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ah

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um

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so

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foreign

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dear lord i trust in your mercy

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crazy

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oh

hello greetings to you tell me do you

have any news of imran's son the

promised messiah

i thought you were going to bring him to

the temple zechariah

we're looking forward to seeing him dear

friends

don't make zechariah upset now i should

think that the birth of imran's child

has troubled him enough don't you agree

why is that is the child not the jewish

savior he himself has been telling us

about

where have you been do you not know that

the child was a girl

what a girl

do you people have no shame you should

be aware of god's wrath

how dare you make fun of this man a

religious scholar

have you come here to learn lessons on

piety

or lessons on ridicule

what have we said that has upset you so

much

i would advise you not to be those

people who persistently turn their backs

on the truth of a situation

they know god but then they foolishly

become

enemies of him and of his prophet

although these people are scholars

god leaves them and lets them go astray

he leaves them wandering blindly

on the wrong path despite their wealth

of knowledge

but we didn't mean to upset you

zechariah we just wanted to make sense

of imran's prophecy that's all

you want to know about imran's prophecy

well then you must listen to what i'm

sorry but you must excuse us now

these students need to get back to their

studies you see they're already late

we'll be on our way excuse us excuse us

goodbye zechariah

no one is prepared to listen to me are

they what greater lesson is there than

the birth of imran's daughter

well i'm willing to listen even if no

one else is

well you see nathan when moses went to

mount sinai for those 30 days

and those 30 days turned into 40 days

did his people not resort to worshiping

a calf

yes all god wanted to do was test their

faith a little

but the israelites failed that divine

test miserably

the foundation of faith lies in patience

which they simply did not possess

i know i know that and david was meant

to build his temple

was he not but it ended up getting built

by solomon instead

god sometimes tests believers with

unexpected changes to their plans

in this time of great difficulty we

should all turn to him

i have kept my faith zechariah

but i'm starting to doubt whether imran

was a true prophet

nathan what do you want from me

i'm only human after all your words are

true

but the realities of life say something

else

people are beginning to turn away when

they see me coming

they deserve whoever seems to support

the truth most of my fellow believers

feel this distress

not just me but times are hard for me i

can't even sleep at night anymore

it's so hard zechariah what can i do

but you are different from everyone else

you are one of my best students

i'm certain that you will not let other

people's remarks change you

i'm so tired and i'm confused

i don't know what the right path is

anymore listen to me nathan

i love you like you were my own son you

are quick and intelligent

more importantly you're the only one i

can rely on

you'll have to preach religion one day i

am certain of that fact

so make sure you don't give in to these

thoughts do not let satan deceive you

please pray for me

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oh

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oh wise jehovah

supporter and protector of the jewish

people

i cannot thank you enough for ruining

imran so comprehensively as you have

done

you know well that deep down i want the

israelites to achieve greatness

if this child had turned out to be a boy

it would have been a great tragedy

zachariah would have been accepted as a

prophet

he would then have grown powerful

amongst the people

and looked down on the jews as the

lowliest of people

thank you god thank you so

much

i did something to make my mother leave

jerusalem

from then on i had to keep my younger

sister out of the public

eye it was as if she had committed a

terrible sin

girls are a true godsend people do not

realize how lucky and blessed they would

be to have a girl child

but it's not an easy matter for people

to understand zechariah

you know how stubbornly the jewish

people cling to their traditions

they are never going to change their

beliefs you know

yes you're right

my dear neighbor i heard that your

husband passed away recently

what are you doing here

i've come to share in your sorrow

share my sorrow you're the one who

caused his death

me yes you you have stripped us of god's

blessings

you and your family are nothing but bad

luck my poor husband was not even

seriously ill until last week

the dark presence of your daughter has

brought bad luck to the entire city

and not to mention bringing humiliation

upon her entire family

go away get out of my house leave this

place at once

if hannah had given birth to a boy how

could i have looked the neighbors in the

face answer me that

i'm glad this happened that girl always

put on such airs in front of me

who'd have thought that barren women

could give birth at her age anyway it's

not surprising though all those prayers

and sacrifices she made for god he must

have felt sorry for her

but god doesn't give anyone everything

at once

especially someone with such absurdly

high hopes

she wanted to become a mother and give

birth to a baby boy

to a prophet no less at her advanced

age greetings to you iska hello jeroboam

uh welcome jeroboam please sit down

sit down now then isaka

you wanna do talk to me yes i did

esther tell him please

jeroboam yes akara's been thinking of

you for a long time now

the time has arrived for celebration

tell me jeroboam

have you seen that girl from our family

which one

golda the girl that is always with me

she's very clever her parents have

entrusted her to us

because they don't have the means to

look after their children

i think she would make a perfect wife

for you actually

the most important part is that she's a

young girl which means that she will

give you a son

sarah sarah call golda out here yes

ma'am

golda come out here so jeroboam can take

a look at you

i trust that you have told her that she

must be quiet and obedient in my house

and that i will not tolerate the

slightest disobedience

oh yes i'm sure she knows very well what

a great honor it is

to have the opportunity to become the

wife of the wise jeroboam himself

i will pray hard that she gives birth to

a boy for you my friend

so unlike imran and zechariah your

bloodline will continue

the jewish people will need a lot of

boys to guarantee their future

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it's the baby my hands are dirty could

you go for me

yes of course

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it's all right there's no need

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she's calm down

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my dear lord please bestow a child on my

sister elizabeth

just as you bestowed the blessing of

this child upon me

she is a wife of your prophet after all

make her wish come true please

call your lord and show your gratitude

to him

be thankful for the blessings he has

given this great nation

you must worship him and glorify him

contemplate

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may the hearts be filled with happiness

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is

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is

and so zechariah received a revelation

that the lord had accepted hannah's

offering and would protect mary and her

offspring from harm

this revelation changed the course

of the future of humankind

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he's still like please be still

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please

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is

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mother yes has come to jerusalem

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what does that woman want

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how dare she

how dare you disrespect this holy place

get back

away with you why are you leaving your

child here like that

your abraham's wife away with you that

child is a girl

oh god do you not know that women are

not allowed in here

have you gone mad woman why have you put

this child here like

take this child away right now and ask

god for forgiveness

do you know how much trouble you've

caused across judea she's giving your

child away to the rabbis

look at her she wants to get rid of her

own child you may not care about your

child but consider your own

honor don't disgrace yourself any more

than you already have look at yourself

what kind of woman just abandons her

baby like that it's disgusting

they think they're a part of the

prophet's family but they act worse than

commoners

when you people show no respect for the

temple how can you

ever expect the commoners to do so

zedekiah is here

the honorable zedekiah is coming look

your honor zedekiah

come and see this awful disgrace this

woman has abandoned her daughter here

but you are the wife of imran what on

earth are you doing

what i am doing is fulfilling the

promise i made to god

i have given the baby a name her name's

mary

mary but the name mary means servant of

the temple

and i am entrusting her to the temple

my dear lord please bear witness that i

have fulfilled my promise to you your

offering

cannot be accepted

females are forbidden from entering the

temple do you understand this

it is god who must accept my offering

not you

but if we decide not to allow it this

child will not enter the temple

and we shall certainly not allow it if

god wishes it it will happen

oh what now look at this zachariah is

here

look at this mess zachariah this is your

wife's sister

tell her to return home at once and

thank god we have pardoned her

however the only reason we are pardoning

her is out of respect for imran

and that is all

hannah god has accepted your offering he

has accepted mary

he's accepted her

god has told me he will be protecting

her and her offspring from satan

now you must look after this child until

she is old enough to serve at the temple

so

gracious lord

i knew that you would accept her

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mary

there you are

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what are you looking at

i'm looking at that

a mountain

my mother has told me that jerusalem

lies behind that mountain

do you think god will accept me there

when i was a child i had a dream about a

man

i asked him who are you

he looked down and gestured and told me

to be silent

i said to him sir did i say something

wrong

he said no you see you asked a question

a question that will shorten your

childhood

but in order to reach the heavens

sometimes you have to be a child

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did you recognize him the man in your

dream

did you know who he was grandfather did

you

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yes he told me that he was the messiah

the messiah

really wish i could have seen him as

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hello elizabeth hello hello

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i'm sorry i can't help it

i can't bear to be away from you for

even a second

and where did you go today we went to

the hills nearby

i wish you would come too mother you

don't know how beautiful it was

on the way there we went prayers and

verses

from the holy book it was wonderful

your daughter is very intelligent hannah

she has memorized all the prayers and

verses

her memory is far superior to that of

the rabbis at the temple

look at this darling look what i made

for you

put it on you can use it to recite your

prayers

thank you

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and this is all i have in the world have

mercy on bring everything that she has

outside i think this is everything sir

me another chance i beg

you a widow like her has no income to

give you stop this at once

another chance how many do you want

you've had enough

people this woman has made excuse of her

excuse for month after month

not to pay off her debts now the

interest on her debts

has piled up to the heavens why do you

keep borrowing if you can't pay off the

debt

that is not very sensible is it the

interest that you charge is unfair

how can it be that you take everything

we have in return for a loan payment

you should have thought of that before

you began borrowing from me

you know the rules after all why do all

zechariah supporters only turn to us

when they're in trouble i wonder

now that your thugs have taken away all

her possessions let me say something to

those men who are trying to browbeat us

into submission

i must say something to quench my anger

take that cow to the kitchen at once

slaughter it so that the rabbis can

feast on it tonight and then preach to

us about religion in the morning

you will be cast out of god's religion

for this blasphemy of yours

god's religion

the messiah will come and wreak our

revenge on all of you for this

this is wrong it is wrong for a woman to

raise her voice in this manner

and why are you so afraid of us raising

our voices

here take this money and spend it on

whatever you need

unlike your robes our clothes do not

have any pockets

i have nowhere to put that coin go go

what are you waiting for

come on no don't take it please please

don't take it

it's the only thing i have left in the

world how can you do that

how can you take all i have do something

zechariah please that's right

please help that woman zachariah look

what they're doing to that poor woman

and look what has become of us how can

this be acceptable

what is going on here don't start

interfering now zechariah

it is after all your excessive sympathy

towards the people

which has made the people turn against

the law why don't you go and attend your

supplications

why are you behaving this way towards

the people

and nathan what are you doing here

amongst these oppressors

the temple ordered me to come here for

this purpose honestly rabbis

the people here are relying on you come

to your senses

help these poor people instead of making

life more

difficult for them zechariah

we act according to the laws the laws of

our religion don't you see to be

ridiculed and suppressed is the lot of

us temple servants

it's strange how everyone has changed

over the past few years

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so

i'm sorry am i disturbing you

not at all as a car but it's been a

while since i felt at peace

tell me nathan are you still struggling

to decide which path to choose

don't tell me i can see the uncertainty

in your eyes

i saw zechariah today he was defending a

poor old woman

i don't know i have a strange feeling

about that child mary are you saying

that you're afraid of an

old man and a little six-year-old girl

are you

i'm afraid that this battle which has

surrounded solomon's temple

is simply a battle of wills rather than

a war between

good and evil in this world i want to be

on the side of truth

but i don't have the strength to make a

decision

well you must choose but that is so

difficult for me

without god's guidance i am unable to

distinguish between these paths

you have to help me use a car this

situation is really troubling me

nathan you are my brother-in-law don't

forget that

and you have known me for many many

years

let me ask you a question now in all the

years you have known me have you

ever heard me tell a lie

no why do you ask

and why out of all of zechariah's

disciples do you insist i should leave

aside

because i care for you

he also cares for me and i'm certain

he's not a liar

don't you see he likes you because he

wants to use you and your youthful

strength to achieve his own goals

but the reason i care for you nathan

is because i don't want a pure and

innocent human being to

fall into the hands of a dirty

manipulative old man like zachariah do

you understand me nathan

i just don't know you're going to have

to trust me

think about ruling judeo ruling the

world would you

you'll find peace of mind in these

thoughts just as i have

this is simply not possible

no girl has ever served in a temple no

female has ever entered this holy place

no girl has ever set foot in this part

of the temple since it was

built since it was built by zero babel

as you all know

so i'll ask you what madness is this

which we are considering

derby you know perfectly well what this

girl is worthy of

her father was a religious man who

sacrificed himself for you

and the child but it doesn't mean that

we can refute the religious laws of

moses and aaron

you're right nathan but this is not the

law of moses

it is the verbal law of holocaust made

up by the rabbis

so no one but they can revoke it

revoke the halal you say

the halluca what is wrong with you

pharisees you're talking about ignoring

the laws of the halicar now

you might as well call all the amorites

all the canaanites and all the

phoenicians

to come and put their idols in our

sanctum

why don't we do that oh they're idle

zedekiah

they're idols how strange how can you

even compare

these two things zedekiah it's actually

a true comparison david

it makes no difference whether you

revoke the law of the holocaust or the

law of the torah

and it makes no difference whether you

put a girl in the temple or an idol

in the sanctum the sadducees use every

opportunity they can

to promote their ways and i for one have

had enough of this

i'm not staying here for a moment longer

to hear them trample our interests for

their own benefit

i've had enough and i'm leaving now i

for one will not tolerate this

no come back oh on a disastrous mess

this

is and why are you so quiet it's a car

can you not see plainly how terribly

they are disrespecting this temple

calm down now you need to stop

quarreling like little children

no unlawful act will take place at this

temple

look there is hillel himself i honestly

do not understand why hillel

the high priest of the temple is always

with zachariah

greeting jessica greetings zedekiah

greetings dear rabbis my dear children

what on earth has been happening in here

these past few

terrible minutes the whole temple can

hear you shouting

why don't you ask zechariah as if the

temple did not have enough

to worry about already and now imran's

daughter has been added to our list of

problems

if we continue like this i fear that

very soon

we will be obliged to hold our regular

meetings

with all the ladies of the town in the

market

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well thank god that at least the

pharisees and the sadducees

can agree on this matter if nothing else

your honor you know that

fulfilling a promise to god and placing

a child in the temple to serve god is

very common

and is something that has been done at

this temple foreign

this time the child happens to be a girl

and women are forbidden from entering

the temple

forbidden forbidden forbidden

zechariah has always talked about

segregating girls from boys has he not

this problem can be fixed

we must simply build a chamber which

separates her from the rabbis and the

other servants simple as that

are you out of your mind a girl

in solomon's temple what is so wrong

with that

are not the spirits of girls and boys of

equal value

under god unless one is more righteous

of course

do not forget who this girl is she's

married the spirits of girls and boys

are equal you say

since what have they been considered

equal in the jewish custom answer me

that zachariah

please if you can so do you consider a

man who serves god to be equal to a

woman

who has been created to serve her

husband tell me is a free person equal

to a slave

you do not need to tell us the answer

zechariah

we already know the answer no zechariah

is right

we are not going to give up the

fundamental principles of moses's

religion

his virtue his piety and worship simply

because of science

brian follow the prophet of god's

instructions he interprets the torah for

you

and without his guidance you will not

get zechariah's prophethood

before the laws of our religion i don't

believe it

what you're saying maybe it's better if

we send the women

it's been a long time since we heard

from you esther said we should

definitely come to visit you this week

we were getting quite worried about you

after all we are family

we can't bear to see you sink further

and further into isolation

you see hannah i'm a mother myself i

understand how you feel i do it really

makes my heart ache

to even think about being separated from

my dear child

for years i was unable to have a child

one day i was sitting under a tree

when i saw a pretty little bird feeding

its chicks with its beak

i prayed for a child with all my might

imran asked god to bless us with a child

a child we would send to serve in the

temple

and the dear lord so fit to answer our

prayers

your intention was to offer a boy not a

girl this offer is not

valid everyone knows that girls are

different from boys

this girl is much greater than any boy

what are you talking about hannah tell

me why is it that whenever someone has a

girl they go into hiding for ages and

ages

the birth of a girl always brings shame

and dishonor to any family

can you not see that i was brought into

jeroboam's family to give birth to a boy

then i had a girl

what's your words she is a healthy and

beautiful girl

when i saw her for the first time i was

amazed at how the lord ignites the flame

of motherly love in our hearts so

magnificently

golda do you not love your daughter

when you kiss and cuddle and hold her

tell me do you feel any differently when

you see that she is a girl

no no i love my daughter so much

i remember after the pain of labor

finished

and the midwife placed her in my arms i

couldn't stop crying from the joy

the joy i felt when i finally saw the

child i had been carrying

she was white with rosy cheeks

she was alive and crying she was the

most beautiful child i had ever seen

people started complaining that she was

a girl

even my husband left the house in anger

and misery

when he left jeroboam i mean

it made me terribly sad he then spent

a few days away from me in the temple

it very nearly broke my heart i left the

poor child

alone in the corner of her room for

about half a day

she cried her poor little eyes out she

was hungry

i actually made myself believe that she

was a dirty creature

that i must stay away from her but

my entire being longed to be near her

i suddenly lost control of myself and

went towards her

i smelt her and kissed her and squeezed

her and cuddled her

and fed her with the food that god

himself had placed for her

the comfort inside my breasts enough

golda what are you saying it seems like

you've forgotten who you are

you only came into jeroboam's house

because of our kindness

you had no decent clothes you always

wore shabby tattered dresses

so why are you acting like a lady and

giving lectures all of a sudden

if i hadn't helped you escape that poor

miserable life of yours

you would still be in that village

spending your days in hunger

people often follow the traditions of

their ancestors

when in fact a little girl is just as

sweet as a little boy

in a mother's eyes so you're telling us

that the people the rabbis and the

jewish elders are all wrong

and only you and zachariah are right is

that what you're saying

zachariah is god's prophet remember and

prophets never speak of their own accord

now you're just repeating yourself

it's because of your beliefs that our

husbands positions are being threatened

your husbands were never supporters of

zechariah in the first place

zechariah zechariah do you even know why

your brother-in-law wants mary to go to

the temple

no why don't you tell me

he's grown old and his wife is barren

he dreamed of having a child for many

years

he busies himself teaching your child

and shows her a lot of affection

look at them there haven't you ever

asked yourself why they keep you and

mary in their house and why they don't

leave mary alone even for a moment

i've heard that zechariah takes mary

with him wherever he goes

just so she can get used to his presence

that's his intention he wants to take

mary to the temple

so that she can become the child that he

never had

have you no shame

you should really be ashamed of yourself

esther

golda we're leaving now we don't belong

here anymore

you don't have to leave you know you can

stay

why should we stay when you can't even

show your family respect

this is going to cost you dearly from

now on don't expect any sympathy from us

because you won't get it

let's go golda

my strong and mighty lord

grant me the power to stand firm

i need all the strength i can get

mary

mother do they insult you because of me

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you