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.
Preparations for public Hanukkah event in Moscow. Chanie Lazar, wife of Berel Lazar, the Lubavitcher (Chabad) shaliach (emissary) in Russia, shopping for food for Shabbos. Boys learning how to lay tefillin. Interview with a mohel (performer of ritual circumcisions) in Moscow (Part 2) 12/9/1993.
00:00:03 - Rabbi Berel Lazar meeting with director of theater to plan concert for Hanukkah event. (Russian/English)
00:07:18 - (Partial audio) Chanie Lazar shopping in market hall.
00:11:11 - (Partial audio) Classroom in Moscow. Boys putting on and taking off tefillin (leather straps and boxes containing biblical verse worn for weekday morning prayer), maybe learning how to put on tefillin. Portrait of the Lubavitcher Rebbe on the wall.
00:15:39 - (Partial audio) Binyomin, a mohel (performer of ritual circumcisions) in room preparing medical equipment and supplies. Interview: About how he became a mohel and why he felt it important to have a bris (circumcision, customarily performed on boys when they are eight days old) as an adult. About how clandestine brises were arranged during Soviet times by a man whose cover was running a locksmith business. (English, then Yiddish)
Preparations for public Hanukkah event in Moscow. Chanie Lazar, wife of Berel Lazar, the Lubavitcher (Chabad) shaliach (emissary) in Russia, shopping for food for Shabbos. Boys learning how to lay tefillin. Interview with a mohel (performer of ritual circumcisions) in Moscow (Part 2) 12/9/1993.
00:00:03 - Rabbi Berel Lazar meeting with director of theater to plan concert for Hanukkah event. (Russian/English)
00:07:18 - (Partial audio) Chanie Lazar shopping in market hall.
00:11:11 - (Partial audio) Classroom in Moscow. Boys putting on and taking off tefillin (leather straps and boxes containing biblical verse worn for weekday morning prayer), maybe learning how to put on tefillin. Portrait of the Lubavitcher Rebbe on the wall.
00:15:39 - (Partial audio) Binyomin, a mohel (performer of ritual circumcisions) in room preparing medical equipment and supplies. Interview: About how he became a mohel and why he felt it important to have a bris (circumcision, customarily performed on boys when they are eight days old) as an adult. About how clandestine brises were arranged during Soviet times by a man whose cover was running a locksmith business. (English, then Yiddish)
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English
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1997
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