Loving Leah Page #6

Aha.

Your cooking puts me to shame, Leah.

McDonalds puts you to shame, Ma.

It's true. It is true I cannot cook.

I could never cook.

Jake was always very, very kind about it.

He never complains. Very diplomatic child.

On the other hand,

Benji used to call up his

friends every single night

to find out what their mothers were cooking.

He re-, he enrolled me in cooking school.

Do you remember that?

I went, but I couldn't do it.

I can't measure. It's just not me.

I was giving the teacher agita.

I was, I was, driving her crazy.

They finally threw me out.

They gave him his money back.

I'm gonna tell that story

at the unveiling, I think. And you know what?

You should pick a good story about your brother.

Or, or maybe that's not

permissible where he's buried?

No, it is.

Is it? Good.

And what's with the little rock

that they put on the gravestone?

It... shows the soul that someone's been to visit.

Isn't that nice?

Actually, I haven't heard from the mortuary

since I picked out the stone.

That was in September.

Oh, I got a letter.

Jake, did you get a letter?

Mm-mm.

It's just a little reminder to say, you know,

you have to set a date for the unveiling.

It's been almost a year.

And listen, you two, whatever you want,

whatever you decide, it's fine with me.

What do you think?

I'll have to check my schedule.

Ma, how's Aunt Francine doing?

Francine? She's fine.

She's complaining about everybody and everything.

Darling, what do you think?

Should we have maybe a little lunch

the day of the unveiling?

I'd like that.

Jakie?

What?

Oh, lunch, sure.

Okay. Well, we're gonna have to set a date.

Ma!

I heard you,

and I'll get to it!

I'm sorry.

Excuse me.

Hey.

What's wrong?

I don't want to talk about it.

Is it me?

No.

It's us. It's...

it's these.

Our letters.

I feel like I'm betraying Ben.

I mean, you were his wife.

Don't you feel guilty?

No.

I love you.

That's what I feel.

Did you love him?

Our marriage wasn't set up like that.

I was 18.

Your brother

was a good man.

He was very serious,

dedicated...

but there was something missing between us.

You didn't answer my question.

Did you love him?

You know, I didn't plan this

would happen between us.

I gotta go.

I don't know what to do.

Dude, it was so much easier

when you dated non-relatives.

Sorry.

Look, man, maybe you're

looking at this all wrong.

Maybe the brother you shunned all those years

is actually looking out for you.

Don't go.

I don't know how to make this right for him.

It's just too complicated.

Next is room 217.

65-year-old Caucasian male,

who developed end stage heart disease...

Excuse me one second.

Leah's SAT scores arrived.

She's gone.

That's for you.

Listen, I know how much you loved your brother.

So I know what's eating you.

But you love Leah, and she loves you.

So, if God

arranged this marriage, which apparently He did,

I think He's going to take a very dim view of it

if you mess it up.

Good to see you.

Shabbat Shalom.

Shabbat Shalom.

Thank you so much.

Shabbat Shalom.

Shabbat Shalom.

Good Shabbos.

Nice service.

Well, I hope that means you'll come again.

I think I might.

My brother was a rabbi.

He, uh, died this past May.

My condolences.

I need to ask his forgiveness.

Is that possible?

Your brother is in what we call a place of truth.

Sort of a holding pattern.

It is in this place that it is possible

to fix a wrong.

Can you show me a prayer?

Three days you're here and not a word?

You want to talk?

Everything I prayed for...

came true.

Just like you said.

Only I ran away.

This is the only thing I seem to do well.

Look at me back here.

I've got to stop running away.

You're right.

Go back to your home.

You love him.

He, Jake, loves you.

Leah, even in the best of

marriages problems don't leave.

People do.

What if he can't get over the fact

that I was married to Benjamin?

You know, I saw something

back there in Washington.

You and he... Jake, you and Jake,

work together as a team.

Even if it was just to convince

me that you were living together

as husband and wife.

I think he'll get over it.

Does this mean you accept me with him?

Leah... a mother,

you should only find out soon,

is only as happy as her saddest child.

I want you to be happy.

And back there, you were happy, right?

Yeah.

God kept you two together long

enough to find each other.

And you know me... I never argue with God.

Come here.

What are we doing out here

when you've got packing to do?

Okay.

All right, another hug.

Me, too.

The meter's running.

- Go, go.

- Bye.

- Penn Station, please.

- You got it.

Wait, Leah!

Wait, wait, wait.

Wait.

Hi.

Hi.

- Hi.

- Hi.

Uh, your test scores.

Oh.

And?

- Um...

- Open it.

Go on.

Yeah? So?

She did great.

1920 total score,

600 on math.

I did great!

She passed.

And you drove all this way

to give her test scores?

Esther.

Get in. We're going for a short ride.

I want you to go around the block slowly.

You know,

things happen when you're around.

I think I'm growing on them.

Yeah.

You look good.

I mean, you always look good.

You, too.

- I went to temple.

- You did?

It's still standing.

You remember Ben's funeral...

the rabbi said that Ben left us a gift

in the form of a lesson?

It was you, Leah.

Ben's way of taking care of me

was to bring me someone I could love.

I know.

He did the same for me.

I want to marry you.

We're already married.

No. No, no.

This time, for the right reasons.

I love you.

May his soul be bound up in life eternal.

Amen.

Amen.

No matter what.

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