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" I'm going to question whatever I like",

" I'm going to choose whatever side I want and if God happens to be on the other side then so be it." I believe these two quotes capture the essence of the film " A Price Above Rubies". The main character, Sonia Horowitz, a Hasidic Jew, embarked on a journey in which she sought to find herself through questioning her faith and the strict Jewish life.In doing so, she paid a heavy price. This, I believe, to be the message of the film.


The movie starts off with a close up of a ring being crafted, incomplete. Then we see sonia's brother, Yossi, telling her the story of the woman who broke free of the Jewish community. The woman's father wanted her to marry a great scholar and lead a good spiritual life. After leaving, she wanders back years later, with child. The community shuns the child, and when she dies, heaven rejects her, so she goes to hell, but the devil cannot bear to see her suffer anymore because...

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Title: A Price Above Rubies
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