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34 Cards in this Set
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Speech 1 Line 1
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Today I am a horse |
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Speech 1 Line 2
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Dear God, did you have to make my poor old horse lose his shoe, just before the Sabbath? |
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Speech 1 Line 3
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That wasn't nice... |
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Speech 1 Line 4
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It's enough you pick on me, Tevye... bless him with five daughters, a life of poverty. |
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Speech 1 Line 5
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What have you got against my horse? |
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Speech 1 Line 6
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Sometimes I think when things are too quiet up there, you say to yourself: |
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Speech 1 Line 7
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Let's see, what kind of mischief can I play on my friend, Tevye? |
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GOLDE You are finally here, my bread winner. |
I'll talk to you later |
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GOLDE Where's your horse |
He was invited to the blacksmiths for the Sabbath. |
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GOLDE Hurry up, the sun won't wait for you. I have something to say to you. |
As the good book says Heal us O Lord and we shall be healed. In other words, send us the cure, we have the sickness already. |
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Speech 2 Line 1
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I'm not really complaining, after all with your help I'm starving to death. |
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Speech 2 Line 2
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You made many many poor people. |
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Speech 2 Line 3
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I realize of course, that it's no shame to be poor, but it's no great honor either. |
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Speech 2 Line 4
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So what would have been so terrible if I had a small fortune? |
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Innkeeper: There he is!... You forgot my order for the Sabbath! |
Reb Mordcha, I had a little accident with my horse. |
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Mendel: Tevye, You didn't bring the Rabbi's order |
I know, Reb Mendel. |
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Avram: Tevye, you forgot my order for the Sabbath. |
This is bigger news than the plague in Odessa. |
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Innkeeper: Why should I break my head about the outside world? Let them break their own heads. |
He's right. As the Good Book says: If you spit in the air it lands on your face. |
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Perchik: That's nonsense. You can't close your eyes to what's happening in the world. |
He's right. |
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Avram: He's right and he's right? How can they both be right? |
You know, you're also right. |
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Mendel: Tevye, the Rabbi's order. My cheese! |
Of course. So you're from Kiev, Reb...
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Perchik: Perchik. |
Perchik. So, you're a newcomer here. As Abraham said, "I am a stranger in a strange land."
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Mendel: Moses said that. |
Forgive me. Ad King David said, "I am slow of speech and slow of tongue." |
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Mendel: That was Moses also |
For a man with a slow tongue, he sure talked a lot. |
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Mendel: And the cheese! |
Here, have a piece |
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Perchik: I have no money. And I am not a begger. |
Here... It's a blessing for me to give.
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Perchik: Very well... for your sake |
Thank you... you know, it is not crime to be poor. |
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In this world it's the rich who are the criminals. Someday their wealth will be ours
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That would be nice. If they would agree, I would agree. |
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Mendel: Nonsense |
And, until your golden day comes, Reb Perchik, how will you live. |
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Perchik: By giving lessons to children... Do you have any children? |
I have 5 daughters |
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Perchik: Five? |
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Perchick: I would be willing to teach them. Open their minds up to great thoughts. |
What great thoughts? |
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Well, the bible has many lessons for our times. |
Stay with us for the Sabbath. Of course, we don't eat like kings, but we don't starve either. As the good book says, when a poor man eats a chicken, one of them is sick |
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Where does the good book say that? |
Well, it doesn't exactly say that, but someplace it has something about a chicken. Good Sabbath. |