Bread Givers

Reb Smolinsky the father of the house hold spent his entire life studying the Holy Torah. While his daughter’s and wives main focus was to make money and pay bills, his was focused on the promise of heaven. In the Holy Torah, men are good and kind; they value the most importance over women. Being born into a family that believes and follows every word that the Torah says, Reb Smolinsky became an Orthodox rabbi and carried on his father duties. Therefore he believes that “only through a man has a woman an existence,” he proclaims. He was raised to believe that woman can only go to heaven if they marry a man or a man of the Torah. Also in his beliefs, the man was supposed to read and study the Torah as the woman were the “bread givers.” In this case the Smolinsky women were his slaves. The wife and three daughters of Reb Smolinsky would work hard every day to pay rent and to put food on the table. Every day at dinner Mr. Smolinsky would get the best part of the meal, the fat off the top of the soup. The money that the children would make everyday would always go to their father; they would never get to keep any money for themselves. Instead of Reb giving money to his daughters for food or clothes, he would give the money away to charities. You would think that a mans life would be in his family, but not for Reb, his whole life was with his Torah and his charities. Shenah was the one that had all the worries and the burdens on her shoulder. It got to the point where they were behind two months rent and could lose everything. She was beginning to wonder when she was going to have a man that would do the worrying. Reb isn’t worried about anything as he states, “What is there to worry about, as long as we have enough to keep the breath in our bodies? But the real food is God’s Holy Torah.” Yet again Reb is always thinking about the Torah over worrying about how they are going to make rent. The Torah is what is taking Reb away from his life