She was trying to sound shocked that I’d disparaged myself, but she sounded more relieved that I was honest
Avrumi just doesn’t get it. He sees it as new-age coddling, too many chinuch panels and not enough simple deretz eretz
He felt unkind thinking such thoughts, like he was being ungrateful to Penina’s cousins
She was saddened, but not surprised. They’d both known this was coming. Yanky’s yichus couldn’t protect him forever I t was after ten, and as Raizele walked her sister to the bus stop, she couldn’t stop looking at the pretty necklace she’d finished making this evening. Her phone rang, and she answered Yanky’s call with
“Oh, come on, you know how Rabbi Wasser can get, why did you have to challenge him that way?”
“I couldn’t be the golden boy they dreamed of. There was no way I could compete with him, he was too perfect”
