A Day In The Life of a Hasidic Family in Brooklyn! — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:29la all right 71 here we
3. 0:38[Music]
4. 0:55goe our oldest is 14 uhhuh and are
5. 1:00youngest is almost a
6. 1:01year so uh yeah thank God we have nine
7. 1:04kids okay so he's not even the youngest
8. 1:06youngest no he has a younger sister Leia
9. 1:09so uh so nine all together nine all
10. 1:11together thank God yeah we're halfway
11. 1:14there are you serious though are you
12. 1:16going to is it is nine a good number or
13. 1:19on your future whatever the good Lord
14. 1:21gives us see the the first commandment
15. 1:23in the Bible is God tells Adam and Eve
16. 1:26be fruitful and multiply so uh you know
17. 1:29what could be be Holier and more special
18. 1:31than bringing another human into the
19. 1:33[Music]
20. 1:42world wife's
21. 1:49brother in AIC home one of the things
22. 1:52that very prominent is the large table
23. 1:56because obviously with large families
24. 1:58and inviting a lot of guests especially
25. 2:00for the Sabbath males and things like
26. 2:02that we uh have a lot of friends and
27. 2:06family over and we have the beautiful
28. 2:08silver that
29. 2:10adorns either the Sabbath or the holiday
30. 2:13table so this is very common inic home
31. 2:16by the way can I can I get you a drink
32. 2:19um I'm okay do you guys need anything
33. 2:21plenty of drinks right
34. 2:22here Emily enough
35. 2:27anybody yeah what's going on with with
36. 2:29that do you uh you have alcohol in the
37. 2:31in the home um we do because um on the
38. 2:34Sabbath and holidays actually a lot of
39. 2:37the prayers or the lot of the blessings
40. 2:39we make over wine and also sometimes you
41. 2:42have a little a little just a little
42. 2:44shot um because it gets you in the
43. 2:48festive
44. 2:51[Music]
45. 2:56mood so nice to meet you thank you for
46. 2:58having us we're so happy you're here
47. 3:06hello how you doing I'm yourest welcome
48. 3:10I know I I I can't shake your hand right
49. 3:12is that right okay okay and why why is
50. 3:15that I I learned about it but why why is
51. 3:17it it's out of respect to uh the the
52. 3:22physical touch between male and female
53. 3:25okay that every touch is intimate and we
54. 3:27save it for our intimate relationship
55. 3:54so this is a yamaka and it's interesting
56. 3:57CH the yamaka
57. 4:09cover do you ever think about it and be
58. 4:11like oh man I I wish I wouldn't have to
59. 4:13like put this strengths that you ever
60. 4:15feel I mean not I don't want to be I
61. 4:16don't I don't mean to sound rude or
62. 4:18anything but does it ever feel like
63. 4:19silly to you to just just kind of keep
64. 4:21doing that or um I would say silly
65. 4:24because I'm used to it because I've been
66. 4:25wearing them my whole life um but you do
67. 4:30ask yourself what's the point of all
68. 4:31these Commandments and what happens if I
69. 4:35don't do them and you have to conly
70. 4:37remember that there's somebody on the
71. 4:39other side that asks you to do this even
72. 4:42if it doesn't make so much sense or it
73. 4:43seems a little strange at times you're
74. 4:46not focusing on so much what you're
75. 4:47doing but who you're doing it for so
76. 4:49when we pray or when we do what of The
77. 4:52Commandments we're like oh yeah God I
78. 4:55remember you and God says nothing
79. 4:58touches me more
80. 5:03[Music]
81. 5:23mommy mommy
82. 5:26mommy mommy mommy they they learned
83. 5:30Bible
84. 5:34study do you um before you had your
85. 5:37first child were you working or did you
86. 5:39have a career a
87. 5:42teacher preschool teacher do you miss it
88. 5:46I've gone back I've gone back I stopped
89. 5:48for many years and then um because I
90. 5:52wasn't sure how to how to just manage it
91. 5:54all and I wanted to be home all day with
92. 5:56my babies so for us career is never the
93. 5:59goal it's a
94. 6:01tool it can be it could be a tool for
95. 6:03enjoyment or it could be a tool for Inca
96. 6:07but it's still a tool goal is Unity goal
97. 6:10is family goal is serving God goal is
98. 6:13our purpose and if my job can help me
99. 6:16get to my goal then it's
100. 6:25[Music]
101. 6:28great
102. 6:31[Music]
103. 6:47but
104. 6:55hello so when would you typically go wig
105. 6:58shopping or how often does it happen so
106. 7:01the first time is right before your
107. 7:02wedding that's when you get your first
108. 7:04wig for the day after your
109. 7:06wedding and then about every few years
110. 7:10you know and you get one or two wigs to
111. 7:12have uh at every time you like to have
112. 7:15two wigs to
113. 7:16alternate and
114. 7:18um they last about a few
115. 7:28years
116. 7:47Wings tend to go by Styles so a few
117. 7:49years ago I wanted the thickest wig
118. 7:50possible the most volume now everybody
119. 7:52wants the flattest weight possible with
120. 7:53like part down the middle or maybe on
121. 7:55the side but very flat so the way we
122. 7:57achieve that look is with a lace top rig
123. 7:59it's this is a piece of Swiss Lea and
124. 8:01each hair is sewn in one by one it's
125. 8:02called voring so each and every little
126. 8:05piece was sewn in oh it's like that so
127. 8:08by the time it's done it's sitting this
128. 8:10flat on your on your head and this is
129. 8:12real hair it's all real hair you can
130. 8:13feel it it's European hair it's the best
131. 8:14the
132. 8:19[Music]
133. 8:27best I like the the wave and the
134. 8:30highlights good work you ready for a
135. 8:33change I'll say
136. 8:38[Music]
137. 8:46[Music]
138. 8:58that
139. 9:06[Music]
140. 9:16there's a strong entrepreneurial Spirit
141. 9:17here because you know you're raising
142. 9:19large families so a lot of people on
143. 9:21real estate a lot of people on Amazon a
144. 9:23lot of people teach in the schools it
145. 9:26helps everyone has a network you know uh
146. 9:29you see each other almost on a daily
147. 9:30basis in the synagogue and on the
148. 9:58streets
149. 10:03well how do you feel about this
150. 10:04situation uh I know I'm completely
151. 10:08capable of filming it but you know I
152. 10:11greatly respect religious beliefs and I
153. 10:13would never want to be disrespectful to
154. 10:15towards anyone even if I don't share the
155. 10:17same
156. 10:28beliefs
157. 10:39oh my God this is
158. 10:58wild
159. 11:00[Music]
160. 11:05oh my God this is
161. 11:19[Music]
162. 11:21wild okay to film um anything more than
163. 11:24okay nobody's offended on the contrary
164. 11:25if you don't film them they get offended
165. 11:28like well we're not interesting
166. 11:40[Music]
167. 11:58speech
168. 11:59[Music]
169. 12:02I mean typically a boy gets uh engaged
170. 12:05here when he's 23 24 and then they get
171. 12:09married and they study for a year um in
172. 12:13a higher level of learning called the
173. 12:15col meaning they're married now so the
174. 12:16first year after they're married they'll
175. 12:18pretty much keep the same schedule and
176. 12:20then hopefully they'll find some ritical
177. 12:23position
178. 12:28somewhere
179. 12:33it's not only a synagogue it's sort of
180. 12:35like a living room like you could be
181. 12:37real with each other and and you come
182. 12:39here you know your friends are going to
183. 12:41be here you know the rabbis is going to
184. 12:42be here so it it's sort of you know
185. 12:45should be a place of Holiness but it
186. 12:47it's better that the synagogue is a
187. 12:49place where everyone feels welcome than
188. 12:50going to some other place you know which
189. 12:52is not necessarily a holy
190. 12:54[Music]
191. 12:58place
192. 13:01[Music]
193. 13:19okay growing up again I had a bit of
194. 13:21unique experience because many of my
195. 13:23friends were part of that kind secular
196. 13:26culture like every good teenager you
197. 13:28know I tested I tested the boundar saw
198. 13:32how much parents are willing to cave and
199. 13:34what I can get away with but ultimately
200. 13:37was never I've never felt like it was
201. 13:40really inforced to the point
202. 13:43of to the point
203. 13:49of
204. 13:58your
205. 14:02yeah know Mar would be
206. 14:11nice okay great y nice to meet you than
207. 14:15you again okay bye God bless
208. 14:17[Music]
209. 14:25you