Matir Agunot (2019–…): Season 1, Episode 5 - Episode #1.5 - full transcript
Yossef goes to the Ukraine to find crucial evidence in one of his divorce cases. On the last day of his trip, he receives happy news.
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This is the Travishka district.
It's in Ukraine, right? -Yes, yes...
Do you know how you say
"virgin" in Russian?
There is no such word.
You're a genius, Moshe Haim.
The word "virgin" is missing.
It doesn't say "virgin". Why?
Because she's a divorcèe.
-Then he's illegitimate.
Her son is illegitimate.
Marina's husband, the refuser,
their marriage was based on fraud,
and we can therefore
annul the marriage.
I'll let you know when I land.
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How much are the potatoes?
15 rubles a kilo.
15 rubles?
-They're very good.
They're -all rotten, full of worms...
-Full of worms!
-Worms?
Look... -They were just picked,
these are excellent potatoes...
No, they're no good.
They have worms...
I can't make mashed potatoes
with worms...
What's wrong with worms?
God created worms too.
Welcome, Yosef the Righteous.
Eden Tzuberi, Chabad envoy to
at your service.
-Nice to meet you.
I thank you for coming.
Nice to meet you?"
Gimme a hug.
The day is short
and there's much to do.
What,
no fitness gyms in Bnei Brak?
Come
"If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee
lying under its burden,
"thou shalt forbear to pass by him,
release it with him.
Come.
Good morning.
Hello.
We'll leave our stuff with her.
Here of all places?
Don't worry.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
-Yes.
Granny,
don't let anyone near our stuff.
If someone will touch it
a demon will come out.
Yes?
Alright.
Come, my man.
I don't feel right
leaving my tefillin, my holy books,
in that impurity, God have mercy.
Before you came,
I did my research in the village.
I was told there's a woman
whose great great grandfather was Jewish.
The woman we just met?
-Yes.
Imagine that.
And her house is filled with impurity...
What...
Oh, before I forget,
did you prepare the envelopes for me?
Yes, it's all here.
What do you need the certificate for?
She's asking why we need the certificate.
I have to explain to her
what an Agunah is?
Didn't anyone talk to her?
We need this divorce file,
of Bella Kislevich,
whose maiden name was
Bella Sheina Levinsky,
tell hat that afterwards.
We need to know if Bella
married another man
before she undertook to divorce her husband.
-"Undertook?"
My Russian's not that good...
Listen, the divorce certificate
of Bella Kislevich
Bella Sheiman Levinsky.
Sheina Levinsky.
-Sheina Levinsky,
document.
Grease the wheels a bit.
Bella Kislevich?
Yes. -Bella Kislevich.
-Wait here.
Sheina, Sheina.
-Sheina Levinsky.
Bella Kislevich...
Have they no shame?
Everything you see here,
making as if they're clerks in Switzerland,
it's all a sham,
a crock.
All they care about is money.
Well?
-"Nyet."
No?
-No.
She says...
-"Nyet?"
She says it's not here.
Did you check "Bella Sheina Levinsky?"
Yes, yes.
Bella... Levinsky, yes?
Yes, yes, yes.
She says yes.
-I checked,
Bella Sheina Levinsky
-Bella Sheina Levinsky.
"Nyet."
No? -No.
No.
So what do we do?
Are you sure she lived in our village?
She's asking if you're sure
that Bella lived here.
Of course she did.
She's from here, her husband's from here,
they're from here,
"eta, eta."
Do you have the address?
Yes... -She's asking for the address.
-I got that,
"address."
Oy...
What's wrong
What?
This was once two villages.
And this is in the other archive,
in the other village.
She says it's in the other archive.
These were two small villages
that merged,
so based on the address,
it's in the archive on the other side.
Our villages merged in 1985,
in the days of Konstantin Chernenko.
-Ah,
the villages merged in 1985,
in the days of Konstantin something.
Yes, Chernenko.
-Chernenko, yes.
Chernenko.
-Chernenko.
He was their president
before Gorbachev..
A week or two and he died.
God bringeth low and lifteth up.
For two weeks you're king of the world
and poof!
You're under the ground,
eaten by the worms.
So what do we do?
I'll ask the clerk from the other village
to help us...
Why do you need a document
that proves that...
you need a document
that proves that...
Bella Sheina Levinsky...
-Yes.
Married before she divorced?
He's asking why we have to prove
that this Bella Levin married
before she divorced.
Try explaining a page of Talmud to him...
It's okay, I can put it very plainly.
I'll explain. -Go ahead.
-I'll associate it with the Torah,
they believe in the Torah.
If we can prove
that Bella Kislevich,
Sheina Levinsky,
remarried before she divorced.
that means her child is a bastard,
an illegitimate child,
the one from the second marriage.
Now, the Torah says,
the Torah:
"A bastard shall not enter
into assembly of God,"
that's how we can annul the marriage.
Aha.
"Aha," is that about an envelope?
No, no, hold on, let me...
I'll try something else.
Talk to the council secretary.
He said you would help us
with the papers, yes?
He's off today.
We mustn't bother him.
The dog, why should he help for free?
Son of a gun.
Far lack of storage space
We keep the divorce files
in our external storeroom.
Outside the council building.
Good day.
Tell me, what happened to the lock?
It's... the new... archive...
He's speaking rural Ukrainian Russian,,
I don't really understand...
He's saying that two years ago
they had a harsh winter
Two Russians were here
drinking alcohol, they got cold
and wanted to warm up
so they lit a bonfire
and burned the storeroom.
This is a new one, empty.
Are you serious?
This is a new storeroom?
Can't you tell he's conning you
This isn't the new archive?
No?
Is this the new archive?
It is. My friend...
It's new, new-old.
-He says... -Yes.
A new-old storeroom.
Because it burned down...
So...
Yes,yes.,
they moved the...
stuff to.
Rabbi Yosef!
The cab will be here in five minutes.
One hour and we're in Kiev.
You'll welcome the Sabbath properly,
you earned it.
If you got that paper,
we'd be stuck here till Sunday,
then we'd have top wait
for the councilman to sign...
You'd be stuck here all Sabbath
eating cabbage and beets.
It's for the best.
We'll get there, Rabbi Yosef,
to the Chabad house
and observe the Sabbath properly.
God willing.
It's nice here.
All green.
Toss an apple seed here,
no watering, no nothing,
next year you have a tree.
And what do we have, huh?
My does He give them
all this grace?
Can you explain that to me?
Because we don't appreciate anything.
Take a child
give him the same candy,
the same ice cream every day.
Will he appreciate it?
No.
We're the same way.
Especially us.
The Land of Israel
was given through suffering
and that's because God loves us.
We were privileged to sweat a little.
"In the sweat of thy face
shalt thou eat bread.”
Why?
Because if you don't sweat,
how will you appreciate the miracle?
Everything you see is a miracle.
He doesn't love the Gentiles
as He loves us.
He doesn't care
if they don't recognize the magnitude of the miracle.
Drops of water come down on the seed,
the seed grows, emerges from the soil,
catches some sun rays,
grows more seeds,
you pick them and voila,
you have bread.
A miracle!
-You're right.
Rabbi Yosef, we have to be out of here
in 30 minutes.
Then call him,
maybe he's here and he can't find us.
No signal.
Excuse me,
are you Jewish, sir?
I was in Israel for 12 years.
Yes, 12 years.
At the monastery of the Russian church
in Tel Aviv.
Yes, I was a monk.
Now I'm a priest in this village.
Nice.
I always asked
why the Jews
have to stand out everywhere.
A beard, tassels, special clothes.
I ask not to offend you,
but to understand.
And you don't stand out...
But to answer your question,
we must wear a head covering and tassels
to remember there is a creator above.
I think that's..
Rabbi Yosef, no answer at taxi dispatch,
but I talked to the old lady,
she got us some guy
to take us in his car.
We have to go now.
Is everything alright?
Everything's just fine.
I think it's that Judaism latches on
to external things.
Christianity...
is the religion of the heart,
less concerned with external details.
Listen, we have to meet up with the guy
because in 20 minutes,
there will be no point in leaving.
We'll be stuck midway
after the Sabbath has begun.
Let's go.
-Just like I said.
All these minutiae,,
a minute here, a minute there.
The Sabbath was made for man's sake,
not for man's subjugation.
That's what the Lord said,
Mark, 2:27.
Let's go already.
-Hold on.
This'll be brief.
You've heard of Maimonides, right?
-Yes.
He wrote that the of faith
is above the reason
and the mind of man,
because the mind of man
can't understand it.
"We will do and we will listen."
Now, Maimonides wasn't against reason,
he was a physician,
a scientist, a philosopher.
Sb obviously if we follow our reason,
what's a minute hem,
a minute there?
It's all there to serve us, right?
And that's your perception,
of the Western world in general.
If I don't get something out of it,
it's not worth it."
It's all "me, me, me."
Take care.
If my good man
were to read the
he'd realize that...
that's not what the Lord was getting at.
The Lord said in the Sermon on the Mount,
"If your right eye causes you to stumble,
"gouge it out."
Is that all "me, me, me?"
We'll read it at home.
This guy's a quack. Let's go.
"A quack..."
I know that..
you're in a hurry,
so just a little something
Between man and his fellow,.
If you were courteous,
I'd take you in my car to Kiev,
free of charge, just a good Samaritan.
But I won't,
because I see that you are
stubborn and rude.
Well, you can see it
any way you want.
How does the verse go?
"Man looketh on the outward appearance
"but God looketh on the heart."
Samuel 16.
We observe based on the level we're at.
Good Sabbath.
-Good Sabbath.
That was some sanctification of God...
Yes. -Yes?
-Thank you.
Well?
I spoke to him.
In a few minutes, God willing,
we'll leave.
-Great, thank God.
Thank you.
Get on, soon we'll leave
Huh?
Sit, we'll leave Soon.
-Yes, yes, yes.
He wants us to sit here?
In order to observe the Sabbath,
it's okay to travel with pigs.
God created them too after all...
Why's to taking his time?
Another 10 minutes will be on point
What are we waiting for?
Soon we'll leave.
I'm waiting fur my pig.
Ah...
-What?
We're waiting for his friend
the big pig
and then we're off.
Wait a second.
What?
Take this.
Let's pay him.
Why?
-Pay him not to wait for the big pig.
It could take an hour.
Go to him
Hey, come here.
Listen.
I said I'm waiting for my pig.
No, please.
-No, I promised my godfather
I'd bring the pig to mate with the sows
Pay me 1,000 dollars,
we're still not going anywhere.
What?
We upset him.
The Jews only care about money.
He said we Jews
only care about money.
Some things can't be bought with money.
Anti-Semite...
Okay, Tzuberi
time's up, let's go
Two minutes
Isn't there a nearby town?
A synagogue, something?
-No
Thank you.
Thank you. -No... Keep it.
You gotta know how to get around.
What? Did I do something wrong?
You did everything wrong!
I can't even trust you
to get us a cab!
And this village with the archive,
why didn't you know it was burned down?
Two phone calls,
that's all it would have taken.
You brought me here
all the way from Israel
All day long, envelopes, envelopes.
Two phone calls!
Hello.
Yes.
Really?
Yes, I'll talk to you.
What?
Is everything alright?
My wife
-What?
She's late
Late for what?
Her cycle...
is late.
Her period?
Her period.
Four years,
she's never been late.
Congratulations, Rabbi Yosef.
But it means nothing yet,
she's just a little late.
God willing.
Since she's always on time,
like a Swiss clock, so I'm...
Something to look forward to.
God willing, the messiah will be born
Whatever comes will come,
as long as it comes.
Imagine that!
We've been waiting for 4 years
and it happens when I'm here.
Now you understand why
He didn't arrange a cab to Kiev?
So that you would see
that even in this hellhole
the Sabbath can be sweet,
sweet as it gets!
Rabbi Yosef...
"Oy yo yo...
Granny,
where can we find a place to sleep?
There's a hotel nearby.
-Where?
It's close,
Rabbi Nachman from Breslov
stayed there.
Rabbi Nachman?
Granny, slowly, please.
Alright.
The hotel is very old
Rabbi Nachman from Breslov
stayed there a long time ago.
Rabbi Nachman?
-Yes, yes, Rabbi Nachman.
Rabbi Nachman from Breslov?
-From Breslov, yes.
What did she say?
Come with me.
Rabbi Yosef,
she's taking us to a motel
that Rabbi Nachman from Breslov
stayed in for one night.
Don't tell me you're buying
her story.
Any motel you go to,
they'll tell you the same story,
all 20 of them.
This motel
is on the way to which town?
Is this a geography lesson?
On the way to Kamianets-Podilskyi.
And what happened on the way to Kamianets?
-What?
Our rabbi stopped there.
it's written in the memoir. Look.
Let's check out
If I tell you from Breslov to Kamianets...
Let's see, patience.
Here.
Here you go
on the way from Breslov
to Kamianets, no two ways about it.
He stayed at this motel
for one night.
He got up, got dressed,
got on the carriage and went to Kamianets
And there,
he confronted the dark side.
The apostate, Yakov Frank,
curse him
he informed on Jews
to the priests
and all the Jews were driven out.
I remember it vaguely.
-So 100 years later
our rabbi went there
to perform a tikkun,
to expel the evil dark side
so that the Jews could return
and live there.
And indeed,
one year later,
the Jews arrived.
200 years later,
who is going to the hotel
where our rabbi stayed?
We are, Rabbi Yosef.
We are!
Over there... -What?
That's the building. -Ah.
-Over there.
Thank you, Granny, thank you.
My pleasure.
-There's our motel, let's go...
We're stuck in this room
for the entire Sabbath?
We can observe the Sabbath here
without violating Jewish law,
it's enclosed, there's an access,
it's all good.
I, the Chabad envoy,
am prepared for every situation.
Challah for the Sabbath.
Wine, to recite the blessing.
We have it all.
We'll pray outside,
where Rabbi Nachman prayed,
you and me.
Look at this, Rabbi Yosef.
The water looks freezing to me.
No, it's wet freezing,
you know which lake
I once entered in Lvov?
Go. Rabbi,
you go in first
You do the honors,
like the great Nachshon.
You know that men
aren't obligated to immerse...
It's just a spiritual extra.
But what compensation did he get
for that extra?
Before Nachshon immersed,
he didn't have children.
One little dip and voila!
He had a son.
the messiah!
The father of the great great grandfather of King David!
Emotional blackmail, huh?
All will be well.
If you trust in the blessed God...
It's cold, Rabbi Yosef, it's cold!
Let's immerse...
Such sanctity, Rabbi Yosef!
Wow..
-Are you crazy?
What are you doing
What?
-Get out of there!
All the village sewage
flows into here. -What?
All the county poop flows into here.
Oh no.
Let’s get out of
"To meet the Sabbath, let us go
"For that is the source of blessing
"From the beginning, chosen before time
’’Last in deed, but in thought - prime."
An Ashkenazi woman will go
with an Ashkenazi man.
They have all of Europe.
Likewise, a Sephardi woman
will go with a Sephardi man.
Moroccan, Iraqi, Kurdish,
you name it.
What's the Yemenite got?
Yemen.
That's what the Yemenite women are for.
Why did God create Yemenite women...?
Where will you find a Yemenite woman
one who found religion
and a member of Chabad...?
And here, in the Ukraine?
Then go back to Israel.
You did your part.
At some point sacrifice
becomes stupidity,
watch out for that
You have one purpose
to marry, create a home and family.
What's bothering you?
Talk to me
Rabbi Scheinman,
my rabbi, the influencer,
do you know him?
What about him?
I talk to him every 3 days
for an hour or two over the phone.
He strengthens me.
If not for him, I would fall.
And what does he say?
-What does he say?
"What is meant ta happen will happen
"even in the North Pole."
Mg says that devotion
is the greatest thing there Is.
That there's no way
man isn't compensated.
But maybe I...
don't see the big picture.
I'm focused on myself,
me, me, me.
I look,
I see a little black dot on the wall.
I look up
It seem to me
the whole wall is black.
Maybe...
I don't see all His grace...
Maybe I have too little faith.
Because I...
there are people...
for whom everything comes hard.
There are people who...
I'm like that
"Like that?"
I'm gay.
I’m gay, Rabbi Yosef.
I thought if I strengthened my faith
it would leave me,
but it hasn't, you know?
This evil inclination is telling me
"It's okay,
"be who you are."
What woman would want
someone like me?
Someone living a lie
not being honest.
Who whenever he touches her
she knows that it's all a lie...
Who would want that?
Look. I can't fully understand you,
I won't lie
But one thing I do understand,,
you are battling a very tough war.
I don't know
if I could withstand this test.
What good does it do me?
Rabbi Yosef, what good does it to me?
Can't you see
I have no future?
I don't want this,
I don't want this.
Eden,
you have extreme merit,
more than me,
more than anymore
with normal inclinations,
and that's because
you're waging an endless war
You're in a constant war
against your inclination
And even when you fall,
like everyone does,
everyone falls,
you get up and keep fighting,
and that's the greatest virtue.
That's devotion.
Maybe that's what Rabbi Scheinman meant.
No...
he doesn't even know.
I didn't tell him.
What are they doing?
Those carrots are coming out of my ears.
Yes.
We should have gone to the market
before the Sabbath.
It had everything.
Fruit, vegetables...
and the pears, this big.
Oh, the pears...
-Here, taste our fruit
No... thank you.
-Why not?
They're delicious,
so sweet and fresh.
No.
-Thank you, Granny, thank you.
Enjoy.
Isn't this something?
Huh?
Like the Israelites in the desert.
Go on, freshly picked.
Put it down.
-Why?
It's okay to eat fruit
that a Gentile picked on the Sabbath.
What if she's not a Gentile?
Oh, came on
You're the one who said
she could be Jewish
I said one of her grandfather's grandfather
was Jewish.
Does that mean she's Jewish?
Come on, Rabbi Yosef.
What court would recognize her
as Jewish?
And if it's not the grandfather's grandfather?
What if it's the grand mother's grandmother?
No way she picked this maliciously,
she didn't know it's forbidden...
-It has nothing
to do with malice.
Even if she picked them...
She's Jewish, alright?
On the Sabbath
out of ignorance...
Okay
-We can only eat them
when the Sabbath is over.
It's a distinct code of Jewish law.
So even if you prove
she picked them maliciously,
we can only eat them
after the Sabbath.
Put it down.
-But...
Put it down,
we can't touch them.
What prove she's not Jewish?
How?
You'll go to the village archive?
We'll ask Granny herself
if she's Jewish.
That's your job, isn't it?
You prove illegitimacy
left's prove she's not Jewish.
I do it to unchain women,
not for some strawberries.
God sent us a miracle from heaven.
You want to throw away His miracle?
For the benefit of the doubt?
Let's honor our Creator
who sent us a miracle,
let's check it out.
Truth is,
it doesn't feel right,
questioning that woman.
But why?
If she's Jewish,
we discovered a Jewish soul
in this village.
The blessed God sent us here
to redeem her.
-And if she's not?
Then we have a basket of fruit
for the second Sabbath meal.
Let's ask her.
Come.
Let's see.
First of all,
ask her how she got the shop,
if she inherited it from her father,
her mother.
Okay.
Granny, if you don't mind,
whom did you get this shop
for church items from,
from your mother or your father?
From my father.
From her father
-Yes, I got that.
If it was from her mother
at least we'd know she's a Christian
and be spared the hassle.
Ask her if...
What is it?
Ask her where she got this from.
Granny, who gave you this?
Rabbi Nachman gave it to the mother
of my grandmother's grandmother.
What was that?
What did she say about
Rabbi Nachman?
She says that Rabbi Nachman gave this
to the mother of her grandmother's grandmother.
Rabbi Nachman?
-Yes, Rabbi Nachman.
Yes.
How did she get to him?
What was Grandmother doing
with Rabbi Nachman?
"Shabbas goy."
(Sabbath's Gentile).
Ah, a non-Jew performing tasks
forbidden to Jews on Sabbath.
Yes.
-Yes.
So the mother of her grandmother's grandmother
was Rabbi Nachman's "Shabbas goy."
"Shabbas goy."
But to give this to a Gentile...
there must be a good reason.
Ask her if she knows
why she got it.
Granny...
She says that the mother
of her grandmother's grandmother
was with Rabbi Nachman at the motel
and in the morning
he gave her this amulet.
Rabbi Yosef, should I ask
what she was doing there at night?
No, no.
We don't have to know it all.
Yes.
Look, it's well known
that on his way to Kamianets
the Rabbi was tested in terms of impurity.
It says so in the book of Rabbi Nathan,
from the lips of Rabbi Nachman.
Listen to me,
let's say it's true,
let's say she was with him at night,
you can't know what went on,
it's beyond your understanding.
And mine.
Yes, but...
-No buts...
What good will it do?
How will it benefit the public to know?
So he was with a Gentile woman
at a motel at night,
it will only result in unjustified hatred.
And you won't tell anyone,
not your friends, your family, no one.
I'm warning you.
-No, of course not.
Hey...
If the grandmother was a "Shabbas goy,"
then the old lady's a Gentile too, no?
Even you don't understand
what you're saying, do you?
What? -When a righteous man
is met with impurity, what does he do?
He purifies?
-That's right, thank you.
So when life with her,
what he do to her?
He purified her?
-He converted her to Judaism.
Maybe that night he converted her,
married her and divorced her.
We're talking about Rabbi Nachman...
Put that down.
Alright..
Yes, but...
if he married her
and converted her that night...
That's enough.
Maybe the old lady is the granddaughter
of the granddaughter of...
Drop it already.
Really, Tzuber, it's the Sabbath...
You know,
when our Rabbi got to Uman
he was very sick by then.
He would barely leave the house.
He played chess all the time.
People came from all over Uman
to play chess with him.
He was a brilliant player.
One day a Gentile was passing through,
this top official, for the Tzar, whatever,
he passed through there
on his way to Moscow
anti heard there's this man
who plays chess.
They set up the board,
all the Rabbi's students
sat around the table,
and they started to play.
This official moves a pawn,
the Rabbi takes out his pawn.
All the followers: "Wow!"
Just like a soccer match...
The official makes another move,
the Rabbi takes out a bishop, a knight.
He can tell he's about to win.
What will he do if he wins?
Maybe this official is crazy,
maybe he'll carry out a pogrom
against the Jews,
persecute them.
And if he loses?
That's bad too.
The students and followers are watching,
it's embarrassing.
What did he do?
He tricks him,
he gets up
and pretends to stumble and... bam!
Mazel Tov!
That's how they ended up in a tie.
I'll clean up...
-No, it's okay.
I'll pick it up...
You know, Rabbi Yosef,
I wish I knew how to play chess.
But when you're a kid,
all you care about is soccer.
Is this the marriage contract
of your Agunah?
Yes.
Believe me, I don't know
why a woman has to suffer like that.
It's all a lie.
Let's see...
Not her food, her raiment, her conjugal rights.
-I've never seen one before...
He made her miserable and bailed.
What's this?
I know him.
What? -I know the witness
who signed this contract,
Reuven Zefania.
If he's the Reuven I know,
this fat guy from Gilo,
there's an issue here.
What issue?
What does Jewish law say?
That the witness must be observant, right?
Even an ignoramus like me knows that.
And you don't think I checked?
With a fine-tooth comb.
Everything, he observes it all.
It's all a lie,
the yarmulke (head cover for men),
the prayers, all of it.
Fine, whatever.
What if I can prove it?
With him, there's something
that exceeds the Sabbath, exceeds it all.
What?
Beitar Jerusalem (soccer team).
Beitar Jerusalem?
-Yes.
We'd travel the whole country,
go to all the games,
Haifa, Netanya, Beer Sheva.
He had sidelocks at the time,
so we'd pick him up on the Sabbath
and he'd hide his yarmulke in his pocket,
put on a cap
and tuck in the sidelocks.
At the field,
don't ask, chaos.
When we'd take him back,
he'd get off on the corner,
toss the cap, put on the yarmulke
and go home.
Kids, what can you do?
You know what I did
when I was a kid?
Kids?
Two weeks ago,
a game at Bloomfield stadium,
on the Sabbath!
The game was on the Sabbath.
Beitar scored before halftime.
Who hurled a smoke grenade on the field?
Who?
Reuven Zefania?
-Reuven Zefania!
I can get you 10 people
who witnessed it.
The man is not God fearing,
not observant.
You can void the marriage contract,
you can unchain your Agunah!
Yes.
God loves you, Rabbi Yosef!
Reuven Zefania, an observant Jew,
yeah right...
Give me that.
Give it.
-This Sabbath...
Yes, what?
-You ordered taxi to airport?
We ordered taxi yesterday
for 4 to Kiev,
not for airport.
Are you...
Mr. Tzuberi?
Yes, Mr. Tzuberi.
I am looking you for...
for half an hour.
Luckily, a one old woman sent me here,
a holy woman.
What's this, Rabbi Yosef?
Did we go back in time to yesterday?
The man wants to take us to the airport?
Now?
Please.
Let's go.
No signal.
And my battery's about to die.
She deserves this.
Rabbi Yosef, when you get back,
call me.
With God's help,
only good news.
Amen, God willing.
I can
see it already.
When I get home,
I'll open the door..
If she hugs me,
that means she's late,
therefore she's premitted to touch me,
and 3 days late with her is...
unmistakable.
So if she doesn't hug you,
God forbid,
that means she got her period.
I got you, bro.
I hope it's good news.
---
This is the Travishka district.
It's in Ukraine, right? -Yes, yes...
Do you know how you say
"virgin" in Russian?
There is no such word.
You're a genius, Moshe Haim.
The word "virgin" is missing.
It doesn't say "virgin". Why?
Because she's a divorcèe.
-Then he's illegitimate.
Her son is illegitimate.
Marina's husband, the refuser,
their marriage was based on fraud,
and we can therefore
annul the marriage.
I'll let you know when I land.
"Unchained" Created by
Joseph Madmony, Tamar Kay, and David Ofek
How much are the potatoes?
15 rubles a kilo.
15 rubles?
-They're very good.
They're -all rotten, full of worms...
-Full of worms!
-Worms?
Look... -They were just picked,
these are excellent potatoes...
No, they're no good.
They have worms...
I can't make mashed potatoes
with worms...
What's wrong with worms?
God created worms too.
Welcome, Yosef the Righteous.
Eden Tzuberi, Chabad envoy to
at your service.
-Nice to meet you.
I thank you for coming.
Nice to meet you?"
Gimme a hug.
The day is short
and there's much to do.
What,
no fitness gyms in Bnei Brak?
Come
"If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee
lying under its burden,
"thou shalt forbear to pass by him,
release it with him.
Come.
Good morning.
Hello.
We'll leave our stuff with her.
Here of all places?
Don't worry.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
-Yes.
Granny,
don't let anyone near our stuff.
If someone will touch it
a demon will come out.
Yes?
Alright.
Come, my man.
I don't feel right
leaving my tefillin, my holy books,
in that impurity, God have mercy.
Before you came,
I did my research in the village.
I was told there's a woman
whose great great grandfather was Jewish.
The woman we just met?
-Yes.
Imagine that.
And her house is filled with impurity...
What...
Oh, before I forget,
did you prepare the envelopes for me?
Yes, it's all here.
What do you need the certificate for?
She's asking why we need the certificate.
I have to explain to her
what an Agunah is?
Didn't anyone talk to her?
We need this divorce file,
of Bella Kislevich,
whose maiden name was
Bella Sheina Levinsky,
tell hat that afterwards.
We need to know if Bella
married another man
before she undertook to divorce her husband.
-"Undertook?"
My Russian's not that good...
Listen, the divorce certificate
of Bella Kislevich
Bella Sheiman Levinsky.
Sheina Levinsky.
-Sheina Levinsky,
document.
Grease the wheels a bit.
Bella Kislevich?
Yes. -Bella Kislevich.
-Wait here.
Sheina, Sheina.
-Sheina Levinsky.
Bella Kislevich...
Have they no shame?
Everything you see here,
making as if they're clerks in Switzerland,
it's all a sham,
a crock.
All they care about is money.
Well?
-"Nyet."
No?
-No.
She says...
-"Nyet?"
She says it's not here.
Did you check "Bella Sheina Levinsky?"
Yes, yes.
Bella... Levinsky, yes?
Yes, yes, yes.
She says yes.
-I checked,
Bella Sheina Levinsky
-Bella Sheina Levinsky.
"Nyet."
No? -No.
No.
So what do we do?
Are you sure she lived in our village?
She's asking if you're sure
that Bella lived here.
Of course she did.
She's from here, her husband's from here,
they're from here,
"eta, eta."
Do you have the address?
Yes... -She's asking for the address.
-I got that,
"address."
Oy...
What's wrong
What?
This was once two villages.
And this is in the other archive,
in the other village.
She says it's in the other archive.
These were two small villages
that merged,
so based on the address,
it's in the archive on the other side.
Our villages merged in 1985,
in the days of Konstantin Chernenko.
-Ah,
the villages merged in 1985,
in the days of Konstantin something.
Yes, Chernenko.
-Chernenko, yes.
Chernenko.
-Chernenko.
He was their president
before Gorbachev..
A week or two and he died.
God bringeth low and lifteth up.
For two weeks you're king of the world
and poof!
You're under the ground,
eaten by the worms.
So what do we do?
I'll ask the clerk from the other village
to help us...
Why do you need a document
that proves that...
you need a document
that proves that...
Bella Sheina Levinsky...
-Yes.
Married before she divorced?
He's asking why we have to prove
that this Bella Levin married
before she divorced.
Try explaining a page of Talmud to him...
It's okay, I can put it very plainly.
I'll explain. -Go ahead.
-I'll associate it with the Torah,
they believe in the Torah.
If we can prove
that Bella Kislevich,
Sheina Levinsky,
remarried before she divorced.
that means her child is a bastard,
an illegitimate child,
the one from the second marriage.
Now, the Torah says,
the Torah:
"A bastard shall not enter
into assembly of God,"
that's how we can annul the marriage.
Aha.
"Aha," is that about an envelope?
No, no, hold on, let me...
I'll try something else.
Talk to the council secretary.
He said you would help us
with the papers, yes?
He's off today.
We mustn't bother him.
The dog, why should he help for free?
Son of a gun.
Far lack of storage space
We keep the divorce files
in our external storeroom.
Outside the council building.
Good day.
Tell me, what happened to the lock?
It's... the new... archive...
He's speaking rural Ukrainian Russian,,
I don't really understand...
He's saying that two years ago
they had a harsh winter
Two Russians were here
drinking alcohol, they got cold
and wanted to warm up
so they lit a bonfire
and burned the storeroom.
This is a new one, empty.
Are you serious?
This is a new storeroom?
Can't you tell he's conning you
This isn't the new archive?
No?
Is this the new archive?
It is. My friend...
It's new, new-old.
-He says... -Yes.
A new-old storeroom.
Because it burned down...
So...
Yes,yes.,
they moved the...
stuff to.
Rabbi Yosef!
The cab will be here in five minutes.
One hour and we're in Kiev.
You'll welcome the Sabbath properly,
you earned it.
If you got that paper,
we'd be stuck here till Sunday,
then we'd have top wait
for the councilman to sign...
You'd be stuck here all Sabbath
eating cabbage and beets.
It's for the best.
We'll get there, Rabbi Yosef,
to the Chabad house
and observe the Sabbath properly.
God willing.
It's nice here.
All green.
Toss an apple seed here,
no watering, no nothing,
next year you have a tree.
And what do we have, huh?
My does He give them
all this grace?
Can you explain that to me?
Because we don't appreciate anything.
Take a child
give him the same candy,
the same ice cream every day.
Will he appreciate it?
No.
We're the same way.
Especially us.
The Land of Israel
was given through suffering
and that's because God loves us.
We were privileged to sweat a little.
"In the sweat of thy face
shalt thou eat bread.”
Why?
Because if you don't sweat,
how will you appreciate the miracle?
Everything you see is a miracle.
He doesn't love the Gentiles
as He loves us.
He doesn't care
if they don't recognize the magnitude of the miracle.
Drops of water come down on the seed,
the seed grows, emerges from the soil,
catches some sun rays,
grows more seeds,
you pick them and voila,
you have bread.
A miracle!
-You're right.
Rabbi Yosef, we have to be out of here
in 30 minutes.
Then call him,
maybe he's here and he can't find us.
No signal.
Excuse me,
are you Jewish, sir?
I was in Israel for 12 years.
Yes, 12 years.
At the monastery of the Russian church
in Tel Aviv.
Yes, I was a monk.
Now I'm a priest in this village.
Nice.
I always asked
why the Jews
have to stand out everywhere.
A beard, tassels, special clothes.
I ask not to offend you,
but to understand.
And you don't stand out...
But to answer your question,
we must wear a head covering and tassels
to remember there is a creator above.
I think that's..
Rabbi Yosef, no answer at taxi dispatch,
but I talked to the old lady,
she got us some guy
to take us in his car.
We have to go now.
Is everything alright?
Everything's just fine.
I think it's that Judaism latches on
to external things.
Christianity...
is the religion of the heart,
less concerned with external details.
Listen, we have to meet up with the guy
because in 20 minutes,
there will be no point in leaving.
We'll be stuck midway
after the Sabbath has begun.
Let's go.
-Just like I said.
All these minutiae,,
a minute here, a minute there.
The Sabbath was made for man's sake,
not for man's subjugation.
That's what the Lord said,
Mark, 2:27.
Let's go already.
-Hold on.
This'll be brief.
You've heard of Maimonides, right?
-Yes.
He wrote that the of faith
is above the reason
and the mind of man,
because the mind of man
can't understand it.
"We will do and we will listen."
Now, Maimonides wasn't against reason,
he was a physician,
a scientist, a philosopher.
Sb obviously if we follow our reason,
what's a minute hem,
a minute there?
It's all there to serve us, right?
And that's your perception,
of the Western world in general.
If I don't get something out of it,
it's not worth it."
It's all "me, me, me."
Take care.
If my good man
were to read the
he'd realize that...
that's not what the Lord was getting at.
The Lord said in the Sermon on the Mount,
"If your right eye causes you to stumble,
"gouge it out."
Is that all "me, me, me?"
We'll read it at home.
This guy's a quack. Let's go.
"A quack..."
I know that..
you're in a hurry,
so just a little something
Between man and his fellow,.
If you were courteous,
I'd take you in my car to Kiev,
free of charge, just a good Samaritan.
But I won't,
because I see that you are
stubborn and rude.
Well, you can see it
any way you want.
How does the verse go?
"Man looketh on the outward appearance
"but God looketh on the heart."
Samuel 16.
We observe based on the level we're at.
Good Sabbath.
-Good Sabbath.
That was some sanctification of God...
Yes. -Yes?
-Thank you.
Well?
I spoke to him.
In a few minutes, God willing,
we'll leave.
-Great, thank God.
Thank you.
Get on, soon we'll leave
Huh?
Sit, we'll leave Soon.
-Yes, yes, yes.
He wants us to sit here?
In order to observe the Sabbath,
it's okay to travel with pigs.
God created them too after all...
Why's to taking his time?
Another 10 minutes will be on point
What are we waiting for?
Soon we'll leave.
I'm waiting fur my pig.
Ah...
-What?
We're waiting for his friend
the big pig
and then we're off.
Wait a second.
What?
Take this.
Let's pay him.
Why?
-Pay him not to wait for the big pig.
It could take an hour.
Go to him
Hey, come here.
Listen.
I said I'm waiting for my pig.
No, please.
-No, I promised my godfather
I'd bring the pig to mate with the sows
Pay me 1,000 dollars,
we're still not going anywhere.
What?
We upset him.
The Jews only care about money.
He said we Jews
only care about money.
Some things can't be bought with money.
Anti-Semite...
Okay, Tzuberi
time's up, let's go
Two minutes
Isn't there a nearby town?
A synagogue, something?
-No
Thank you.
Thank you. -No... Keep it.
You gotta know how to get around.
What? Did I do something wrong?
You did everything wrong!
I can't even trust you
to get us a cab!
And this village with the archive,
why didn't you know it was burned down?
Two phone calls,
that's all it would have taken.
You brought me here
all the way from Israel
All day long, envelopes, envelopes.
Two phone calls!
Hello.
Yes.
Really?
Yes, I'll talk to you.
What?
Is everything alright?
My wife
-What?
She's late
Late for what?
Her cycle...
is late.
Her period?
Her period.
Four years,
she's never been late.
Congratulations, Rabbi Yosef.
But it means nothing yet,
she's just a little late.
God willing.
Since she's always on time,
like a Swiss clock, so I'm...
Something to look forward to.
God willing, the messiah will be born
Whatever comes will come,
as long as it comes.
Imagine that!
We've been waiting for 4 years
and it happens when I'm here.
Now you understand why
He didn't arrange a cab to Kiev?
So that you would see
that even in this hellhole
the Sabbath can be sweet,
sweet as it gets!
Rabbi Yosef...
"Oy yo yo...
Granny,
where can we find a place to sleep?
There's a hotel nearby.
-Where?
It's close,
Rabbi Nachman from Breslov
stayed there.
Rabbi Nachman?
Granny, slowly, please.
Alright.
The hotel is very old
Rabbi Nachman from Breslov
stayed there a long time ago.
Rabbi Nachman?
-Yes, yes, Rabbi Nachman.
Rabbi Nachman from Breslov?
-From Breslov, yes.
What did she say?
Come with me.
Rabbi Yosef,
she's taking us to a motel
that Rabbi Nachman from Breslov
stayed in for one night.
Don't tell me you're buying
her story.
Any motel you go to,
they'll tell you the same story,
all 20 of them.
This motel
is on the way to which town?
Is this a geography lesson?
On the way to Kamianets-Podilskyi.
And what happened on the way to Kamianets?
-What?
Our rabbi stopped there.
it's written in the memoir. Look.
Let's check out
If I tell you from Breslov to Kamianets...
Let's see, patience.
Here.
Here you go
on the way from Breslov
to Kamianets, no two ways about it.
He stayed at this motel
for one night.
He got up, got dressed,
got on the carriage and went to Kamianets
And there,
he confronted the dark side.
The apostate, Yakov Frank,
curse him
he informed on Jews
to the priests
and all the Jews were driven out.
I remember it vaguely.
-So 100 years later
our rabbi went there
to perform a tikkun,
to expel the evil dark side
so that the Jews could return
and live there.
And indeed,
one year later,
the Jews arrived.
200 years later,
who is going to the hotel
where our rabbi stayed?
We are, Rabbi Yosef.
We are!
Over there... -What?
That's the building. -Ah.
-Over there.
Thank you, Granny, thank you.
My pleasure.
-There's our motel, let's go...
We're stuck in this room
for the entire Sabbath?
We can observe the Sabbath here
without violating Jewish law,
it's enclosed, there's an access,
it's all good.
I, the Chabad envoy,
am prepared for every situation.
Challah for the Sabbath.
Wine, to recite the blessing.
We have it all.
We'll pray outside,
where Rabbi Nachman prayed,
you and me.
Look at this, Rabbi Yosef.
The water looks freezing to me.
No, it's wet freezing,
you know which lake
I once entered in Lvov?
Go. Rabbi,
you go in first
You do the honors,
like the great Nachshon.
You know that men
aren't obligated to immerse...
It's just a spiritual extra.
But what compensation did he get
for that extra?
Before Nachshon immersed,
he didn't have children.
One little dip and voila!
He had a son.
the messiah!
The father of the great great grandfather of King David!
Emotional blackmail, huh?
All will be well.
If you trust in the blessed God...
It's cold, Rabbi Yosef, it's cold!
Let's immerse...
Such sanctity, Rabbi Yosef!
Wow..
-Are you crazy?
What are you doing
What?
-Get out of there!
All the village sewage
flows into here. -What?
All the county poop flows into here.
Oh no.
Let’s get out of
"To meet the Sabbath, let us go
"For that is the source of blessing
"From the beginning, chosen before time
’’Last in deed, but in thought - prime."
An Ashkenazi woman will go
with an Ashkenazi man.
They have all of Europe.
Likewise, a Sephardi woman
will go with a Sephardi man.
Moroccan, Iraqi, Kurdish,
you name it.
What's the Yemenite got?
Yemen.
That's what the Yemenite women are for.
Why did God create Yemenite women...?
Where will you find a Yemenite woman
one who found religion
and a member of Chabad...?
And here, in the Ukraine?
Then go back to Israel.
You did your part.
At some point sacrifice
becomes stupidity,
watch out for that
You have one purpose
to marry, create a home and family.
What's bothering you?
Talk to me
Rabbi Scheinman,
my rabbi, the influencer,
do you know him?
What about him?
I talk to him every 3 days
for an hour or two over the phone.
He strengthens me.
If not for him, I would fall.
And what does he say?
-What does he say?
"What is meant ta happen will happen
"even in the North Pole."
Mg says that devotion
is the greatest thing there Is.
That there's no way
man isn't compensated.
But maybe I...
don't see the big picture.
I'm focused on myself,
me, me, me.
I look,
I see a little black dot on the wall.
I look up
It seem to me
the whole wall is black.
Maybe...
I don't see all His grace...
Maybe I have too little faith.
Because I...
there are people...
for whom everything comes hard.
There are people who...
I'm like that
"Like that?"
I'm gay.
I’m gay, Rabbi Yosef.
I thought if I strengthened my faith
it would leave me,
but it hasn't, you know?
This evil inclination is telling me
"It's okay,
"be who you are."
What woman would want
someone like me?
Someone living a lie
not being honest.
Who whenever he touches her
she knows that it's all a lie...
Who would want that?
Look. I can't fully understand you,
I won't lie
But one thing I do understand,,
you are battling a very tough war.
I don't know
if I could withstand this test.
What good does it do me?
Rabbi Yosef, what good does it to me?
Can't you see
I have no future?
I don't want this,
I don't want this.
Eden,
you have extreme merit,
more than me,
more than anymore
with normal inclinations,
and that's because
you're waging an endless war
You're in a constant war
against your inclination
And even when you fall,
like everyone does,
everyone falls,
you get up and keep fighting,
and that's the greatest virtue.
That's devotion.
Maybe that's what Rabbi Scheinman meant.
No...
he doesn't even know.
I didn't tell him.
What are they doing?
Those carrots are coming out of my ears.
Yes.
We should have gone to the market
before the Sabbath.
It had everything.
Fruit, vegetables...
and the pears, this big.
Oh, the pears...
-Here, taste our fruit
No... thank you.
-Why not?
They're delicious,
so sweet and fresh.
No.
-Thank you, Granny, thank you.
Enjoy.
Isn't this something?
Huh?
Like the Israelites in the desert.
Go on, freshly picked.
Put it down.
-Why?
It's okay to eat fruit
that a Gentile picked on the Sabbath.
What if she's not a Gentile?
Oh, came on
You're the one who said
she could be Jewish
I said one of her grandfather's grandfather
was Jewish.
Does that mean she's Jewish?
Come on, Rabbi Yosef.
What court would recognize her
as Jewish?
And if it's not the grandfather's grandfather?
What if it's the grand mother's grandmother?
No way she picked this maliciously,
she didn't know it's forbidden...
-It has nothing
to do with malice.
Even if she picked them...
She's Jewish, alright?
On the Sabbath
out of ignorance...
Okay
-We can only eat them
when the Sabbath is over.
It's a distinct code of Jewish law.
So even if you prove
she picked them maliciously,
we can only eat them
after the Sabbath.
Put it down.
-But...
Put it down,
we can't touch them.
What prove she's not Jewish?
How?
You'll go to the village archive?
We'll ask Granny herself
if she's Jewish.
That's your job, isn't it?
You prove illegitimacy
left's prove she's not Jewish.
I do it to unchain women,
not for some strawberries.
God sent us a miracle from heaven.
You want to throw away His miracle?
For the benefit of the doubt?
Let's honor our Creator
who sent us a miracle,
let's check it out.
Truth is,
it doesn't feel right,
questioning that woman.
But why?
If she's Jewish,
we discovered a Jewish soul
in this village.
The blessed God sent us here
to redeem her.
-And if she's not?
Then we have a basket of fruit
for the second Sabbath meal.
Let's ask her.
Come.
Let's see.
First of all,
ask her how she got the shop,
if she inherited it from her father,
her mother.
Okay.
Granny, if you don't mind,
whom did you get this shop
for church items from,
from your mother or your father?
From my father.
From her father
-Yes, I got that.
If it was from her mother
at least we'd know she's a Christian
and be spared the hassle.
Ask her if...
What is it?
Ask her where she got this from.
Granny, who gave you this?
Rabbi Nachman gave it to the mother
of my grandmother's grandmother.
What was that?
What did she say about
Rabbi Nachman?
She says that Rabbi Nachman gave this
to the mother of her grandmother's grandmother.
Rabbi Nachman?
-Yes, Rabbi Nachman.
Yes.
How did she get to him?
What was Grandmother doing
with Rabbi Nachman?
"Shabbas goy."
(Sabbath's Gentile).
Ah, a non-Jew performing tasks
forbidden to Jews on Sabbath.
Yes.
-Yes.
So the mother of her grandmother's grandmother
was Rabbi Nachman's "Shabbas goy."
"Shabbas goy."
But to give this to a Gentile...
there must be a good reason.
Ask her if she knows
why she got it.
Granny...
She says that the mother
of her grandmother's grandmother
was with Rabbi Nachman at the motel
and in the morning
he gave her this amulet.
Rabbi Yosef, should I ask
what she was doing there at night?
No, no.
We don't have to know it all.
Yes.
Look, it's well known
that on his way to Kamianets
the Rabbi was tested in terms of impurity.
It says so in the book of Rabbi Nathan,
from the lips of Rabbi Nachman.
Listen to me,
let's say it's true,
let's say she was with him at night,
you can't know what went on,
it's beyond your understanding.
And mine.
Yes, but...
-No buts...
What good will it do?
How will it benefit the public to know?
So he was with a Gentile woman
at a motel at night,
it will only result in unjustified hatred.
And you won't tell anyone,
not your friends, your family, no one.
I'm warning you.
-No, of course not.
Hey...
If the grandmother was a "Shabbas goy,"
then the old lady's a Gentile too, no?
Even you don't understand
what you're saying, do you?
What? -When a righteous man
is met with impurity, what does he do?
He purifies?
-That's right, thank you.
So when life with her,
what he do to her?
He purified her?
-He converted her to Judaism.
Maybe that night he converted her,
married her and divorced her.
We're talking about Rabbi Nachman...
Put that down.
Alright..
Yes, but...
if he married her
and converted her that night...
That's enough.
Maybe the old lady is the granddaughter
of the granddaughter of...
Drop it already.
Really, Tzuber, it's the Sabbath...
You know,
when our Rabbi got to Uman
he was very sick by then.
He would barely leave the house.
He played chess all the time.
People came from all over Uman
to play chess with him.
He was a brilliant player.
One day a Gentile was passing through,
this top official, for the Tzar, whatever,
he passed through there
on his way to Moscow
anti heard there's this man
who plays chess.
They set up the board,
all the Rabbi's students
sat around the table,
and they started to play.
This official moves a pawn,
the Rabbi takes out his pawn.
All the followers: "Wow!"
Just like a soccer match...
The official makes another move,
the Rabbi takes out a bishop, a knight.
He can tell he's about to win.
What will he do if he wins?
Maybe this official is crazy,
maybe he'll carry out a pogrom
against the Jews,
persecute them.
And if he loses?
That's bad too.
The students and followers are watching,
it's embarrassing.
What did he do?
He tricks him,
he gets up
and pretends to stumble and... bam!
Mazel Tov!
That's how they ended up in a tie.
I'll clean up...
-No, it's okay.
I'll pick it up...
You know, Rabbi Yosef,
I wish I knew how to play chess.
But when you're a kid,
all you care about is soccer.
Is this the marriage contract
of your Agunah?
Yes.
Believe me, I don't know
why a woman has to suffer like that.
It's all a lie.
Let's see...
Not her food, her raiment, her conjugal rights.
-I've never seen one before...
He made her miserable and bailed.
What's this?
I know him.
What? -I know the witness
who signed this contract,
Reuven Zefania.
If he's the Reuven I know,
this fat guy from Gilo,
there's an issue here.
What issue?
What does Jewish law say?
That the witness must be observant, right?
Even an ignoramus like me knows that.
And you don't think I checked?
With a fine-tooth comb.
Everything, he observes it all.
It's all a lie,
the yarmulke (head cover for men),
the prayers, all of it.
Fine, whatever.
What if I can prove it?
With him, there's something
that exceeds the Sabbath, exceeds it all.
What?
Beitar Jerusalem (soccer team).
Beitar Jerusalem?
-Yes.
We'd travel the whole country,
go to all the games,
Haifa, Netanya, Beer Sheva.
He had sidelocks at the time,
so we'd pick him up on the Sabbath
and he'd hide his yarmulke in his pocket,
put on a cap
and tuck in the sidelocks.
At the field,
don't ask, chaos.
When we'd take him back,
he'd get off on the corner,
toss the cap, put on the yarmulke
and go home.
Kids, what can you do?
You know what I did
when I was a kid?
Kids?
Two weeks ago,
a game at Bloomfield stadium,
on the Sabbath!
The game was on the Sabbath.
Beitar scored before halftime.
Who hurled a smoke grenade on the field?
Who?
Reuven Zefania?
-Reuven Zefania!
I can get you 10 people
who witnessed it.
The man is not God fearing,
not observant.
You can void the marriage contract,
you can unchain your Agunah!
Yes.
God loves you, Rabbi Yosef!
Reuven Zefania, an observant Jew,
yeah right...
Give me that.
Give it.
-This Sabbath...
Yes, what?
-You ordered taxi to airport?
We ordered taxi yesterday
for 4 to Kiev,
not for airport.
Are you...
Mr. Tzuberi?
Yes, Mr. Tzuberi.
I am looking you for...
for half an hour.
Luckily, a one old woman sent me here,
a holy woman.
What's this, Rabbi Yosef?
Did we go back in time to yesterday?
The man wants to take us to the airport?
Now?
Please.
Let's go.
No signal.
And my battery's about to die.
She deserves this.
Rabbi Yosef, when you get back,
call me.
With God's help,
only good news.
Amen, God willing.
I can
see it already.
When I get home,
I'll open the door..
If she hugs me,
that means she's late,
therefore she's premitted to touch me,
and 3 days late with her is...
unmistakable.
So if she doesn't hug you,
God forbid,
that means she got her period.
I got you, bro.
I hope it's good news.