The next day, Hoodie and his fellow yeshiva students Moshe and Chaim are distracted from their lectures by discussions about new Starburst candies with mystery packaging disguising their flavors. Rabbi Moritz tries to recenter discussion on a Talmud passage about the ownership of an egg falling off a roof onto a neighbor’s property, but the boys raucously insist that the egg would break upon landing. They ignore Rabbi Moritz’s lecture about the importance of the Talmud and Torah in their lives and continue to argue about the Starburst. Moshe stuffs a cinnamon Starburst into Chaim’s mouth, and Chaim is unable to remove it because both of his arms are broken. Frustrated by his unruly students, Rabbi Moritz agrees to let Hoodie and Moshe take Chaim to the bathroom to rinse the taste of the cinnamon Starburst out of his mouth. Chaim realizes too late that his friends will not be gentle.

As Hoodie and Moshe forcibly wash out Chaim’s mouth, Hoodie’s mind returns to the videos of Anna-Marie dancing in her bedroom. Although the videos are immodest by his community’s standards, Hoodie cannot stop thinking about her. He wonders if there is a reason she appears repeatedly in his mind and if his judgments about her immodesty are unfounded. Hoodie asks his friends if they ever feel stifled by the expectation to uphold Orthodox practices. He compares being Orthodox to wearing multiple heavy coats while standing up straight and walking a narrow path. Moshe asks Hoodie if rumors that he’s leaving the faith are true, but Hoodie denies it. Moshe suggests that being Jewish and following the Torah are a privilege and a gift and that the challenges of being different are worth the joy of being Jewish. Hoodie wonders if he is doing Judaism incorrectly.

When Hoodie arrives home, his mother and sister are preparing the home for Shabbos, the Jewish day of rest. All forms of work—including cooking, cleaning, and using electronics and tools—are forbidden on Shabbos so the family can focus on prayer and being together. As always, Hoodie is shocked to see his mother in the kitchen: As soon as Hoodie and Zippy were old enough to care for the younger children, she went back to work full-time. Now, she works three jobs and spends most of her time alone in her study, leaving Zippy to complete the housework.

After the family eats Shabbos dinner together, Hoodie leaves for shul with his father and Zippy. Carrying children and using strollers is forbidden on Shabbos, making it impossible for Hoodie’s mother and youngest sisters to attend. In Colwyn, the Orthodox community made use of an eruv (a piece of twine that surrounded the city) that acted as a symbolic extension of the home so families could work around these rules. The citizens of Tregaron have forbidden the eruv, so Hoodie’s mother and small sisters are forced to celebrate at home. As the family walks to shul, Hoodie is aware of the stares of the non-Jewish families.

After services, Moshe’s father warns Hoodie to treat his father with respect, as Jewish boys should do. While walking with Moshe and two other friends, Hoodie runs into Anna-Marie and a group of her friends. The gentile boys make fun of Hoodie and his friends, calling them werewolves and accusing them of enacting sharia law in Tregaron. Anna-Marie and a female friend exchange pointed glances when Hoodie calls Anna-Marie his friend. Later, Moshe warns Hoodie that being friends with the daughter of the antisemitic mayor is serious and compares Anna-Marie’s mother to Stalin.

Back at home, Hoodie is grateful for his mother’s food and his younger sisters’ antics as a distraction from the harassment he experienced from Anna-Marie’s friends. Because he’s spent most of his life in Colwyn, a town with a large Orthodox population, Hoodie has never experienced outright antisemitism. The experience of being called a werewolf and being confused for a Muslim feels upsetting and disorienting. However, he’s most upset by Anna-Marie’s silence and the awkward way they avoided each other’s eyes.

After dinner, Hoodie’s father Avraham begins to sing z’miros, sacred songs reserved for Shabbos. The song “Yom Zeh L’Yisrael” makes Hoodie emotional as he imagines the generations of Jewish faithful who have gathered together to sing on Shabbos. He imagines the men whose graves were desecrated, and wonders if they had good voices. As Avraham sings, Hoodie is horrified to hear his cell phone ding four times in a row. Hoodie and his family immediately realize that the texts must be coming from Anna-Marie, as none of their Orthodox friends would text on Shabbos. Before Hoodie’s parents can intervene, Zippy takes the phone and sends Hoodie away.

The next day, Hoodie’s parents and siblings ignore him entirely, even his youngest sister Goldie. Isolated from his family and with nothing to do, Hoodie imagines what Anna-Marie’s text could say. He fantasizes about Anna-Marie revealing that she is secretly Orthodox and in love with him and begins to think of her as his girlfriend. As the family prepares to end Shabbos that evening, Hoodie is solely focused on the texts from Anna-Marie. He reads them as soon as Shabbos ends. In the texts, Anna-Marie apologizes for her friends, then invites Hoodie over to her house on Sunday. Hoodie immediately responds, explaining why he couldn’t reply on Shabbos and accepting her invitation.