Yentl (1983)

Nehemiah Persoff: Reb Mendel 'Papa'

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• Yentl : Why is it that every book I buy, every bookseller has the same old argument?

  Yentl's Father : You know why.

  Yentl : I envy them.

  Yentl's Father : The booksellers?

  Yentl : No, not the booksellers, the students. Talking about life, the mysteries of the universe and I'm learning how to tell a herring from a carp.

  Yentl's Father : Yentl, for the thousandth time, men and women..."

  Yentl : [cuts him off]  have different obligations, I know, but...

  Yentl's Father : [cuts her off]  and don't ask why.

  Yentl's Father : [sees her disappointment]  Go on, get the book.

  Yentl : Thank you, papa!

  Yentl's Father : The shutters, darling.

  Yentl : We don't have to hide my studying from God, then why the neighbors?

  Yentl's Father : Why? Because I trust God will understand. I'm not so sure about the neighbors.