- Beliefs, customs and traditions define every aspect of Jewish
life. From the day a Jew is born until after they die, every
day marks a different stage of life, each with its own personal
and religious significance.
- The Jewish Life Cycle
describes three of those most crucial landmarks. Following three
beautiful stories, this film intimately depicts the way that
religion intertwines and defines Jewish life.
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- 60 minute (video)
DVD - $19.95
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- The Eighth Day
"Nature is what you started with, not what you want to become."
Spoken by Joseph, a physician, to his son Micha, these words
reflect the eternal struggle between the wish to 'fit in' and
the desire to serve a higher calling. Religious life for a Jewish
man begins on the eighth day after his birth, and marks his initiation
into the ritual cycle of life. Set in the days of the Maccabim
when the Greeks ruled the Promised Land, The Eighth Day follows
the struggle of a father from the desire to give his son a 'normal'
Greek life, to his recognition of the importance of his Jewish
heritage and a growing urgency to proudly pass it on to his young
son.
The Journey
Set in the Marxist Soviet Union of 1941 when freedom of thought
and belief were crimes against the state, The Journey is the
story of American civil engineer ,Jonathan Levinson, and youngster
Nikolai Krone. As Nikolai awakens to being no longer a child,
he learns that it is now up to him to ask the important questions
in life, and to find the answers he needs. Through the miraculous
meeting of Jonathan and Nikolai, they both come to embrace the
beauty and importance of the Bar Mitzva ceremony, and the privilege
and responsibility it brings to being full adult Jewish men.
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- The Corridor
The last landmark in the Jewish life cycle is death and burial.
Sharon, a young girl visiting in Israel as a summer volunteer,
has a near death experience as she survives a near-fatal car
crash. Following Sharon through a series of profound discoveries,
The Corridor portrays the difficulty of coping with extraordinary
inner truths as she deals with skeptics and believers alike.
Sharon then gets a new neighbor in the next hospital bed who
reveals to her some of the deeper Jewish beliefs on the matter.
"Beyond the seven days of creation there is an eighth day."
Through extraordinary human stories The Jewish Life Cycle paints
beautiful pictures of religious discovery and the importance
of these landmarks in a person's life. From the day we are born
and begin a brave new life until after our death, this is the
Jewish cycle of life.
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