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“Mrs. Levine, can I come in?” He looked chastened, to say the
least. I let him in grudgingly and didn’t say a word.
“Mrs. Levine, I know that you’re unhappy with Yeshua and
me, but please believe me, Yeshua did not mean to hurt your
feelings. He was afraid that you would be upset, and it seems that
he was correct in his fear.”
“Of course I’m upset!” I burst out. “How would you feel if your
son came home with some girl who wasn’t Jewish? Wouldn’t you
be upset?”
He considered the question.
“Yes, of course I would. But it is different for Yeshua. There
will never be a question of children, or even marriage.”
“No marriage! So you expect him to just shack up with this girl,
live in sin?”
The rabbi blushed. “As I understood it, Yeshua does not have…
rather, there is no question of sinning, from what I understand.”
“If he gives his heart to her, it is as if he were to lie with her in a
bed!”
“Well, not exactly, Mrs. Levine.”
The rabbi was making me more and more angry.
“You think because he’s not human, that what he does isn’t
important? Rabbi, I should never have made him for you if that’s
the way that you think.”
Rabbi Lieberman took a deep breath. “Mrs. Levine, it is hard
enough for someone to find the right person to love in the world,
even with all the people in it. For Yeshua, given what he is, it is
almost impossible. Would you have him fall in love with a human
girl and pine for her until his heart broke and we would have to
erase the letter that gives him life? Reduce him back to a lifeless
thing?”
“Of course not!” There were stories, old old stories, of golems
who did such things. Gave their hearts to human women. The
stories always ended badly. No, I didn’t want that for my Yeshua.
“Can you not agree at least to meet this girl? Give her a chance?
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