Quotes
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Elaine Benes : Did you find the place alright?
Mohel : Did I find it alright? I mean could you send me to a more dangerous neighborhood? I'm dreading walking back to the subway, someone shouldn't crack me over the head and steal my bag, 'cause I'll be lying there on the street in this neighborhood and people will spit on me and empty my pockets. I'll lie in the gutter like a bum, like a dog, like a mutt, like an animal! God forbid someone should help me or call an ambulance. No, that's too much trouble to pick up a phone and press a few buttons. Ah, what's the point?
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Mohel : This is a bris! We're performing a bris here, not a burlesque show. This is not a school play. This is not a baggy-pants farce. This is a bris, a secret ancient ceremony symbolizing the covenant between God and Abraham... or something.
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Mohel : I coulda been a kosher butcher like my brother. The money's good. He's got a union with benefits. And cows don't have families. You make a mistake with a cow, you move on with your life.
