A Price Above Rubies
" I’m going to question whatever I like",
" I’m going to choose whatever side I want and if God happens to be on the other side then so be it." I believe these two quotes capture the essence of the film " ". The main character, Sonia Horowitz, a Hasidic Jew, embarked on a journey in which she sought to find herself through questioning her faith and the strict Jewish life.In doing so, she paid a heavy price. This, I believe, to be the message of the film.
The movie starts off with a close up of a ring being crafted, incomplete. Then we see sonia’s brother, Yossi, telling her the story of the woman who broke free of the Jewish community. The woman’s father ...
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tells her she is a sinner and will end up just like the woman in the story, wandering the earth for eternity, like Cain. Yossi then gives her a fake ruby, which she immediately recognizes and rejects. Perhaps the jewel symbolizes her soul, what makes her complete, and she won’t accept a fraud, something in place of the real thing, even at that young age.
The film goes forward a number of years, to when Sonia and her husband Mendel have just had their first child. Mendel is the perfect example of the devout Hasidic Jew. He is a scholar, and respected by everyone in the community. The Hasidic Jews believe that wisdom, not folly, and the studying of God’s word, knowledge, is the way to happiness and to God. " Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver, yields better return than gold. She is more precious than rubies. " Proverbs 3:13-15. They also believe that to fear God is the way to wisdom and ...
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a fire inside of me. It used to keep me warm, but it’s getting hotter, it makes my stomach burn, and my nerves, and my skin. It’s too hot. Everything is too hot. Every touch burns me. I have no soul."
The Rebbe replies " God gave everyone a soul."
" Maybe, but if I do, was it God who gave it to me?." Sonia is questioning whether her desire comes naturally from God, or from the devil. There is a void inside of her and she is trying to find out how to fill it. It relates to the story of the woman who was a demon’s daughter, the devil gave her her soul.
Sender is the only person that offers a solution to her confining life. She can work for him and have ...
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