:55:00
Because until then l can't
do this any more.
:55:52
-Darling...
-Not now. mum.
:55:57
What is it?
:55:59
-lt's nana.
-What?
:56:18
In accordance with Jewish Iaw.
nana was buried the next day.
:56:28
My father. being next of kin...
:56:31
went through a series of rituaIs
that for the 1st time in my Iife...
:56:33
feIt Iike they meant something.
:56:38
He ripped his cIothing and stopped
shaving for a month.
:56:45
We covered the mirrors in our
house.
:56:48
And there was to be no music
for awhiIe.
:56:51
My father had to sit on a Iow
chair...
:56:54
for seven days.
A period caIIed 'sitting shiva'.
:56:57
In that time. he was not to Ieave
the house.