Jerusalem – Students being trained to become orthodox rabbis are also being trained to become filmmakers. Can orthodox observance and the world of film and cinema coexist?
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Israeli Salad, IsraelNN TV’s weekly culture magazine, visits The Torat Hachayim School for Jewish Cinema and Media located in Yad Binyamin, east of Ashdod. The staff of the Torat Hachayim Rabbinical Seminary (yeshiva) decided that video is a tool that must be used for the sake of increasing spirituality in the world.
Uri Groder, one of the teachers in the yeshiva told IsraelNN TV: “With cinema you can reach deep levels and bring out emotions – you can make a person cry or laugh. The emotions are stronger when a person sees a picture and hears sound. And so, cinema is very spiritual.”
“Many people are thirsty, thirsty for Judaism – and they don’t know where to get it,” explains Groder. “The easiest way to spread Judaism to many people together, nicely and pleasantly, is through this media – and this is what we want to do, with G-d’s help.”
yeah, very nice,
I would call it “the PHOTOGRAPH’EH RABBI…
When can I join this School…
This School can lots of good…
Great idea to disseminate Jewish values – too often observant jews are depicted as backwards.
what next? there will be a very successful actor who will want to expand his horizons beyond the yeshiva he will not want to be in astraight jacklet in an explosive declaration he will say hollywood here i come look what’s happened to “jewish music”
its nice to teach boys a good parnasa
so long as they don’t use the internet to post video on YouTube.
Whatever happened to those actor’s who played Yosef in “Yosef Shpiel”?
As someone who works in the film industry I’m pleased to see this. I hope we’ll have to make room for new talent doing good for the world.
What a great thing for us
I thought “let us be like all the goyim around us” was a bad thing? It’s interesting that Judaism survived 3300 hundred years without film and now it’s a necessity. As far as evoking emotion, a good drasha, a good story, or even a good picture can also evoke all those emotions without using the tools that are the staples of Goyishe culture.
As a side Pyes.org is advertising there Helfgott concert for two weeks already and nobody has been moicheh. I would like to be the first to issue a moicha’ah. ICH BIN MOICHEH! There, I feel better already, just wait and see, all the rabbanim will follow suit because I got the ball rolling.
what an ignorant comment. film has only been around for a little over 100 years and look at what an impact (for better or worse) it’s had on the world. film is a tool, like the telephone or a car or the internet. are you going to stop driving a car because it’s “goyishe” ? or how about not using any books to learn torah because printing is “goyeshe”. it’s what you do with a tool that matters.