Ronit lives in the modern age, in the here and now of groovy tattooed seniors, art photography and liberated women, but «Disobedience» tracks her when she steps back in time after the death
of her rabbi father (Anton Lesser), a revered religious figure in north London.
As the film opens, New York photographer Ronit (Rachel Weisz) returns to the Orthodox Jewish community where she grew up to mourn the death
of her rabbi father (Anton Lesser).
The death
of her rabbi father, a pillar of the Hendon Orthodox community, has brought her home again.
After the death
of her rabbi father, New York photographer (Rachel Weisz) returns home to the Hasidic neighbourhood in North London that she abandoned years before, instigating anxiety among old friends and relatives, and rekindling an old forbidden passion.
A woman (Rachel Weisz) returns to her Orthodox Jewish home after the death
of her rabbi father and stirs up controversy when she shows an interest in an old childhood friend.
Not exact matches
'» While the feminine participle «omeneth refers to a woman who nurses a child (2 Sam 4:4; Ruth 4:16) the masculine participle «omen can simply designate a male «guardian,» «attendant,» or «foster
father»
of children (i.e., someone who cares for all their needs), as the very example cited by the
rabbi from Isa 49:23 indicates (so also 2 Kings 10:1, 5).
The book
of Job has served as a philosophical Rorschach blot for its most outspoken interpreters, from the Talmudic
rabbis and Church
Fathers through their medieval philosophical successors and down to modern philosophers, theologians, and creative writers.
Six years ago, Areleh Harel, an Orthodox
rabbi from the West Bank, devised a plan to help an Orthodox Jewish gay man fulfill his dream
of becoming a husband and
father while keeping him in good standing with the Jewish law and his community
of believers.
My
father, son
of a Polish
rabbi, while completing his own rabbinical studies in Switzerland was introduced to the New Testament, not by an eager gentile missionary but by his overhearing (quite by accident) a discussion about Jesus in some university hall.
Marx's
father, Hirschel Marx, a lawyer, was a descendant
of a respected family
of rabbis.
Since The Romans had (as they always did, eventually) taken the ultimate legal Authority from the Jewish
Rabbis in Israel (the Sceptre) and the Messiah had not come (as the Rabbi's still claim, then surely Abraham (the
Father Of faith) is a false prophet?
He continues the story by examining the period
of the second temple in Jewish thought, the rise
of apocalypticism and millenarianism, sectarian life in New Testament times, New Testament views
of afterlife, pseudepigraphic literature, the Church
fathers, the early
rabbis, and Muslim views
of the afterlife..
The memo also inclues a number
of heatfelt letters from Hevesi's friends, family and
rabbi, including his sons, former Sen. Dan Hevesi and Assemblyman Andy Hevesi, who were both implicated in and / or impacted by their
father's pay - to - play pension fund scandal.
In 2010, you told one
of the two chief
rabbis of the Satmar Hasidic sect that you «did a lot
of work» at Kiryas Joel as U.S. housing secretary under President Clinton because
of the connection between the village and your
father.
Because she has learned
of the death
of her
father, a much - respected
rabbi: a fierce, potent cameo for Anton Lesser.
Uncovering the tensions
of its story with a minimum
of obvious exposition, it introduces us to Ronit «Ronnie» Krushka (Rachel Weisz), a bohemian English photographer based in New York, as she returns to the suburbs
of London following the death
of her estranged
father, a beloved
rabbi in a tightly knit community
of Orthodox Jews.
Her
father was the rav, the most senior and respected
rabbi in this close - knit Orthodox community, but the two
of them were estranged for many years, so estranged that the rav's obituary in the local Jewish newspaper claims, «Sadly, he left no children.»
Jesse Eisenberg stars as Sam Gold, a young Hasid from a tight - knit Brooklyn community who is nervously following the carefully prescribed path laid out for him by his family, which includes studying to become a
rabbi, working with his garment dealer
father, Mendel (Mark Ivanir), and awaiting the final confirmation
of a pending arranged marriage to Zeldy (Stella Keitel, daughter
of Harvey and Lorraine Bracco).
She can only manage a few minutes
of the cold stares at the reception before she's retreated to the kitchen, with only Dovid seeming to acknowledge that her loss
of a
father, however distant their relationship, deserves the same respect as the neighborhood's loss
of a
rabbi.
In the middle
of a shoot, she receives word that her estranged
father (Anton Lesser), a powerful Orthodox
rabbi, has died.
She returned years later at the death
of her
father, the
rabbi who was the community's spiritual leader, and still feels shunned.
No one is exactly sure how she found out about her
father's passing, though Dovid (Alessandro Nivola), her friend and devoted student
of the
rabbi (actually a Rav, a
rabbi with more training in providing guidance related to the practical aspects
of Jewish law) is at least glad to see her.
After the death
of her estranged
rabbi father, New York photographer Ronit (Rachel Weisz) returns to the Orthodox Jewish community in North London where she grew up to attend his funeral.
DISOBEDIENCE — APRIL 27 From a screenplay by Lelio and Rebecca Lenkiewicz, the film follows a woman as she returns from New York after the death
of her estranged
rabbi father to the Orthodox Jewish community in North London where she grew up.
The film follows Weisz» expatriate character as she returns from New York after the death
of her estranged
rabbi father to the Orthodox Jewish community in North London where she grew up.
Sebastián Lelio's somber and passionate new drama, «Disobedience,» begins with the death
of a celebrated Orthodox
rabbi in North London — a loss that brings his only child, Ronit (Rachel Weisz), back home from New York to settle her
father's estate.
They meet again when Ronit Krushka returns to her orthodox Jewish community for the funeral
of her much revered
father, a
rabbi of rectitude.
Ronit Krushka (Rachel Weisz), who left the community years ago for a life unburdened by religious expectations in New York, returns after the death
of her
father, an influential
rabbi.
Rachel Weisz is the secular, exiled daughter
of an Orthodox
rabbi, who returns for her
father's funeral and rekindles a forbidden relationship with another woman (Rachel McAdam).
Disobedience follows a woman as she returns to the North London Orthodox Jewish community where she grew up after the death
of her estranged
rabbi father in New York.
In that regard, too, screenwriters Alex Lipschultz, Musa Syeed, and Weinstein show us the details
of living in such a community without passing judgment, despite the repeated hints that there are consequences for those who do not fit the mold — such as Menashe — or who are seen as less deserving
of certain privileges — mainly women, who, according to one
of the area's
rabbis, aren't allowed to drive and can only attend college with a
father's unlikely blessing.
Based on the novel
of the same name by Naomi Alderman, the film stars Rachel Weisz as a woman who returns to New York after the death
of her estranged
rabbi father, integrating into the Orthodox Jewish community for the first time after being ostracized.
The crux
of the story is whether David, the son, will marry the
rabbi's daughter as his mother wishes him to do, or will marry the daughter
of his
father's Chinese business partner.
However, things take a turn as Rifka's health deteriorates, leaving Moshe to deal with an abusive, depressed and drunk
rabbi of a
father.
The sixth president
of Israel, Chaim Herzog, was born in north Belfast in 1918 (Herzog's
father was a
rabbi of the Annesley Street Synagogue).