graphomaniac: (smile)
L. V. Morgenshtern ([personal profile] graphomaniac) wrote in [community profile] ph_memes 2024-01-19 03:40 pm (UTC)

Lev grins.

"My husband is a ... uh," they pause. "He's a koschey, but I suspect, such a word means naught coherent to thee? He is the doctor of the beginning and the end, and the doctor of the vestibule of life in convalescence and in chronic sickness. And he always says, a shokhet, nu, a trained butcher, willing to get their hands dirty and willing to wash their hands beforehand for that matter, is more use than any university lecturer what thinks he only needs to read books and look at corpses someone else dissected." They pause and then add, "I'm ... uh. Among the nations, I'm called Lev Morgenshtern, but I'm Rabbi Ariel among those what need a rabbi. Mine household call me Ari or Leyb."


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