was there." "Do me a favor, do yourself a favor, there are plenty of used book stores in Jerusalem." "I'll stay away from Bruriah when I finish doing what you aren't capable of doing." "Here's your 20 shekels." "It's for the work you did up to now." "I don't have change." "May you be worthy of doing mitzvahs, worthy of finding a bride." "Charity saves us from death." "When I was 5 years old," "I had dreams, I was afraid." "At night I would sneak into your study room where you sat with your regular study partners." "I didn't want to disturb you, so I climbed on your lap," "and you covered me with the Torah." "That's how I fell asleep." "I loved the smell of your beard at night" "Hello, father." "It's me, Yankale, your son, your eldest son." "What do you want, son?" "Did you come to ask for forgiveness?" "I'm tired, Father." "I can't take anymore." "I want to come back." "Back where?" " Here." "Take you back..." "Only he who drove you away can take you back." "Who drove me away?" "That's the whole Torah on one foot:" "You drove yourself away." "You're right." "Call me and I'll come down and sit beside you." "Since you left I haven't allowed anyone to sit in your seat." "I want to come back now." "How..." "How are the children?" "Thank God." "And the little girl?" "The little girl?" "Bruriah." "I'll never forget how she ran towards the fire." "A little girl with blazing eyes." "She's going through a difficult time." "How is Rabbi Shmuel?" "I've met very few wise men in my life, whose greatness has amazed me so." "You were two." "You could've been study partners." "Friends in heart and soul." "But you haven't spoken to each other since." "You're no longer young, Father." "Shmuel won't live forever." "It's time..." "May God watch over you, my child." ""Seducing Bruriah"" "What's that?" " What I'm incapable of doing." "How did you get it?" "I ascended Mt." "Sinai again, and discovered that it rolled down." "You had it all these years?" "No." "But you knew where it was?" " Let's say I did." "Were you afraid that I would find it?" "I was afraid." "And Bruriah?" "Bruriah knows nothing about it?" "What will you do with it now?" "Nothing." ""Seducing Bruriah"" "You will." "What do you want from me?" "A favor." "I'm asking a personal favor:" "Take this to Bruriah." "I know exactly what's going through your mind." "Forget it." "You're going to do it." "Bruriah is your wife." "I know." "You forgot this." " Thanks." "Yaakov." "There's my Ninja turtle." "When are you coming back?" "I've got four chocolates for you." "I can't talk now." "And when they're finished, I'll be back." "Yaakov!" "Yosef found the book." "Hi." "Have you read it?" "Yes." "Interesting?" "Very." "Read me something." ""And Bruriah," ""what did she go through?" ""The student was standing in front of her," ""the sin, her husband," ""the house of learning." ""Everything was like a whirlpool in her head"." "Where did you find the book?" "Yaakov gave it to me." "The Torah from Thy mouth is better for me" "Than thousands of gold or silver pieces" "The Torah from Thy mouth is better for me  Than thousands of gold or silver pieces" "Subtitles:" "Cinematyp Studios Ltd."