D'vekut: Hasidism and Jewish Mysticism

This documentary tells the fascinating story of Hasidism and Jewish Mysticism in Israel, through the personal experience of the Dutch Jewish filmmaker Willy Lindwer. The film shows unique film-footage, some of it shot with a hidden camera, of a mystical world, unknown to many. For the first time it was possible, through very close and personal contacts of the filmmaker, to penetrate the Hasidic sects in Israel. The Hasidic world of today is among the fastest growing mystical societies in the world.

Coming from his secular background in the Netherlands, where ultra-orthodoxy and Jewish extremism are all but unknown, Willy Lindwer entered the world of Israeli Hasidism with a distinct advantage. As an outsider, unaffected by the religious-secular antagonism that colors daily life in Israel, he was able to view the Hasidic world without prejudice or dislike. He was receptive to its heritage and traditions.

D'vekut is the story of Jewish Mysticism and Hasidism in Israel, told through the personal journey of the filmmaker. Through contacts in the Hasidic world, based upon his own Eastern European roots, Willy Lindwer to penetrate a world inaccessible to most, taking his camera into places that had never before been filmed. He spent almost two years working on this production. The film explores some of the main Hasidic streams, but also provides an insight into their way of life, which is strictly separated from secular society. The filmmaker was able to penetrate this closed, protected world to obtain an inside view into habits, lifestyles, and opinions.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• religion
• judaism
• hasidism
• israel
• willy lindwer
• the netherlands

[zosix1]

Where can I find the full version?

[OrthodoxDarwinist]

"Hasidism represents represents the transformation into a mystical ethos of two earlier forms of Judaism, Halakhic Judaism and the Kabbalah, conceived of mainly as Lurianic mysticism, a lore that was regarded as a type of Gnostic thought."

- "Hasidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic" by Moshe Idel.

Having said that I hate the racism that is coming out of some Hasidic sects such as Chabad Lubavitch; which sadly uses faux-mysticism to give a potency to their racial bigotry.

[mrshmuly1]

@pillsburydoughboy47 according to you, it may not be a great book, but the jews a definitely a great people, and unlike any other in the world

[mrshmuly1]

@mauro663 thats the kaddish

[mauro663]

The prayer being said 1:05.... where can I find it?

Thank you

[pillsburydoughboy47]

people, give it a rest with the Jews; the Bible is not THAT great of a book.

[gardenspook]

very nice