Kadosh 1999 The year 2000 approaches in Jerusalems Orthodox Mea Shearim quarter, where the women work, keep house, and have children so the men can study the Torah and the Talmud Rivka is happily and passionately married to Meir, but they remain childless The yeshivas rabbi, who is Meirs father, wants Meir to divorce Rivka a barren woman is no woman Rivkas sister, Malka, is in love with Yakov, a Jew shunned by the yeshiva as too secular The rabbi arranges Malkas marriage to Yossef, whose agitation when fulfilling religious duties approaches the grotesque Can the sisters sort out their hearts desires within this patriarchal world If not, have they any other options