(Ewa starts crying and Henrik both start crying hysterically, Yehuda and Shimon leave the house, close the door, and you can hear their crying from the other side of the door.)
Shimon: Fuck. You're gonna be the one to explain this to Reb Goldberg.
Yehuda: You're the one who didn't tell me we were about to take the last zlotys from parents who just buried all their kids.
Shimon: You never tell the new collectors what they're in for. If you knew what you were in for you'd run away screaming but you get used to it...
Yehuda: Vos?!
Shimon: This isn't the worst housecall I've had to make, and later today I'm gonna go back to get that money.
Yehuda: Are you meshuggeh or evil?
Shimon: Once you do three or four of these every week it's just another client late on their payments.
Yehuda: And you want that I should join you on this goniveh!
Shimon: You see any other jobs around these days?
Yehuda: How can you do this?
Shimon: It's a good living! Look at the Schneiders! A tailor has no new business. Eventually everybody has their clothes....
Yehuda: Shimi how can you do this as a Yiddisher kop?
Shimon: A butcher's a nice living but if nobody's got gelt nobody gets meat...
Yehuda: Shimon, how can you do this as a Jew?
Shimon: Yudaleh, nu? Come on...
Yehuda: Did you see what was going on in there?
Shimon: I saw two irresponsible parents who think that prayers are gonna cure their kids.
Yehuda: You saw two parents insane with troyer.
Shimon: I saw two parents who borrowed money from Reb Goldberg to get charms that everybody knows won't work.
Yehuda: Shimi, how can you, as a Yid, try to make money off people's suffering like that?
Shimon: Nu? What are we supposed tsu ton?
Yehuda: We're supposed to act like Tzaddikim.
Shimon: Yehuda, all you have tsu ton is think about it for two seconds. Rich goyim don't want poor goyim to get money or understand how money works.
Yehuda: Nu? So that means we get to steal their last zlotys?
Shimon: Nu... look, rich goyim tell the poor goyim that money's evil, so they can't handle it. Then they tell Jews they can't own land...
Yehuda: Ikh farshtey nisht, why does that mean we should be gonifs?
Shimon: We're not the gonifs Yudaleh.
Yehuda: Who's the gonif then?
Shimon: Who's always the gonif? The rich goyim! The rich goyim make the poor goyim handle the land but tell them they can't have any money, the rich goyim tell us we can have the money but we can't have the land.
Yehuda: So then we get blamed by poor goyim for loving money?
Shimon: Nu! A shas pollack this one!
Yehuda: Are goyim really that stupid?
Shimon: The rich goyim are a lot smarter than us. They get money und land and armies, und we get killed by the poor goyim because they think we're the ones stealing their money.
Yehuda: Does Reb Goldberg deal with rich goyim?
Shimon: All the time. He has to! The rich goyim always spend their money. They need more, so they summon Reb Goldberg who gives them the money on interest, they have too much money, they spend it, then he loans them more money.
Yehuda: What happens if they don't pay back?
Shimon: They go to jail like anybody... or they have Reb Goldberg killed... one or the other...
Yehuda: Emes can he get killed? Can we?
Shimon: Sure. It happens all the time.
Yehuda: Why would you want me to take this job?!
Shimon: You got any other jobs lined up?
Yehuda: Neyn...
Shimon: You meet many Jews not worried they're gonna die tomorrow?
Yehuda: Neyn...
Shimon: You want a job that brings in money even when nobody else is making any? That might one day make you a rich macher while your brothers are still smoking papyros in the cemetery?
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