:03:01
Then there was mother, who made
the most delicious blintzes in the world.
:03:08
Of course, there was Old Gregor,
and his son, Young Gregor.
:03:11
Young Gregor's son
was older than Old Gregor.
:03:14
Nobody could fiigure out
how that happened.
:03:17
My two brothers, lvan and Mikhail,
used to play amusing little games.
:03:21
But I had a completely different
concept ofmyselfas a child.
:03:27
My fiirst experience with death
was with one ofourserfs, Old Nehamkin.
:03:32
Old Nehamkin was on the roof, putting up
a lightning rod, when a storm broke out.
:03:37
After he failed to show up for dinner,
Mother went to look forhim.
:03:40
What is it, Old Nehamkin?
You're not looking well.
:03:44
Are you OK? You feel all right?
:03:47
We laid Old Nehamkin to rest,
:03:50
and that night
I had a strange and vivid dream.
:04:15
I knew that after that dream I would
not grow up to be an ordinary man.
:04:20
I spoke often with FatherNikolai,
:04:22
who was always dressed in black
with a black beard.
:04:25
For years
I thought he was an ltalian widow.
:04:28
Every action has a cause. The universe
exists, therefore it has a cause.
:04:32
It follows God created the universe,
therefore He exists.
:04:35
And yet Spinoza didn't believe
in the Holy Trinity.
:04:38
- Spinoza was a Jew.
- What's a Jew?
:04:40
You never saw a Jew?
Here. I have some sketches.
:04:46
- There are Jews.
- No kidding.
:04:49
- They all have these horns?
- No, this is the Russian Jew.
:04:53
The German Jew has these stripes.
:04:56
I recall my fiirst mystical vision.
:04:58
I was in the woods, thinking about Christ.