Video response

1. What are 3 important facts you learned about the video? Women although they have little roles outside their family they carry every thing within it, Worship can be done every time within everything You do so as you mention it is for the sake of God. The talmud for them is the word of God. Hasdic people like to keep within their own commmunities and they do not value luxurious life styles.
2. How did what you watched in these videos help you better understand Asher Lev, his family and the community he lives in? I understoood more the reason why Asher's family and other people objected his drawings because it was something outside the practice of the community.
3. Provide 5 situations you read thus far in My Name is Asher Lev that are directly influenced by what you watched in these videos, of the Hasidim religion.
Stores owned by hasidic, schools, neighborhood, prayer rituals, and strictly traditional
4. Name one thing you would like to further explore. You have must name at least one thing, as we know that these videos do not give us the full picture of the entire religion.
The foundation of hasidism

Poetry Out Loud

Sonnet LV: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments By William Shakespeare

Not marble nor the gilded monuments

Of princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme,

But you shall shine more bright in these contents

Than unswept stone besmeared with sluttish time.

When wasteful war shall statues overturn,

And broils root out the work of masonry,

Nor Mars his sword nor war’s quick fire shall burn

The living record of your memory.

’Gainst death and all-oblivious enmity

Shall you pace forth; your praise shall still find room

Even in the eyes of all posterity

That wear this world out to the ending doom.

    So, till the Judgement that yourself arise,

    You live in this, and dwell in lovers’ eyes.

Themes in Asher Lev

Religon, social norms, desires, obligations, and the essence if ones hobby and desire.

   In my opinion the theme that represents the book is the effect and inevitability of social norms. Without paying much heed at all. How might this happen? Why is it inevitable? These questions are the building blocks of this Story.

  The story begins with Asher of present time introducing himself. After stating his gift, Asher goes on telling about his lineage on hasidic Jews. His commnity is filled with hasidic jews. And his parents are involved in this community. For example his father works for the Rebbe. Now why is this significant?

 From the earilist of his childhood he became acustom to using words such as gentiles. He also new which prayer melodies to sing. He also became acustom to the men with sideburns and the women with wigs. Because this was pretty much all what Asher saw. This is his community his life and all he has ever known. The reason he has become accustom to these things because it was inevitable. It was his parents way of life assended upon him. Is to inherit this.   

  Growing up in this story Asher tends to break these norms. Since the norms of the Hasidic society is build on religious customs. Asher's gift goes against these customs. It is of common knowledge to them that drawing is outlawed  in Hasidic Judiasms. His father who is of these norms tried to sway Asher From this. But Asher who at an early age found fault in society do to world wide events such as stalin or a local one his mothers illness due to her brother's death. With these events playing on him drawing became his salvation and scape goat from society. Losing it ince Asher. Intend to never lose it again.


 

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