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Professor Petrovsky:
[sitting across from each other in a bar]
For generations, the men of my family have been rabbis in Israel before that in Europe, it was to be my calling. I was quite a prodigy. I was the "pride" of my Yeshiva. The elders said I had a forty year old understanding of the Midrash. By the time I was twelve By the time I was thirteen I knew I could never be a rabbi. Mike McDermott:
Why not? Professor Petrovsky:
Because for all I understood of the Talmud, I never saw God there
[sitting across from each other in a bar]
For generations, the men of my family have been rabbis in Israel before that in Europe, it was to be my calling. I was quite a prodigy. I was the "pride" of my Yeshiva. The elders said I had a forty year old understanding of the Midrash. By the time I was twelve By the time I was thirteen I knew I could never be a rabbi. Mike McDermott:
Why not? Professor Petrovsky:
Because for all I understood of the Talmud, I never saw God there
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For generations men of my family have been rabbis
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In Israel before that in Europe
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It was to be my calling I was quite a prodigy
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The pride of my yeshiva
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The elders said I had a 40 year old's understanding
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of the midrash by the time I was 12
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But by the time I was 13
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I knew I could never be a rabbi
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Why not
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Because for all I understood of the Talmud
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Movie Summary
A young, reformed gambler must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks, while balancing his relationship with his girlfriend and his commitments to law school.
Actors
Mike Mcdermott
