The Good Doctor (TV Series)

Who at Peace (2024)

Giacomo Baessato: Jerome

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• Dr. Asher Wolke : I can't stop thinking about Ronit. If her doctor had only taken her seriously.

  Jerome : Imagine trying to plan a wedding while she's in chemo and he's recovering from a broken hip.

  Dr. Asher Wolke : Who cares about their wedding planning? She could die.

  Jerome : They care.

  Dr. Asher Wolke : Well, they shouldn't.

  Jerome : Marriage is an outdated institution that was invented as a property transaction, not as an expression of love.

  Dr. Asher Wolke : How people feel about it now is... That's all that matters.

  Jerome : Well, sometimes our feelings trap us in conventional ways of thinking.

  Dr. Asher Wolke : Like, Rashi says that most of the Israelites stayed enslaved in Egypt because it's all they knew.

  Jerome : Are you seriously comparing a loving marriage to slavery?

  Dr. Asher Wolke : Both were invented as a means of exchanging human chattel.

  Jerome : That is offensive on so many levels.And I doubt it's what Rashi, whoever that is, meant when he wrote that parable.

  Dr. Asher Wolke : It's a Midrash, not a parable.

  Jerome : Well, you sure know a lot about Judaism for someone who isn't Jewish.

  Dr. Asher Wolke : Okay, I'm not a practicing Jew, but I don't have to share my life story with a patient.

  Jerome : Why didn't you just say, I was raised Jewish, but I don't...