Sentences with phrase «hasidic life»
Yet Hasidic life is characterized first of all by its wholly personal mode of faith, and it is only through the action of this faith that a community is formed.
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Hasidic teaching is like psychoanalysis, writes Buber, in that it refers one from the problematic of external life to that of the inner life, and it shows the need of beginning with oneself rather than demanding that both parties to a relationship change together.
I'm a christian but I lived in a Hasidic community for a long time and I would argue that sects of Judaism have just as much problem with social standards as anyone else.
The Hasidic attitude toward the law, revelation, and the life of the senses is consistent with its concept of kavanah.
The statement is in response to a Haaretz report Monday that the museum would have separate visiting times for men and women in response to the requests of the haredi Orthodox public to view the exhibit, titled «A World Apart Next Door: Glimpses into the life of Hasidic Jews.»
David is Hasidic, so the two boys live in different galaxies, but it didn't seem to matter.
Governor Cuomo, we are delighted to know that you have an intimate and ongoing dialog with our poor Hasidic neighbors who happen to be living throughout one of the richest States of these United States.
His understanding of religious experience is a nuanced one, honed from years of living as an exiled Hasidic Jew and from studies under a religious philosopher.
The trappings of modern life that most of us take for granted — the internet, modern music and smartphones — are banned in Hasidic culture.
The Hasidic Jews» traditional dress may serve as a barrier on the street, and the film does indulge itself occasionally in playing on the incongruity of the suited and hatted men making their way around modern New York, but seeing the generalities of life reflected in such a particular setting amounts to a genuinely powerful insight into some of the universal themes of love, sacrifice and (gentle) self - improvement that are here handled with a charmingly light touch.
This terrifically authentic look at life inside New York's Yiddish - speaking Hasidic community is a bittersweet treat — a vibrantly engaging portrait of down - to - earth lives that is affectionate, amusing and ultimately very moving.
Since much of modern life — including most films — are forbidden in Hasidic culture, and because the film was shot semi-surreptitiously, it's unclear whether there could be repercussions in this strict, tightly - knit community for those involved in this secular undertaking.
If Rieven does not live in a two parent family, he will be expelled from his yeshiva, the Hasidic school he attends.
None of these women are given any inner life outside of their function as catalysts for actions taken by the two main male characters; even when Avigal finally takes control of her own agency in a climactic scene involving a makeshift Hasidic court, it's only as the result of a male's tender touch.
His is a life lived in a specific community, namely the Hasidic Jewish community in Borough Park, Brooklyn, where the film was shot.
[Read more...] about Director Joshua Z. Weinstein on authentically depicting Hasidic Jewish life in Menashe
Director Joshua Z. Weinstein discusses how he created an authentic portrait of Hasidic Jewish life in his narrative feature debut, Menashe.
The lives of the various characters, like the daughter adopted out of Romania who saw her parents shot by soldiers before her as they tried to flee the Nazis or the young survivor of a raid on a Jewish home who was only saved when the housekeeper took him in and raised him as a Christian, are so interwoven with the struggle to remain true to their Hasidic beliefs while living in a world that is trying to move forward following the Holocaust.
2005 The Rape of the Sabine Women, single channel High Definition Video Cliff House, multi channel installation 2003 89 seconds at Alcazar, single channel video based on Las Meninas 2002 Portman's Looking Glass, a 4 projector installation, 150 ft. 16 mm loop Fly Right, a video triptych of Hasidic girls playing dodge ball 2001 Solace, a short film featuring soprano Kati Agocs 2000 China White - Scenes from an exile, three screen panoramic video installation 1999 Ten Women and a Shark or 15 years in 5:30, a short film 1998 Town Topic, three channel panoramic video installation, shot at Town Topic, Kansas City 1997 How to tell the future from the past, 12 channel surveillance video installation in the Serkeci Train Station, Istanbul, Turkey The Whites were a Mystery, 3 channel video filmed in Lomé, Togo 1996 Imagining Beforehand, 3 channel video, NYC 1995 Die Platzsünde, collaboration w / Ricoh Gerbl & Ivana Mestrovic, Rome / NYC 1993 Real Time, single channel video 1989 New Koke: An Advertisement for Real Life, a short pixal - vision video w / Karen Hatch
««Tracht Gut Ven Zein Gut» is a Yiddish phrase that means «Think Good and It will Be Good» this is the motto I live by and it has been passed down over the generations in the Hasidic community that I belong to.»
is a Yiddish phrase that means «Think Good and It will Be Good» this is the motto I live by and it has been passed down over the generations in the Hasidic community that I belong to.»
It is true that more orthodox Jews (by the way, the term «Hasidics» as opposed to «Hasids» or «Hasidim» is borderline derogatory - also, by the way, many of us who live here are not Hassidic even though we are Orthodox and send our children to private schools...) are moving into those areas.