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Kids, do you know the story of Sofiyivsky Park?
Who was Sophia?
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Who?
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Do you want to hear the story?
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She was a goy.
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Her daddy was the mayor
of this town, he was a lord.
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Yeah, let me say it: he wanted to kill the Jews
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and later she rescued Jews.
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No, it wasn’t him.
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It was evil people who planned
to kill all the Jews in Uman.
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Around 30 thousand Jews.
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And that good lord brought all the Jews,
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to the courtyard of his castle.
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And then those bad men came,
wanting to kill everybody.
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And then Sophia, who was his daughter,
agreed to die in their place.
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She said: “Kill me,
and let them live instead of me.”
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And the bad men said: “OK, no problem.”
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Then they killed her,
seemingly in exchange for all the Jews.
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But then, in the end,
they killed the Jews too.
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They didn’t let anybody live.
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Kids, what song do you want?
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Maybe you want “To Ukraine”?
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Yeah!
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To…to…to Ukraine…
We have gone for Rosh Hashanah,
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To the holy city of Uman,
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I am ready to leave.
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It’s so beautiful.
Isn’t it pretty here?
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VO: Uman – a city in the Ukraine. During the uprising in 1768, Cossacks Ivan Gonta and Maxim Żeleźniak murdered thousands of Jews and Poles here.
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I was raised in Ukraine,
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I was raised where
viburnum buds,
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Bloomed below my window
every spring,
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Delighting me with their blossom.
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Bloomed below my window
every spring,
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Bloomed below my window
every spring,
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Bloomed below my window
every spring,
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Bloomed below my window
every spring,
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It is my land, my homeland.
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My family is here,
and this is my home.
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Forests, fields and mountains,
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You are a mother to me, Ukraine.
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You shoot and I’ll aim, OK?
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Wait…
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No…
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Shoot!
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Hang on, your sidelock’s in the way.
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VO: A Hasidic mystic was buried at the victims' cemetery there, his name was Nachman of Breslov and he promised that anyone who went there for New Year (Rosh Hashanah) and said 10 psalms over his grave while singing and dancing would be saved. After the Ukraine regained its independence in 1991, the Hasidim began to return to Uman.
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Nightingale-canary
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why are you sad
and not joyous?
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VO: In the early nineteenth century, Rebbe Nachman and his favourite disciple, Nathan, had created a famous centre of Hasidism in Breslov, founding a Jewish religious movement placing special emphasis on joy in the service of God. Ukrainian Volodya Aleksiyenko, a former Soviet Army major, now takes care of the Jewish cemetery in Breslov.
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Nathan and Nachman...
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The River Buh, there, by that bend,
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Nathan and Nachman bathed there,
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there by that bend.
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Those hills. They bathed
there, Nathan and Nachman.
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They bathed together in the Buh.
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They were called Breslov Hasidim.
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Breslov... Breslov Hasidim.
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There aren’t any Jews here.
They’ve all emigrated
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to Israel.
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A few Jews are left.
That’s all.
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I take care of the cemetery.
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I tend it.
There's no one else to do it.
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They come and cut the grass,
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because the weeds cover everything.
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VO: Many Ukrainians consider Ivan Gonta and Maxim Żeleźniak, the leaders of the Cossack uprising of 1768, to be national heroes who fought for independence.
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The Uman and Khrystynivka Cossackry
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are ready to salute the heroes of the
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War of Liberation, commanded by
Maksym Zalizniak and Ivan Gonta.
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VO: In 1968, this foundation stone was laid in Uman for a monument to Ivan Gonta and Maxim Żeleźniak. Attempts to start the construction of the monument had been blocked by the authorities, who were afraid of provoking the Hasidic Jews. Despite this, the monument is being built, and its creators boast that it will be taller than the synagogue.
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Is it so scary?
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Let’s think together about
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what our homeland is.
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- My homeland is...
- Is...
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- My...
- My history.
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My history, my land. The country
where you were born and grew up in.
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My homeland is where my
home, school and friends are.
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What do you know about Cossacks?
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A Cossack is a brave, free man,
who loves his homeland very much.
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Well done.
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Today we’ll learn about two other
members of the Cossack nation:
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Maksym Zalizniak and
Ivan Gonta.
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Their fates were tragic.
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Terrible torture was inflicted
on Gonta.
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He was flayed alive,
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but endured it all bravely.
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He even tried to joke.
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Can you imagine what awful suffering
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this brave and courageous man endured?
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His dismembered body was sent
around the towns of Ukraine,
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to terrify other insurrectionists.
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I think we should be proud
of our countrymen, children,
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take care to preserve their memory,
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continue their traditions, customs,
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and tend our country’s independence.
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- Glory to Ukraine!
- Glory forever!
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- To the Ukrainian Cossackry!
- Glory! Glory! Glory!
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- Let us thank God!
- Glory to our teacher!
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Scrambled egg.
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That’s it. Pour it.
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VO: Volodya personally knows half of the Hasidic followers, who make pilgrimages to Breslov to visit places important to the history of their movement. Although they cannot communicate with him, they admire both his willingness to help and his sense of humour. They appreciate that a gentile takes care of the Jewish cemetery, even though he does it for a living.
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Nathan and Nachman
wrote books in this tunnel.
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Nathan and Nachman
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resided in this cellar and wrote.
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People said that a man on a horse
could ride into the tunnel.
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When I married Volodya,
my parents were already dead.
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We started to build a house
and we were afraid the cellar would collapse,
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honestly, because it was
already very full of rubble.
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Some people told me to open it up,
so the Jews could come here
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and see the place where he resided.
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It’s possible that Jews
hid here during the Holocaust.
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We heard from Volodya himself
that Hasidim came to him…
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…and said to him:
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“In this place, beneath your house,
was a room where Rebbe Nachman resided.”
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That is new. I only found out today
that our Rebbe stayed in this cellar
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and had visions with Rebbe Nathan.
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Later, during the times of Rebbe Nathan
five Hasidim remained in the whole world.
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- Precisely the five Hasidim of Breslov.
- Five students and that was all.
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Give something at the end.
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In Breslov a fire is burning,
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These cellars lead to
Volodya’s house, to the synagogue
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and the psychoneurogical hospital.
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Our Rebbe said he is there for the entire world.
Let’s tell them that.
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Tell them what our Rebbe wanted
to communicate to the world.
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So that his words will also change them.
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I’m a wonderful person
and my soul is a great miracle.
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There has never been a new-born soul like mine.
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I have conquered
and I conquer, I fulfilled and will fulfil,
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I am a river which purifies
everything of all its flaws.
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Jewish.
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I don’t understand.
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VO: In 1991, on Rosh Hashanah, hundreds of Hasidic Jews came to Uman. Now, every year there are thirty thousand who come here. The neighbourhood of Rebbe Nachman's grave has become known as "Little Israel".
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Nachman, how do you say:
“O Lord, King of the World...
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Creator, Fruit of the Vine, Amen.”
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And what’s next, Nathan?
“Be blessed, O Lord, King of the World...”
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You’re real tzadiks.
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You’re good children.
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- What’s that?
- Soup.
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Can I put it in? It has to be boiled too.
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I’ll put those chickens in now.
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Nachman.
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Here, one is in a totally different place, spiritually.
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As though one has returned to the womb.
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It’s such a safe place.
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In spite of all the goys and all the mess
it’s like being in the womb here.
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We sense that Rebbe Nachman is standing with us.
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I have a photo of my little boy here.
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He was very sick, he had cancer.
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A month before his death I brought him here
to our Rebbe on Rosh Hashanah.
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He couldn’t speak any more.
He really was in a terrible state, he was dying.
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I would have done anything for him.
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I felt if I didn’t take him to Rebbe Nachman
I wouldn’t be able to go on living.
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All the doctors had lost heart.
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At one moment he looked at me and said:
“Thank you, mummy.”
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He said that from the bottom of his soul.
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I felt his soul was saying that to me forever more.
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A month later he passed away.
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What was, has gone, what is important
is to start all over again.
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There are two sides: one
good, the other bad.
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On one hand they are normal people.
Like every person, they are OK.
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On the bad side, they’ve
bought up almost the entire city.
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And no one likes it.
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Everyone says the Jews will buy
the children’s clinic,
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to create a Jewish hospital.
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I’ve been coming here 14-15
years and I know how it was.
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15 years ago, when we came,
there was no water in the taps.
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There was no water in the taps.
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There wasn’t a boiler to heat water.
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There weren’t any washing machines.
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At best we had water for 3 hours in the morning
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and sometimes for 3 hours in the evening.
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Thanks to the Jews who’ve come
to Uman, the city is richer.
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I don’t know about that
hospital, but I’m sure,
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the person who sells it
knows what he’s doing.
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It looks like they are buying everywhere
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and they’ve bought half of Uman
and want to buy even more.
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They want to buy up the entire city.
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The question is: why are they doing it?
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And where will we go?
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She asked that question
and got angry with me,
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and she shouldn’t
get angry with me.
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Not with her, or her, or any of us,
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because we came here
to be with Rebbe Nachman.
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The worldwide prayer
for all the children of Israel
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who are with our holy Rebbe.
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In five minutes, psalms, and in
a few hours, the New Year!
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The Day of Judgment is at hand!
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VO: Each Hasid begins the pilgrimage with a prayer at the grave of Rebbe Nachman, which is located in the synagogue in the centre of Uman.
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God made their land swarm with frogs.
Even in the bedrooms of their king!
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God spoke, and the insects came.
Gnats throughout their whole country!
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God turned their rain into hail along with
lightning flashes throughout their land.
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God destroyed their vines and their fig tre♥㔣㘰㠸;
Shattered the trees of their countryside.
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I’ll have to mow the grass
there and there.
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There’s still a lot of work.
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It has to be tidied up.
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The Jews want to build a synagogue there,
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but it isn’t allowed.
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Those are old buildings,
so it’s not possible.
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Kiev won’t give permission.
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So this was the synagogue
of the city of Breslov.
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Of course, people pray here. They do.
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The house of our Rebbe was located
exactly there, just in front of us.
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We shall say Kaddish
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for all the Jews
from this city, who prayed here.
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No one will say Kaddish for them,
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so we’ll say Kaddish
for all the Jews who lived here.
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How good, how nice,
when brothers live together.
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VO: The Ukrainian organisations working in Uman have documented numerous legal violations by the local authorities and the Hasidic Jews, as well as examples of corruption. On the other hand, however, the Jews talk about the growing anti-Semitism there. In recent years, dozens of people from both sides have died in street crimes.
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- A SS-20 ballistic missile.
- Stop it.
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Say what monument.
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They have no right to prohibit.
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There’ll be an information board,
but not today or tomorrow,
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because the concrete needs
72 hours to go off.
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We’ll make the supports for the
board over there at the edge.
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It’ll say that a monument is being built.
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There’ll be information
about it, information
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about who started the foundation.
It isn’t a commercial enterprise.
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Please identify yourself.
Documents, please.
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He said he had an order
from the directors
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that permission is needed before
any work can be carried out.
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When is it valid until?
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Until 2017.
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Why are you hiding it like that?
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2017. Can you see it?
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Yes, I can.
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When you get permission, go ahead,
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When will the monument go up
if we can’t put up a billboard?
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Are you quoting the law?
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All those billboards are
illegal and commercial,
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and this is an information
board, and not even for money.
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Where are the documents that
say it’s an information board?
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Here, I’ve written it all down.
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This is blatant interference in building
a monument. What’s it all about?
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Please say out loud, that every
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illegal billboard will be removed.
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Like the signs in Pushkin St.
None of them have permission.
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And they’re in a foreign language, too,
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which means they’re breaking Ukrainian law.
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And you turn a blind eye.
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Look, that’s yours. It’s in Hebrew.
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In Hebrew, in Ukraine.
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Look, there’s an ad on an electricity pylon.
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Without permission.
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That one’s breaking the law,
and so is that one.
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And you think this is illegal
and that one isn’t.
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I’ll repeat it again, you
were a councillor...
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Elected. We’re goys and they’re
the Chosen People.
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So there’s one law for them
and another law for us.
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The same law applies to everybody.
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I repeat, any work which
is carried out today
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without permission is
a violation of the law.
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We don’t need permission.
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Write your application again.
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We’ll sit down and examine it.
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We’ll give the permission.
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OK, we’ll go and write it again.
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The booth is blocking the road.
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According to our law the
pavement’s part of the road.
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You’re breaking the law, please remove it.
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Without a court document
you’re out of order.
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This isn’t Israel,
there are laws in Ukraine.
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Without a document from the court...
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The owner has to prove
his right of ownership.
01:27:08:04 01:27:10:08
He’ll be right here.
01:27:10:11 01:27:13:04
He’s a taxi driver,
the booth’s in his name.
01:27:13:06 01:27:15:06
He should come here and...
01:27:15:08 01:27:17:04
- What’s your name?
- He’ll confirm everything.
01:27:17:06 01:27:19:12
- What’s your name?
- Never mind.
01:27:19:14 01:27:21:10
So I can use your name.
01:27:21:15 01:27:22:18
Vasya.
01:27:23:01 01:27:24:10
- Vasya?
- Yes.
01:27:24:12 01:27:26:14
Please listen to me, Vasya, sir.
01:27:27:03 01:27:30:19
We’ve called the police
to determine ownership.
01:27:31:11 01:27:33:21
There’s time for the police,
there’s time for everything.
01:27:33:23 01:27:36:03
Can’t you wait a second?
You want everything right away.
01:27:36:05 01:27:37:04
Listen.
01:27:37:06 01:27:38:17
If you won’t listen to me...
01:27:38:19 01:27:41:12
We have the right to have it
removed, and you aren’t removing it.
01:27:41:14 01:27:43:06
It’s a setup. Why are you doing it?
01:27:43:08 01:27:45:06
I’m a city councillor.
01:27:45:12 01:27:48:06
You ought to respect yourself and
not waste your time, because
01:27:48:08 01:27:50:12
if you’re trying to provoke us...
01:27:50:14 01:27:51:22
Why do this?
01:27:59:06 01:28:03:08
Show me your permit for that structure.
01:28:05:23 01:28:07:24
Don’t you have the documents?
01:28:08:02 01:28:10:21
Yes, yes. The owner’s bringing
them in an hour.
01:28:11:08 01:28:13:07
If you have them, please
show me them.
01:28:13:09 01:28:17:14
I’m asking you. Do you have
them or not?
01:28:18:05 01:28:20:01
You don’t have them, right?
01:28:20:02 01:28:23:21
Please come to the patrol car and I’ll issue
a document for it to be torn down.
01:28:23:23 01:28:27:10
And when you get the permit,
go ahead and set up your booth.
01:28:31:08 01:28:33:20
They’re trying to get
something on the Jews.
01:28:33:21 01:28:38:01
If it was owned by locals they
wouldn’t make problems like this.
01:28:38:05 01:28:41:08
But because we’re Hasidim, Jews,
they try to humiliate us, destroy us.
01:28:41:08 01:28:43:19
And destroy all the good things we’ve done here.
01:28:45:17 01:28:51:14
We’ll get 30 or 40 guys and drag
the entire booth there.
01:28:51:21 01:28:56:18
Otherwise we’ll have to take it to pieces.
I don’t have time to close it down.
01:28:56:19 01:28:58:04
OK, everybody lift.
01:29:01:08 01:29:04:16
We sell kosher food here.
01:29:05:08 01:29:11:03
The locals are always trying
to interfere and destroy.
01:29:13:16 01:29:16:08
We had to pay some bribes,
to sweeten them.
01:29:16:12 01:29:21:01
We paid them $ 5,000
to allow us to move it all.
01:29:31:03 01:29:35:06
Every year he has to pay the police
$ 5,000 to keep them quiet.
01:29:35:08 01:29:38:21
And now it cost him $ 7,000
to keep everybody quiet.
01:29:40:15 01:29:43:16
Although they were trying to harm me,
God has protected us
01:29:43:17 01:29:47:00
and God didn’t abandon us and stood by our side.
01:29:47:01 01:29:49:19
He defeated them and
everything they did to harm me.
01:29:49:20 01:29:52:15
It all turned out well for me.
01:29:52:16 01:29:57:12
Everything has turned out well.
Happy New Year!
01:29:57:17 01:30:04:08
You are God, from eternity to eternity,
You are God.
01:30:09:11 01:30:17:13
The soul of all creation blesses Your name.
01:30:19:11 01:30:22:05
Your name, O God.
01:31:12:08 01:31:14:13
A Jew never dies.
01:31:14:15 01:31:17:21
That’s why it’s said
he passes on but never dies.
01:31:17:23 01:31:19:15
You can’t say he dies.
01:31:19:17 01:31:22:07
They’ll say: “No! He passed on.”
01:31:22:11 01:31:25:20
He passed on, but he didn’t die.
The state of death doesn’t exist.
01:31:25:20 01:31:28:11
When I tell you Rebbe Nachman passed on,
01:31:28:11 01:31:32:15
it means he only passed on, but he
lives and exists, like the other rebbes.
01:31:32:17 01:31:37:13
The tzadiks only pass on,
bid farewell to us.
01:31:37:16 01:31:41:10
We cannot contact them in reality,
only chosen ones can do so.
01:31:41:18 01:31:44:05
Every Jew who is just
01:31:44:05 01:31:47:01
and doesn’t have to pass
through purification in the next world
01:31:47:01 01:31:49:22
receives a new body immediately
after his passing.
01:31:49:22 01:31:53:12
And may function both in the
next world and in this world.
01:31:54:09 01:31:57:17
A dybbuk is a spirit or a soul
which has not entered a new body,
01:31:57:18 01:32:01:00
and in this case it must truly
experience a kind of death,
01:32:01:02 01:32:03:12
because its physical body has died.
01:32:03:12 01:32:07:04
It has not entered a new body,
because it must pass through purification.
01:32:07:04 01:32:10:09
It has no right to receive a new body,
01:32:10:09 01:32:13:17
so it circulates in the space of the world
as an unredeemed soul.
01:32:14:17 01:32:19:15
And the entire cosmos
is full of those souls.
01:32:20:07 01:32:22:10
A dybbuk is a poor soul that committed acts
01:32:22:13 01:32:24:17
which it ought not to have committed.
01:32:24:21 01:32:29:18
Such a soul receives a punishment of
100 years in a place of suffering.
01:33:03:04 01:33:08:19
Glory be to the Father,
the Son and the Holy Spirit.
01:33:08:24 01:33:11:13
Hallelujah.
01:33:11:22 01:33:16:07
With prayers to the Purest Queen,
Mother of God, and Ever-Virgin Mary
01:33:16:09 01:33:20:16
by the Strength of the
Venerable and Life-Giving Cross.
01:33:23:03 01:33:27:07
Perhaps they’re ashamed that
they killed the Son of God,
01:33:27:09 01:33:29:00
perhaps they don’t like it and
01:33:29:02 01:33:30:15
it has stirred their consciences?
01:33:30:17 01:33:32:18
If so, that’s another –
praiseworthy – matter.
01:33:35:10 01:33:38:19
Two of our friends dreamt
of that cross.
01:33:38:21 01:33:40:05
Right in that place.
01:33:40:07 01:33:42:12
It was a sign from above for us.
01:33:42:14 01:33:46:03
I don’t understand Hasidim
who don’t like the cross,
01:33:46:05 01:33:49:09
I don’t understand how a
cross could bother them.
01:33:49:11 01:33:56:11
That cross wasn’t put there to
provoke a conflict or a world war,
01:33:56:15 01:33:58:18
or some kind of scandal.
01:33:58:20 01:34:00:19
The cross was erected
as a sign of peace.
01:34:00:21 01:34:04:15
It puts us and the Hasidim to the test,
01:34:05:09 01:34:08:06
in order to show us who we really are.
01:34:08:08 01:34:11:10
It’ll show how the city
council, the Hasidim
01:34:11:12 01:34:13:22
and the residents respond to it.
01:34:13:23 01:34:16:15
It was very hard for us
to do it like that.
01:34:24:02 01:34:26:04
That's exactly why Rebbe
Nachman came here.
01:34:26:04 01:34:27:20
That's exactly why Rebbe
Nachman came here.
01:34:27:22 01:34:30:21
Because a cross,
exactly like the one by the river,
01:34:30:23 01:34:33:00
was put up outside
the Uman synagogue.
01:34:33:02 01:34:36:18
And 30 000 Jews
were ordered to walk past it
01:34:37:00 01:34:40:03
and everyone who refused
was murdered.
01:34:40:10 01:34:43:01
Even if they were little children.
01:34:43:03 01:34:45:10
We don't murder anyone, though.
01:34:45:12 01:34:46:24
We're against violence.
01:34:47:01 01:34:48:21
We believe in the one God.
01:34:48:23 01:34:51:14
We have the right to do so.
01:34:51:16 01:34:54:22
Now, if someone comes
and puts up a cross like that,
01:34:54:24 01:34:58:24
which once caused the murder
of 30 000 babies, children,
01:34:59:01 01:35:03:00
women and men, who were killed
because they didn't want to walk past it...
01:35:03:02 01:35:05:10
Now, if someone takes
similar cross, of the same size,
01:35:05:12 01:35:08:13
and puts it opposite the place
we pray – then it's a provocation
01:35:08:15 01:35:11:13
which wouldn't be allowed
in any other country in the world.
01:35:11:23 01:35:14:12
We’re very pleased that
the cross is there,
01:35:14:17 01:35:17:04
and that we managed to defend it.
01:35:17:06 01:35:19:01
It might be too much,
01:35:19:03 01:35:21:17
but we didn’t let ourselves doubt
01:35:21:19 01:35:23:11
that it might be necessary to move it,
01:35:23:13 01:35:26:07
because it might disturb
the Hasidim in some way.
01:35:26:18 01:35:29:14
I repeat it: they are visitors here
and should understand that.
01:35:29:16 01:35:31:12
We respect them,
01:35:31:18 01:35:36:03
but the people who come
here will not be pilgrims.
01:35:36:05 01:35:37:20
There’s no law like that here,
01:35:37:22 01:35:39:07
so they are simply tourists.
01:35:39:09 01:35:42:15
They can’t dictate terms,
01:35:42:17 01:35:45:06
negotiate, insist on anything,
or demand anything.
01:35:45:08 01:35:47:15
They should come,
do some sightseeing,
01:35:47:17 01:35:50:21
take photos, pray and go home.
01:35:51:01 01:35:54:19
They don’t even have the right to
carry out their religious ceremonies.
01:35:54:21 01:35:57:20
Ukrainian law doesn’t allow for that.
01:36:07:03 01:36:08:22
Hello, Volodya.
01:36:33:23 01:36:36:20
What to do? Death took you away.
01:36:41:03 01:36:43:05
Give my greetings to Innochka
01:36:43:07 01:36:49:18
and all our relatives and friends.
01:36:49:20 01:36:53:05
May they all rest in peace
and wait for us.
01:36:53:07 01:36:55:10
May they wait a long time.
01:36:55:11 01:36:57:02
Oh, God...
01:37:48:00 01:37:50:08
That goy who lived here was called Volodya.
01:37:50:08 01:37:52:08
He was buried here.
01:37:52:08 01:37:56:03
He tended all the Jewish graves here,
01:37:56:06 01:37:59:14
and Rebbe Nachman taught us,
how important it is to see good.
01:37:59:14 01:38:03:04
Because through that we attain
joy, we attain honesty.
01:38:03:04 01:38:07:09
Once Isaac Luria said that
everything has a soul on this earth,
01:38:07:09 01:38:10:11
so probably a man who is not
a Jew also has a soul.
01:38:11:00 01:38:14:07
How can a person like
that redeem his soul?
01:38:15:08 01:38:18:05
It is sufficient to do good deeds.
01:38:18:12 01:38:22:03
If he does good deeds, 7 mitzvahs,
his soul will finally join
01:38:22:03 01:38:25:01
with a Jewish soul
01:38:25:01 01:38:28:21
which will
represent him before God.
01:38:29:06 01:38:32:06
What is the role of sons
of Israel in this world?
01:38:32:06 01:38:34:23
They are here
to enlighten the other nations.
01:38:35:06 01:38:37:22
Volodya probably experienced
some kind of enlightenment,
01:38:37:22 01:38:40:21
the spark, the need
to help and serve Jews.
01:38:42:08 01:38:45:20
I remember that when I used to
bring groups here, people used to ask me:
01:38:45:20 01:38:48:23
- Is he a Jew, is he a Jew?
- No, I say.
01:38:49:05 01:38:52:24
“Then how come he helps us?!”
01:38:52:24 01:38:55:05
Go and try to explain to people why.
01:38:55:05 01:38:58:05
This is the spark of Rebbe Nachman,
which shines in your heart,
01:38:58:05 01:39:00:19
even if you are not a Jew.
01:39:00:19 01:39:03:10
That is our message for every nation.
01:39:03:10 01:39:06:23
If it happened to Volodya,
it may happen to all goys.
01:39:06:23 01:39:12:06
That spark of Rebbe Nachman in their hearts
instructs them to help the nation of Israel.
01:39:12:09 01:39:14:19
Volodya’s wife is standing beside us.
01:39:16:03 01:39:17:21
Hello.
01:39:19:09 01:39:20:23
Thank you.
01:39:22:06 01:39:25:13
You helped us, may God give you health.
01:39:26:20 01:39:29:23
You are good people, you helped us.
01:39:29:23 01:39:32:07
Volodya has gone, he has died.
01:39:33:14 01:39:37:10
What can I do? Life is hard,
I’m also old and sick.
01:39:38:08 01:39:42:11
The time comes and we pass on.
There’s nothing you can do.
01:39:42:13 01:39:43:16
Thank you.
01:39:43:18 01:39:47:08
I thank you for everything.
I bow down low.
01:39:47:08 01:39:49:03
With all my heart.
01:39:49:03 01:39:51:16
May God give you strength and health.
01:40:00:17 01:40:06:24
Beloved of the soul, compassionate Father,
01:40:07:06 01:40:13:15
Draw Your servant to Your will,
01:40:14:13 01:40:19:19
Then Your servant will hurry like a hart,
01:40:19:19 01:40:26:04
To bow before Your majesty.
01:40:26:04 01:40:31:08
To him Your friendship will be sweeter
than the honeycomb.
01:40:44:12 01:40:45:22
Give it here.
01:40:53:01 01:40:56:22
Our blessed God, in every time,
now and always, and forever and ever.
01:40:56:22 01:40:59:18
Amen.
01:41:00:23 01:41:06:15
Holy God, holy powerful, holy
immortal, have mercy on us.
01:41:14:16 01:41:19:05
Give rest, O Lord, to the soul
of Your dead servant, Vladimir.
01:41:19:13 01:41:22:07
Our Christ, God, we give You glory,
01:41:22:11 01:41:28:06
with Your Father without end,
and most holy and good,
01:41:28:06 01:41:33:15
and Your life-giving Spirit, now
and always, forever and ever.
01:41:36:23 01:41:40:04
Amen.
01:41:40:13 01:41:48:14
You are blessed, O Lord, teach
me Your commandments.
01:41:51:14 01:41:55:17
I am the image of Your unutterable glory
01:41:55:19 01:42:00:00
although I bear the scars of sin.
01:42:00:19 01:42:09:01
Eternal memory.
01:42:16:06 01:42:19:09
The glory of the Father and of the
Son and of the Holy Spirit,
01:42:19:14 01:42:22:16
and now and always,
and forever and ever. Amen.
01:42:34:10 01:42:38:23
May all the goys help
the Jews as much as Volodya. Amen.
01:42:41:10 01:42:47:15
I remember when I was here last time
and we went to the grave, and Volodya came.
01:42:49:00 01:42:52:18
There was a table for hand-
washing, we said our prayers,
01:42:52:18 01:42:57:21
then whoever wanted to,
gave alms to Volodya, a dollar.
01:42:58:12 01:43:01:06
We usually don’t give a goy alms,
01:43:01:06 01:43:05:18
but we gave it to him joyfully,
because he helped Jews.
01:43:05:22 01:43:11:09
We knew the alms would help Jews.
01:43:12:20 01:43:18:07
And that Volodya is with us in spirit.
01:43:30:07 01:43:57:02
VO: On New Year's Day, Hasidic Jews go to the water. Praying there, they shake out crumbs from their pockets and throw them into the water. In this way, they symbolically cleanse their sins of the old year. This is to make them resistant to the influence of the many evil spirits and dybbuks still believed to wander around the Ukraine.
01:44:10:03 01:44:12:23
Happy New Year!
01:44:14:18 01:44:18:23
This thing made me feel closer to our faith.
01:44:19:23 01:44:22:19
This actually made me feel closer.
01:44:22:22 01:44:26:03
I look at it and understand how
important Rebbe Nachman is.
01:44:26:06 01:44:27:18
Don’t worry about it.
01:44:27:20 01:44:29:12
If someone puts
something like that up
01:44:29:14 01:44:31:19
we understand how important our Rebbe is.
01:44:31:21 01:44:32:21
I love you, brother.
01:44:33:04 01:44:38:05
How glad we are to be in your company,
our mighty Rebbe.
01:44:53:08 01:44:57:21
I think that when the holiday begins
the cross will fall over by itself.
01:45:07:11 01:45:11:11
Come on, we’re wasting time.
Come on, come down.
01:45:15:16 01:45:17:12
I’d like to go this way. Tell him.
01:45:17:14 01:45:20:04
He wants to go this way.
01:45:20:23 01:45:23:01
I’d just like to go. Can I just go?
01:45:23:03 01:45:24:12
I only want to have a look.
01:45:24:14 01:45:26:08
It’s not allowed, it’s not allowed.
01:45:26:14 01:45:30:05
If you go someone else will want
to, and then the next.
01:45:30:07 01:45:31:16
It’s not allowed.
01:45:42:20 01:45:47:00
Let us come past and we’ll go on our way.
We’re going to prayers.
01:45:47:02 01:45:50:05
I don’t make decisions here,
I’m only translating.
01:45:50:09 01:45:53:03
- But I’m explaining to you.
- No, you can’t come through.
01:45:53:07 01:45:55:04
Tell them they are shits!
01:45:55:06 01:45:57:20
If you came here
to translate, start translating.
01:45:57:22 01:46:01:15
It’s a shame you’ve got
a uniform if you only translate.
01:46:05:07 01:46:09:12
Just don’t forget to express
our words properly.
01:46:13:07 01:46:16:04
...Maybe Jesus wished for atonement,
so he simply came here.
01:46:16:07 01:46:20:21
He came to restore his soul
at Rebbe Nachman’s place. I get it all now!
01:46:20:23 01:46:24:21
Jesus also wanted to atone for his sins.
I told him: “Come to Uman”.
01:46:24:23 01:46:27:22
He answered: “What,
are you short of tzadiks in Israel?”
01:46:28:12 01:46:30:12
And here he is!
01:46:33:19 01:46:37:02
I do tashlikh in exactly
this place, year after year…
01:46:37:04 01:46:39:09
…and a bastard grew out of my sins!
01:46:40:21 01:46:45:05
I’m serious. Every year I throw my
sins there, and now look. A bastard!
01:46:45:09 01:46:47:24
It’s all because of my sins.
01:46:48:01 01:46:50:09
Come on, let’s do tashlikh.
01:47:37:20 01:47:43:11
Five tzadiks will bring joy to the world.
01:47:46:05 01:47:49:06
The Hasidim will talk about it with joy.
01:47:58:12 01:48:05:06
The whole world is a very narrow bridge.
01:48:08:06 01:48:12:14
The most important
thing is not to be afraid.
01:48:21:12 01:48:30:17
You chose us, with Your holy name,
the greatest and most holy, you summoned us.