![]() ![]() Her love for Asher is a truly sustaining force in the book, making it all the more devastating when she is separated from him at the book's end. Motherhood isn't easy for Rivkeh, although she does the best she can with what she has. ![]() Would she wait now in dread all the rest of her life, now for me, now for my father, now for us both-as she had once waited for me to return from a museum, as she had once waited for my father to return in a snowstorm? And I could understand her torment now I could see her waiting endlessly with the fear that someone she loved would be brought to her dead. Asher begins to realize his mom's pain towards the end of the book: But her role as mother is a constant juggling act, trying to balance her son's controversial artistic gift with her husband's fire-and-brimstone obsession with Talmudic law. Rivkeh is the loving mom everyone wants: kind, indulgent, and not too stingy with sweets. Like Aryeh, she is a born scholar and extremely dedicated to the education of the Jewish people and spreading Hasidic teachings. ![]() ![]() She loves Asher and wants to foster his talent, but she's also dismayed by the fact that his talent has caused such a rift in the family. Rivkeh Lev is Asher's mother: kind, gentle, and torn between the desires of her son and her husband. ![]()
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