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.
Rabbi Berel Lazar, a Lubavitch (Chabad) shaliach (emissary) to Russia, at home with his children in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Morning prayer at 770 Eastern Parkway, the headquarters of Chabad Hasidism. (Part 1) 11/28/1993.
00:00:46 - (Partial audio) Rabbi Berel Lazar at home with one of his children on his way out to go to synagogue. He speaks with them in Yiddish, explaining the presence of the camera crew.
00:03:44 - (Partial audio) Berel Lazar leaves his apartment building and walks to 770 Eastern Parkway. His arrival at 770. A room crowded with men there to recite morning prayers. Shots of Lazar in conversation with other men, other men in conversation, Lazar and other men at prayer.
00:10:18 - Lazar puts on his tallis (prayer shawl) and tefillin (leather straps and boxes containing biblical verse worn for weekday morning prayer) and prays. Behind him a small sign in Hebrew on a bookshelf: "The story is what matters." Other men praying and conversing. Children, including a girl running around the room, boys sitting over prayerbooks.
00:15:12 - (Partial audio, some wild sound) A young boy puts on tefillin. One man leads the group in a mourner's Kaddish. Man walks around the room soliciting donations for a charity or for himself. Men praying, putting on tallis and tefillin. Children.
00:23:01 - Audio only. Wild sound.
Rabbi Berel Lazar, a Lubavitch (Chabad) shaliach (emissary) to Russia, at home with his children in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Morning prayer at 770 Eastern Parkway, the headquarters of Chabad Hasidism. (Part 1) 11/28/1993.
00:00:46 - (Partial audio) Rabbi Berel Lazar at home with one of his children on his way out to go to synagogue. He speaks with them in Yiddish, explaining the presence of the camera crew.
00:03:44 - (Partial audio) Berel Lazar leaves his apartment building and walks to 770 Eastern Parkway. His arrival at 770. A room crowded with men there to recite morning prayers. Shots of Lazar in conversation with other men, other men in conversation, Lazar and other men at prayer.
00:10:18 - Lazar puts on his tallis (prayer shawl) and tefillin (leather straps and boxes containing biblical verse worn for weekday morning prayer) and prays. Behind him a small sign in Hebrew on a bookshelf: "The story is what matters." Other men praying and conversing. Children, including a girl running around the room, boys sitting over prayerbooks.
00:15:12 - (Partial audio, some wild sound) A young boy puts on tefillin. One man leads the group in a mourner's Kaddish. Man walks around the room soliciting donations for a charity or for himself. Men praying, putting on tallis and tefillin. Children.
00:23:01 - Audio only. Wild sound.
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00:29:50 (HH:MM:SS)
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English
Copyright Date
1997
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