Matir Agunot (2019–…): Season 1, Episode 9 - Episode #1.9 - full transcript
The revelations about Hannah leave both Yossef and Hanna hurt, but they continue to fight for their marriage.
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Hello. -Hello.
Are you Hannah?
Yes.
Then come on in.
Make yourself at home.
We're all here for you.
Is this your first time?
Yes.
So you're just starting out.
Make yourself at home,
We're all Anusim
(Orthodox Jews living a double life),
we're in the same situation.
How did it go?
How did what go?
The refuser, Bushari...
Did he sign the Gett?
(a Jewish bill of divorce)
No.
False alarm,
he didn't show up.
"Blessed are You, God, King of the universe,
who created everything with His word."
Yosef!
Are you alright?
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Joseph Madmony, Tamar Kay, and David Ofek
Look right.
Good, now left.
Do you see me clearly?
Everything's fine.
Five minutes and you can go.
Thank you.
See? We came here for nothing.
What are you doing with this?
Brother, you disappeared oh us. Hope you enjoyed
the movie. Cows again next week?”
What is it, Hannah?
You went there?
Brother, you disappeared oh us. Hope you enjoyed
the movie. Cows again next week?”
Yes.
Hannah!
"Where are you?"
"I'm sorry"
"I’m sorry"
"I didn't drift want it to be this way
"Forgive me for everything, it won't work.
We can't be together."
"We have to part."
"I love you..."
"but it won't work"
"I'm in another place
there’s no point in trying
"Love you"
Thank you.
So...
what is it exactly?
Doubts? Questions?
It’s more than doubts,
it’s major questions.
The Talmud is built on questions,
the thing is what you do
with those questions.
That's what I'm asking.
I understand..
you haven't met those people yet.
"Those people"?
They're like me. -Okay.
Everyone has doubts.
The most righteous man
has doubts sometimes.
This is beyond doubts.
It's deeds. Tm no longer observant.
Do you know anyone who
observes 613 commandments?
You think I observe
all the codes of Jewish law?
Right shoe, left shoe,
tie the right, tie the left?
I admit it.
I desecrate the Sabbath.
Since when?
Over a year.
I've desecrated the Sabbath
a few times.
Whenever you're not home.
I use my phone...
all kinds of things.
Do you keep kosher? -Yes.
I keep kosher.
So you eat kosher food?
Yes, but I don't wait
the allocated times.
If you did anything that made me
transgress, I want to know.
I didn't
Hannah, you have to be honest with me.
I am honest with you.
You decide whether
you believe me or not.
You've been going behind my back for a year,
how do you expect me to believe you?
What else?
How else does it affect your life?
What you're going through,
in terms of faith.
I mean..
beyond thought.
Forgive me.
I go to the movies.
Moves where men touch women.
I want to ask something of you.
Don't try to convince me that I'm wrong.
Would that be wrong?
Not a word?
-Convince me of what?
That there is a God? That he gave us
the Torah? -Alright...
please don’t disrespect the name
of God when I'm around.
I'm sorry.
I just don't understand...
when did it start?
Did something happen?
Can we do this tomorrow?
I want to go to bed.
I'll be right there.
Maybe we'll talk in bed.
Yes.
You put it in your wallet.
No, I was going to, but...
Here.
Here it is
-Yes?
It's this.
-That's the number.
No, no, no.
Thanks, Yosef, but not from here.
They'll see where the call is coming from,
they'll know I'm hiding here.
Tali, please,
that's going too far.
With connections
at the phone company
they can see where the call was made,
they can trace the location.
Why put this apartment
on their radar?
You don't want that.
-Yosef,
go outside and make the call.
I wanted you with me
when I spoke to them.
You need me for that?
We said you'd call them
and tell them to cut me a deal.
I don't want them to know
I'm with you.
As if they don't know
I'm calling for you...
These people aren't rational,
they're all about respect
I don't know what will tick them off.
It's best they don't know I'm with you.
Yosef, you don't know these people.
Fine, I'll call later.
How much money
are we even talking about?
Half a million.
-Half a million...
And be careful,
these are major criminals, Yosef.
I appreciate this, so does Gili.
Sure thing.
I'll call and let you know.
But he has to sell the jeep.
I'm sending you a link
to the forum of the Anusim.
It's called "Therefore chose freedom."
Read what I wrote.
My name there is Anima"
I wean,
that's my nickname on the forum.
There's something about
religion that I love.
The rituals, the sense of family.
there was a time I thought
I could live in this world and not believe.
Do it all and not believe.
I'm not very clear, I know.
Well, this is my first post.
I've been here for a year and...
it's the first time I'm writing
So please,
be gentle with the comments.
Orbach brought his goods.
Put this up there.
I love this world, I do.
It's a form of paradise.
But I look back on an my life
and I realize I tried,
deluding myself time after time
that I can stay here.
I guess I can't.
I'm suffocating.
I can't take it anymore.
Like someone who needs air.
If I stay here, I'll die.
I'll choke.
That's the answer to
why I can't stay here.
This is a prison.
Even if it's beautiful,
it's a prison.
The counter needs dusting.
Okay.
I'm sorry,
I really don't understand why.
I don't want
the last thing
that woman hears in here life
to be the awful things
I'll tell her about her son.
On the contrary.
It's telling the mother the truth:
"Ma'am, your son abuses his wife."
It's giving her a chance
to do a good deed before she dies.
And I believe that God is so wise,
so able to contain all the options,
that he will grant her that deed
without me doing this to her.
Look who's here!
I'm honored!
How are you?
Thank God.
I spoke to Yogev.
He just got back from overseas...
and he agreed to grant
your young woman a Gett.
His woman.
I didn't even have to..
argue with him, that stubborn man.
That's great. Thank you, Galia,
I really appreciate it.
I just have one question...
Did you tell Yogev
that I spoke to you?
What's the difference? He agreed.
Liat, for all kinds of reason,
mustn't know that I was here.
I can't go into it now.
That's why I prefer
that Yogev not know.
A true romance novel...
Don't worry.
My lips are sealed
to the grave.
Hello, Auntie.
In any case..
a chapter of Psalms a day
can't hurt.
Nothing can hurt.
Your cellphone.
Galia, how are you?
Ah.
Thank you.
Do you remember me?
Rina and Amos's son, Yoni.
-Hello.
I know how much he loves me.
Very much.
Why not tell him?
Because he loves his world,
he's happy there,
he has status,
his work is exciting.
He loves it,
he believes in what he does.
Action and prayers.
Studying at the Yeshiva
and sitting in restaurants
with secular men.
And women.
He can't leave that world.
He'd die outside that world.
What would he do
in the secular world?
Be a driver? A delivery man?
Then what for?
Why ruin it for him?
What good will it do for him to know?
It will just cause him pain.
90% is the propaganda of frustrated people.
What are they hiding from?
They're the dangerous ones.
Tzipi Friedman is one of the Anusim.
Who?
Tzipi Friedman,
wife of Eliezer Friedman
from your Yeshiva.
What?
How am I supposed to look him in the eye?
Does he know about her?
He's with her.
Who?
Eliezer Friedman is also...
One of the Anusim.
-Really?
Yes, he joined her.
He comes to the gatherings with her.
She talked to him about it.
He admitted to her
that he hasn't been a believer
for several years now,
he just didn't do anything about it
and it progressed from there.
Now they're both Anusim.
-Can't be.
He's so strict.
You know how he prays?
Yes, Tzipi and I talk about it often,
how this pretense comes naturally to him,
all the...
motions when he prays...
He doesn't even feel guilty.
She does sometimes.
We meet for coffee once a week and talk.
Kosher, glatt (strict standard of of kashrut).
So she influenced you?
She's good at that.
Stop telling yourself stories.
You know what?
You're right.
It's my fault. Once you bring this
into your home, anything can happen
even to the most righteous person.
-It has nothing to do with the smartphone.
How can it not, Hannah?
Don't you see?
It's all part of the same thing!
The forum, the Anusim, Tzipi.
I've been in this for a year.
Eight months before the smartphone.
Hannah, everyone has thoughts,
even the most righteous man.
-Stop.
Enough with "the most righteous man!"
-But it's true, Hanke!
This device makes thoughts a reality.
It turns thought into action.
There are also nice things in it
That's just it.
You can read the Sages,
Kabbalah, ethics,
it's the biggest library in the world.
You convince yourself
that you're using it for that.
But all that good is only designed
ta draw you in.
The greatest hero will ultimately fall.
Don't you mean "the most righteous?”
Yes...
I didn't want to repeat myself.
Can I show you something
I wrote forum?
Yes...
Everyone says:
"It's the smartphone, the smartphone..."
One year before the smartphone
I would go to Internet cafés,
I started desecrating the
before I had a cellphone.
I was touching myself at night before.
The first time happened when
my husband and I stopped trying.
I think it all started there,
from the first time I touched myself.
I did it in the bedroom
when my husband was in the shower,
he'd return to the room
and be none the wiser.
I would look at him and imagine
what he would do if he knew.
Problems in sexual relations
will bring on the revolution,
not the smartphone.
What's it like being
with secular woman?
You’re not secular.
-I am.
I'm secular.
Very.
My condolences...
Hello.
-Hello. -Hello.
I was sad to hear about Galia.
-Yes.
Do you know where they're sitting Shiva
(Seven days of mourning)?
I don't know if there will be a Shiva.
Do you think there will be a Shiva?
At her apartment.
It will only be two days
because her son, Yogev,
has to return abroad, so.„
I see.
-It will be short.
I don't want to get in the way,
do you know the address?
3 Hahatzavim Street
Hahotzvim.
Yes. -Take care.
-Take care.
Hello.
Are you sure you're in the right place?
This is Galia Rosen.
Yes. My condolences.
My mother's secret lover.
Would you like something to drink?
-No, thank you.
Could I talk to you in private?
Sure.
In the kitchen.
I'll be right back.
I was very sorry to hear
about your mother.
I heard good things about her.
Tell me...
why are you here?
As you can guess,
I'm from the rabbinate.
I came to finalize the Gett with Liat.
Are you for real?
This must be a very hard time for you.
And I think...
this is a good opportunity to get closure.
Okay.
I'll keep you posted.
I mean,
the people here
knew her and loved her
and want to talk about her so...
Yogev, please...
give it some thought.
I'm sure your mother would be pleased
if you gave her a Gett.
I don't think so.
She was never very interested
in this issue.
Maybe,
but you can't be sure.
-I can't be sure of anything.
And even it you’re right
and I’m wrong,
it doesn't matter to her now.
Liat won't pay you a dime,
You know that?
Then we'll stay married.
Action will be taken against you...
No driver's license,
stay of exit order, seized bank accounts...
Let's wait 4-5 years
until all those sanctions are in place
and see who breaks first.
These negotiations are over.
Now...
if you don't mind,
get the hell out of my mother's house,
who, by the way, hated rabbis
and so do I.
Why...
are you being like this?
We're not bad people.
I'll tell you something.
Most secular people you know
are not really secular.
They go to synagogue in the High Holidays,
celebrate Passover,
they're secretly religious.
Our family took secularism
one step further.
We believe that religion
is bullshit.
We believe that
the a religious perception of the world
is stupid and dangerous,
just like...
Fascism.
So I hate Fascists
and religious people.
No offense.
Please, be on your way.
I know your mother asked you to do it.
How can you be so sure?
She told me. I saw her.
Wow.
Now that I'd never believe.
And I know you promised her
you'd do it.
Wow.
You have no limits, huh?
Going to a dying woman.
It's not something I enjoy.
Of course not.
You had to...
From the rabbinate...
Let me tell you something.
All of last week
I had one purpose,
to make sure my mother doesn't suffer,
and had she asked me
to tap dance naked in public
I would have,
but now that she's dead,
I don't have to keep that promise.
It's not that she's actually watching me
from some cloud.
Perhaps.
No one can say where she is now.
Hold on.
Mom.
Here, inside
I'm going to scatter her
over some Greek island she loved.
Kalamos.
She lived there for five years.
And now
relieve us of your presence.
It won't happen today.
I got my period.
You can separate the beds.
You don't have to.
And then what?
No purity, nothing?
Is this how we'll live our lives?
You asked me what pushed me away?
I's these rules.
Purity, impurity,
seven days clean.
For a third of my life I'm impure
maybe even more,
if there's spotting.
Something in his voice changes,
like I'm someone to take pity on.
Like a diseased person
who could infect him.
When he's like this,
I feel like slapping him hard.
Why is it he can be
tired, not tired,
happy, sad?
So sometimes I have my period,
sometimes I don't.
I'm still the same me.
It's still my body.
How can my body
render him impure?
My husband will survive it,
my father won't.
I can't do this to him.
As long as he's alive,
I won't have the courage to get out.
Not again, damn elevator.
It's every other day!
We don't need an elevator?
What are we, some big athletes?
Let me help you with your satchel.
-No need.
When we get up
we'll forget we were down.
Good day.
Good day, Rabbi.
"Rabbi?"
Aaron.
Rabbi Aaron.
Done.
You managing? -Yeah.
Sugar?
No, thank you.
A rabbi who doesn't take sugar?
Okay.
Shall we get down to business?
What business?
He talks, you listen.
Sure.
He wants the base sum in two weeks,
half a million.
The interest can be paid in installments.
The entire base sum, in two weeks.
Two weeks is a lot.
Your family lives in Pardes Katz, right?
-Yes.
We moved there in '82 from Jerusalem.
So you know who Yochai Yefet is.
Yes.
Another thing, Rabbi,
once I've talked to you
you're my debtor,
just like your sister and her husband.
Good day.
Wait...
let's recite a blessing.
What?
We just ate bread,
let us bless Him
"of whose bounty we have eaten."
2-3 minutes, no more.
"For the Leader with string music,
God be gracious unto us and bless us
God be gracious unto us and bless us,
Let the people give thanks to God,
"Let the nations be glad for Thou will judge
with equity and lead the nations upon earth."
What a mistake,
sending him to them!
What can I say? You were right.
-Him of all people.
Didn't I tell you?
I thought
they'd show a rabbi some respect.
-Fine.
I told you, only Reuven.
You were right.
They brushed him off.
Okay, listen you two,
you've been in hiding for a month,
one meeting with me and the ball is rolling.
You should have agreed on a fixed sum,
that's what she's saying.
-I "should have" Mom?
These are criminals we're talking about.
Alright, Yosef,
I don't mean to..
you see I'm stressed out.
Calm down... -I'm freaking out
for Gili, the kids.
My whole life
I'll hate myself
for not going to Reuven,
my whole life.
-Mom, shush.
Maybe he can still help.
Maybe you can still help, Yosef.
How?
Talk to Uncle Shimon.
Ask him if he can give us
600,000 right now,
then we won't have all the interest.
Tell him it's a loan, not a gift.
Tali, he could die any minute,
it's not a loan...
I know,
but you have to say it's a loan.
Yes.
I don't think he'll give that sum.
Even before you tried?
With that attitude he won't
give it to you. Be positive. -Sure.
Go to him on Friday night,
do the Kiddush...
Go with Hannah.
Exactly.
-Okay, fine.
I'll go, I'll be positive.
He'll go...
-I still think
it's best you go.
With everything you've been through,
all that fear, take Tom with you,
it’s better than sending a messenger.
And I say it's not.
You think I like begging you?
Does she like begging you?
Then why send me, not you?
Yosef, you don't want to talk to him,
then say so.
I know what will happen.
-Fine...
I'll fail
and then who will you blame?
I can tell already.
You see? -I can tell. -What did I tell you?
-That's enough, Yosef,
acting like an Ashkenazi now?
"You'll blame me..."
-That's what it's about.
So you don't blame me?
Who blamed you?!
-Really?
I dropped everything I was doing,
yes, I have tons of cases,
I risk my life with those people...
and this is what I get
"I risk my life," please...
Oh yeah?
Would Reuven have done better?
-God help me. -Tell me.
They threatened me too!
Okay, I got you.
-What did you get?!
That you want to keep it all for yourself.
Why look out for me? -What are you talking about?
-"What are you talking about?"
You got your eye on Uncle Shimon's inheritance.
-Inheritance? That disgusting hellhole?
You take it,
I don't want it, take my share.
-I wasn't born yesterday, Yosef,
the streets of this town are a university
compared to your stinkin' Yeshiva.
What do you want from me?
Nothing.
What do you want from me?
-Nothing.
Is it my fault you didn't study?
Who the fuck cares that you studied?!
Watch your mouth.
Big man.
-Lower your voice.
Cut the crap.
I know about the house in Neve Tzedek!
You think I don't know?
Please... -That's enough.
-A hellhole.
A house in Neve Tzedek!
Who do you think you're fooling?
10 million at least!
Damn you
You think I don't know?
I heard Dad talking to you
in the hospital
just before he died!
I was behind the door,
I heard every word.
Tell Mom what he said!
What did he say to you?
Tell her!
Be nice to Uncle Shimon
because he has
a house in Neve Tzedek
and no one should know but you.
Did he say that or not?
His silence says it all.
No more!
Looking all saintly
with his yarmulke and beard.
I'll talk to him, Tali.
Don't do me any favors.
I'll ask him,
I'll do whatever I can,
alright?
But I'm telling you you have it all wrong.
-Fine.
"Blessed are You, God,
King of the universe,
"who sanctified us with the commandment
of lighting Sabbath candles."
Thank you.
What?
I'll wait for you at synagogue?
-Yes.
Come with the pot,
we'll go to him from there.
Good Sabbath.
Good Sabbath.
Is she allowed to do that?
What, the dishes?
-Yes, it's the Sabbaths..
If they'll be used tomorrow,
then it's okay.
Tali came to see me.
Don't ask what she did to me.
She screamed at me so hard.
She told me that the property
belongs to your family. All yours.
You know how hard she yelled at me?
She almost hit me!
All the dishes are clean.
There's a plastic brush
with gaps between the bristles,
so no fear of pressing out of liquid.
Woman of valor.
"A woman of valor who can find?"
You know I really miss
the old-time prayers
not the blessings.
I've been to a reform synagogue,
but it's not the same.
If you miss it,
then just come.
We invited you several times.
Come where?
Wherever you like.
-Oh, to synagogue with my boyfriend?
To my family?
I didn't leave Pardes Katz,
Pardes Katz made me leave.
-How?
Since the age of 14
I've known
that I'm gay.
You know what it's like
being a gay kid in Pardes Katz?
It's a death sentence.
I tried to kill myself three times.
What's wrong?
What?
What happened?
You spoiled us with the food.
It was great. -Yes.
-Your food
was so delicious
-You liked it? -Yes.
I'm glad.
-So, so, so tasty.
But...
a small comment,
if I may.
Next time cook the roast
with butter,
it makes it more tender.
Tastier.
Let's sit down.
Why were you angry?
When I was...
8, 9, 10...
I was addicted to Crembo
(chocolate coated marshmallows).
Addicted.
There's no other word for it.
If I had one shekel
I'd spend it on a Krembo,
or ask the sales clerk
put it on my tab.
One day my dad took me
to the grocery store
and bought me a Krembo.
Why? I don't know,
but who cares?
I'm eating it
and he asks me:
"You want another Krembo?
I was surprised,
but how can I say no to Krembo?
"Yes, please."
And I ate the Krembo.
He buys me one after the other
and I ate them all.
I think I ate 20,
I swear,
and I was so stuffed,
my stomach felt like concrete.
I thought, if I eat one more
something will happen to me.
So I shoved another one in...
I vomited my guts out, Hannah.
Not ordinary vomit,
it was disgusting, with chunks.
That was that.
Since then I can't look at a Krembo.
If I see a Krembo, I get nauseous.
Are you saying I can be secular
and do what I want
till it comes out of my ears?
What if it doesn't?
Then it doesn't.
You want a Krembo?
Have one,
as long as I don't know about it.
If it goes away, good.
If not...
your loss.
For some reason I crave a Krembo...
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Hello. -Hello.
Are you Hannah?
Yes.
Then come on in.
Make yourself at home.
We're all here for you.
Is this your first time?
Yes.
So you're just starting out.
Make yourself at home,
We're all Anusim
(Orthodox Jews living a double life),
we're in the same situation.
How did it go?
How did what go?
The refuser, Bushari...
Did he sign the Gett?
(a Jewish bill of divorce)
No.
False alarm,
he didn't show up.
"Blessed are You, God, King of the universe,
who created everything with His word."
Yosef!
Are you alright?
"Unchained" Created by
Joseph Madmony, Tamar Kay, and David Ofek
Look right.
Good, now left.
Do you see me clearly?
Everything's fine.
Five minutes and you can go.
Thank you.
See? We came here for nothing.
What are you doing with this?
Brother, you disappeared oh us. Hope you enjoyed
the movie. Cows again next week?”
What is it, Hannah?
You went there?
Brother, you disappeared oh us. Hope you enjoyed
the movie. Cows again next week?”
Yes.
Hannah!
"Where are you?"
"I'm sorry"
"I’m sorry"
"I didn't drift want it to be this way
"Forgive me for everything, it won't work.
We can't be together."
"We have to part."
"I love you..."
"but it won't work"
"I'm in another place
there’s no point in trying
"Love you"
Thank you.
So...
what is it exactly?
Doubts? Questions?
It’s more than doubts,
it’s major questions.
The Talmud is built on questions,
the thing is what you do
with those questions.
That's what I'm asking.
I understand..
you haven't met those people yet.
"Those people"?
They're like me. -Okay.
Everyone has doubts.
The most righteous man
has doubts sometimes.
This is beyond doubts.
It's deeds. Tm no longer observant.
Do you know anyone who
observes 613 commandments?
You think I observe
all the codes of Jewish law?
Right shoe, left shoe,
tie the right, tie the left?
I admit it.
I desecrate the Sabbath.
Since when?
Over a year.
I've desecrated the Sabbath
a few times.
Whenever you're not home.
I use my phone...
all kinds of things.
Do you keep kosher? -Yes.
I keep kosher.
So you eat kosher food?
Yes, but I don't wait
the allocated times.
If you did anything that made me
transgress, I want to know.
I didn't
Hannah, you have to be honest with me.
I am honest with you.
You decide whether
you believe me or not.
You've been going behind my back for a year,
how do you expect me to believe you?
What else?
How else does it affect your life?
What you're going through,
in terms of faith.
I mean..
beyond thought.
Forgive me.
I go to the movies.
Moves where men touch women.
I want to ask something of you.
Don't try to convince me that I'm wrong.
Would that be wrong?
Not a word?
-Convince me of what?
That there is a God? That he gave us
the Torah? -Alright...
please don’t disrespect the name
of God when I'm around.
I'm sorry.
I just don't understand...
when did it start?
Did something happen?
Can we do this tomorrow?
I want to go to bed.
I'll be right there.
Maybe we'll talk in bed.
Yes.
You put it in your wallet.
No, I was going to, but...
Here.
Here it is
-Yes?
It's this.
-That's the number.
No, no, no.
Thanks, Yosef, but not from here.
They'll see where the call is coming from,
they'll know I'm hiding here.
Tali, please,
that's going too far.
With connections
at the phone company
they can see where the call was made,
they can trace the location.
Why put this apartment
on their radar?
You don't want that.
-Yosef,
go outside and make the call.
I wanted you with me
when I spoke to them.
You need me for that?
We said you'd call them
and tell them to cut me a deal.
I don't want them to know
I'm with you.
As if they don't know
I'm calling for you...
These people aren't rational,
they're all about respect
I don't know what will tick them off.
It's best they don't know I'm with you.
Yosef, you don't know these people.
Fine, I'll call later.
How much money
are we even talking about?
Half a million.
-Half a million...
And be careful,
these are major criminals, Yosef.
I appreciate this, so does Gili.
Sure thing.
I'll call and let you know.
But he has to sell the jeep.
I'm sending you a link
to the forum of the Anusim.
It's called "Therefore chose freedom."
Read what I wrote.
My name there is Anima"
I wean,
that's my nickname on the forum.
There's something about
religion that I love.
The rituals, the sense of family.
there was a time I thought
I could live in this world and not believe.
Do it all and not believe.
I'm not very clear, I know.
Well, this is my first post.
I've been here for a year and...
it's the first time I'm writing
So please,
be gentle with the comments.
Orbach brought his goods.
Put this up there.
I love this world, I do.
It's a form of paradise.
But I look back on an my life
and I realize I tried,
deluding myself time after time
that I can stay here.
I guess I can't.
I'm suffocating.
I can't take it anymore.
Like someone who needs air.
If I stay here, I'll die.
I'll choke.
That's the answer to
why I can't stay here.
This is a prison.
Even if it's beautiful,
it's a prison.
The counter needs dusting.
Okay.
I'm sorry,
I really don't understand why.
I don't want
the last thing
that woman hears in here life
to be the awful things
I'll tell her about her son.
On the contrary.
It's telling the mother the truth:
"Ma'am, your son abuses his wife."
It's giving her a chance
to do a good deed before she dies.
And I believe that God is so wise,
so able to contain all the options,
that he will grant her that deed
without me doing this to her.
Look who's here!
I'm honored!
How are you?
Thank God.
I spoke to Yogev.
He just got back from overseas...
and he agreed to grant
your young woman a Gett.
His woman.
I didn't even have to..
argue with him, that stubborn man.
That's great. Thank you, Galia,
I really appreciate it.
I just have one question...
Did you tell Yogev
that I spoke to you?
What's the difference? He agreed.
Liat, for all kinds of reason,
mustn't know that I was here.
I can't go into it now.
That's why I prefer
that Yogev not know.
A true romance novel...
Don't worry.
My lips are sealed
to the grave.
Hello, Auntie.
In any case..
a chapter of Psalms a day
can't hurt.
Nothing can hurt.
Your cellphone.
Galia, how are you?
Ah.
Thank you.
Do you remember me?
Rina and Amos's son, Yoni.
-Hello.
I know how much he loves me.
Very much.
Why not tell him?
Because he loves his world,
he's happy there,
he has status,
his work is exciting.
He loves it,
he believes in what he does.
Action and prayers.
Studying at the Yeshiva
and sitting in restaurants
with secular men.
And women.
He can't leave that world.
He'd die outside that world.
What would he do
in the secular world?
Be a driver? A delivery man?
Then what for?
Why ruin it for him?
What good will it do for him to know?
It will just cause him pain.
90% is the propaganda of frustrated people.
What are they hiding from?
They're the dangerous ones.
Tzipi Friedman is one of the Anusim.
Who?
Tzipi Friedman,
wife of Eliezer Friedman
from your Yeshiva.
What?
How am I supposed to look him in the eye?
Does he know about her?
He's with her.
Who?
Eliezer Friedman is also...
One of the Anusim.
-Really?
Yes, he joined her.
He comes to the gatherings with her.
She talked to him about it.
He admitted to her
that he hasn't been a believer
for several years now,
he just didn't do anything about it
and it progressed from there.
Now they're both Anusim.
-Can't be.
He's so strict.
You know how he prays?
Yes, Tzipi and I talk about it often,
how this pretense comes naturally to him,
all the...
motions when he prays...
He doesn't even feel guilty.
She does sometimes.
We meet for coffee once a week and talk.
Kosher, glatt (strict standard of of kashrut).
So she influenced you?
She's good at that.
Stop telling yourself stories.
You know what?
You're right.
It's my fault. Once you bring this
into your home, anything can happen
even to the most righteous person.
-It has nothing to do with the smartphone.
How can it not, Hannah?
Don't you see?
It's all part of the same thing!
The forum, the Anusim, Tzipi.
I've been in this for a year.
Eight months before the smartphone.
Hannah, everyone has thoughts,
even the most righteous man.
-Stop.
Enough with "the most righteous man!"
-But it's true, Hanke!
This device makes thoughts a reality.
It turns thought into action.
There are also nice things in it
That's just it.
You can read the Sages,
Kabbalah, ethics,
it's the biggest library in the world.
You convince yourself
that you're using it for that.
But all that good is only designed
ta draw you in.
The greatest hero will ultimately fall.
Don't you mean "the most righteous?”
Yes...
I didn't want to repeat myself.
Can I show you something
I wrote forum?
Yes...
Everyone says:
"It's the smartphone, the smartphone..."
One year before the smartphone
I would go to Internet cafés,
I started desecrating the
before I had a cellphone.
I was touching myself at night before.
The first time happened when
my husband and I stopped trying.
I think it all started there,
from the first time I touched myself.
I did it in the bedroom
when my husband was in the shower,
he'd return to the room
and be none the wiser.
I would look at him and imagine
what he would do if he knew.
Problems in sexual relations
will bring on the revolution,
not the smartphone.
What's it like being
with secular woman?
You’re not secular.
-I am.
I'm secular.
Very.
My condolences...
Hello.
-Hello. -Hello.
I was sad to hear about Galia.
-Yes.
Do you know where they're sitting Shiva
(Seven days of mourning)?
I don't know if there will be a Shiva.
Do you think there will be a Shiva?
At her apartment.
It will only be two days
because her son, Yogev,
has to return abroad, so.„
I see.
-It will be short.
I don't want to get in the way,
do you know the address?
3 Hahatzavim Street
Hahotzvim.
Yes. -Take care.
-Take care.
Hello.
Are you sure you're in the right place?
This is Galia Rosen.
Yes. My condolences.
My mother's secret lover.
Would you like something to drink?
-No, thank you.
Could I talk to you in private?
Sure.
In the kitchen.
I'll be right back.
I was very sorry to hear
about your mother.
I heard good things about her.
Tell me...
why are you here?
As you can guess,
I'm from the rabbinate.
I came to finalize the Gett with Liat.
Are you for real?
This must be a very hard time for you.
And I think...
this is a good opportunity to get closure.
Okay.
I'll keep you posted.
I mean,
the people here
knew her and loved her
and want to talk about her so...
Yogev, please...
give it some thought.
I'm sure your mother would be pleased
if you gave her a Gett.
I don't think so.
She was never very interested
in this issue.
Maybe,
but you can't be sure.
-I can't be sure of anything.
And even it you’re right
and I’m wrong,
it doesn't matter to her now.
Liat won't pay you a dime,
You know that?
Then we'll stay married.
Action will be taken against you...
No driver's license,
stay of exit order, seized bank accounts...
Let's wait 4-5 years
until all those sanctions are in place
and see who breaks first.
These negotiations are over.
Now...
if you don't mind,
get the hell out of my mother's house,
who, by the way, hated rabbis
and so do I.
Why...
are you being like this?
We're not bad people.
I'll tell you something.
Most secular people you know
are not really secular.
They go to synagogue in the High Holidays,
celebrate Passover,
they're secretly religious.
Our family took secularism
one step further.
We believe that religion
is bullshit.
We believe that
the a religious perception of the world
is stupid and dangerous,
just like...
Fascism.
So I hate Fascists
and religious people.
No offense.
Please, be on your way.
I know your mother asked you to do it.
How can you be so sure?
She told me. I saw her.
Wow.
Now that I'd never believe.
And I know you promised her
you'd do it.
Wow.
You have no limits, huh?
Going to a dying woman.
It's not something I enjoy.
Of course not.
You had to...
From the rabbinate...
Let me tell you something.
All of last week
I had one purpose,
to make sure my mother doesn't suffer,
and had she asked me
to tap dance naked in public
I would have,
but now that she's dead,
I don't have to keep that promise.
It's not that she's actually watching me
from some cloud.
Perhaps.
No one can say where she is now.
Hold on.
Mom.
Here, inside
I'm going to scatter her
over some Greek island she loved.
Kalamos.
She lived there for five years.
And now
relieve us of your presence.
It won't happen today.
I got my period.
You can separate the beds.
You don't have to.
And then what?
No purity, nothing?
Is this how we'll live our lives?
You asked me what pushed me away?
I's these rules.
Purity, impurity,
seven days clean.
For a third of my life I'm impure
maybe even more,
if there's spotting.
Something in his voice changes,
like I'm someone to take pity on.
Like a diseased person
who could infect him.
When he's like this,
I feel like slapping him hard.
Why is it he can be
tired, not tired,
happy, sad?
So sometimes I have my period,
sometimes I don't.
I'm still the same me.
It's still my body.
How can my body
render him impure?
My husband will survive it,
my father won't.
I can't do this to him.
As long as he's alive,
I won't have the courage to get out.
Not again, damn elevator.
It's every other day!
We don't need an elevator?
What are we, some big athletes?
Let me help you with your satchel.
-No need.
When we get up
we'll forget we were down.
Good day.
Good day, Rabbi.
"Rabbi?"
Aaron.
Rabbi Aaron.
Done.
You managing? -Yeah.
Sugar?
No, thank you.
A rabbi who doesn't take sugar?
Okay.
Shall we get down to business?
What business?
He talks, you listen.
Sure.
He wants the base sum in two weeks,
half a million.
The interest can be paid in installments.
The entire base sum, in two weeks.
Two weeks is a lot.
Your family lives in Pardes Katz, right?
-Yes.
We moved there in '82 from Jerusalem.
So you know who Yochai Yefet is.
Yes.
Another thing, Rabbi,
once I've talked to you
you're my debtor,
just like your sister and her husband.
Good day.
Wait...
let's recite a blessing.
What?
We just ate bread,
let us bless Him
"of whose bounty we have eaten."
2-3 minutes, no more.
"For the Leader with string music,
God be gracious unto us and bless us
God be gracious unto us and bless us,
Let the people give thanks to God,
"Let the nations be glad for Thou will judge
with equity and lead the nations upon earth."
What a mistake,
sending him to them!
What can I say? You were right.
-Him of all people.
Didn't I tell you?
I thought
they'd show a rabbi some respect.
-Fine.
I told you, only Reuven.
You were right.
They brushed him off.
Okay, listen you two,
you've been in hiding for a month,
one meeting with me and the ball is rolling.
You should have agreed on a fixed sum,
that's what she's saying.
-I "should have" Mom?
These are criminals we're talking about.
Alright, Yosef,
I don't mean to..
you see I'm stressed out.
Calm down... -I'm freaking out
for Gili, the kids.
My whole life
I'll hate myself
for not going to Reuven,
my whole life.
-Mom, shush.
Maybe he can still help.
Maybe you can still help, Yosef.
How?
Talk to Uncle Shimon.
Ask him if he can give us
600,000 right now,
then we won't have all the interest.
Tell him it's a loan, not a gift.
Tali, he could die any minute,
it's not a loan...
I know,
but you have to say it's a loan.
Yes.
I don't think he'll give that sum.
Even before you tried?
With that attitude he won't
give it to you. Be positive. -Sure.
Go to him on Friday night,
do the Kiddush...
Go with Hannah.
Exactly.
-Okay, fine.
I'll go, I'll be positive.
He'll go...
-I still think
it's best you go.
With everything you've been through,
all that fear, take Tom with you,
it’s better than sending a messenger.
And I say it's not.
You think I like begging you?
Does she like begging you?
Then why send me, not you?
Yosef, you don't want to talk to him,
then say so.
I know what will happen.
-Fine...
I'll fail
and then who will you blame?
I can tell already.
You see? -I can tell. -What did I tell you?
-That's enough, Yosef,
acting like an Ashkenazi now?
"You'll blame me..."
-That's what it's about.
So you don't blame me?
Who blamed you?!
-Really?
I dropped everything I was doing,
yes, I have tons of cases,
I risk my life with those people...
and this is what I get
"I risk my life," please...
Oh yeah?
Would Reuven have done better?
-God help me. -Tell me.
They threatened me too!
Okay, I got you.
-What did you get?!
That you want to keep it all for yourself.
Why look out for me? -What are you talking about?
-"What are you talking about?"
You got your eye on Uncle Shimon's inheritance.
-Inheritance? That disgusting hellhole?
You take it,
I don't want it, take my share.
-I wasn't born yesterday, Yosef,
the streets of this town are a university
compared to your stinkin' Yeshiva.
What do you want from me?
Nothing.
What do you want from me?
-Nothing.
Is it my fault you didn't study?
Who the fuck cares that you studied?!
Watch your mouth.
Big man.
-Lower your voice.
Cut the crap.
I know about the house in Neve Tzedek!
You think I don't know?
Please... -That's enough.
-A hellhole.
A house in Neve Tzedek!
Who do you think you're fooling?
10 million at least!
Damn you
You think I don't know?
I heard Dad talking to you
in the hospital
just before he died!
I was behind the door,
I heard every word.
Tell Mom what he said!
What did he say to you?
Tell her!
Be nice to Uncle Shimon
because he has
a house in Neve Tzedek
and no one should know but you.
Did he say that or not?
His silence says it all.
No more!
Looking all saintly
with his yarmulke and beard.
I'll talk to him, Tali.
Don't do me any favors.
I'll ask him,
I'll do whatever I can,
alright?
But I'm telling you you have it all wrong.
-Fine.
"Blessed are You, God,
King of the universe,
"who sanctified us with the commandment
of lighting Sabbath candles."
Thank you.
What?
I'll wait for you at synagogue?
-Yes.
Come with the pot,
we'll go to him from there.
Good Sabbath.
Good Sabbath.
Is she allowed to do that?
What, the dishes?
-Yes, it's the Sabbaths..
If they'll be used tomorrow,
then it's okay.
Tali came to see me.
Don't ask what she did to me.
She screamed at me so hard.
She told me that the property
belongs to your family. All yours.
You know how hard she yelled at me?
She almost hit me!
All the dishes are clean.
There's a plastic brush
with gaps between the bristles,
so no fear of pressing out of liquid.
Woman of valor.
"A woman of valor who can find?"
You know I really miss
the old-time prayers
not the blessings.
I've been to a reform synagogue,
but it's not the same.
If you miss it,
then just come.
We invited you several times.
Come where?
Wherever you like.
-Oh, to synagogue with my boyfriend?
To my family?
I didn't leave Pardes Katz,
Pardes Katz made me leave.
-How?
Since the age of 14
I've known
that I'm gay.
You know what it's like
being a gay kid in Pardes Katz?
It's a death sentence.
I tried to kill myself three times.
What's wrong?
What?
What happened?
You spoiled us with the food.
It was great. -Yes.
-Your food
was so delicious
-You liked it? -Yes.
I'm glad.
-So, so, so tasty.
But...
a small comment,
if I may.
Next time cook the roast
with butter,
it makes it more tender.
Tastier.
Let's sit down.
Why were you angry?
When I was...
8, 9, 10...
I was addicted to Crembo
(chocolate coated marshmallows).
Addicted.
There's no other word for it.
If I had one shekel
I'd spend it on a Krembo,
or ask the sales clerk
put it on my tab.
One day my dad took me
to the grocery store
and bought me a Krembo.
Why? I don't know,
but who cares?
I'm eating it
and he asks me:
"You want another Krembo?
I was surprised,
but how can I say no to Krembo?
"Yes, please."
And I ate the Krembo.
He buys me one after the other
and I ate them all.
I think I ate 20,
I swear,
and I was so stuffed,
my stomach felt like concrete.
I thought, if I eat one more
something will happen to me.
So I shoved another one in...
I vomited my guts out, Hannah.
Not ordinary vomit,
it was disgusting, with chunks.
That was that.
Since then I can't look at a Krembo.
If I see a Krembo, I get nauseous.
Are you saying I can be secular
and do what I want
till it comes out of my ears?
What if it doesn't?
Then it doesn't.
You want a Krembo?
Have one,
as long as I don't know about it.
If it goes away, good.
If not...
your loss.
For some reason I crave a Krembo...