In The Color of Water, by James Mcbride, Chapter 22 emphasizes James meeting with Abrey Rubenstein and his teachings. Aubrey Rubenstein teaches James about the Jewish community and Suffolk when his family lived there. For instance, after learning of his family's despair, he concurs it was “a new pain and a new awareness were born inside me”(Mcbride 229). Moreover, he understood his mother's life so deeply that religious and social rules come second to fundamental compassion for others. In addition, James travels to Suffolk to acquire information on his jewish heritage and teach his children and wife of it someday. For example, James learns “ The greatest sin a person can do is to take away that life. next to that, all the rules and religions
