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

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with the Ghitaym

to keep the flame alive.

The second millenium is ending.

It is our duty to work together

to bring all the Jews and the lost

sheep back into the fold.

We must build and organize

the Jewish force.

Brethren, tonight at 8:00,

we must organize and

close our ranks

under the Star of David.

God Almighty,

at the dawn of the year 2000

we will bring about deliverance.

May the names and the memory

of our enemies disappear.

They will pay for what they did

to our forefathers.

The Messiah is at hand.

With God's help they will pay. An

eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.

It is time to unite.

The light is approaching.

You have the marriage contract?

Father, Ecclesiastes says:

"Live joyfully with the wife you love,

"all the days of your life"

It also says:

"Let your fountain be blessed."

Rejoice with the wife

of your youth."

lf, after 1 0 years of marriage,

a man has no child,

he must take another wife,

to increase and multiply.

Sarah was barren

and our Father Abraham

did not abandon her.

Isaac did not repudiate Rebecca

in spite of her barrenness.

Neither did Jacob.

- Meir, that's enough.

We've already talked about this.

A woman's life

is in him who makes use of her.

A barren woman is no woman.

A man who dies without progeny

rips a page from the Torah.

Meir, your marriage contract.

Next week,

Meir is supposed to meet a woman.

Who is she?

Haya, Uncle Shmuel's daughter.

Does Rivka know?

Yes.

I took care of everything.

She'll go away.

I'm leaving our house.

I'll rent a room.

All by myself.

At least you'll be happy, Malka.

Rabbi,

please think it over again.

I can't do it.

Why not?

Rivka is all I have left.

We're not angels.

We're human beings, flesh and blood.

Flesh and blood.

I can't.

I can't bathe Haya.

She's replacing

a woman who is loved.

And the commandment about

peace in the home?

Joy in the family?

Rivka is my daughter.

She's my whole life.

Do as our religion commands.

May God bless and protect you,

Elisheva.

My son Meir will have a son

by Haya.

One.

two...

...twelve.

Like the twelve tribes of Israel.

Speak to me.

Say something.

Rivka, I love you.

Say something.

Speak to me, Rivka.

Then I spoke with the doctor.

She told me everything.

She said she found me

stronger than my sister.

Rivka undressed in front of her.

More then I do in front of you.

She lay down.

The doctor asked her

if it was her first test.

Rivka said yes.

The doctor told her not to worry.

She told her to spread her legs.

She told her not to tense up.

She put her finger in her vagina.

All the way up, like we do

to make sure our periods are over.

That's how she examined her.

Do you hear me?

Rivka, It's me.

What's the matter?

I'm here, Rivka.

Happy Purim!

I love you, Rivka.

Do you need money?

I haven't given you any money

for a while.

Give me a kiss.

Why won't you speak?

You haven't spoken for weeks.

You won't answer me.

Speak to me, Rivka.

Excuse me, I'm looking for Yakov.

This is no place for tourists.

I live here. I'm not a tourist.

People always talk about crows

but there are storks too.

I'd like to see him.

It's urgent.

Please, it's really urgent.

Relax honey,

there are plenty of nice guys.

Please.

Yakov!

There's a lady in a hurry for you.

It's OK. I know her.

Come with me.

You didn't go to study?

See my dress?

Get inside.

Do you know where I've been?

I said get inside.

You want me to tell you?

What did you do to my sister?

I love her more than

anything in the world.

Do you see my hair?

I said get inside!

Stop it!

Get on the bed!

Now.

Slut!

Rivka.

Come with me.

There's another world out there.

It's so big.

Our world isn't all there is, Rivka.

I heard people singing a song outside.

"Put your hand in mine,

"I'm yours and you are mine."

Put your hand in mine...

I can't go on like this.

I'm suffocating.

I'm suffocating.

We're fine here.

It's so calm.

So calm.

No, Rivka.

We're not fine.

Not at all.

May it please you,

Eternal God

God of our fathers,

for the psalms I have sung

Before you

to soothe

the pain of my child-bearing

and to give me strength.

That we not weaken,

neither I nor the child I bear,

before the day of my delivery.

When my time comes,

on the delivery bed,

in your mercy safegaurd me

from all pain and sorrow.

Ease my delivery.

Let the child come

painlessly and in calm.

Rivka!

Rivka wake up!

Can you hear me? Wake up!

What's wrong?

Wake up!

Wake up! Answer me!

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