Hodel 23,25, 26 Flashcards
Very well, children, you have my blessing and my permission.
Oh, thank you, Papa. You don’t know how happy that makes me.
Where has it lead? To this! A man tells me he is getting married. He doesn’t ask me, he tells me. But first, he abandons her.
He is not abandoning me, Papa.
BLACKOUT AFTER YENTE
You don’t have to wait for the train, Papa. You’ll be late for your customers.
Just a few more minutes… Is he in bad trouble, that hero of yours? Arrested? And convicted?
Yes, but he did nothing wrong. He cares nothing for himself, everything he does is for humanity.
But if he did nothing wrong, he wouldn’t be in trouble.
Papa, how can you say that? What wrongs did Joseph do, and Abraham, and Moses? And they had troubles.
But why won’t you tell me where he is now, this Joseph of yours.
It is far, Papa, terribly far… He is in a settlement in Siberia.
Siberia! And he asks you to leave your father and mother and join him in that frozen wasteland, and marry him there?
No, papa, he did not ask me to go. I want to go. I don’t want him to be alone. I want to help him in his work. It is the greatest work a man can do, Papa.
But, Hodel, baby…
Papa…
And who, my child, will there be to perform a marriage, there in the wilderness?
Papa, I promise you, we will be married under a canopy.
No doubt a rabbi or two was also arrested. Well, give him my regards, this Moses of yours. I always thought he was a good man. Tell him I rely on his honor to treat my daughter well. Tell him that.
Papa, God only knows when we shall see each other again.
