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Interview with Rabbi Berel Lazar (3)
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Interview with Rabbi Berel Lazar (3). Daum, Menachem. 1993. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36730253.APA citation style
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Interview with Rabbi Berel Lazar (3). Daum, Menachem. 1993. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.36730253.Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
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- 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 Berel Lazar, Lubavitcher (Chabad) shaliach (emissary) in Russia. (Part 3) 12/9/1993. 00:00:00 - Interview with Rabbi Berel Lazar: about how he wanted to marry someone who would be as dedicated as he was to shlikhus (Chabad outreach mission). About the greater role his wife plays in working with families and individuals in Russia. She has 3 full time jobs: raising a family, teaching, community work. 00:03:19 - According to Halakha (Jewish law), women are exempted from time-related commandments. Each gender has its own role. 00:07:05 - About how the place of a woman is in the home and the importance of monogamy for women. 00:09:19 - About how intimacy and physical affection between husband and wife should be private. 00:10:01 - About how the whole world needs to be ready for the coming of the Messiah. 00:12:35 - About how he has never felt that he was missing anything by being a Hasid, not even when he was a child. About modern Jews not being happy and missing out on having the sense of purpose that Hasidim have. 00:15:01 - About Hasidic song. 00:16:22 - About how divine intervention was necessary to successfully mount the public Hanukkah candle-lighting event. 00:18:20 - About the symbolic importance for the pride of Russian Jews of holding Hanukkah event in public and how important it was to hold it in Red Square given the USSR's anti-religious history. It is a sign of new times. 00:20:17 - About why Lubavitcher Hasidim dress the way they do. 00:21:41 - (Audio only). 22:02: The rebbe's outreach to the world and his effects on the lives of millions is unprecedented in Jewish history. The rebbe as a general with an army. Unshakable belief that the Rebbe is the Messiah.
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