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.
Mourners at grave of Lubavitcher Rebbe. (Part 2) Interview with Chabad (Lubavitcher) emissary Rabbi Berel Lazar. Ca. 6/15/1994
Terms you may encounter:
Golus: Exile.
Pidyon: Ransom.
Tekhies meysim: the raising of the dead, which is believed will happen with the arrival of the Messiah.
00:00:01 - Rabbi Berel Lazar writing a letter to the Rebbe and entering the cemetery. The Rebbe's ohel (mausoleum).
00:02:51 - Interview with grief-stricken Rabbi Berel Lazar outside the ohel: About how he rushed back from Moscow when he learned of the Rebbe's death. About still being sure that the Rebbe is the messiah and that how soon he will be revealed and there will be tekhies meysim. They must carry on the teachings and work of the Rebbe. Weeps when asked about how he feels that his children will never meet the Rebbe. How no one who didn't meet the Rebbe will understand how life-changing an experience it was.
00:11:11 - Continuation of interview with Berel Lazar: They must carry on the teachings and work of the Rebbe: to hasten the coming of the Messiah. Everyone had their own unique relationship with the Rebbe. An anecdote about how the Rebbe gave him personal attention to him when he was a child and that everything he did in his life was guided by what the Rebbe wanted.
00:16:04 - Continuation of interview with Berel Lazar: About when he learned of the death of the Rebbe. About what he will tell people back in Moscow. About how the only purpose in life is preparing the world for the Messiah. What it will be like when the Messiah comes.
00:22:24 - Audio only.
Mourners at grave of Lubavitcher Rebbe. (Part 2) Interview with Chabad (Lubavitcher) emissary Rabbi Berel Lazar. Ca. 6/15/1994
Terms you may encounter:
Golus: Exile.
Pidyon: Ransom.
Tekhies meysim: the raising of the dead, which is believed will happen with the arrival of the Messiah.
00:00:01 - Rabbi Berel Lazar writing a letter to the Rebbe and entering the cemetery. The Rebbe's ohel (mausoleum).
00:02:51 - Interview with grief-stricken Rabbi Berel Lazar outside the ohel: About how he rushed back from Moscow when he learned of the Rebbe's death. About still being sure that the Rebbe is the messiah and that how soon he will be revealed and there will be tekhies meysim. They must carry on the teachings and work of the Rebbe. Weeps when asked about how he feels that his children will never meet the Rebbe. How no one who didn't meet the Rebbe will understand how life-changing an experience it was.
00:11:11 - Continuation of interview with Berel Lazar: They must carry on the teachings and work of the Rebbe: to hasten the coming of the Messiah. Everyone had their own unique relationship with the Rebbe. An anecdote about how the Rebbe gave him personal attention to him when he was a child and that everything he did in his life was guided by what the Rebbe wanted.
00:16:04 - Continuation of interview with Berel Lazar: About when he learned of the death of the Rebbe. About what he will tell people back in Moscow. About how the only purpose in life is preparing the world for the Messiah. What it will be like when the Messiah comes.
00:22:24 - Audio only.
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1997
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