Joel Basman: Motti Wolkenbruch
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Motti : There's a very clear scheme of life for Jewish men: we are born, get circumcised on the eighth day, have our Bar Mitzvah at the age of thirteen, and later we marry a Jewish woman who is as pious as we are. And then it's time to make babies, one after another. And in between, we work and pray, become grandfathers and great-grandfathers until, one day, we die, and the soul becomes bound up in the eternal bundle of life. So it is written. Everything nicely laid out, whether you like it or not.
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Motti : Those who can't, don't want to?
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Frau Silberzweig : What was it... that came to an end besides me?
Motti : What do you mean?
Frau Silberzweig : The coffin, the one we saw on your last visit - "Something's coming to an end" - what was it?
Motti : Everything, basically.
Frau Silberzweig : Very good.
Motti : Why?
Frau Silberzweig : Now you have room.
Motti : Room for what?
Frau Silberzweig : For everything.
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Tate Moishe Wolkenbruch : What's a Jew doing in such clothes?
Motti : Schlepping, schlepping.
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Motti : Motti: "Man very rarely knows what can happen."
