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.
Ceremony at the Ger Yagdil Hatorah yeshiva celebrating a rite of passage for boys: being considered old enough to begin studying the Khumesh (the Torah: the Five Books of Moses). (Part 2) 5/1/1994
00:00:08 - Boys lining up to go to the khumesh ceremony.
00:02:24 - Boys arrive for the chumash ceremony and take their places before audience of parents and others. Women and girls behind a mekhitsa (divider that marks off a women's section in a synagogue). Mothers filming with camcorders.
00:04:41 - Ceremony begins. The boys chant happily about being old enough to graduate to formally studying Torah. They will begin their study with Leviticus, the third of the five books rather than with Genesis. The song explains this by saying since Leviticus deals with the purity of the sacrifices brought to the Temple, it is fitting that children who are pure (sinless) should begin with the part of the Torah that focuses on purity. They hold up their books: Vayikra, the opening passages of Leviticus, and read in unison from the books. Shots of family members in audience. (Yiddish, Hebrew)
00:12:47 - The ceremony ends. Rabbi M. Lubart (a Holocaust survivor and former student of Yeshivas Chachmay Lublin) gives a speech about the significance of this celebration and the existence of new generations who will study Torah after the Holocaust. About the name of the yeshiva, Yagdil Torah. A sermon on shmita (as mandated by the Torah, the seventh year of the agricultural cycle, when fields in the Land of Israel are left to lie fallow) and about the period between Passover and Shavuot (Holiday commemorating the revelation of the Ten Commandments at Mt. Sinai).
Rabbi Lubart talks about the miraculous rebuilding of yeshivas and Torah institutions after the tremendous destruction of the Holocaust by survivors, and how the ultimate success is when we see the losses of the Holocaust being restored with Torah being passed on to a new generation. We see the Divine Providence in this surprising success, we have accomplished holy work in only 40 years since the Holocaust. Work which should have taken 200 years. It took his teacher, Rabbi Meir Shapiro, seven years to establish one yeshiva Chachmay Lublin -- we have established many Chachmay Lublin yeshivas in these past few years. We see G-d’s hand and blessing in this success. (Yiddish)
Ceremony at the Ger Yagdil Hatorah yeshiva celebrating a rite of passage for boys: being considered old enough to begin studying the Khumesh (the Torah: the Five Books of Moses). (Part 2) 5/1/1994
00:00:08 - Boys lining up to go to the khumesh ceremony.
00:02:24 - Boys arrive for the chumash ceremony and take their places before audience of parents and others. Women and girls behind a mekhitsa (divider that marks off a women's section in a synagogue). Mothers filming with camcorders.
00:04:41 - Ceremony begins. The boys chant happily about being old enough to graduate to formally studying Torah. They will begin their study with Leviticus, the third of the five books rather than with Genesis. The song explains this by saying since Leviticus deals with the purity of the sacrifices brought to the Temple, it is fitting that children who are pure (sinless) should begin with the part of the Torah that focuses on purity. They hold up their books: Vayikra, the opening passages of Leviticus, and read in unison from the books. Shots of family members in audience. (Yiddish, Hebrew)
00:12:47 - The ceremony ends. Rabbi M. Lubart (a Holocaust survivor and former student of Yeshivas Chachmay Lublin) gives a speech about the significance of this celebration and the existence of new generations who will study Torah after the Holocaust. About the name of the yeshiva, Yagdil Torah. A sermon on shmita (as mandated by the Torah, the seventh year of the agricultural cycle, when fields in the Land of Israel are left to lie fallow) and about the period between Passover and Shavuot (Holiday commemorating the revelation of the Ten Commandments at Mt. Sinai).
Rabbi Lubart talks about the miraculous rebuilding of yeshivas and Torah institutions after the tremendous destruction of the Holocaust by survivors, and how the ultimate success is when we see the losses of the Holocaust being restored with Torah being passed on to a new generation. We see the Divine Providence in this surprising success, we have accomplished holy work in only 40 years since the Holocaust. Work which should have taken 200 years. It took his teacher, Rabbi Meir Shapiro, seven years to establish one yeshiva Chachmay Lublin -- we have established many Chachmay Lublin yeshivas in these past few years. We see G-d’s hand and blessing in this success. (Yiddish)
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1997
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