A Serious Man | 2009

How does God speak to us?

It's a good question.

You know Lee Sussman.

Dr Sussman? I think I... Yeah.

Did he ever tell you about the goy's teeth?

No Uh, what goy?

So, Lee is at work one day.

You know, he has the orthodontic practice there at Great Bear.

He's making a plaster mold.

It's for corrective bridgework in the mouth of one of his patents,

Russell Krauss.

The mold dries, and Lee is examining it one day

before fabricating an appliance.

He notices something unusual.

There appears to be something engraved

on the inside of the patent�s lower incisors.

Hey vav shin yud ayin nun yud.

Ho-she-ay-ni.

"Help me. Save me. "

This, in a goy's mouth, Larry.

He calls the goy back

on the pretense of needling additional measurements for the appliance.

"How are you?

"Noticed any other problems with your teeth?"

"No. "

There it is.

Ho-she-ay-ni.

"Help me. " '

Son of a gun.

Sussman goes home.

Can Sussman eat? Sussman can't eat.