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As the festive holiday of Succoth approaches, big-hearted Moshe Bellanga (Rand), a devoutly religious man and a member of the Breslau Chasidim, finds himself broke, a self-described "lump of sadness." Moshe doesn't have the Shekels to scrape together a Succah—the temporary dwellings religious Jews stay in during the festival to commemorate the time of the Exodus, and remind the devout that this life, too, is ephemeral. Nor does Moshe have money to purchase the four species upon which religious Jews are commanded to make blessings during the holiday: date-palm branches (lulav), myrtle (hadas), willow (avaros), and, most important, citron (esrog), considered a blessing for having male children. When Moshe and his wife Malli (Rand's real-life wife, Michal Bat Sheva Rand) receive an anonymous gift of $1,000 from a local charity organization, they take it as a holiday miracle. Married for five years and still childless, Moshe quickly uses the money to purchase a citron dubbed "the diamond," believed to be the most perfect citron in all Jerusalem, and decorate a seemingly abandoned Succah...
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