I just finished reading his memoir - very profound and moving. Thank you, Shulem, for having the courage to tell your story.
@RockeyToes
2 жыл бұрын
I just finished Shulem's memoir at 1am, (I'm not a night person) however, I could not put this compelling and poignant book down. How courageous and risky it was to leave the only life you've ever known, to relearn all aspects of your life, and to lose your relationship and contact with your children, without recourse. The book revealed the process of defining his faith (or lack of) layer by delicate and painful, bitter, layer, yet he persevered. This came, at great risk, not only was he banned from his community, but there were dire consequences for his family. Thank you for posting this video! Hearing the language of my childhood (my family are Ashkenazi) was a comfort.
@quaver1239
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this. Am reading Shulem Deen’s *All Who Go Do Not Return*, and find this interview very interesting. Sad, for many reasons, but of great interest.
@marktrencher1896
9 жыл бұрын
Great interview and that you for sharing, Shulem ... and for the nice opportunity to hear Chassidishe Yiddish, which i get too often.
@Ihatetoprocrastinate
2 жыл бұрын
Wow, amazing to hear. I appreciate how Shulem articulates the appeal of the chassidic life, the purity of it, the light and warmth in communities that are a little more ‘mufshat’. It’s not something that’s easily seen if you haven’t experienced it. And very hard and sad to leave behind as well
@ADawoodKiwi
7 жыл бұрын
I have sadness and love here I hope Shulem finds happiness
@janettejones3925
2 жыл бұрын
Hello Mr deen I found a copy of your book at a used bookstore in NYC the bookoff it's a wonderful book I'm from buffalo ny
@mrpizzaandpasta
8 жыл бұрын
I love the translation of balebatish as bourgeois
@neverbearrogant
8 жыл бұрын
Totally agree...
@jaelzion
Жыл бұрын
Why would the Haredim expect their boys to become husbands and fathers, but not prepare them to support a family? That seems like setting your children up for failure.
@donnag.1495
8 жыл бұрын
Shulem, I really admire you for your courage to follow your convictions. I hope you will reunite w/ your children at some point in time. Please check out Brother Nathaneal (former Jew) for more inside information re: Judaism. I think you will be more enlightened. God bless you!
@imaof4
8 жыл бұрын
Never heard of this person until last week one of the yom tov guests had read the book and had brought it up. Mrs. W is from Poland, a survivor of the Shoah, and couldn't understand how someone could leave yiddishkeit altogether. In America, all things are possible. In Poland, at least in her experience and recollection (because there were many secular Jews to be sure) she communicated that somehow, someone would always keep some kesher (connection) to the Jewish faith and community. I've just ordered the book, so I don't know the whole story, but I understand from this interview, Shulem Deen brings a very clear distinction as to where he stands. Its considered, if he indeed was learned enough to have been considered an apakores (not my place to make such a judgement), he has done it on the basis of a true apakores - meaning it was on an intellectual basis and a loss of faith. When I was in seminary, I remember an aggadah (Aramaic - meaning 'stories' from the Talmud or Midrash) about Acher {'Other One'} was former rabbi and teacher during the time of the Tannaim ((those read in the Mishna) _ Elisha ben Abuyah. Acher's intellectual curiosity led him to Greek language and philosophy - of primacy in his time, as he had been born in Jerusalem, 70 A.C.E. The aggadahI recall is where the rabbis (his former contemporaries) noticed Acher eating chazir (pig). One of the rabbis said to Acher, 'B'teavon' (hearty appetite). This rabbi was asked by the others, why would he wish Acher a hearty appetite whilst he was eating treif (non kosher food) and the answer was -"Better he have a teiva (a nature, a desire that he couldn't resist) rather than an active rebellion against G-d.' What we know of Acher, despite his deep learning in Torah, he refuted G-d. This is not to make comparisons - perhaps Shulem Deen's is from either machshavah (thought process) or some of both. His story (and others) I fear, has become fascinating to the general public - Jewish or not - because of the peek into the world of Chasidim, an 'insider's view' of a very insular (voluntarily so) community. One, depending on the viewer's perspective, affirms their already somewhat negative view.
@renedupont1953
8 жыл бұрын
For once, the Forverts welcomes a guest who speaks authentic Yiddish with typical dialect features. My impression is that he has a serious, constructive approach to the wonderful Yiddish language. A MEKHAYE TSU HERN VI DER YUNGER MEKHABER MOLT A FAINEM IDESH MIT DER SATMARER HAVORE. ZAINE GISHMAKE REYD HOBN MIR FARSHAFT FARGINIGN UN AN EMESN NAKHAS-RUAKH. ZAIT VAITER MATSLIAKH, REB SHOLEM, UN GINIST IN DER FULER MOS FUN UNDZER RAIKHER IDESHER LITERATUR, VOS TALENTIRTE PEN-MENTSHN HOBN GISHAFN FAR ZEYER DOR UN EYKHET FAR DI KUMENDIKE DEYRES.
@JoyJoy-pp2bf
3 жыл бұрын
You can always return to God Never give up
@vivalaleta
Жыл бұрын
You can always come to your senses. Never give up.
@PC-lu3zf
4 жыл бұрын
The Hasidic world is horrible boring. I’m Jewish but could not live in that world nor could he.
@franceslockhart4933
7 жыл бұрын
He abdicated his responsibility to his wife (who didn't want to separate) and his children. His motivations are self centered.
@vivalaleta
Жыл бұрын
Bullshit. Did you read his book? How could any brilliant thinker (As Deen certainly is) not realize how primitive and ridiculous so much of it was, not to mention cruel. Deen's wife was welcome to go with him and free herself from such terrible misogyny but she wasn't half the scholar her husband was. We feel terrible for Deen's children who were programmed to turn against him. We hope eventually they'll realize what they could have in this age of the internet.
@quaver1239
Жыл бұрын
@@vivalaleta: Well said. Thank you.
@quaver1239
Жыл бұрын
@franceslockhart4933 : You have quite the narrow viewpoint, deciding you are in this world as judge and jury. 👎
@Elechkite
9 жыл бұрын
such distortion! they keep saying "leaving Hasidic life"......he left Judaism all together. the truth is that it looks weird and fake to speak Yiddish when you are a secular person. that ise reason why the secular Yiddish movement disappear from the world. I find the interview boring because it is about a person that was incapable to keep Judaism. Ismore interesting a interview about people than keep it despite all the stupidity the world has to offer!
@hughhughes4488
9 жыл бұрын
Toiras Chesed Yiddish secular culture disappeared because the circumstances that sustained it (the isolation of the jewish people in Europe in ghettos) ended. My grandmother lived in a shtetl, and she, along with the majority of shtetl inhabitants, were mostly secular, their lives weren't dominated by religion, they were too busy milking cows and trying to eat (in the complete absence of welfare/foodstamps/etc). These secular jews who went to America didn't have to live in the Pale of Settlement or in ghettos, they could attain the American Dream (in the process losing their Yiddish language/culture). If they immigrated to Israel, they could attain the "Israeli Dream", which meant the abandonment of their Yiddish in favor of Modern Hebrew. And if they stayed in Europe, they either died in the holocaust, or, if they survived and stayed in Europe, they too could now move out of the ghettos and make a better life for themselves, also losing their Yiddish. The only reason the Hasids kept their Yiddish is because they isolated themselves, and continue to do so. I am not criticizing them for it, but their Yiddish culture is of their own making, they have become ultra-religious as a necessity to keep themselves isolated (whereas in Europe it was outsiders that kept jews isolated). It is not the semi-religious secular Yiddish culture that existed in the Pale of Settlement and in the ghettos of eastern Europe.
@Elechkite
9 жыл бұрын
Hugh Hughes Not so at all! Yiddish was utilized by Jews for the same reason that Ladino was utilize by Sephardi Jews. That was meant to protect the Hebrew from becoming secular. I know many ultra orthodox Jews that speak Yiddish and have a wealthy life. Simple Yiddish and secularism does not go together because in order to be a genuine Yiddish speaker you have to be a genuine Jew in Judaism. For the secular that language makes no sense! My respect goes for the Jews the Yiddish and the Judaism combined. No real person will look at these two guys on the video and say they represent Jewishness.
@hughhughes4488
9 жыл бұрын
There once existed a secular yiddish culture, but again, it died out because the secular yiddish speakers assimilated to the places they lived and their children ended up losing their Yiddish. My family is a good example, my grandmother came from a shtetl in eastern Poland and spoke fluent Yiddish as did her husband, but they began to speak more and more english because their school, jobs, entertainment, etc were all in english. By the time my mom was born (15 years after their marriage) they rarely spoke Yiddish. She speaks some Yiddish words, which she uses affectionately, and I speak even less. The ultra-orthodox who speak Yiddish generally send their children to schools where Yiddish is the primary language of instruction, which is VERY important for preserving the language. I've even seen this among Hispanic families, their parents speak to the kids in spanish, but the children speak to each other in english, because in the school, everything is in english. And this is also how Modern Hebrew was made a living language, everything in public in Israel was required to be in Hebrew, from schooling, the army, newspapers, radio, television, etc. If Israel had chosen Yiddish instead of Hebrew, there would be millions of secular Yiddish speakers.
@elianaweisz8243
5 жыл бұрын
So much junk
@vivalaleta
Жыл бұрын
How so?
@renedupont1953
8 жыл бұрын
The interviewer has made some progress in his spoken Yiddish, but he still has a long way to go. His pronunciation is not uniform, he says FREGIN instead of FREGN, and his command of traditional Yiddish phraseology is clearly limited. He is, however, a well-intentioned student of the language. BA IDN ZOGT MEN, AZ A VELER IZ BESER VI A KENER. LOMIR HOFN, AZ ER VET NIT BLAIBN BAM VELN. MIT DER TSAIT VET ER ZEKH EFSHER DERGRUNTEVEN TSUM EMESN, FRISH-TSAPLDIKN IDESH, NOR DERVAILE, BIZ EPES-VOS, IZ NOKH VAIT TSUM GILEKHTER. IDESH IZ NIT FUN DI GRINGE LESHEYNES; ME DARF HOREVEN AF DEM LANGE YORN, OBER DI TIRKHE IZ ZIKHER KEDAI.
@bizh7715
6 жыл бұрын
oh my fkin gd....this rat's everywhere
@bizh7715
6 жыл бұрын
you just won't stop trolling on youtube, ain't you?
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