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 | | I am playing Reb Saunders, the father of the Hassidic boy, and the head of a Hassidic 'court' or sect that is particularly other-world-oriented. |
 | | I am fascinated by Saunders, by his faith, by his willingness to live within a severly circumscribed world in search of the richness of the ecstatic Kabbalist tradition that lies at the heart of Hassidic Judaism. |
 | | Yet I am frustrated--even repelled--by his xenophobia and his absolutism: he considers the world at large Amalek, a faceless, hostile gentile mass, and most Jews, even, [i]apikorsim[/i] lapsed traitors to the faith, because they do not follow precisely the strictures of the Torah and the Talmud as he and his sect have interpreted them. |
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