Abstract
Footage from the 1997 documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” (directed by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky), the first in-depth documentary about Hasidic Jews, members of a distinctive group within Judaism that has roots in pre-World War II Eastern Europe.
Interview with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi about Hasidism. (Part 2) 1/16/1995.
00:00:57 - Interview with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi: About the relationship between Hasidim and their rebbes.
00:02:13 - About how Hasidism is bigger than the lives of individuals. About Hasidic dress preserving Hasidic identity and varying between the different groups of Hasidim. Hasidic cupport systems, such as ambulance corps.
00:04:01 - About how Hasidism in Europe was not urban but centered in different towns around the courts of their rebbes. Hasidim outside New York are different than New York Hasidim, like the Twersky Hasidim in Milwaukee who are more open to the outside world.
00:05:50 - About the isolation of Hasidim in minority neighborhoods from their neighbors. Both minorities feel oppressed by mainstream culture. Crown Heights: some promising developments in breaking down this isolation.
00:07:01 - About the ways in which he still feels himself to be Hasidic. Wore Hasidic garb when he met the Dalai Lama. About the continuing need for Hasidic masters.
00:10:04 - Sings song in English.
00:11:12 - About a Hasidic master who was a woman: "the Maiden of Ludmir." (Audio only) Today there are also women capable of "soul teaching" and women masters will arise in the 21st century. Feminine aspects of Hasidism, e.g., the shekhina (the feminine aspect of God). Sings song in English about the shekhina.
Interview with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi about Hasidism. (Part 2) 1/16/1995.
00:00:57 - Interview with Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi: About the relationship between Hasidim and their rebbes.
00:02:13 - About how Hasidism is bigger than the lives of individuals. About Hasidic dress preserving Hasidic identity and varying between the different groups of Hasidim. Hasidic cupport systems, such as ambulance corps.
00:04:01 - About how Hasidism in Europe was not urban but centered in different towns around the courts of their rebbes. Hasidim outside New York are different than New York Hasidim, like the Twersky Hasidim in Milwaukee who are more open to the outside world.
00:05:50 - About the isolation of Hasidim in minority neighborhoods from their neighbors. Both minorities feel oppressed by mainstream culture. Crown Heights: some promising developments in breaking down this isolation.
00:07:01 - About the ways in which he still feels himself to be Hasidic. Wore Hasidic garb when he met the Dalai Lama. About the continuing need for Hasidic masters.
00:10:04 - Sings song in English.
00:11:12 - About a Hasidic master who was a woman: "the Maiden of Ludmir." (Audio only) Today there are also women capable of "soul teaching" and women masters will arise in the 21st century. Feminine aspects of Hasidism, e.g., the shekhina (the feminine aspect of God). Sings song in English about the shekhina.
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English
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1997
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