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Show Rose (1/20/83) page 23 Mr. K Mr. R Mr. K Mr. R not quite delighted, but it was a warm satisfaction to her that I was going to say kaddish for my father who really didn't ••• ! think if it had been put to him he would say "I don't give a damn", you know, before he died, whether his son should or shouldn't say kaddish But, this was my mother's conviction, you see, and I suspect that my mother's gratification came from the fact that know-ing that I said " ' for my father that I would say it for her. It changed you, too. Yeah. After that I became a regular. I think it was in 1955, of course, that would have been into 'SS. From that time on, you could pretty much consider me a regular. My mother died 2 years later, so it just kept right on going, you see. Besides your mother being pleased, deeply pleased, what else in Well, it was partly habit. You keep going, and you keep going, and you keep going, and then it was partly curiosity. I want to go ,.. ~ r ~ .,, ~ ·. , back to something that I've got to tell you. I went to until I finished high school back in New Jersey, and I wasn't too far out of the scope's trial period, you know, when Clarence Darrow~ represented a guy with that so called 'monkey trial' down there; Clarence Darrow on one side and William Jennings Brian on the other side. So, I was reading the newspaper and I was getting these ques-tions that Darrow was asking Brian, and we had this old rabbi, and that guy said to me, this was just about the time I was getting ready to leave and finish high school, and that old guy said to me, "I pi tty you. You studied long enough to learn all the questions, but not long enough to learn any answers. You will be a miserable |
