The Rabbi monologue — The Ghetto: A Drama in Four Acts

As I was about to say, when I was interrupted, you have said that Rafael wants to go away. Then let him go! When he comes back he'll have a different view of his people. Do you fear he won't come back; not come back to his home--to his blind old father? You are foolish, Sachel! Drive him away, and he'll find that there is no home in the world like a Jewish home--that a clock ticks nowhere in the world as it does by one's own hearth. Ah, the Christians don't know what family life is; they have nothing to compare with ours. It is because we stay by one another, because we are sober and temperate and industrious and respectful of our elders!